The End, A Projection, not a Prophecy - [Claude] [Van Zeller] (1905-1984) (Douglas Organ, 1947)
Eutopia set in 2045 at the end of 100 years of peace. Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
US ed. Buffalo, NY: Desmond & Stapledon, 1948.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Equalizer" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1947)
Agrarian, anarchist eutopia of abundant power. In a note in The Pandora Effect, the author says that this story is "a companion piece" to his "With Folded Hands" (see 1949 Williamson), which was "pessimistic about technology and science" (127).
Rpt. in his The Pandora Effect (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 127-89; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 93-152.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flight to Utopia - Carleton Matthews (b. 1906) (Mount Eyre Pub. Co, 1947)
Detailed eutopia presented as Applied Christianity. The first part includes the Incan empire as a eutopia. The second part is set in the U.S. in 1980 and describes the eutopia, “Utopia Incorporated,” that has evolved over twenty-five years, with the primary goal of reducing labor time and increasing leisure time. No money, and labor is the medium of exchange (94). Everything is done through “seven operating subsidiaries—Food Incorporated, Housing Incorporated, Clothing Incorporated, Communications Incorporated, Transportation Incorporated, Recreation Incorporated, and Culture Incorporated” (98). The only role for government is oversight.
Both  PSt copies have Newtown, Pennsylvania blacked out and Trenton, NJ added.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fury" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1947)
Venus in the future with a degenerated human race living in safety and the successful struggle to revitalize the people.  Sequel to 1943 [Kuttner and Moore], “Clash By Night”.
Rpt. as by Kuttner. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1954. Reissued as Destination Infinity. Original title: Fury. New York: Avon, 1956. Rpt. Boston, MA: Garland, 1975.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“I Have Been in the Caves” - Margaret Rogers (d. 1955) (Amazing Stories, 1947)
The story is a response to the theories of Richard [Sharpe] Shaver (1907-75), who argued for an underground world of evil, and is presented by the author as autobiography with supporting notes by the editor of the journal, Ray[mond Arthur] Palmer (1910-77). In the author’s version, the underground world is a eutopia of people with advanced technology and psychic abilities. Prior to the publication of the story, the author had written two letters to the editor that were published in issues 20.6 (September 1946) as by Mrs. D. C. Rogers and 20.9 (December 1946) as by Margaret Rogers. The last reference to her is often reported as her writing a review of Jim Wentworth’s The Beginning, which was about her case, in Amazing Stories 22.2 (February 1948): 105. What is actually on that page is a statement by the editor of the journal about a self-published book by Rogers entitled The Beginning that he had read. No such book by either Rogers or Wentworth appears to have survived. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Jesting Pilot" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1947)
An authoritarian dystopia set in a city that has been isolated from the outside world for 600 years to protect it from the wars of the overpopulated world. The city was designed to be a eutopia precisely fitted to the needs of its citizens, who are all hypnotized. The Controllers of the city are bred and raised to run the world until the Barrier around the city is raised. The citizens know nothing of them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Masterless Swords: Variations on a Theme - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) (T. Werner Laurie, 1947)
Primarily dystopian but suggests the possibility of a eutopia. In the first part, "Portrait of a King" (11-88), is about Alexander the Great (356-23 BCE); the second, "The Lovely Voyage" (89-173), is about Sir Francis Drake (c1540-96). The third section, "Woman In a Red Turban" (174-251) is set in the far future and is about a woman named Cahhna who leads women in a movement for perpetual peace but is opposed by men and ultimately betrayed by women.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Peace in Our Time": A Play in Two Acts and Eight Scenes - Noel [Pierce] Coward (1899-1973) (William Heinemann, 1947)
Dystopia of Britain under Germany occupation.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sealed Entrance. A Novel - C[onrad Lyddon] Voss-Bark (1913-2000) (Chapman & Hall, 1947)
Eutopia of evolved morality set in an isolated religious community in the mountains of Albania.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Smith Unbound; A Conversation Piece - Ernest Nevin Dilworth (b. 1912); Walter Leuba (b. 1902) (Macmillan, 1947)
A eutopian educational system. Gives the general principles and some specifics of an ideal system of education. The first part is a satire on contemporary education. Presented as a discussion.
Keywords: Male author

“The Soma Racks” - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Startling Stories, 1947)
The first of eight Oona and Jick stories, a couple living in a high-tech future. Humor and satire with all the stories focusing on Oona, a supposedly typical, deferential housewife. In each story, something goes wrong with an aspect of the high-tech future, and, in most cases, Oona saves the day without Jick being aware of it. The others are “Super Whost.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Startling Stories 15.3 (July 1947): 97-102; “Aleph Sub One.” Uncredited illus. Startling Stories 16.4 (January 1948): 62-69. Rpt. in Science Fiction Yearbook, Number 5 (New York: Popular Library, 1971); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), with an editors’ note on ; “The Dobridust.” Illus. [Vincent] Napoli. Thrilling Wonder Stories 31.3 (February 1948): 41-46; “The Metal Lark.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.2 (June 1948): 71-77; “The Rotohouse.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.3 (August 1948): 119-; “The Himalaychalet.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 33.3 (February 1949): 110-14, 155; and “The Neo-Geoduck.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 34.3 (August 1949): 129-136. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Story of My Village - H[enry] de Vere Stacpoole (1865-1951) (Hutchinson, 1947)
Village life as eutopia with the end of cities shown. The setting is Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Teetotalitarian State - Somerset [Streuben] De Chair (1911-95) (Falcon Press, 1947)
Humor in which the coming of British socialism changes nothing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Is This Tomorrow: America Under Communism (Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1947)
Comic book depicting the dystopia when Communists take over the U.S. and the means they use to take over the country.

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1947)
After a brief, aborted World War II, the GPC or Global Peace Commission rules the world and limits research to approved topics and prohibits space exploration. An underground movement wants to overthrow it in the name of an undescribed utopia.
Rpt. in his Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Fairy Chessman (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 9-108. U.K. ed. London: World Distributors, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow and Tomorrow - [Flora Sydney Patricia] [Eldershaw] (1897-1956); [Marjorie Faith] [Barnard] (1897-1987) (Georgian House, 1947)
Dystopia set in the 24th century that uses the device of an author writing an historical novel to explore the second quarter of the twentieth century. The dystopia is a technologically advanced socialist eutopia gone wrong through over-organization.
Rpt. London: Phoenix Press in Association with Georgian House Melbourne, 1948. "Uncensored ed." with the original title Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. London: Virago, 1983 with an "Introduction" (vii-xix) by Anne Chisholm. The Virago edition restores both the relatively few cuts made by the censor and the cuts made by the authors and publisher. The Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1984 edition reprints the Virago edition.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Tomorrow's Child; A Comedy in Three Acts - John Coates (French's Acting Editions, 1947)
Dystopian humor about a dull, uniform society in which everyone should be serious about Social Duty. Each apartment has speakers that cannot be turned off that issue instructions in a revoltingly cheerful voice. Set in 1965.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Twenty-One Balloons - William [Sherman] Pène Du Bois (1916-93) (Viking, 1947)
Children's eutopia. Krakatoa before the volcano erupted is described as having a eutopian civilization with many nonsensical inventions and a social organization based on eating tastes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When Smuts Goes. A History of South Africa from 1952 to 2010, First Published in 2015 - Arthur [Mervyn] Keppel-Jones (b. 1909) (African Bookman, 1947)
Dystopian future history. The first stage is the establishment of a fascist system. After General Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950. Prime Minister 1919-24 and 1939-48) retires, the Nationalist Party, which wants to break with Britain and ensure White dominance, wins the election, which is what actually happened. The Communist Party is outlawed; trade unions are emasculated. Native and Asian political representation are abolished, and the election law is changed to guarantee the future dominance of the Nationalist Party. Education is "reformed" to reduce English-speaking and increase Afrikaans-speaking. Anti-Semitism. Mass emigration ("the Second Great Trek"), but Blacks are prohibited from leaving. Growing racial conflict. South Africa declares war on Britain, assuming neutrality from most nations and support from others, and is defeated by combined British and American forces. The system then collapses.
Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 1947. Includes a "Glossary of Afrikaans, Dutch and Bantu Words" (Gollancz 231-32)
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; South African author

White Thunder God - Pat Reid (Author, 1947)
Odd Christian eutopia set in Mexico with a history going back to the formation of the Earth. Quetzalcoatl was John the Baptist. Vegetarian without cooking, with even panthers not eating meat. Communicate with all the animals. Nudist. In contact with Venus, which is more advanced than Earth spiritually and technically with some of those advances available to the people of the eutopia.
Keywords: US author

The World The World Wants (A Sociocratic Order) - [Octavio] Felix Pedroso (d. 1944); Elizabeth Pedroso (np, 1947)
Detailed eutopia with one world-wide corporation, a universal language (English), one currency, and one flag. The World Corporation will own the productive resources of the world and will build a new city for its headquarters. Free education and health care.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Female author; Male author

"Worlds to Watch and Ward" (The Quest for Utopia; An Anthology of Imaginary Societies, 1947)
Eutopia of democratic socialism and the rule of law.

The 21st Century Looks Back - Emanuel R[obert] Posnack (b. 1897) (The William-Frederick Press, 1946)
Reformed capitalist eutopia. The reforms stress improved and open transportation and communications. There is a Global Statistical Service, a free flow of manpower and goods, no monopolies, and a Global Stabilization Fund. There will be some world government, universal health care, and expanded education. Taxation is based on land values, following Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. See also 1942 Posnack and his World Without Barriers--A Perspective View of Our Present and Future in a World of Economic and Ideological Conflict. New York: William Morrow, 1956, which is mostly a critique of Communism but includes a brief summary of his alternative and its positive results.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Balance the Universe or The Heavenly Abode - Marie G[ertrude] Holmes Joseph (Hobson Book Press, 1946)
Odd religious eutopia that specifies the various occupational groups that will exist throughout the world and lays out projects that must be undertaken to "balance the universe" such as building oases in deserts. Strict birth control with a limit of three children. Lays out stages of education. There will be a World City to serve as World Capitol.
Keywords: Female author

The Bomb That Fell on America - Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964) (Pacific Coast Publishing, 1946)
Three part meditation on the effects of the atomic bomb on the future of America. The first two parts rehearse Hiroshima, to some extent justifying it, and the failures of Americans to be true Christians. The third part has the Lord proclaiming that America will lead the world to a eutopia of genuine Christian love.
Keywords: Male author

Death into Life - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1946)
Similar to other works by Stapledon in that it projects humanity into both the relatively near and very far future, to a time beyond humanity. This relatively short (159 pp) version follows "the spirit of man" from death during World War II to a period in which humans inhabit eight planets to the development of a "cosmic consciousness" into which humanity is absorbed. On the copyright page there is an author's note saying, "This fantasy is not a novel."
Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 91-251.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Epilogue - [Patrick] Beresford Egan (1905-84) (The Fortune Press, 1946)
Satire set in post-war Britain. Includes ludicrously detailed government regulation, e.g. permission is required to laugh.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Future Imperfect - Bridget [Walsh] Chetwynd (1910-70) (Hutchinson, 1946)
Humorous gender-role reversal novel in which British men are disenfranchised in 1965 with their approval.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

God's Fool! - Frederick Ellsworth Wolf (New Age Publications, 1946)
A mother and son leave the Amana Colony to experience the life of the world. They experience poverty, war, and America's rejection of God and return to Amana, which they now see as better.
Keywords: Male author

The Golden Recovery Revealing A streamlined cooperative Economic System compiled from the best authorities of the World, both ancient and modern - Werter L[ivingston] Gross ([Murray & Gee], 1946)
While much of the novel concerns the life histories of three young men, two rich whites and one poor black, who were raised together, the novel builds to a final focus on an intentional community in Southern California based on the principles of Robert Owen (1771-1858). The hero is the African-American.
Keywords: Male author

The Island Forbidden to Man - Muriel [Florence] Hine (ca. 1874-1949) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1946)
A community of women inhabit an island and forbid men to land. For a time, it appears to be a feminist eutopia, but various conflicts emerge with some of the younger women wanting to marry. The community survives as a community but with men as well as women
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Little Things" - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1946)
Future society perceived as a dystopia by the hero. In fact, it is a society designed to avoid war, and thus is a eutopia, but secrecy and some authoritarianism are necessary to achieve this end.
Rpt. in his Bypass to Otherness (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 101-14.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Living Lies" - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) (New Worlds: A Science Fiction Magazine of the Future, 1946)
Racial dystopia on Venus where there are many different skin colors.
Rpt. in Other Worlds Science Stories 2.4 (8) (November 1950): 96-130.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Maniac's Dream: A Novel of the Atomic Bomb - F[rederick] Horace Rose (1875-1965) (Duckworth, 1946)
Dystopia including a conspiracy of atheist scientists to use the atomic bomb. Much of it is set in Africa.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Mistress Masham's Repose - T[erence] H[anbury] White (1906-64) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946)
Young adult Gulliveriana. Gulliver brought some Lilliputians back with him, and they have settled on an island in a lake in a neglected estate. They are befriended by a young girl.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Mr. Adam - Pat [Harry Hart] Frank (1908-64) (J.B. Lippincott, 1946)
Dystopian satire with only one fertile man left alive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Summer in Three Thousand. Not a prophecy--A parable - Peter Martin [Leckie] (b. 1890?) (Quality Press, 1946)
Eutopia and dystopia. Half the world is a eutopia and half a dystopia. In the eutopia, the people live underground in a totally artificial world; care for the world above but do not exploit it. Although there are a few natural telepaths, most people have telepathy that is brought about by grafting cells to the brain at birth. Eugenics. The dystopia, Godsowncountry, is authoritarian, religious, and capitalist.
Keywords: Male author

"To-morrow" - Virgil St. C Eldridge (Pertinent: The Monthly Magazine of Foto-Fiction-Fact (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1946)
Brief poem describing a desolated future with nature beginning to reassert itself.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Two Trillion Immortals. Romance? Novel? Prophecy? Reality? Revelation? - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) (Hobson Book Press, 1946)
Sequel to 1940 Cruso. See also 1933 Cruso. The author says that the book is written for the white race, except Jews. Although the author suggests that a third world war is possible, he thinks that a new era is opening that will lead to a world eutopia. Some past and future history.
Keywords: Male author

Visit of the Princess: A Romance of the Nineteen-sixties - R[alph] H[ale] Mottram (1883-1971) (Hutchinson & Co, 1946)
Flawed utopia seen through a romance in what appears to be a dull, egalitarian dystopia but is also a society giving much better life chances to children.
Keywords: English author; Male author

What Farrar Saw - James Hanley (1901-85) (Nicholson & Watson, 1946)
Dystopia as a fantasy of post-war Britain with clogged highways and difficult class relations.
Rpt. in his What Farrar Saw and Other Stories (London: André Deutsch, 1984), 1-204.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Animal Farm; A Fairy Story - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) (Secker & Warburg, 1945)
Classic story of totalitarianism. See also 1964 Bond.
Rpt. as vol. 8 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davision. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with Appendix I “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm” (97-108); Appendix II “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm” (109-14); Appendix III “Orwell’s Radio Adaptation of Animal Farm” (115-95); and “Textual Note” (197-203). U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946. First illustrated edition, with illustrations by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. Rpt. with drawings by Quentin Blake. London: The Folio Society, 1984; and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson (iii-x) and one illus. by Frank Kelly Freas. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. 50th Anniversary Edition with illustrations by Ralph Steadman. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995, which includes “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (159-71) and “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm (173-80). The National Theatre produced a dramatization available as George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Adapted by Peter Hall with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell and music by Richard Peaslee. London: Methuen, 1985. A film was directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas (1955). A theatre version by Ian Wooldridge was adapted by Ivan Heng for Wild Rice (Singapore). As Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel. Illus. by Odyr [Bernardi] (b. 1967). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019. Originally published in Portuguese as A Revolução dos Bichos. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Schwarcz S.A., 2018.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Back to Nature - R[obert] W[illiam] Alexander (Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd, 1945)
Two hundred men and two hundred women leave a future eutopia to establish a more primitive life based on marriage and the family that they believe to be better than the eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Benevolent Despot - David Lynn (Kangaroo Books, 1945)
Humor presenting a benevolent despot as leading to a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Destiny Times Three" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1945)
The future earth is split into three. One is a flawed utopia, which is supposed to be peaceful and joyful, but is stagnant; one is an authoritarian dystopia; and one is a destroyed landscape ruled by intelligent cats.
Rpt. in Five Science Fiction Novels. Comp. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1952), 110-203); as Galaxy Novel 28. New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1952; and in Binary Star # 1 (New York: Dell, 1978), 7-150. The most recent reprint has an "Afterword" by Norman Spinrad (150-55).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Devil's Altar Boy - Erdahl, Silvert (Capitol Hill Press, 1945)
Dystopian allegory in which Germany and Japan won World War II and produced a second Dark Ages.

The Happy Turning - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (William Heinemann, 1945)
Presented as taking place in Dreamland, which is a eutopia. Primarily concerned with religion. Discussions with Jesus who attacks Christianity and Paul in particular. Says he did not die and spent the rest of his life as a carpenter.
Rpt. in The Last Books of H.G. Wells. The Happy Turning and Mind at the End of its Tether. Ed. G.P. Wells ([London]: H.G. Wells Society, 1982), 19-52 with an “Appendix The Writing of the Last Books” by the editor (79-80).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Heir Unapparent" - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1945)
An authoritarian dystopia, which, under a fairly benevolent dictatorship, has generally established peace and prosperity. is facing various individuals who want to replace the dictator.
Rpt. in his Away and Beyond (New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952), 156-86; U.K. ed. (London: Panther, 1963), 100-23.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Into the Dawn - Gaile Churchill McElhiney (1888-1978) (DeVorss & Co, 1945)
Eutopia for the spiritually advanced on an isolated island, which can be found only by those who have reached the right stage of consciousness. Vegetarian. Radioactivity in food and drink is believed to be invigorating.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lost Government; or, Do You Really Like It? A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups - Jiri Weiss (1913-2004) (Nicholson & Watson, 1945)
Satire. After World War II a government in exile returns, finds that the people have taken over and have no need for them, and leaves.
Keywords: Czech author; English author; Male author

The Man Who Missed the War - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) (Hutchinson, 1945)
Lost race authoritarian dystopia that practices human sacrifice set in a temperate area of Antarctica with a battle rather like Armageddon (See Revelation 16) at the end.
Rpt. in his Worlds Far From Here (London: Hutchinson, [1954]), 334-743; and separately London: Arrow Books, 1959.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Millennium 1 - W[illiam] A[ddison] Dwiggins (1880-1956) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1945)
Dystopian play. Machines that have developed thought and reason revolt against human control. At the beginning humans live hiding in caves, but they struggle to defeat the machines and ultimately win.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mural" - F[rancis] R[eginald] Scott (1889-1985) (Overture, 1945)
A poem depicting an apparently perfect world brought about through science, but the tone is satirical.
Rpt. in his Selected Poems (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1966), 68-69.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

New Thoughts for a New World - Bert[ram Wilson] Huffman (1870-1953) (Author, 1945)
Three poems. “The Poet’s Dream Come True” [2] sees the return of a everyday, workingman Christ and the coming of the millennium. “O, Bells of Freedom” [3] is a plea for people to respond to the “Bells of Freedom” and build a eutopia. “When the Tumult Dies” [4] questions whether at war’s end people will create a “World at Peace” or more “Hatred.” T
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pattern for a Railroad for Tomorrow: 1960 - Edward Hungerford (Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1945)
U.S. rail system of the future with illustrations of trains, stations, and routes for both intercity and urban traffic, and timetables. The author calls it a Utopia.
Keywords: Male author

Prelude to Peace - [Frederick Rand] [Rogers] (b. 1894) (North American Physical Fitness Institute Bulletin 10, 1945)
Eutopia. Unification under one world leader chosen by the best educators, who, with priests, are ineligible. The leader can be removed by the priests. One language, one religion. No competition. Cooperative commonwealth with government restrictions on the choice of occupation and geographic movement. Restrictions on freedom of speech and press.
Keywords: Male author

That Hideous Strength, A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown Ups - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1945)
Final volume of a trilogy about the struggle between the forces of good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16). Traditional marriage with the woman obedient is stressed. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1943 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis.
Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Abr. as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) (Jonathan Cape, 1945)
Classic body-eutopia. According to the “Author’s Note” (6-7) it was written in 1933 in Russia and lost; he rewrote it in 1944. Both versions were “escape[s] from the pressure of reality” (7).
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Hungarian author; Male author

"Utopia 1995" - Alan Dunn (1900-74) (A Bird’s-Eye View of the Postwar World, 1945)
Humor on the problems of the technological future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Valley of the Poor - Wertie Clarice [Blackwell] Weaver (Wetzel Pub. Co, 1945)
Science cures racial prejudice and brings eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Wake Up New Zealand! A Clarion Call to New Zealanders to follow the brightly burning Star of Truth (The International League of the Cross, 1945)
Pamphlet that is partially a depiction of New Zealand as a eutopia due to its social policies and partially a plea to New Zealanders to not lose what they have.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

"The Waveries" - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1945)
The loss of all electrical power produces a U.S. of small town eutopias.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 7-26; and in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 212-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Anarch" - Malcolm Jameson (1891-1945) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1944)
An authoritarian, conformist dystopia is transformed into a democratic, individualist eutopia. Mostly on the dystopia and the transition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Arctic Bride" - Sterner St. Paul Meek (1894-1972) (American Fiction, 1944)
The eutopia occupies 29 pages of a 36-page pamphlet and is one of peace, plenty, and immortality at the North Pole. The nude woman on the cover of the Utopian Publications ed. appears to have nothing to do with the contents.
Repub. separately London: Utopian Publications, 1944.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Atlantis Rising - Daphne Vigers (Andrew Dakers, 1944)
Detailed eutopia stressing cooperation and education presented through the history of Atlantis, its fall, and return.
2nd ed. London: Aquarian Press, 1952.
Keywords: Female author

Black Dawn - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) (Hutchinson & Co, 1944)
In the dystopia of the post-war world most countries had been destroyed, but a world confederation begins to be formed led by the Anglo-Saxon Confederation.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Bread and Roses; An Utopian Survey and Blue-print - Ethel Edith Mannin (1900-84) (McDonald and Co, 1944)
Detailed eutopia based on freedom, equality, and brotherhood. No central government or state. Equal distribution of goods.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; UK author

Common Sense. Is It Wrong To Be Right? Is It Right to Be Wrong? - [Hugo Cyril K.] [Baruch] (b. 1907) (Modern Art Gallery, Ltd, 1944)
Anti-capitalist essay that presents some elements of a eutopia presented through a series of negatives, such as "No nations", No money", and "No state or other authority". There will be only one law, "possession other than for personal need is a crime."
Keywords: Male author

Days after Tomorrow: A Voice from 2000 A.D - Frank R[obinson] Kerr (b. 1889) (Robertson & Mullens, 1944)
Eutopia. World federation with a powerful world Parliament. Religious. Stresses science and education.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Fly Envious Time - Lou[ise Olga Elisabeth] King-Hall (b. 1897) (Peter Davies, 1944)
The first part describes the middle class before World War II. This is followed by two stages of the future. In 1979 an authoritarian society exists that stresses science and eugenics. Tablet food. In 1999 there is an emphasis on art, but World War III starts.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Future of Man; A Study in Human Possibilities. Translated from the Original Manuscript by S.L. Salzedo - [Ernst] [Frankenstein] (b. 1881) (Nicholson & Watson, 1944)
An essay that is mostly about the current situation. Part describes a detailed world eutopia based on the author's understanding of ethics. Stresses the rights of individuals. Laws expire unless renewed. Focus on education. A few hours of required work. Birth control and small families.
Keywords: Male author

The Green Isle of the Great Deep - Neil M[iller] Gunn (1891-1973) (Faber and Faber, 1944)
Heaven as an authoritarian dystopia. Takeover by those attempting to achieve social perfection while God is busy meditating. Same characters as his Young Art and Old Hector. London: Faber and Faber,1942.
Rpt. [London]: Souvenir Press, 1975; and Edinburgh, Scot.: Polygon, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Heart Consumed. A Novel - [Julia Eileen Courtney] [Greenwood] (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944)
The novel is partially set in the 21st century and discusses eugenics and training for leadership.
Keywords: Female author

Homes or Hovels: The Housing Problem and Its Solution - George Woodcock (1912-95) (Freedom Press, 1944)
An anarchist approach to housing. The author rejects what he says are overly detailed utopias, but then goes on to give a detailed description of housing, which will mostly apartments/flats, an emphasis on neighborhoods, and few large cities.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

John Smith, Emperor - S[erapio] G[onzalez] Gallego (1883-1944) (Guild Press, 1944)
Authoritarian eutopia in which everything considered immoral is illegal. The examples given are "1. Divorce. 2. Indecent prints, books, or magazines. 3. Publications of a blasphemous nature or those that vilify the religious beliefs of others. 4. Moving pictures which violate public decency and tend to wrongly influence the people, together with immoral theatrical and indecent night club performances. 5. Books that glorify crime in any form" (39-40). According to the "Foreword", the eutopia is based on the "Peace Program of Pope Pius XII" (1876-1958. Pope 1939-58).
Keywords: Male author; Spanish author; US author

The Lights Were Going Out - Arthur Guirdham (1905-92) (Quality Press, 1944)
The dystopia that will follow peace without victory with the National Socialists gaining influence over Britain and the U.S.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Old Man in New World - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (George Allen & Unwin, 1944)
Socialist eutopia that encourages diversity and individuality as seen by an old revolutionist who is not entirely comfortable in the world the revolution created. World federation.
Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 253-82; and in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 42-60.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Outward Urge. A Novel - [Alec] Richard Lea (1907-2003) (Rich & Cowan, 1944)
Starts with an authoritarian dystopia with various forms of direct control and London something like a concentration camp. By the end of the novel, the worst of the dystopia is gone and, while not a eutopia, there is a good society in contrast with the recent past.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Peace in Nobody's Time - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) (Hutchinson, 1944)
Satire. Dictatorship with some socialist elements like the abolition of money and the introduction of labor coupons. The stress is on going to extremes to cure social ills. Nudists were required to be nude all the time, which stopped them from being nudists. Marriage was abolished, and the people demanded its reinstatement. Pornography was legalized and disappeared.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author

Phantom Victory; The Fourth Reich 1945-1960 - Erwin [Christian] Lessner (1898-1959) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1944)
Dystopia. German officers form an underground after defeat and conquer the world.
Keywords: Austrian author; Male author; US author

A Proposed World Government - George A. Birdsall (The Shaw Press, 1944)
Proposed new world government including a detailed constitution with many of its structure based on the U.S. Constitution (85-110). National militaries will be disbanded. A world currency will be gradually adopted. “American English” will be the basis of the official world language. “Six Musts” are specified: a World Congress; a World Court; a World Police Force under Congressional control; continuing inspection to ensure disarmament; safeguards against too much power in one nation, group, or person; and the entire world must be included.
Keywords: Male author

"Realities" - Leslie Rubenstein (1902?-78) (Dreams and Realities, 1944)
Eutopia brought about by a planned settlement similar to garden cities. Considerable detail of acreage and layout is given, and there is a map showing part of the planned city. There is information on housing, health care, and other aspects of community life. The author also depicts fictionalized supporters and skeptics. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Renaissance" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1944)
Dystopia. A device that allows people to be transferred to another planet is used by the dominant powers, called the Statists, on Earth to get rid of all the scientists and independent thinkers. But some find their way back and a struggle for control begins with the possibility of a renaissance on Earth.
Repub. as Renaissance: A Science Fiction Novel of Two Human Worlds. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Gnome, 1951. Rpt. as Man of Two Worlds: A Science Fiction Novel. New York: Pyramid Books, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Riddle of the Tower - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947); Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) (Hutchinson, 1944)
A number of past and future societies are presented from an anti-utopian perspective. The focus of the novel is on the horrors of communalism.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

That Would Be Living: A new outlet for Capital and Character - W. J. Keith Hughes (Invitation to Life, 1944)
Eutopia. Describes the establishment in Britain of Delectavale, the Workers' Co-operative Society. Both communal buildings and private homes. Ultimately the author proposes a world government led by the Mundists and suggest many reforms.
Aldham, Essex, Eng. Mundist Press_
Keywords: Male author

Threefold Democracy - Walter Shaw Lang (Wright & Jaques, 1944)
Detailed non-fiction eutopia. Influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy. The threefold division is into a sphere of freedom, a sphere of rights, and a sphere of economics. Stress on economics, including the R-L Plan for a sinking fund. Workers should ultimately be able to own the enterprises in which they work.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

When? A prophetical novel of the very near future - H. Ben Judah [pseud.] (H. Ben Judah. Distributed by British Israel Association of Greater Vancouver, 1944)
A eutopia based on the ideas of British Israelism. The world after the Second Coming of Christ. Abundance.

Worlds Beginning - Robert Ardrey (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944)
The successful struggle to create a eutopia based on a complex new form of industry that gives workers partial ownership of the company and, it is argued, the incentive to do their best work. Set in the U.S. twenty years after World War II, which had been followed by industrial, class, and racial conflict, leading to a year called "the terror".
U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The 1946 Ms - Robin [Robert Cecil Romer] Maugham [2nd Viscount Maugham] (1916-81) (War Facts Press, 1943)
Describes the origins and development of a military dictatorship in England that becomes a fascist dystopia. On the last page the author says that the dictators do not exist and, "This story was written so that they never will exist and so that Britons never will be slaves".
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of The Better World - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) (Faber and Faber, 1943)
Alice in Wonderland fantasy discussion of plans for and problems of post-war Britain. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements with the plans of the Labour Party presented most positively.
Keywords: English author; Male author

America's Sin Offering; The Budget Balancer - Zori, Henri (Bruce Humphries, 1943)
Satire on politics and bureaucracy. SMAISM = Scions of SMA or Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Proposes an absurd twenty-third amendment to the U.S. Constitution that requires all citizens to sacrifice a boar, specifically a White-Lipped Peccary, on a specific day each year. Contains explanations of the many regulations needed.
Keywords: Male author

Anno Domini 1963 - Finigan, G. Lysaght (Direct Publicity Co, 1943)
Successful democracy with many reforms such as government paying 60% of overseas travel, extensive building of hospitals, and world-wide price stability. Based on Christianity and the family and brought about by women becoming active in politics and unions.
Keywords: Male author

"Captain Marvel Finds Utopia" - Bill [William H.] Parker (author); C[harles] C[larence] Beck (artist) (Whiz Comics (New York), 1943)
Captain Marvel traces a Nazi to Utopia.
Keywords: Male author

Cities of the Plain: A Democratic Melodrama - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) (Grey Walls Press, 1943)
Anti-capitalist dystopia and revolt. A one act play showing a town run for profit with no concern for the workers who, mining radium, will die to provide a profit for the owners.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Clash By Night" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1943)
Dystopia. Permanent war among mercenaries on Venus.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Erōne - [Elfric Wells] Chalmers Kearney (1881-1966) (Biddles Ltd, 1943)
Detailed eutopia based on love and cooperation. Many technical advances. The national profit is distributed equally to everyone twenty or older. No public or private debt and money cannot be accumulated year to year. All services, like food, lodging, and transport, are free.
4th ed. rev. as Erone. London: The Commodore Press, 1945. 5th ed. London: The Eastern Press, 1950.
Keywords: Australian author; UK author

From Earth to Mars - J[ohn] W[inton] Heming (1900-1953) (Currawong Publishing, 1943)
Detailed eutopia on Mars based on reason and logic, which leads to complete equality, including gender equality, a credit card system of exchange, limited work hours, and the abolition of elected officials. High technology.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Future Revealed in the Wisdom of Chiska Ru. An Unbiased Stranger Guides the Discussion . . . - Ralph Fuller (Atlas Printers, 1943)
A Martian visits Earth to learn about conditions there, which was, of course, at war at the time. Mars is a cooperative eutopia with a significant focus on education.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Gather, Darkness!" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1943)
Religious dystopia ruled by hereditary priests who work in twos so they can spy on each other. There is a rigid class system of religious and commoners, and the majority are controlled by keeping them ignorant. Something of a response to 1941 Heinlein.
Repub. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950. Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951; New York: Berkley Medallion, [1962]; New York: Pyramid, 1969; New York: Ballantine Books, 1975; and Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Gladiators" - Walt Dennis; Ernest Tucker (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1943)
Dystopia. After wars had devastated the earth, the remaining population inhabited two domes of 25,000 people each with a third dome of forest. Twice a year gladiators provided entertainment by fighting to the death in the third dome as representatives of one of the inhabited domes. Most people led dull, boring lives, and the gladiators and other entertainers provided the only breaks in the monotony. The gladiators and entertainers revolt and are expelled from the domes, only to discover that the earth had recovered.
Keywords: Male author

"The Iron Standard" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Astounding Science Fiction 32.4 (December 1943), 1943)
Flawed utopia on a Venus that sees its system, thousands of years old, as perfect and allows no innovation, which benefits those in power. Men from Earth upset the system
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"It Happened Tomorrow” - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Astounding Stories, 1943)
The dystopia created when machines revolt and the effect on the lives of ordinary people.
Rpt. in The Devil With You! The Lost Bloch, Volume 1. Ed. David J. Schlow (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999), 161-206, with a “Foreword” by Bloch on 161-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Let's Triumvirate or Man, Government and Happiness. A Philosophy of Man and a World-Wide Government Founded Upon Laws of Nature - Oswald Francis Zahn (b. 1874) (Author, 1943)
Detailed eutopia based on Uupolach or the universal urge principle of love and happiness, which is ". . . a strong desire or urge for, a thrilling, joyous ecstasy or emotion of order, harmony, concord, betterment, pleasure, happiness, contentment, universal love, charity, kindness and gratitude" (18). Argues that there is evidence of a former eutopia on Earth. The first step to the new eutopia is "honest information", and he gives "A Code for Honest Information" (235-55). The new "Triumvirate System" will divide the world into equal parts (suggested maps are provided), with various subdivisions so that every voter (all adults) will know personally the person they vote for.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Traveller - Ruthven [Campbell] Todd (1914-78) (The Grey Walls Press, 1943)
Surrealist fantasy of an imaginary country that is an authoritarian dystopia. At the end the protagonist turns into a bird.
Rpt. with the Craxton drawings and "An Attempt at a Preface" (1-6) by the author. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Mechanistic or a Human Society? - Wilfred Wellock (1879-1972) ([Ptd. by The Hereford Times for Wilfred Wellock, Quinton, Birmingham], 1943)
A pamphlet that decries the dominance of machines and the machine-mentality they produce. The author calls for a simpler life based on traditional English agriculture and decentralization to the village level or a “land-based democracy” (15). Cooperation. Regionalism. In his “Introduction” to the U.S. ed. Tamplin argues for the use of machines “more on the behalf of freeing and benefiting man” (2) and says, “Our society is itself a great mechanistic structure” (3). He says he is sure Wellock would agree.
U.S. ed. [New York: Decentralist Press, 1945]], with an “Introduction” (2-3) by Richard T. Tamplin.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mr. Mirakel - E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim (1886-1946) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1943)
A small enclave during World War II that survives Earth's revolt against war. Very upper class eutopia.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1943
Keywords: English author; Male author

Perelandra - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1943)
Second volume of a trilogy on the battle between good and evil. Re-enactment of the Adam and Eve myth on Venus but with no Fall. Stresses closeness to animals. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis.
Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

Social Justice Leadership Correspondence Course - Crusade for Social Justice (Crusade for Social Justice, 1943)
Twenty short bulletins describing a better future society and both encouraging people to become leaders and teaching techniques of leadership.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

“They Came to a City. A Play in Two Acts” - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) (Three Plays, 1943)
The eutopia that might be possible in post-war Britain as seen through the eyes of characters representative of contemporary Britain. Only some see it positively.
Rpt. without the subtitle in his Four Plays (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), 151-221. Rpt. as “They Came to a City: A Play in Two Acts.” In The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III (London: William Heinemann, 1950), 139-201 with a brief note by Priestley on xi.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Voyage to Venus - Dominic[k] Healy (1896-1954?) (Currawong Publishing Co, 1943)
Two eutopias. The first, briefly described, is a socialist eutopia based on state-controlled trusts that developed on Earth after World War II. No unemployment. Much technological improvement. The Confederated States of America include all of North and South America. The second eutopia is on Venus and is a technologically based cockaigne, at least as far as food is concerned, with, for example, a Delicatessen Forest. Venus is one country with one government. Everything on Venus standardized and visitors from the old Earth find it too perfect. Much of the novel is taken up with the conflicts this produces.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Weapon Makers - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1943)
A very early example of libertarian science fiction in that it champions the opposition to an oppressive government through the easy distribution of weapons. See also 1949 Van Vogt.
Repub. Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., 1947. U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954. Also published as One against Eternity. New York: Ace Books, 1955. An Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster The Other Side of Here.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

When Adolf Came. A Novel - Martin Hawkin[s] (Jarrold's Ltd, 1943)
Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II but the English fight on.
Keywords: Male author

Where the Stars Are Born - George [Thomas] Spaull (1876-1965) (William Brooks & Co, 1943)
A young adult novel describing a eutopia with no money, no warfare, work for all, and technological advances.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Why Was I Killed? A Dramatic Dialogue - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) (John Lane, 1943)
A dead soldier asks the question, which is discussed by seven people, with the soldier observing the discussion and the stages of each individual’s past that led them to take the position they do. In one chapter, “The New Order” (92-111), the soldier observes life under the Nazi regime and in a concentration camp.
Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"World Beyond the Sky" - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1943)
Dystopia. A world that had been eutopian, having conquered disease, tamed the planet, and provided a good life for all was perceived to be weak by some who created an authoritarian, violent dystopia "correcting" the faults of the eutopia. People from Earth help to defeat the dystopia and future contact is planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

World Without Raiment. A Fantasy - Louise Dardenelle (Valiant Press, 1943)
Two eutopias. The first is the description of a nudist colony where people "live as nature intended" (99). The second is a new world along the lines of an earthly paradise that Nature has produced. Warmer. No clothes or paper. People live simply.
Keywords: Female author

The 21st Century Sizes Us Up - E[manuel] Robert Posnack (b. 1897) (Loder Appeal Press, 1942)
Introduction to 1946 Posnack emphasizing the current situation from the perspective of the 21st century. The last few pages lay out what he is going to cover in the later book.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Barrier" - [William Anthony Parker] [White] (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1942)
The future has established barriers to time travelers, and the period presented here is an authoritarian dystopia with limits to try to keep change from happening. The ideal is "Stasis."
Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 134-88; in From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication from Analog. At head of title Analog Anthology #9. Ed. Stanley Schmidt (New York: Dial Press Davis Publications, 1984), 7-47; and in The Compleat Boucher: The Complete Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Anthony Boucher. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1998), 165-201.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Breakdown" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1942)
Dystopia of union domination. The author says that it is not intended to be anti-labor but "to contrast the forces of social creation and the facts of social stagnation" (People Machines, 153).
U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 28. 5 (January 1942): 2-19. Rpt. in U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 8.1 (December 1951): 2-36; in Journey to Infinity. Ed. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 110-44; in his People Machines (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 154-87, with an author’s note on 151-53; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 19-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Change of Heart - Mea Allan (1909-82) (George G. Harrap, 1942)
Dystopia set in post-World War II Germany in which a committed National Socialist develops a plan to become the next Führer with his infant son to follow him in that role.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Scottish author

Christianity and Social Order - William Temple Archbishop of York (1881-1944) (Penguin Books, 1942)
Nonfiction that lays out of the principles for a Christian democratic socialist eutopia after the war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"City of Glass" - Noel [Miller] Loomis (1905-69) (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1942)
Far future earth with two societies at war over diminished resources. One, while authoritarian, is attempting to create a decent life; the other, in which most of the people are starving, is an authoritarian dictatorship. Free trade solves the problem. A related story is his “Iron Men.” Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) 11.3 (Winter 1945): 11-65.
Repub. as The City of Glass: A Complete Science Fiction Novel. New York: Columbia Publishers, 1955.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Darkness and the Light - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1942)
Eutopia and dystopia presented as two alternative future histories. The dystopia is extrapolated from the situation as it existed in 1942. In the eutopia that situation is overcome and for a time a eutopia based on villages develops. Following that, the human race goes through periods of decline and advance until a new and higher human type develops.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 28-42.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Drives Toward War - Edward Chace Tolman (1856-1959) (D. Appleton-Century Co, 1942)
Essay but includes a short conclusion called a utopia (100-12) describing the society necessary, from the point of view of a psychologist, for avoiding war. This society must not frustrate basic biological needs, encourage identification with "acceptable authority figures," and create a "supranational state" to which people will feel more loyalty than to their nation-state (102).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Grand Canyon - V[ictoria Mary] Sackville-West (1892-1962) (Michael Joseph, 1942)
Dystopia and eutopia. Germany wins World War II and Japan is defeated by the U.S., but peace last only briefly until Germany and Japan attack the U.S. During the attack a few people escape to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they create a good, cooperative society.
U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Great Conflict - Hal [Harold Curtis] Hall (Ptd. by the Haynes Corp, 1942)
Eutopia set in 2009. A man who had been living in a remote, isolated valley returns to find a new civilization. The US New Deal program is completed and produces a eutopia, which is made possible by extending democracy beyond the merely political.
Keywords: Male author

History of the Utopian Society of America; An Authentic Account of Its Origin and Development Up to 1942 - Newton Van Dalsem (The Utopian Society, 1942)
Eutopia. Detailed reform based on the right of employment that provides an income providing an appropriate standard of living.
Parts originally published as "Utopias, Past and Present." The Roman Forum 8.8 - 9 (November - December 1939): 5-10, 4-11.
Keywords: Male author

I Am the World. A Romance - Peter Vansittart (1920-2008) (Chatto & Windus, 1942)
Imaginary country in which a young man plans to overthrow the monarchy and become dictator. Conflict, love, and religion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

I, James Blunt - H[enry Canova] V[ollom] Morton (1892-1979) (Methuen, 1942)
Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II and sets about destroying Britain.
Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Dodd, Mead, 1942.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright (1883-1931) (Farrar & Rinehart, 1942)
One of the most comprehensive eutopias ever written. The eutopia focuses on family, home, and place. Islandians are country dwellers who live on one farm for generations and only temporarily move to cities. No rich or poor even though there are aristocrats and denerir, who work on the land but have absolute right in both law and custom, which is more important than law in Islandia, to their land and homes. Considerable detail on the different expressions of love, with sexual love the least important. See also 1969, 1979, and 1982 Saxton.
Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1970; New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press/London: Duckworth Press, 2001 with an “Introduction” by John Silbersack (v-x). A selection was rpt. as “The Story of Alwina.” Elsewhere. Ed. Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (New York: Ace Books, 1981), 164-86. Additional material by Wright was summarized by Basil Davenport (1905-66), An Introduction to Islandia: its history, customs, laws, language, and geography as prepared by Basil Davenport from “Islandia: History and Description” by Jean Perrier, first French Consul to Islandia, and translated by John Lang, first American Consul. With Maps drawn by John Lang. Toronto, ON, Canada: Farrar and Rinehart, 1942, which includes a bibliography, population statistics, notes on the climate, and a glossary created by Wright.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"New Order" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Penguin New Writing, 1942)
Brief description of the dystopia that develops as the result of loss in a war with some suggestion of the development of resistance.
Rpt. in his The Railway Accident and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1969), 220-22.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A New Social Order - Cephas [pseud.] (Cornish Brothers, 1942)
A detailed eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Nationalization of industries; all are employed by the government. Credit-card system for purchases and all credit must be spent each year. Cooperative housekeeping and cooking.

New Trade Winds for the Seven Seas - Alaric J. Roberts (J. F. Rowny Press, 1942)
The “Dedication” (v) says that the book portrays “a practical and workable plan for stabilizing the economic structure of the entire world,” but the bulk of the book is an adventure story in which a group of friends enter a cave and go deep into the Earth where, after many trials and tribulations, the discovery a fully functioning Atlantis and Lemuria, which are described as eutopias. Only in the last pages is the plan for Earth revealed, which includes an international board that would control the exports of raw materials of all countries, an international currency to be used for trade, and international birth control.
Keywords: Male author

Other Worlds - J[ohn] W[inton] Heming (1900-1953) (Currawong, 1942)
A trip to Mercury and Venus, which are both eutopias of sorts. The people of Mercury are deaf and communicate with gestures. Mercury practices negative eugenics, killing children who show signs of disease or violence, although the practice has succeeded and is rarely needed. No disease because all germs have been eliminated. Termite-like society with a Queen for giving birth. Most children are neuter. No individuality. Bred for a particular occupation. Equal pay. On Venus the people do not wear clothes, have no noses, eat grass, and live in hollows in the banks of rivers or oceans.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Overthrow” - Cleve Cartmill (1908-64) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1942)
Authoritarian dystopia. Conflict among corporation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pack Rat: A Metaphoric Fantasy - Francis Clement Kelley (1870-1948) (Bruce Publishing Co, 1942)
Dystopian satire on the politics of the time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The People's Plan (Observer Printing Works, 1942)
Detailed proposals for a radically reformed New Zealand after World War 2. Christian.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The People's Plan for a New Order: Giving Twenty-four Points for Reconstruction of the Present Orthodox System of Economics - Chas. [Charles] E[dward] Phillips J.P., A.P.A.N.Z. (The Unity Press Ltd, 1942)
Proposes the establishment of New Zealand Ltd. which would issue "negotiable, non-interest bearing debentures" that must be used within a specified period of time. New Zealand Ltd. would provide all national and local finance and hold all national and local assets and liabilities. Dividends paid to all citizens over 21 (40 in the first year), all of whom are required to work if needed. There is no evidence that this is connected with The People's Plan of the Dominion Reconstruction Conference of the same year.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Revolt in Arcadia - Gösta Larsson (American Publishers, 1942)
Young adult novel that ends in a cooperative commonwealth.

"Tarnished Utopia" - Malcolm Jameson (1891-1945) (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1942)
Authoritarian dystopia with slavery and torture followed by a successful revolt.
Repub. New York: Galaxy, 1956. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Then We Shall Hear Singing; A Fantasy in C Major - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Cassell, 1942)
Fascist dystopia set in a country that has experienced many invasions and has a tradition of resistance. The people are not allowed to sing, and the native language is prohibited in schools. The dictator approves a program of medical experiments on the people of the country intended to eliminate resistance by removing part of the brain.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1942.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"This Precious Freedom" - Arch Oboler (1907-87) (This Precious Freedom; Thirteen New Radio Plays, 1942)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is invaded by a totalitarian regime.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Is This Utopia? A Plan of Life in the Post-War World. Equality of Education Equality of Opportunity No Unemployment Wages for Wives Children's Allowances - Frank R. Johnson (Ptd. by Perry Brothers Ltd., The Hotspur Press, 1942)
Socialist eutopia for post war Britain in essay form. All adults receive a minimum income, and there is a children's allowance until sixteen. Free medical and dental care. Better housing and more open space.
Keywords: Male author

Time Marches Off - [John] [Winton] [Heming] (1900-1953) (Currawong Publishing, 1942)
Humorous science fiction. Time travel into a series of future Australias set between 2050 and 4000. The first presents a scientifically advanced dictatorship where everyone has a number and individual thinking is discouraged. The rest present the struggle between men and women, with women dominant in most of them, although in one, animals are in control and everyone lives underground. Eventually most men are killed off and the men traveling from the past take advantage of the situation. Much better written than the usual Heming work. Graham Stone in Notes on Australian Science Fiction. (Sydney, NSW: Graham Stone, 2001), 28 says that it was originally written as a play.
Rpt. under the author's name Sydney, NSW: Graham Stone, 1997.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Try Another World; A Saga coursing its way through the six adventures of Joe Shaun which thrilled the village of Caryldale - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) (The Business Bourse, 1942)
Cerebroland is a planet in contact with the Godhead. As a result, the people become good. Atro is a planet where everyone is absolutely frank, which is supposed to produce eutopia but creates a dystopia instead. The protagonist also visits the Tarcorned World, where all the nations are at war, Redonia, a world to which an entire nation immigrates to avoid the war, and Nosaer--the Mentator World, which is a eutopia. The Mentator is a "mind-machine" which imbues people with telepathy. 1935 Meyer includes the Mentator. See also 1917 Meyer.
2nd rev. ed as. The Immortal Tales of Joe Shaun: An enchanting artist makes the five immortal hopes and dreams of mankind come true. DELIGHTFUL CATNIP FOR THE MIND. A satire on the stark realities; spiced with the greatest love story ever told; and blended with bewitching fantasy on the five freedoms of the cosmos. Yonkers, NY: The Carydale Library, [1944]. Other than the title, the only differences are that in the later edition no author is given for the “Introduction” and a “Prevue” summarizing the text. A note in the 1944 edition says that some of the material had been published previously.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Unknown Land - Viscount [Herbert Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) (George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1942)
An explorer comes to believe that Belsalem, the country described in Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) must exist and searches for, and discovers, it. Here the basis for the utopia is a treatment that enlarges the brain, and in addition to the science and technology central to the New Atlantis, there is great stress on health and mental activity. All knowledge had been sifted for truth. Work consists mostly of overseeing machines. No money. The family is sacrosanct and birth control produces a stable population. Little government need; some administration. The book concludes with two appendices. The first is “A Note on the Changing Shape of the Skull” (215-216) that consists of abstracts from Sir Janes Frazer’s the Golden Bough. Vol. 2 The Magic Art, 297. The second is “Scientific Discoveries” (217-221) and presents more information on three points in the book, the Nature of Light, Positive and negative electricity, and the Mental Ambience.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The White Race is Supreme. Racial Education Based upon Spiritual, Scientific fact and General Observation. A White Woman’s Soul Turns Black. The White Man’s Toleration Is All to Blame - Father W[illiam] E. Riker (1873-1969) (Holy City Press, 1942)
Racist eutopia as reflected in the title. See also [194-] Riker, The Perfect Government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Adam Link Faces a Revolt" - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65); [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1941)
Flawed utopia in which robots prove as intractable as humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Address--supposed to be spoken on 24 January, 1992 - Arnold Freeman (Author, 1941)
A eutopia in essay form inspired by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy, and which mentions his "threefold social commonwealth." The date is the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the World-Commonwealth of Mankind. Business and education are supposed to be free from state interference, but policy is still set by Parliament. Charter of Workers' Rights--shorter working day, better working conditions, and increased rates of pay. Stress on the "production of food, clothing, houses, cigars and all the other essentials of existence" (13).
Keywords: Male author

The Aerodrome: A Love Story - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) (John Lane, 1941)
Dystopia in which a military leader imposes his very restrictive version of military discipline on a rapidly expanding airfield and the area around it. He plans to take over all of Britain. He argues that women should be used sexually by the airmen as long as no children are born, and no long-term attachment develops.
Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1982, with an “Introduction” by Anthony Burgess (9-12); London: Vintage books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by Michael [John] Moorcock ([ix-xx]). U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, [1946]. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. London: John Lane, 1944; and as New ed. with the subtitle A Novel. London: John Lane, 1946; U.S. Ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1946. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel and the “Introduction” by Burgess (9-12). London: The Bodley Head, 1982. Rpt. with the original subtitle London: The Bodley Head, 1966, with an “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (9-11); U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Co., 1966, with the “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (9-11); rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969, with the “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (xi-xiii). Most of the many have the original subtitle.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Atlantis" - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) (Christianity and Society, 1941)
The struggle to reach utopia, particularly the diversions on the way.
Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 20-22; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 202-204; Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 116-118; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 232-234, with a Textual Note on 873.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The British Countryside in 1951" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Guide to the New World: A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution, 1941)
A very brief eutopia based on Germany being defeated in the war, the air coming under the control of a world authority, the establishment of world law based on a Declaration of Rights (included in the book 49-54), and the adoption of socialism. Some of the countryside has been allowed to return to its natural state and areas have been reforested. Villages have more amenities. Children from the cities will spend much time in the country. The old stately homes have been turned into country clubs and hotels. In “Future Cities” (96-97), he says that in this essay and “Uprooted People” (94-95), he was “trying to Imagine the face of the world in 1951, if civilisation wins the war” (92).
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Common Enemy - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) (Hutchinson, 1941)
The novel begins with a world-wide disaster brought about by an object passing through the solar system that throws the Earth's orbit off, causing massive storms and world-wide shifts in land, and moving Earth closer to the sun. This ends World War II because most of Germany is flooded. In Britain, led by a man who recognizes that the disaster provides a common enemy that pulls people together, the rebuilding process slowly produces a socialist eutopia. Democracy rejected at the national level, but local democracy is being created. At the end of the novel, although the U.S. is recreating competitive capitalism, Europeans are in the process of creating similar cooperative systems.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Eden Island. A Novel - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1941)
While most of the novel is the story of the life of an heiress, there are utopian elements both in the good works she undertakes and in her creation of Eden Island, which she establishes to provide a home for a refugee orchestra and others.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Eucalyptus - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) (Author, 1941)
A summary through autobiography of his various works presenting ideal cities. See also 1920, 1929, 1934, 1949 Wilson.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Frolics in Politics - John Macleod (Currawong, 1941)
Humor. Satire on the politics of the imaginary country of Fantasia (bounded on all sides by Utopia), which is Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Scottish author

Happiness Highway - [Edith] [Sutherland] (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1941)
Eutopia reflecting the position of the 1942 Crusade for Social Justice and 1943 The People's Plan in which Christian values are put into practice.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Male author

"Island in the Sky" - Manly Wade Wellman (1903-86) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1941)
Authoritarian dystopia including gladiators required to fight.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New World Order And How It Will Be Established: The World, As it was; As it is; And as it will be. An intensely interesting and thought-provoking book - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) ([Ptd by Clarke & Stuart], 1941)
British Israelism detailing the Mosaic system of representation (the decimal systems used by John Eliot and others) and the way that the Israel nations will become united. Includes a “Lecture Delivered by Request to the British Israel World Federation October 18th, 1939” (158-62) and a one page “Articles of Association Brotherhood of United Israel” (163).
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Newtopia; The World We Want - Philip Whitewell Wilson (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941)
Eutopia. Newtopians are average people who are mostly focused on their homes. Most of the book is on current conditions and the war in particular. The eutopian aspects of the book focus on the conditions that will allow people to lead a decent life. International unity is one such condition, and the author refers to 1939 Streit. Reformed capitalism. Christian but more generally religious.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Of Things Entire: A Fantasy - Valerie Chick (Mingay Pub. Co, 1941)
Detailed eutopia including all the peoples of Earth who dream of a better life but not including those who are greedy or make wars. Called "the dream world that lives in the hearts of men" (9). Simplicity, love, and a natural life. Everyone does both mental and physical labor. Because everyone is motivated by the same goals, there is harmony and not conflict. World peace. Everyone has their own home; they do not live in apartments or high-rise buildings. Much of the novel presents the contrasting lives of people before and after entering the eutopia, where they are able to lead the lives really suited for them.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Read What Happened on the Island of Nogi, or Why Business is Bad - J[oseph] W[illiam] Parker (J. W. Parker Optometrist, 1941)
Anti-capitalist allegory set on the island of Nogi, which was a successful, balanced economy until a capitalist arrived and destroyed the economy. ". . . the moral of this story is that the insurance companies, the food trust and other large corporations are taking away from the public billions of dollars in excess profits which they are unable to either use or lend. The result is exactly what we should expect.” (7). See also 1935 Parker.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Samsons - Alberic A. Archambault (b. 1887) (Bruce Humphries, 1941)
Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements and both a statement of the importance of Jews to the American economy and stereotyped depictions of Jews. The Samsons, a secret society, organizes itself to eliminate persecution of Jews by removing all Jews to a compound in Mexico, thus destroying the U.S. economy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sanity Island. A Novel - Adrian [Richard] Alington (1895-1958) (Chatto and Windus, 1941)
Satire. Humorous rearmament. People must laugh at themselves more and, in particular, laugh at the ridiculousness of their political leaders.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Saturnalia in the Suburbs - John Nicholas (Heath Cranton, 1941)
Satire set in 1988 in which everyone in the suburbs takes a day for enjoyment. Poem.
Keywords: Male author

"Sixth Column" - [Robert Anson] [Heinlein] (1907-88) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1941)
Authoritarian dystopia and the revolt against it. The United States had been invaded by an Asian army and only six people were left alive in a U.S. military research establishment. They manage to defeat the invaders. 1943 Leiber is something of a response.
Rpt. as by Robert A[nson] Heinlein. Sixth Column: A Science Fiction Novel of Strange Intrigue. New York: Gnome, 1949; and as The Day After Tomorrow. New York: New American Library, 1949. Rpt. as Sixth Column as vol. 30 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2007; and as Sixth Column. New York Baen, 2012 with an "Introduction" by William H. Patterson (v-vii) and an "Afterword" by Tom Kratman (173-83).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sown in the Darkness A.D. 2,000 - William Richard Twiford (Orlin Tremaine, 1941)
A racist, anticommunist eutopia in which there is a struggle between whites and coloreds. The whites win and enforce segregation. The Appendices (308-71) describe a new currency, a new calendar, an improved Braille alphabet, some inventions, and a number of major projects designed to keep employment high such as building new mountains which will provide electric power by creating new waterfalls.
Keywords: Male author

The Star Called Wormwood: An Investigation of the possible reasons for its Decline and Fall as described in the VIIIth chapter of The Apocalypse - [Oliver] [Stonor] (Victor Gollancz, 1941)
Anti-war, anti-utopian novel set in 1839 and 2839
Keywords: Male author

"Stolen Dormouse" - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1941)
Future dystopia with a new feudalism based on corporations.
U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 27.2 (April 1941): 2-41. Rpt in his Divide and Rule (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1948), 139-231.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Uprooted Peoples” - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Guide to the New World: A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution, 1941)
Very brief eutopia of a post-war “Britain in a federal world, completely socialist and sharing a common freedom of all mankind. . .” while there remains a clear continuity with the past, but with what he calls “nomadism” (94). “In a federated world, political forms will cease to be territorial, will be subordinated [95] to world unionism and professionalism” (94-95). In the next essay, “Future Cities” (96-97), he says that in “The British Countryside in 1951” (92-93) and this essay, he was “trying to Imagine the face of the world in 1951, if civilisation wins the war” (92).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Utopia Right Around the Corner. Non-Factual. A Story of Fiction Told As If It Were Factual - Nathan Walton (H.J. Kemp Co, 1941)
Social scientists bring about eutopia by controlling the environment. Scientific administration. Get rid of all politicians.
Keywords: Male author

"What Dreams May Come..." - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) (Hutchinson, 1941)
A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth's but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience. In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Yucay: A Romance of Early Peru - Dorothea Knox Martin (Suttonhouse Publishers, 1941)
Incas as eutopia before the Spanish conquest. Most of the book follows a female character through the conquest.
Keywords: Female author

America Betrayed; Save the Nation - Albert D. Nelson (Suttonhouse, 1940)
Dystopia projecting a Japanese (cleverly disguised as Lapanese in the book) attempt to undermine the U.S. government in preparation for an invasion.
Keywords: Male author

“A Ceremonial” - Paul Goodman (1911-72) (New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1940, 1940)
Post-revolution eutopia which has eliminated capitalism presented through a ceremony at the destruction of some of the last billboards.
Rpt. in his The Facts of Life (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945), 45-62; his Adam and His Works: Collected Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1968); 32-45; and A Ceremonial. Stories 1936-1940. Volume II of the Collected Stories. Ed. Taylor Stoehr (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978), 107-21.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Coventry" - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1940)
Dystopias and a eutopia set after the revolution against the religious dystopia of Heinlein's 1940 "If This Goes On", better known as Revolt in 2100. Four societies are depicted, three of them in the area known as Coventry and the fourth the eutopian society created after the revolution that sends people to Coventry as a punishment for harming another citizen. The three dystopias are New America, a corrupt democracy; the Free State, a dictatorship; and the Angels, the remnants of the overthrown religious dystopia.
Rpt. in his The Past Through Tomorrow: "Future History" Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967), 471-508; and in The Future History of Robert Heinlein: Volume II. Vol. 23 of the Virginia edition of his works (Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010), 181-230.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crimson Courage - Daniel O'Den (Frederick Muller, 1940)
Fairly standard authoritarian dystopia with a stress on the rejection of religion.
Keywords: Male author

Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) (Jonathan Cape, 1940)
A famous work describing the Show Trials in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) that has been called a dystopia and has been very influential on dystopian literature.
Rpt. London: The Folio Society, 1980 with an “Introduction” (7-15) by Vladimir Bukovsky. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1941. Because the original manuscript was assumed to have been lost, all publications of the novel, including German ones, were based on this translation, but it was discovered in 2015, and a new translation by Philip Boehm based on that manuscript has been published. London: Vintage Classics, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Scribner, 2019.
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Hungarian author; Male author

The Disappearance of General Jason - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941) (John Murray, 1940)
Lost race eutopia that rejects modern technology.
Rpt. London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1973.
Keywords: Male author

Elizabeth in Africa - Florence A[ntoinette] Kilpatrick (1888-1968) (Herbert Jenkins, 1940)
Humorous lost race novel with all the usual plot lines.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

"Fast New World" - Dr. R. M Langer (Collier's (New York), 1940)
A short eutopia based on atomic power, which will provide free energy. People will live underground, and the natural world will be revived. Stress on transportation. A similar article solely on the technical side is the author's "The Miracle of U-235." Popular Mechanics 75.1 (January 1941): 1-5, 149-50.

Final Blackout - L[a Fayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard (1911-86) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1940)
Primarily a novel of adventure and war set against the background of a collapsed Europe after the war. In addition to the dystopia that is the European continent, there is a dystopian socialist Britain that is overthrown by returning troops, which is then overthrown by the U.S. so that it can take over Britain.
Repub. Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., 1948, with a new “Preface” by the author (ix-xi). Rpt. North Hollywood, CA: Leisure Books, 1970; New York: Garland, 1975; and Los Angeles, CA: Bridge Publications, 1992, with the “Preface” (xix-xii), an “Introduction” by Algis Budrys (vii-xv) and an anonymous “About the Author L. Ron Hubbard” (191-94).
Keywords: Male author; US author

First Port of Call - Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947) (D. Appleton-Century, 1940)
Purgatory fictionally described from a Roman Catholic viewpoint as a place where most people are preparing themselves for heaven. It is a pleasant transition period that has similarities to the many depictions of heaven as a eutopia little different from life on Earth.
U.K. ed. London: John Long, 1940.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The First to Awaken - Granville Hicks (1901-82); Richard M. Bennett (Modern Age Books, 1940)
Socialist eutopia based on cooperatives. There are few large cities and most people live in small cities, each of which is a democratically run cooperative. Decentralized production and distribution with cooperation among cooperatives and regional coordination. The system is essentially the same throughout the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hopousia; or The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society - J[ohn] D[aniel] Unwin (1895-1936) (George Allen and Unwin, 1940)
Detailed nonfictional eutopia with the emphasis on its sexual and economic foundations, but the whole is presented as an experiment. The author argues that a good society needs very energetic people and that will require reformed sexual and economic systems. Sexually energy comes from restraint, and he proposes two types of marriage, one that is strictly monogamous and one that is not, although with the possibility of moving between the two. Economically, capitalism must be eliminated together with private ownership of land and replaced with a form of guild socialism. The word "Hopousia" is derived from the Greek for where. There is an "Introduction" (13-29) by Aldous Huxley, who argues that while the basic institutions are sound, the approach is overly simple.
U.S. ed. New York: O. Piest, 1940. An extract was published as Our Economic Problems and Their Solution. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1944. 148 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Humanism or the Human Religion - Swami Krishanand (The Vishwa Sewak Sangha, 1940)
Chapter 8 on "How to Put the Doctrine of Humanism into Practice or A Scheme of Works for the Beatification of the World" presents a eutopia. Annual meetings of an “All-world” body of citizens to consider improvements. A “Cosmic University” focusing on moral and religious training, the graduates of which will form a “Peace Army.” Encourage village political autonomy with a federal system for larger issues. World language. Enforcement of moral standards.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"The Idealist" - [La Fayette Ronald] [Hubbard] (1911-86) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1940)
Anti-utopian story. Idealists are doomed to failure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

If This Goes On-- - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1940)
An American theocracy and the revolt against it.
Rpt. in his The Past Through Tomorrow: “Future History” Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), 361-470; and as part of Revolt in 2100: The Prophets and the Triumph of Reason Over Superstition (Chicago, IL: Shasta Publisher, 1953), 21-221, with two stories that are loosely related to “If This Goes On--”, “Coventry” (222-88), which is a utopia (see 1940 Heinlein, “Coventry”) and “Misfit” (289-317), which is non-utopian and reprinted from Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) 24.3 (November 1939): 53-67. In addition, Revolt in 2100 contains “The Innocent Eye: An Introduction” by Henry Kuttner (9-12) and “Concerning Stories Never Written” by Heinlein (13-19). Book rpt. without the subtitle New York: New American Library, 1955 with Kuttner's introduction (9-10); “‘If This Goes On--’” (11-129), “Coventry” (129-170), “Misfit” (170-88), and “Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript” (189-92); and New York: Baen Books, 1981 with Kuttner's introduction (ix-x); “‘If This Goes On--’” (1-139), “Coventry” (141-186), “Misfit” (187-208), and “Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript” (209-13); as Revolt in 2100 & Methuselah's Children. New York: Baen, 1999. with Kuttner’s introduction (3-5), “‘If This Goes On--’” (7-174), “Coventry” (175-233), “Misfit” (235-60), and “Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript” (261-66). U.K. ed. of Revolt in 2100. London: Gollancz, 1964 without the subtitle, Kuttner’s introduction, or “Concerning Stories Never Written”, with “‘If This Goes On--’” (9-209), “Coventry” (210-76), and “Misfit” (277-305).
Keywords: Male author; US author

King of the Underseas - J[ohn] W[inton] Heming (1900-1953) (Currawong Publishing, 1940)
Utopian adventure story. A socialist city of fishmen deep in the ocean. Women have multiple husbands. Conflict with another city and exploitation based on color. The human who discovers the city and is elected king defeats the other city and establishes racial equality before returning to the surface.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Last Man - Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) (John Murray, 1940)
The dystopia of being the last man, but the last man finds the last woman, so they think. He battles another man, and then they discover a group beginning to rebuild what they hope will be a better world.
U.S. ed. as No Other Man. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1940. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1946.
Keywords: US author

Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale - Douglas [Frank Lambert] Brown (1921-64); Christopher Serpell (1910-91) (Faber and Faber, 1940)
Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II. New Zealand narrator.
Rpt. as If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale. London: Pub. for The British Publishers Guild by Faber and Faber, 1941. There are small differences between the editions.
Keywords: US author

Manna - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) (Cassell and Co, 1940)
Dystopia. Manna (a plant that provides complete nourishment) grows wild. A reformation of social and political institutions begins and is suppressed. Manna is destroyed by governments.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Marsian - J[ohn] W[ilmer] Gilbert (b. 1865) (Fortuny's, 1940)
Detailed egalitarian, socialist eutopia that is very advanced technically. In the first part (7-83) the Marsian psychically visits a man on Earth and the focus is on Earth’s problems. The second part (85-156) shows the eutopian Mars.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Messiah on the Horizon. Romance? Novel? Revelation? Prophecy? Reality? - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) (Audubon Publishing Co, 1940)
Eutopia. A future history and theological fantasy. End of the white race with Europe split off Earth to become a new moon and no whites remaining on Earth. A better society on Earth is brought about by Orientals and Jews in which all races have embraced Judaism. Hebrew is the international language. Deeply racist. Most of the novel is concerned with the history that led to this situation. See also 1933, which this book refers back to, and 1946 Cruso.
Keywords: Male author

Moscow 1979 - Erik [Maria Ritter] von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909-99); Christiane von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (Sheed & Ward, 1940)
Communist dystopia successfully opposed by the Roman Catholic Church. The focus of the dystopia is Russia.
Rpt. London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. New and rev. ed. London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. U.S. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1940. U.S. new and rev. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1946.
Keywords: Austrian author; Female author; Male author

The Perfect Government: $25,000 Twenty-five Thousand Dollars Reward if Anyone Can Find a Flaw in it or Can Prove it Will Not Work Successfully - William E. Riker (1873-1969) (Father Riker of Holy City Inventor and Discoverer of the Perfect Government, 1940)
Eutopia. Government takes over banking, insurance, and all money lending. No hoarding of money and no moving money out of the country. The government provides full employment and cares for all disabled. Racist. Government known as “THE CHRISTIAN WHITE MAN PERFECT GOVERNMENT.” Includes The Constitution of Holy City Its Laws and Principles (15-16), although it is mostly general principles rather than a formal constitution. See also [1942?] Riker, The White Race is Supreme.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Radium Bugs" - Helen [Rose] Weinbaum (1906-82) (Super Science Stories, 1940)
While a central premise of the story is straightforward science fiction, it begins in a U. S. dictatorship, which punishes any deviance by freezing. When an earthquake awakes the protagonist 300 years later, he finds himself in a telepathic, vegetarian society that only allows the telepathic to live, which can be considered a flawed utopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Roads Must Roll" - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1940)
Society organized around moving roadways.
U.K. ed. Astounding-Science Fiction 25.4 (June 1940): 9-37. Rpt in his The Past Through Tomorrow: “Future History” Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), 30-59; and in his The Future History of Robert Heinlein: Volume 1. Vol. 22 of the Virginia edition of his works (Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010), 51-89.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rosscommon - Charles Allen Smart (1904-67) (Random House, 1940)
Detailed description of a fictional intentional community. Egalitarian except that African Americans were not welcome and did not join. People were paid salaries with allowances for children and had to pay only for purely personal expenses. Varied work. School is important with a stress on the subjects needed in the community like agriculture, animal husbandry, “home crafts” and “shop crafts,” with science and mathematics and history and literature in addition.
Keywords: Male author

Suzanna and the Elders: An American Comedy - Lawrence Langner (1890-1962); Armina Marshall [Langner] (Random House, 1940)
Failure of an intentional community with close resemblances to the Oneida Community, including its eugenic experiment. The failure follows initial success, with the usual internal conflicts a major factor. The "Preface" (7-14) on the history of such communities in the U.S. has errors, such as calling Brook Farm Brookfield and ascribing the establishment of New Harmony to Robert Dale Owen (1801-77) rather than to his father Robert Owen (1771-1858).
Keywords: Female author; Male author