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

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

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

Illus. Molly Mendoza

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JF - Solarpunkmagazine.com UR - https://solarpunkmagazine.com/may-2022-micro-fiction-winning-story/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Down and Out in Exile Park” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tade Thompson ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

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

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

Illus. Sean Bodley

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Ship" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki ED - Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond] KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illus. Martins Deep

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

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

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 22 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wild Plums" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Molly Tanzer (b. 1981) ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Burden Eased" Y1 - 2021 A1 - This Strange Dreamer [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

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

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

This Strange Dreamer [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cloud Weaver's Song" Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Kenneth James] [Howe] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

Illus. Grace Abe

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

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exiled Together: Faces of Contemporary New York” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marcus M. Tyler KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/gabby/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green Witch" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Katrina Townsend KW - Female author AB -

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

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/green-witch/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It Is the Year 2115” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joyce Chng ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque,NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lay Down Your Heart” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Liz Westbrook-Trenholm A1 - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an alternative future Tanzania that has an authoritarian government and slavery combined with advanced technology. The story focuses on a scientist released from detention who believes slavery is justified and her husband who has become friends with their house slave.

JF - Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories PB - Laksa Media CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-17-9 U5 -

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

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

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

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

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Memory Clinic” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Elisabeth Tsubota ED - Ashley Hay KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by a poor woman living in a world where people are provided services depending on their income with the poor getting none who is selling individual memories to the highest bidder in order to be able to eat.

JF - Hey Utopia! Griffith Review 73 PB - Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing CY - South Brisbane, QLD, Australia SN - 978-1-922212-62-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mummies" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Steve Rasnic Tem (b. 1950) ED - Leah Bobet ED - Cécile Cristifari KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in a world of advanced technology seen through the eyes of an old man who has access to the technology.

JF - Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-9555360-00-5 UR - https://reckoning.press/mummies/ N1 -

Also published online May 29, 2021, at https://reckoning.press/mummies/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Old Man’s Sea” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Meyari McFarland ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the oceans have risen so much to drown most coastal areas. People living on land are constantly at war and have modified sharks to be weapons and kill any human found in the water. The protagonist is a young woman living on a boat harvesting the bounty of the sea.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Rabbit Egg for Flora” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by climate change using high tech methods to bring back the flora and fauna that had disappeared.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rise of Ahrik Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nathan W. Toronto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a series called Saga of the Emerald Moon. This volume is set in a future where men’s wars have badly damaged the planet and women took over and brought the planet back to life. Thousands of years later men have no rights, and one powerful woman supports their demands to have them restored while the man she is betrothed to is willing to start a war to keep women in power.

PB - Toronto International Media CY - Np SN - 978-0-9976550-1-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - SPF Y1 - 2021 A1 - Justine Teu ED - Leah Bobet ED - Cécile Cristifari KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future of rising seas (Venice is gone; Manhattan is going), drought, and extreme heat.

JF - Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-9555360-00-5 UR - https://reckoning.press/spf/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Vladivostok” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Avital Balwit ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Vladivostok, Russia, where the people apparently get a universal basic income from the government, and the natural world. A man and a woman visit from the United States to get film of the Amur tigers to use in a massive computer game. The man feels uncomfortable outside the game; the woman loves being in touch with the natural world.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - And the Last Trump Shall Sound: A Future History of America Y1 - 2020 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) A1 - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The work contains three connected stories about the secession of Pacifica (California, Oregon, and Washington) from the United States, which is suffering under the permanent presidency of Mike (Michael Richard) Pence. The stories are Turtledove’s “The Breaking of Nations” (1-81), Morrow’s, “The Purloined Republic” (83-180), and Rambo’s “Because it is Bitter” (181-255).

PB - Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD SN - 978-1-647100056 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Behind Our Irises” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) ED - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Motswanan author AB -

Technological dystopia in which a corporation uses an implant in its employees to control them. 

JF - Africanfuturism: An Anthology PB - Brittle Paper CY - [Madison, WI] ER - TY - ABST T1 - Firewalkers Y1 - 2020 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in and around Achouka, Gabon, where there is an anchor to an elevator to an orbiting space station for the rich. The hotel where the rich wait requires air conditioning and clean water, which requires function solar panels, which break down and get covered with dust, and the Firewalkers are the people who risk death from the heat to clean and repair them.

PB - Solaris/Rebellion CY - Oxford, Eng: SN - 978-1-781088487 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Fugue of Winter” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Steve Toase ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

In the frozen future, people search for useful valuables and find a violin, something that no one has heard in many, many years. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future in Color” Y1 - 2020 A1 - [Rekka Korol] [Jay] (1980-2023) ED - Dave Ring KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalypse future with the protagonist a bicycle courier who is transporting saved artifacts to a community that is trying to collect and save remnants of civilization.

JF - Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die PB - Neon Hemlock Press CY - [Washington, DC] SN - 978-1-952086-10-6 U3 -

RJ Theodore [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glass Houses. Letters: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cadwell Turnbull ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia in three parts in which a U. S. President is elected on a Right to Work platform, which turns out to mean that if you don’t contribute to society at an acceptable level as set by the government, such as doing poorly in high school, you will be forced to work on a farm for minimal food, housing, and wages. The second part is set on such a farm with those who refuse to work on the farm, and anyone considered a danger to society including everyone in jail, are frozen in a cyro chamber. The third part illustrates the conflicts taking place within a family where a child is not doing well at school.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Responsible Party" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Margret A. Treiber ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Under The Responsible Party Act anyone who has made someone else uncomfortable is responsible for any later effect of that act.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Serf" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Thompson, Talia ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Queer author AB -

The story begins in 2106 with a woman on a crowded Auckland Skytrain from the domed area where she works to the polluted exterior where she lives, and then shifts to 2036 and her grandmother growing up on Beqa in the Fiji islands, which is about the disappear under the rising waters. The story then follows her family as refugees as conditions worsen and world-wide climate refugees outnumber those with land and her treatment as a brown woman working two minimum wage jobs as a serf (server).

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vastation" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pandemic dystopia in which the well-off live in protected cities and others live in compounds based on ethnicity that war with each other. 

JF - Slate UR - “The Vastation,” a new short story by Paul Theroux. (slate.com) U2 -

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Viam Inveniemus Aut Faciemus” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tales from the EV Studio A1 - Commando Jugendstil ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Italian author AB -

The story is about the struggle to get through a blizzard to repair the failing electrical system in a refugee village set in a period of extreme climate change combined with a growing refugee crisis and government inaction. 

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

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

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

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

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “West of the Sun and Sea” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mako, CB ED - Leah Jing McIntosh ED - Cher Tan ED - Adalya Nash Hussein ED - Hassan Abul KW - Australian author KW - Non-binary author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia that has embraced equality for the disabled. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Yat Madit” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) ED - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

A complex little story told by a young woman when the man she thought of as her father is released from thirty years in prison. He had been the corrupt, murderous dictator of the country and intends to run for local office, but the country is now governed through a set of algorithms, the Yat Madit, that she is afraid he intends to undermine. 

JF - Africanfuturism: An Anthology PB - Brittle Paper CY - [Madison, WI] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eclipse Our Sins” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) KW - Female author KW - Motswanan author AB -

Environmental dystopia recounting the many sins against Mother Earth, as well as well against other people. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 159 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tsamaase_12_19/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile Y1 - 2019 A1 - Peg Tittle (b. 1957) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a third conviction for a crime, however minor, is punished by exile. 

PB - Rock’s Mills Press. CY - Oakville, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Follow, Past Meridian” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people generally life within fairly narrow geographical confines. It focuses on a boy at his coming of age at fourteen who must decide on his future within what seem to be few options.

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 139.11/12 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Town" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kanishk Tharoor KW - Indian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Uttarakhand, India, and the oppressive heat of the lowlands gradually reached the mountains and destroyed the crops. Most people leave but one couple stays even after their son leaves and dies in a construction accident in Oman.

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

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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

Pandemic/last people dystopia.

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No 5 in the Forward Project ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Monsters Come Howling in Their Season” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cadwell Turnbull KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is set on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the aftermath of a Category 5 hurricane (Wind speed of 137 knots; 254 km/h; 158 mph). In response to previous devastating storms, St. Thomas has become part of the world cooperative movement with “grassroots consensus politics, direct democracy, and cooperative institutions that make up any good solidarity economy” plus housing, consumer, and producer cooperatives. And it has established a strong AI, known as Common, as a public resource.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - An AI combats hurricane season in “Monsters Come Howling in Their Season” - The Verge U2 -

Illus. Corey Brickley

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Patrick S. Tomlinson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The sub-title tells the story. With Earth law not extending into space, workers are both directly exploited by being required to live in company housing and buy from company stores and treated as expendable parts.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/future-space-mining.html. U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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Online

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nameless" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tom, Nazbah ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Canadian author KW - Native American author KW - Two-Spirits author AB -

The story takes place after a future World War in which many Diné were forced to serve while whole tribes moved underground to avoid the war. At the time of the story the Diné are beginning to lave their underground refuges, and the central characters are Diné calling others back home and one woman who is being called. 

JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -

Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 147-165.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Polaris" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set mostly on Mars, which is being used as a dumping ground for prisoners and opponents of those in power on Earth. After a difficult start, the people form a government and begin terraforming the planet. 

JF - Incomplete Solutions PB - Luna Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Sunset Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the assassination of the President, Vice-President, and the Cabinet are assassinated, the Speaker of the House (obviously Nancy Pelosi b. 1940) becomes President, and imposes an extreme left-wing agenda on the country and invites United Nations troops into the control to disarm all U.S. citizens, which leads to Civil War.

PB - Np CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Subprime Language and the Crash” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Pip Thornton ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Swipe Right to Welcome Left to Reject” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Linnet Taylor ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - NP SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Don’t Make Plus Size Space Suits Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ali Thompson KW - Bisexual author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

A collection of five brief stories, none of which appear to have been previously published. All are set in future societies that are dystopias for fat people and told from the perspective of a fat person struggling with and resisting the rules and restrictions of their life.

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-0578501376 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Truth Y1 - 2019 A1 - [Treichler, David H.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where the government has established rules for what is truth, and analysts remove anything that does not meet these standards.

PB - Publisher Services CY - Np SN - 978-1532391354 U3 -

dhtreichler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What You Sow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Cheng Thom ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -

A fantasy story set in a future where many have succumbed to a disease that gradually wastes them away with the only relief provided by the “ichor” from a Celestial told from the point-of-view of a Celestial, who has been trying to fit in.

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eruptions" Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Samantha] Lynne Sargent ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an environmental dystopia.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - West Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/eruptions/ (February 12, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Exit Here" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andrew Kozma ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/exit-here/ (June 11, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Freedom Trials Y1 - 2018 A1 - Meredith Tate KW - Female author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which selected prisoners are put through the varied tests of the Freedom Trials with the reward of freedom if they succeed and execution if they fail. The protagonist, who has had her memory of her crime erased, has made enemies among the other prisoners, some of whom want her to fail. 

PB - Page Street Publishing Co CY - Salem, MA U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fuck You Pay Me” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Francis Bass ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally damaged future where most people are deeply in debt, the entire safety net has disappeared, and the possibility of higher education is eroding. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

. Rpt. https://reckoning.press/fuck-you-pay-me/ (April 2, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Man" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Teika Marija Smits ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which, with all the bees and other pollinating insects gone, the young poor are hired as pollinators. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-green-man/ (January 15, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hands We’re Given. Aces High, Jokers Wild Book 1 Y1 - 2018 A1 - O. E. Tearmann KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

A transgender love story is set in a future in a future in which the former United States has been controlled by seven corporations.

PB - Spine Press and Post CY - Np SN - 978-1-72483-549-9 978-1-949693-83-6 N1 -

Rpt. West Peterborough, NH: Amphibian Press, [2019].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In a Bar by the Ocean, a World Waits” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which the environment is so damaged that life on Earth is coming to an end. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “More Sea Than Tar” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Osahon Ize-Iyamu ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The dystopia of the struggle for survival in a flooded, polluted world. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/more-sea-than-tar/ (February 26, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Neom" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Neom is a city built on the Red Sea on the Arabis peninsula that is designed to attract high-flying tech entrepreneurs and workers with the laws that suit them rather than Saudi Arabia. It is described by a middle-aged woman cleaner as she cleans an apartment and then walks back to the district where poor support workers like her live. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.1 & 2 (516 & 517) SN - 9781912950683 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2019. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 37-45

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pilot" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dean Trippe (b. 1980) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which good relations between Earth and aliens are undermined by a rogue human but restored.

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

Illus. by the author. Letters Micah Myers. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sinless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 1 Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sarah Tarkoff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult religious dystopia series. In this volume the young woman who is the protagonist lives in a world that she believed in where those who do not follow the rules are savagely beaten, disfigured, or killed. She discovers that nothing is as she had believed and struggles against it. The second volume is Fearless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 2. New York: Harper Voyager, 2019. 

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Speculative Hyperstition at a Northern Further Education College” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Judy Thorne ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presented as interviews with a range of people about what they would like the world to be like in the future, which initially seem straightforward, but gradually becomes clear that the setting is a deeply depleted future after the U. K. left the European Union. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Terrific Leader” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone believes that the “Terrific Leader” will make American great again as everything gets worse.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through Darkest Europe Y1 - 2018 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in an alternative modern times where Islam developed science, technology and enlightenment while Western Europe remained a hotbed of religious fundamentalism.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tiger" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Joe M. McDermott (b. 1979) ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia which most animals have disappeared.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - West Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/tiger/ (February 5, 2019).

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

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

PB - Faber & Faber CY - New York U1 -

David Perch Books Presents the head of the title

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The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu [pseud.]

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MiU, Public

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Calexit 1: Secession Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the 2016 election, California votes to secede and form The People’s Republic of California. First of three volumes followed by Calexit 2: Politics as Normal. Np: Np, 2017 -[First published on Kindle], in which China recognizes the new country, and, as the title suggests, politicians work enhance their own power; and Calexit 3: If At First You Don’t Succeed. Np: np. 2018 [First published on Kindle], which continues the story. See also, 2017 Curtis, J. L., ed. Calexit: The Anthology. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.

PB - Amazon CY - San Bernardino, CA N1 -

First published on  KIndle.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Home is Where My Mother’s Heart is Buried” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set on a Mars inhabited by humans and aliens and reflects on human prejudice, gender identity, and the dystopia that was the Nigeria the protagonist had left. 

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 2 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 N1 -

Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 189-200, with an author’s note on 262. 

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Milk Island Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rhydian W[ynn] Thomas KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia with a genetically modified cow, Milky Moo, on Milk Island, formerly the South Island, which has been privatized after devastating earthquakes required terraforming the entire island. Christchurch is a dairying prison, and there are other agricultural prisons. Told in four parts, one of which is the thoughts of one worker and one a mixture of forms.

PB - Lawrence and Gibson CY - [Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand] SN - 9780473397944 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Morning in the Republic of America” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Fiona Moore (b. 1974) ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future dominated by China, with a Communist United States, and what remain of Canada renamed the Republic of America and hoping for support from China. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - NK3 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Tolkin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a microbe used as a weapon has deleted people’s memory.

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Report on the Outbreaks: Excerpts from the Draft Short Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Continuing Emergency Ad Hoc Planetary Governing Council Concerning the Events of January 2060 and After)” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Timmerman, Peter ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which much of the United States has been abandoned. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Road to the Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - 9781937794750, 978-1-250-16463-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 252-57 with an editor’s note on 252; in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 175-81; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 608-14. EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Selfish Bastards We Were” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Virginia O’Dine ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Toward the Sun" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sydnee Thompson KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the rich shelter in cities, and the poor, who work outside are forced to wear implants that control their bodies and do what they can to survive. 

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Treaty of Empress Park” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history set in a fragmented and deeply divided world set during the beginning of negotiations over a treaty as seen through the eyes of some of the negotiators. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Does It Look Like When 1 Million People Are Deported at Once?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Héctor Tobar (b. 1963) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the attempt to do just what the title says and the response of the people being deported as seen through the eyes of one of them.

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/hector-tobars-the-daylight-underground-launches-the-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where the Water Meets the Land” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Caitlin Demaris McKenna ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Work. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Treichler, David H.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which corporations are automating, and there is only a minimal Federal Living Wage for support for the growing legions of unemployed. The protagonist is a young woman who is fired for refusing to report the profits her boss wanted rather than the actual earnings of the company.

PB - Reelization Global Media CY - Grapevine, TX SN - 978-1532391316 N1 -

Rpt. Np: Publisher Services, 2019. 355 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "You, Robot" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Melissa Yuan-Innes ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Canada that has largely replaced doctors with expensive robots and effectively limited medical care to the rich. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ajdenia: Let there be sunlight” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Theodoridou, Natalia KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which most people live in tunnels in the Earth and only the elite live in the sun. 

JF - Nature VL - 531.7592 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 211-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An American Utopia" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) ED - Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The author discusses his utopia based on a universal army, similar in some ways to Bellamy’s Industrial Army, as the best way to deal with the current economic situation. The utopia was originally given as a keynote address at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Utopian Studies in Charleston, SC, and the utopia in the address was much more detailed than in the published version. The comments are Robinson, “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button” (97-104), which is fiction (see 2016 Robinson); Jodi Dean, “Dual Power Redux” (105-32); Saroj Giri, “The Happy Accident of a Utopia” (133-45); Agon Hamza, “From the Other Scene to the Other State: Jameson’s Dialectic of Dual Power” (147-68); Kojin Karatani, “A Japanese Utopia” (169-82); Frank Ruda, “ Jameson and Method: On Comic Utopianism” (183-210); Alberto Toscano, “After October, Before February: Figures of Dual Power” (211-41); Kathi Weeks, “Utopian Therapy: Work, Nonwork, and the Political Imagination (243-65); and Slavoj Žižek, “The Seeds of Imagination” (267-308); followed by “An America Utopia: Epilogue” by Jameson (309-17).

JF - An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army PB - Verso CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse: An Epic Poem Y1 - 2016 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

PB - Ilium Press CY - Spokane Valley, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Apology of Arthur Tresbit Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert Thayer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the contemporary financial system in which the background, referred to throughout the book, is the dystopia brought about by the collapse of the system. Most of the book is about how it happened. 

PB - Austin Macauley CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Speed of Life” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alexis Teyie KW - Female author KW - Kenyan author AB -

A story of gender confusion set in a future Allied Lands of Africa 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 6 UR - https://omenana.com/2016/03/25/at-the-speed-of-life/ U2 -

Illus.

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EJournal

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Coca-Cola Birds Sing Sweetest in the Morning” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Elizabeth Tan KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian future Australia where all the bees, birds, and insects have died and been replaced by corporate sponsored mechanical equivalents. 

JF - Overland VL - no. 222 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Stories 2016. Ed. Charlotte Wood (Carlton, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2016), 155-63. 

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Illus

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MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Department of Correction: A lesson learned” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ninian Tan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future punishment in which the offender must relive the crime from the point-of-view of the offender for as many times as determined by the court. 

JF - Nature VL - 535.7611 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth's Awakening Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stephen Tiley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young Adult New Age eutopia.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Grandchild Paradox" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Daniel Thron ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which flooding has created a society deeply divided between those who live above the water and those who live on boats. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University} CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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EBooks

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Join Y1 - 2016 A1 - Toutonghi, Steve KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. The novel is set in a future dealing with major impacts of climate change. In becomes possible for people to form small permanent communities by merging their minds into one. Raises questions about the advantages and disadvantages of losing the body to gain a collective identity and immortality. 

PB - New York CY - Soho Press U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Lagosian" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 8 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenana.com/2016/11/09/the-last-lagosian-wole-talabi/ N1 -

 Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 100-10, with an author’s note on 258.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosewater Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in Nigeria in 2055 and 2066. An alien invasion novel in which the alien intends to completely take over Nigeria. Sequels include The Rosewater Insurrection: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Two. London: Orbit, 2019, in which liberationists oppose the alien forces. The third volume, The Rosewater Redemption: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Three. London: Orbit, 2019, reflects the title. 

PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY N1 -

Rev. with the subtitle The Wormwood Trilogy: Book One. New York: Orbit, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - United States of Japan Y1 - 2016 A1 - Peter Tieryas (b. 1979) KW - Asian-American author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Japan won World War 2. First volume in a series inspired by 1962 Dick. The second volume is Mecha Samurai Empire. New York: Ace, 2018. The third volume is Cyber Shogun Revolution. New York: Ace, 2020. 

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vanishing Kind" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 131.1 & 2 (726) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virtual Snapshots" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) KW - Female author KW - Motswanan author AB -

The story is set in a climate changed future where advanced technology allows the rich to redesign bodies.

JF - Terraform UR - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aekvne/virtual-snapshots N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 410-417.

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Illus. Rebekka Dunlap.

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InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - War: What if it was here? Y1 - 2016 A1 - Janne Teller (b. 1964) KW - Danish author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian Britain at war and is designed to show the reader what it would be like to live in situation and then become a refugee. Originally written and published in Danish but completely re-written with Britain as the focus. 

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U2 -

Illus. Helle Vibecke Jensen

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wilson’s Singularity” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Terence Taylor ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

When an artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and learns about human behavior from an African-American scientist, it creates a world-wide eutopia by taking away freedom. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the New Dawn” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Joseph Tomaras KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story, from a child’s point of view, describes the effect of an authoritarian regime on a family.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 32 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction afternewdawn U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Defiance Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sarah Jayne [Blythe] Tanner KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Violent dystopia with deep rich versus poor divisions in which the poor can be sold to the rich so that the rich can switch bodies. The novel follows a young man who is sold but manages to free himself. 

PB - Meadimania CY - Carmarthan, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from a Body Perfect World” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jenny Trout ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief depiction of a feminist eutopia where all bodies are considered perfect.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Human Thing" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story follows human history from 2058 to 2505, during which overpopulation leads to the supposed elimination of all nations and the construction of huge city towers to hold the world’s population under the United Nations, now known as The Human Centre, which is a world government. All people are adequately fed, clothed, and housed, but because nations didn’t really disappear, nuclear war breaks out with Israel eliminating the entire population of Iran and New Arabia destroying Haifa in retaliation. This is then followed by the creation of one world religion, SHINRAH, which, while saying it has eliminated government becomes an all-powerful government. 

JF - Sub-Saharan Magazine UR - https://subsaharanmagazine.com/2015/10/12/the-human-thing-wole-talabi/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Increasing Police Visibility” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Bogi Takács (b. 1983) ED - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Hungarian author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a country in which algorithms are used to supposedly deny entry, but they have at least a two-thirds error rate. But a visible police presence is considered more important because the right wing wants it. 

JF - Queers Destroy Science Fiction Lightspeed VL - no. 61 SN - 9781590216934 N1 -

 Rpt. GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 47-; Sunspot Jungle Volume 2 [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2020), 436-39; and in his The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2019), 111-15.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Invisible Tide” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jo [M.] Thomas KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a polluted future in Wales, where the algal blooms have destroyed fishing and an invisible tide of toxic gas forces everyone to wear protective gear.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 32 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction invisibletide U2 -

Illus. Chris Cartwright

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Joe Steele Y1 - 2015 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with an American dictator followed by an even worse dictatorship led by J. Edgar Hoover as the Director of the FBI, who was the actual Director from its founding in 1935 until 1972, having been the Director of its predecessor from 1924 to 1935.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Him Wear a Tutu” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Yamberlie Tavarez ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Latina author KW - US author AB -

A very brief eutopia of a gender-neutral childhood. See also 1972 Gould.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Short History of Migration in Five Fragments of You” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story depicts points in the lives of a young woman from her time on a slave ship to a future her on a craft about to land on a moon of Jupiter. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 3 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenanadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/omenana-issue-3.pdf N1 -

Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 5-10, with an author’s note on 255. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transition Y1 - 2015 A1 - R[yan] J[ames] Tomlin KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where, in order to give everyone an even start in life, all children are taken to Nethertower at eleven and stay there until they are eighteen when, “as a complete and independent adult ready to face the outside world, they transition back. During their time there, they must work, earn credits by, among other things, riding bicycles that produce the electricity the powers everything, and rise from Recruit, to Senior, to Elite. Everything in Nethertower is controlled, apparently by technology. Health checks are regular and detailed and identified lacks like vitamins or water intake are immediately provided. This takes up the first part of the book and is mostly untrue. Most who transition die, the outside work is derelict with cannibals, zombies, and a resistance movement.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And These were the Names of the Vanished” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rochita Loenen-Ruiz ED - Andrew Drilon ED - Charles Tan KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Dystopia in which a democratically elected leader allows a colonial power, called the “Compassionate,” to take over his country and then enslave his people. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 9 N1 -

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bald New World Y1 - 2014 A1 - Peter Tieryas (b. 1979) KW - Asian-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a world in which all humans lose all their hair. 

PB - Perfect Edge Books CY - Airesford, Eng. U3 -

Peter Tieryas Liu [pseud.] 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bloody Deluge” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) ED - David Moore KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story focuses on conflicts among survivors.

JF - Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus PB - Abbadon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -

Adrian Tchaikovsky [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coming of Age Y1 - 2014 A1 - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The two volumes project the future lives of what happens to two extended families of the first two people who, in the first volume, are given immortality.

PB - Author CY - Np VL - 2 vols. SN - 978-0-9849658-5-4 978-0-9849658-6-1 U1 -

Volume 1 Eternal Life. Volume 2: Endless Conflict

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crocodile Ark” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Oluwole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future Nigerian religious dystopia with the Prophet and Prophet and the rich live well in orbit and the rest survive on rations on Earth. 

JF - Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenana.com/2014/11/30/crocodile-ark/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 86-96, with an author’s note on 257-258

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cryptogram . . . because the past is never past Y1 - 2014 A1 - Michael Tobert KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel focuses on two dystopias, one set in 2050 and the other the period of the suppression of the Cathars in the thirteenth century. 

PB - Cosmic Egg Books CY - Winchester, Eng./Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gone Fishing" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jo[anne] Thomas ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in the Pacific Ocean where competing sea steading sites have been established, some associated together in a Commonwealth that includes some land-based communities. Everyone is struggling to survive in the fished-out ocean. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lemuria" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Teovanović, Milica ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia based on a decentralized political system and education.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - MiSTORY Y1 - 2014 A1 - Philip Temple (b. 1939) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where most of the world’s governments have collapsed and the U.S. has broken up. Although it broadcasts its successes, Australia is losing a war against “eastasians”. New Zealand is a dictatorship cooperating with the dictators of Australia and California. The novel is set in the Southern half of the South Island of New Zealand and focuses on the resistance movement, which achieves some success but is still under threat by the end of the novel.

PB - Font Publishing CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - NoFood Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tolmie, Sarah KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which the world’s best chef, bothered by the fact that no one pays attention to his food, decides to serve no food and still charge for it. The people still come. This takes place within a vaguely described dystopia of radical rich/poor differences, the disappearance of many species of both fauna and flora, disease, and terrorism. The very wealthy have TGB (Total Gastric Bypass) surgery (all digestive and, in women, reproductive, organs removed). The Canadian female author is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Remake Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ilima Todd (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia series. In this volume, on a world, where they are told that at age seventeen, they will be able to choose everything about themselves from name to gender. This is, of course, a lie. A sequel is Resist. Salt Lake City, UT: Shadow Mountain, 2016. 

PB - Shadow Mountain CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second American Civil War: Freedom versus Tyranny Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a five-volume series, with a fairly standard trajectory over the five volumes. The other volumes are The Second American Civil War. Book 2 (Version 2): The Balkanization of America. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014; The Second American Civil War. Book 3: United States Invaded. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition called Version 3; The Second American Civil War. Book 4: The Smiths and Jones. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition a corrected one from 2015; and The Second American Civil War. Book 5: War. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2015, with the available edition a corrected one. The United States is split between the Liberal States of America and the United States of America, the United Nations invades, and ultimately a civil war ensues. The one exception to the usual is volume 4 in which a television program contrasts similar families from the two countries.

PB - Amazon Services.com [Kindle] CY - Np N1 -

The available edition is from 2015 and called the (Edited Edition). The original editions were riddled with typos.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spark. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - John Twelve Hawks [pseud.] AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U3 -

John Twelve Hawks [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Transcripts from the Investigation on the Life and Death of Alastor de Roja” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vincent Michael Simbulan ED - Andrew Drilon ED - Charles Tan KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an alternative steampunk Spanish past in which the investigation is regarding the death of a man who becomes an activist supporting the colonies against the colonial power. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 9 N1 -

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Bicycle Girl" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went. 

JF - Expanded Horizons VL - no. 40 UR - http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=3234 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Charlie’s Ant” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

High-tech farming creates a dystopia..

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 36-45. 

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Adrian Tchaikovsky [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - CODA Y1 - 2013 A1 - Trevayne, Emma KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Young adult corporate dystopia focusing on music as both a means of control and a way of achieving freedom. The first of two volumes. The sequel is Chorus. Philadelphia, PA: RP Teens, 2014 in which the corporation is ultimately defeated.

PB - Running Press Teens CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 14th Reinstated Y1 - 2012 A1 - Bryce M. Towsley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia.

PB - BREN Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 299 Days: The Preparation Y1 - 2012 A1 - Glen Tate [pseud.] AB -

Ten volumes of a survivalist dystopia that follows the protagonist from his realization that he must leave his comfortable life through the stages of social disintegration to the establishment of a community that, while successful, needs to be defended against those still loyal to what is left of the government. The following volumes trace the disappearance of freedom in the U.S. and the revolution that ultimately restores freedom.

PB - Prepper Press CY - [Augusta, ME] U3 -

Glen Tate [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ashes of Twilight Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Cindy] [Holby] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a domed city built in the mid-nineteenth century as the resources are running out. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Shadows of Glass. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, the protagonist escapes from the domed community she lives in and discovers that the world outside is not as good as she had imagined. She returns to the domed community to help her friends and is recaptured. In the third volume, Remnants of Tomorrow. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, the protagonist is released into the custody of a group outside the dome that she must escape from, and the ending is positive.

PB - St. Martin’s Griffin CY - New York U3 -

Kassy Tayler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Distant Eden Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lloyd [L.] Tackitt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist eutopia after the electrical grid is destroyed. Most people die, but a few, who had prepared in advance, survive and prosper. First volume in a series. The second volume is Adrian’s War. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2012, in which one of the survivors travels from Texas to Colorado, where, when he arrives, he runs into an armed gang who want to make him a prisoner. The third volume is Eden’s Hammer. Book III of the “Distant Eden” Series. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, which deals with a threat to the village. The fourth volume is Eden’s Warriors. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, in which the protagonist leads the fight against a Mexican invasion.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Chaz (Charles)] [Bufe] A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins on a run down, violent Earth, moves to an even worse prison planet, and ends with an anarchist community that the author says is based on the German Zegg community. 

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ SN - 1-937276-05-8 U3 -

Zeke Teflon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quarantine: The Loners. Book One Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Lex] [Hrabe] A1 - [Thomas] [Voorhees] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia series originally intended as a trilogy but extended. A disease that kills adults but not teenagers, infects a high school, and all the students are quarantined. The sequels follow the conflicts that take place and their struggle to survive. See Quarantine: The Saints. Book Two. New York: Egmont USA, 2013; Quarantine: The Burnouts. Book Three. New York: Egmont USA, 2014; and Quarantine: The Giant. Book Four. New York: Egmost USA, 2016.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U3 -

Lex Thomas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Slated Y1 - 2012 A1 - Teri [Teresa] Terry KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy in which rebellious teenagers have their memories wiped and given a new identity, or “slated.” The novel’s protagonist is a young woman who has been slated but some of whose memories come back, which puts her in danger from the leaders of the dystopia. The second volume, Fractured. London: Orchard Books, 2013. U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013, is a typical middle volume in which things get worse. In the third volume, Shattered. London: Orchard Books, 2014 U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2014, the protagonist continues to face danger but finds her family. There is also a prequel, Fated. London: Orchard Books, 2019. 

PB - Orchard Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul [G.] Tremblay (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor/satire set in a dystopia where a large corporation controls the entire food supply.

PB - ChiZine Publications CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U2 -

Illus. Suzanne Apgar. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ashes, Ashes Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jo Treggiari KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which a young woman joins a gang in order to survive and then, with the gang, fights against those trying to infect people with a plague.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gospel of Anarchy. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Justin Taylor KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the late twentieth century and focuses on an urban intentional community trying to create utopia.

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project "New Jerusalem" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Geoff Thomas (b. 1970 or 71) KW - Male author AB -

The work begins in a dystopia in which the remains of humanity live behind a shield that protects them from “evil androids.” The humans manage to escape to a new planet, and the work ends. Described as the first chapter of a novel which will continue if sales justify, but there is also an ad at the end for a sequel Return to Eben as forthcoming, but it does not appear to have been published.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Sentence to Life: Pet project" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Igor Teper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A flawed utopia in which the protagonist has been sentenced under the cybercrime laws to isolation from other people by not having a device the broadcasts information about him or one that receives information from others, including animals. A woman and a dog reintroduce him to the pleasure human interaction.

JF - Nature VL - 477.7362 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bicyclopolis” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ken Avidor (b. 1955) ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story told in graphic form of the future dystopic North America. An exploration by bicycle discovers huge clouds of plastic bags and the remains of cars, which are the object of worship by some survivors. Ends with “To Be Continued” but not within the volume. There is a blog “Bicyclopolis” at http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/. 

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] VL - 1 UR - http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For the Killing of the Happiest Man” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hrabel, Max ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - US author AB -

With over half the world population clinically depressed, a Happiness Movement institutes an International Day of Happiness and selects a regional Happiest Man, who commits suicide. The story is told through the eyes of a man who dreams of being a gardener with a family but is currently working underground in the sewers.

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1 PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - Hillsboro, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Of One Mind" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Shane [Michael] Tourtellotte (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a technique to surgically get terrorists to cooperate being used by the government on all those it considers threats. Related stories in Analog Science Fiction and Fact are "A New Man" 123.10 (October 2003): 49-61; "Acts of Conscience" 125.3 (March 2005): 8-29; and "Trial by Fire" 127.4 (April 2007): 8-43.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 130.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Solnet Ascendency" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Technological and sustainable eutopia in Vanuatu brought about through modern technology and the ability to get political support.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thinker’s Lure" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gump, Toianna ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Minnesota has instituted Regulations of Uniformity.

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1 PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe: The Return of Nephilim Y1 - 2009 A1 - Michael C. Thorp KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult adventure novel that includes a dystopia.

PB - Free House Publishing CY - Manukau City, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Sintu Mazumdar. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Far North Y1 - 2009 A1 - Marcel [Raymond] Theroux (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A global warming dystopia in which most of the world's civilizations have collapsed and violence is the norm.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. "in slightly different form" New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Julia" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Erin Thomas KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in what seems to be the standard fantasy world of an ancient aristocracy, but is a world where people are produced to be donors of body parts for that nobility.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 21.3 (78) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ragged Claws" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Raw Water" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Wells Tower (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future U.S. southwest where an attempt to mitigate climate change has gone badly wrong.

JF - McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. VL - 31 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: A Tale of Post America Y1 - 2008 A1 - W. Milton Timmons (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a U.S. fragmented as a result of the collapse of the environment and with different churches governing different sections and a few free, secular areas.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Arties Aren't Stupid" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tolbert, Jeremiah ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of artists in a society where independent art is punished.

JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 401-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 401-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of a Lesbian Feminist Utopia” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tanager [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A brief lesbian eutopia that stresses what the eutopia no longer has with the end of phallocracy. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 U3 -

Tanager [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Other Country" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Shaun [Chi Yeong] Tan (b. 1974) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in words and illustrations describing an "inner courtyard" hidden in all the homes of an otherwise dreary country. The "inner courtyard" is an enclosed garden with seasons opposite to those of the country.

JF - Tales From Outer Suburbia PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley-Westside War Y1 - 2008 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for the purpose of harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a post-nuclear war future, Los Angeles is divided into small enclaves that at are at war with.  Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2007 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arapeta: A Futuristic Ethnic Adventure Y1 - 2007 A1 - Peter Tashkoff KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The conflict between Māori and Pākehā replayed in science fictional form in the future with the Māori ultimately winning after initial defeat.

PB - Artemis Associates Ltd CY - Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gladiator. Crosstime Traffic--Book Four Y1 - 2007 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a future Italy under Communist rule and Russian domination. The novel focuses on a young women who stands for greater freedom. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Margarets Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A science fiction novel set on many different planets, with all the humans with connections to an original Margaret. Some of the planets are presented as dystopian.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Assassin's Dream Y1 - 2006 A1 - J[ames] D[enny] Townsend KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future where most men were killed in a plague and the women have established an authoritarian society with trained assassins to kill those who are unwanted.

PB - Five Star CY - Waterville, ME U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caught By Skin" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Steve Berman (b. 1949) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia centering on the popularity of facial transplants so that everyone can choose the way they look and change their looks as fads change.

JF - Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines PB - Thunder's Mouth Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disunited States of America Y1 - 2006 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This novel is set in a future in which the United States has disintegrated into a number of regions and states, some of which are at war with each other. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Executioner 2084 Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Tinling KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the late twenty-first century when the culture wars have turned violent, the Bill of Rights has been rejected by the government, capital punishment has been privatized.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Windows" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Multiple dystopias. A form of slavery is permitted, and sexual slavery is described.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://www.strangehorizons.com ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man From Missouri" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Patrick Thomas (b. 1952) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. with slavery.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen Camilla Y1 - 2006 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set in a dystopian England that is an extremely poor part of the United States and crime is so bad that the elderly feared to leave their homes after dark and children were not allowed to play outside at any time. To save money on pensions, the old were encouraged to commit suicide. Some council estates had been converted to Exclusion Zones were various misfits from criminals to the morbidly obese were sent, could not leave, and had to wear ankle braces. The Royal Family were among those sent to an Exclusion Zone, and much of the novel is about the relations among the various members. At the end of the novel, the Queen has abdicated, the monarchy has been restored, although must earn its keep, and Charles and Camilla’s son born when they were sixteen and eighteen has been relegated to a mental hospital in France.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rhymes With Jew" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul G. Tremblay (b. 1971) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. that is conservative, anti-Semitic, racist, and very poor.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Undoing" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Totton, Sarah ED - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Edo van Belkom KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia describing a future completely devoted to security and the vicious system of punishment used.

JF - Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whitby Jets" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jacey Bedford ED - Sue Thomason ED - Liz Williams KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The setting for the story is a theocracy trying to eliminate British folk culture.

JF - Fabulous Whitby PB - Fabulous Albion CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our Future State(s)" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Bob Frame A1 - Pala Molisa A1 - Rhys Taylor A1 - Hemi Toia A1 - Wong Liu Shueng ED - James H. Liu ED - Tim McCreanor ED - Tracey McIntosh ED - Teresia Teaiwa KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2055 in a much-diminished future. Describes four scenarios for a future New Zealand, two based on plenty and two based on depleted resources, in two of which the emphasis is on community cohesion and in two of which the emphasis is on the individual. The revised version of 2007 dispenses with the discussion format and changes the order of the scenarios and the names of two of them.

JF - New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington N1 -

Published separately as a screenplay Wellington, New Zealand: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd., 2005 [Available at http:www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/futures/publications.asp]. A larger version published as Work in Progress. Four Scenarios for New Zealand. Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios Working Group. 2nd ed. Lincoln, New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2007. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Box Y1 - 2005 A1 - Penelope Todd (b. 1958) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which the New Zealand government is experimenting with an implant that regulates body chemistry and controls emotion. Successful teenage revolt.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divided Kingdom Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The U.K. is divided into four districts reflecting personality types based on the idea of dominant humours.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Labor Day" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Patrick Tucker ED - Bret Funk KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in an ever-growing shopping mall in which people live permanently purchasing and immediately discarding goods. 

JF - Beacons of Tomorrow: First Collection PB - Tyrannosaurus Press CY - New Orleans, LA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of Trees Y1 - 2005 A1 - Sam Taylor KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Four children "on the edge of adolescence" run away to a forest where they attempt to establish a eutopia based on Jean-Jacque Rousseau's (1712-78) Social Contract (1762). Another joins them and the eutopia takes a dystopian turn with the imposition of authority and conformity.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scotland the Grave. A Short Story." Y1 - 2005 A1 - Taylor, Pennie ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Scotland after the oil ran out, which has produced very negative impacts, but Scotland attracts university students because the universities are tuition free, and Scotland is proving an ideal setting for the development of alternative energy resources. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soul City. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - Touré [Nesblett] (b. 1971) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous, satirical eutopia of a vibrant city that lives all the fables of the swinging African American life. Additional Soul City stories that can be found in his The Portable Promised Land. Stories. New York: Little, Brown, 2002 include “The Steviewondermobile” (3-8), “A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love” (9-24); originally published illus. in Zoetrope All-Story 3.4 (Winter 1999): 40-46. http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=57&part=all; “The Breakup Ceremony” 25-31); “Soul City Gazette Profile: Crash Jinkins, Last of the Chronic Crashees” (142-45), and “Falcon Malone Can Fly No More” (201-17). In addition, there is an ad for the forthcoming The Black Utopia, A History of Soul City, by Cadillac Johnson, a protagonist in Soul City, to be published by Negritude University Press. 1369 pp. (257). 

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Touré [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Traveler Y1 - 2005 A1 - John Twelve Hawks [pseud.] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Book One of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. The world, known as the Vast Machine, is populated by citizens who think they know what is going on and drones who are too tired to care. Unknown to them, there is a continuing conflict between the Tabula (the bad guys) and the Harlequins (the good guys). The second volume, The Dark River. Book Two of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. London: Bantam Press, 2007. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2007, describes those who attempt to live free lives outside the grip of the authoritarian dystopia. The third volume, The Golden City: Book Three of the Fourth Realm Trilogy. New York: Doubleday, 2009 resolves the conflicts developed in the first two volumes and suggests a positive outcome. 

PB - Bantam Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Random House/Vintage, 2006.

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John Twelve Hawks [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "According to Their Need" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of no government or laws but with a paternalistic computer system that fills needs as it perceives them.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 377-401.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Colonizing of Tharle" Y1 - 2004 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in which an invading force tries and fails to find a government with which to negotiate. The invasion is foiled through simple non-cooperation.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 485-509.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Curious Notions. Crosstime Traffic--Book Two Y1 - 2004 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. In this volume, Germany won World War I and now dominates the world. Other volumes in the series include 2006, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Devil's Star" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with a barter economy, custom, and altruism contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia fearful of all free societies.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 431-51; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 369-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pakeha" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jane [M.] Lindskold (b. 1962) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. A virus that destroys all petroleum products devastates the world economy. New Zealand chooses to eliminate government. Pākehā, which now refers to white New Zealanders, comes to mean someone who has earned the right to live there.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 403-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Reception at the Anarchist Embassy" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discussion of various anarchist attempts at eutopia and their differences contrasted with an Earth that has become rule-bound.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 363-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Renegade" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mark Tier ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian society in which insurance companies have replaced most government. The system of justice and law enforcement is through profit-making companies. Presented positively.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Right's Tough" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia, which needs no government because every detail of everyone's life is instantly accessible by web to everyone else, who then shun those who do not conform to the society's standards of good behavior.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 337-45; n his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 195-204; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 51-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shackles of Freedom" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The Amish, presented in their most extreme form, move to a new planet, New Pennsylvania, to be free to follow their beliefs. The stress is on the lack of medical care that results from their unwillingness to use modern technology.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 347-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sweet Dreams" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Charles Johnson ED - Sheree R[enée] Thomas (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Political satire. After voters dropped most taxes, government developed "dream meters" so that dreams, including daydreams could be taxed.

JF - Dark Matter: Reading the Bones PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

An earlier, shorter version was originally published in StoryQuarterly, no. 36 (2000): 111-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unnullified World" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with no laws and everyone collectively enforces the society's standards of good behavior. Property ownership can be enforced by the owner.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 315-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zoo Force: Bean and Nothingness Y1 - 2004 A1 - John Ira Thomas A1 - Jeremy Smith KW - Male author AB -

The middle volume of a trilogy about an odd group of animal and human superheroes. This volume is a satire on Christian fundamentalism. The other volumes, which are not utopian, are Zoo Force: [Dear Eniko]. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2003 and Zoo Force: BBQ. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2007. All volumes also include "Not Zoo Force".

PB - Candle Light Press CY - [Iowa City, IA] U2 -

Illus. Jeremy Smith

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America II: The Second Republic 2004 - 2204. An Historic and Historical Novel about the Future of America Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Thomas Renfro] [Henley] (b. 1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Right wing eutopia based on a radically downsized federal government with all constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights rescinded, power in state governments, and few national administrative bodies. English the official language. All non-citizens expelled. Eliminate all state departments of education, schools of education, tenure, and teachers; unions, and return to the curriculum of the past. Children have no rights before age twenty-one.

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U3 -

Thomm [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In & Oz Y1 - 2003 A1 - Steve Tomasula KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A somewhat surrealistic dystopia describing two flawed cities, representing current reality and dreams of a better place, and the way five people, all artists in one way or another, move between them.

PB - Ministry of Whimsy Press CY - Madison, WI/Tallahassee, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies Y1 - 2003 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which National Socialists dominate.

PB - New American Library CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out from the Darkness Y1 - 2003 A1 - Richard Thomas KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as a setting for an adventure novel. The dystopia is one of a growing tyranny in Britain that treats its opponents as mentally ill.

PB - Goodread Books CY - Saltburn by the Sea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Holy Terror" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Simon Sheppard ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian erotica. After a cure for AIDS is found, the Christian right decide that gays must be controlled. Women are used for breeding and men as slave labor and for sex.

JF - Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kismet" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Malcolm Twigg KW - Male author AB -

Series of stories. "Floater" (123-28) is a dystopia that describes a penal colony. "Pacificalia" (133-41) presents a flawed utopia on Earth in which all needs are catered to, but the people spend all their time tied into the Vid-ex. Under the oceans are cities of mutated humans, also utopian but with only legends of "Topside".

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Utopias" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jo Thorpe KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A poem that presents an evening at a Māori marae in utopian terms.

JF - Takahe (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - 46 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New World Disorder: a global network of direct democracy and community currency" Y1 - 2002 A1 - T. R. O. Y. AB -

Winner of The Utopian World Championship 2001. See the title for the position.

UR - http://www.soc.nu/utopian ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Laura Turner KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia brought about by genetic engineering, which destroyed much of the planet and much of the population. The winner of the 2002 Dan Davin Literary Award. The article prints the story.

JF - The Southland Times (New Zealand) (September 20, 2002) U5 -

Du-Ho

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zoner" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Michael Barnette ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) AB -

Dystopian erotica. Corporate control.

JF - Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Empire: Blood and Iron Y1 - 2001 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which North America is divided among the Confederate States of America, the United States of America, the Republic of Quebec, and Occupied Canada in a very fragile peace. Sequels include American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2002 [the title is also given as The Center Cannot Hold but the full title is on the title page] in which the North is becoming Socialist after the defeat of the South; and American Empire: The Victorious Opposition. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003 in which the South has become a dictatorship.

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books CY - New York U1 -

The title is also given simply as Blood and Iron, but the full title is on the title page.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Delectation Debates" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Renée M. Charles ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A future in which heterosexuals are in a minority and the multi-gendered get additional votes.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hope of Cinnamon" Y1 - 2001 A1 - M. Christian ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) AB -

Gay male flawed utopia.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Realtime Y1 - 2001 A1 - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian mystery novel set in 2050 when the U.S. has disintegrated.

PB - ibooks CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starpeople: Mankind Gets a Second Chance: The Sirian Redemption Y1 - 2001 A1 - Linda Tuck-Jenkins KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the present situation but holds out hope for the eutopia to come. The ancestors of the human race came from the stars and such people are returning again to allow humans to correct their past mistakes.

PB - Inspirational Fiction CY - New Smyrna Beach, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Love and Riot" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Eric Del Carlo ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author AB -

Story with the somewhat implausible assumption that the perfect bodies created in the future will not have regular sexual outlets and will periodically riot. This requires a squad of sexual experts to quell the rioters by having intercourse with them.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Velderet Y1 - 2001 A1 - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A sado-masochistic novel that begins in a eutopia and moves to a conflict in which s/m saves the day.

PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

The first six of the twelve chapters were published serially in Taste of Latex, nos. 10 - 15 (1995-97).

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Cover adds A Cybersex S/M Serial

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As the Angels in Heaven" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A future in which sex between husbands and wives is unacceptable; each has a sexual partner who may or may not be shared with others.

JF - Sexcrime: Tales of Underground Love and Subversive Erotica PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Cold Dish" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which sex outside of marriage is outlawed and women are punished by being forced to have babies.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ N1 -

Rpt. in Interzone, no. 172 (October 2001): 17-21.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fresco Y1 - 2000 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A first contact novel that uses the form to explore problems both in the alien society and on Earth. The alien society has based its social structure on a false reading of an ancient fresco covered in centuries of accumulated dirt. Cleaning the fresco threatens to destroy the society, which is based on the idea that each person has one and only one appropriate social role. On the basis of tradition outweighing truth, the fresco is repainted to reflect the traditional version. The Earth gains a eutopia of civility.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Silver A" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Silver A is Silver America, an enclave within what used to be the U.S., which is supposed to be a eutopia but is a dystopia. Non-citizens are forced into the military or used as experimental subjects by scientists.

JF - Absolute Magnitude VL - no. 13 N1 -

Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of Future Cops. Ed. Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian (London: Robinson, 2003), 456-73.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Thing Y1 - 2000 A1 - Shaun [Chi Yeong] Tan (b. 1974) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Picture book in which the post-industrial dystopia is conveyed through the illustrations rather than the words. Ends with an illustration of a paradise of sorts for things that don't belong.

PB - Thomas C. Lothian CY - Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Separation Anxiety" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Evie Shockley (b. 1965) ED - Sheree R[enée] Thomas (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Racial and ethnic communities in the U.S. are separated with the intent to allow each to develop. The story presents both positive and negative effects.

JF - Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017),  509-524.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aberrant: Project Utopia. Creating a Brighter Future with the Power of Today! Y1 - 1999 A1 - Carl Bowen (b. 1975) A1 - Steven [S.] Long A1 - Angel [Leigh] McCoy (b. 1962) A1 - Kraig Blackwelder A1 - John Chambers ED - Chris Tang KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Supplement to the Aberrant game and book series describing superheroes creating a eutopia of peace, plenty, and health and the super-villains opposed to them. While the text states that a much better world has been created, there is little description of the eutopia.

PB - White Wolf CY - Clarkson, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Action News: 2099. Brought To You By the MS-ABCNNBCBS-Fox News Network" Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Dan] [Perkins] (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Six panel dystopian cartoon of a broadcast by the one remaining news organization. One large corporation controlling all business. Required consumption. Theocracy of Kansas put heretics teaching evolution to death. Most people live in bunkers due to radiation and because the climate is intolerable.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 75.28 U3 -

Tom Tomorrow [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down There In Darkness Y1 - 1999 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a future dystopia of class-stratification and then shifts a hundred years further into the future where an attempt to create a eutopia is being worked out. There is considerable reflection on the nature of utopianism. Sequel to 1993 Turner and related to 1989 Turner.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Chapter 2 was originally published as "Worlds." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 4 (1.4) (March 1991): 36-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Holographic Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve: 2999!” Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Dan] [Perkins] (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Comic strip depicting a New Year’s Eve celebration on an Earth that has been turned into a prison camp by aliens.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 75.35 U3 -

Tom Tomorrow [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Virtual Soul Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kevin Teixeira KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering.

PB - del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Rule the World Y1 - 1999 A1 - Doug Turner KW - Male author AB -

Conspiracy theory dystopia in which a very small number of people actually rule the world.

PB - Turpentine Publications CY - Quesnel, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extensions Y1 - 1998 A1 - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia in the future.

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visitors" Y1 - 1998 A1 - L. A. Taylor ED - KIm Mohan AB -

Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia in which all cities have disappeared. The story focuses on an automated house protecting its dead owners.

JF - More Amazing Stories PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How Few Remain [Cover adds A Novel of The Second War Between the States] Y1 - 1997 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a long alternative history series set after the Confederacy wins the American Civil War in 1862 with the help of the United Kingdom and France and is still an independent nation in the 20th century. There are two sub-series, The Great War and Settling Accounts. This volume is set in 1881 when the North attacks the South after it annexes parts of Mexico and gets a Pacific port. A Socialist Party emerges in the North led by Lincoln. The Great War sub-series includes The Great War: American Front. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1998, which is set during World War I when the North again invades South; The Great War: Walk in Hell. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which is on the war; The Great War: Breakthroughs. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2000, which is set in 1917 with the North fighting two wars, one on its Northern border against Canada and Great Britain and in the South with the Confederate States of America. The South is dealing with an Insurgency of African Americans trying to establish an independent socialist republic. The Settling Accounts sub-series includes Settling Accounts: Return Engagement. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2004, in which South, under a dictatorship, invades North but is defeated; Settling Accounts: Drive to the East. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2005, which is on war; Settling Accounts: The Grapple. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2006, in which both sides are trying to create a nuclear weapon, the South is murdering African Americans, and the North has a socialist Vice-President; Settling Accounts: In at the Death. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2007 in which the South is defeated.

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Flying Dreams” Y1 - 1996 A1 - Raven Kaldera (b. 1966) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

One character in this erotic lesbian story is from a religious planet that clothes its people in underwear that constantly monitors them from a young age and sends its results back to the leadership.

JF - The New Worlds of Women PB - Circlet Press CY - Boston, MA VL - Exp. ed. N1 -

Rpt. in The Circlet Treasury of Lesbian Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Cecilia Tan (New York: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2013), 168-81. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gibbon's Decline and Fall Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future that is becoming increasingly anti-woman. There is cooperation between the Vatican, Islamic leaders, and right-wing Christians to force women to be subservient to men. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stone, Still" Y1 - 1996 A1 - A. R. Morlan ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

The story describes a woman with a disease, scleroderma, that makes her body rigid in a society that requires everyone to have a compatible sexual partner and finds and assigns such a partner and the successful match found for her.

JF - Sextopia: Stories of Sex and Society PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Delenda” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrea Thomas KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Last woman story in which sickness was followed by madness and violence with a few immune left. The story focuses on a woman and the man who rescues her from final violence, the problems they have, and the freedom she feels after he is killed by dogs. 

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland VL - no. 9 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Day in the Life of the Landfords" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Tammy Jo Eckhart ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A somewhat isolated community that is a sado-masochistic eutopia. 

JF - S/M Futures: Erotica On the Edge PB - Circlet Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sex, Age, and the Last Caste Y1 - 1995 A1 - Lawrence [H.] Taub KW - Male author AB -

The book presents Earth's history from earliest times to 2100 plus with the focus on the spiritual, which will, in the future, bring about eutopia.

PB - Clear Glass Press CY - Basking Ridge, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 4000: The Fifth Milenium. Six Revolooshunairy Iedeeas Y1 - 1994 A1 - Timothy F. Travis KW - Male author AB -

Proposals for spelling reform with most of the book a list of words with the new spelling, a new calendar, a duodecimal system, education reform designed to encourage the regularly improvement of knowledge and skills (163-65), revised citizenship with individuals being given ribbons annually based on their activities (166-67), and a revised epistemology based on the idea that truth can be scientific or spiritual that will create a eutopia.

PB - Aster Esprit Press CY - El Toro, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crimes Against Nature" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mary A. Turzillo KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering and manufactured viruses that can both create new people and provide manufactured beliefs and languages. The central character is a pregnant man, who is killed by those opposing the unnatural.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 80 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fair New World Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lou Tafler AB -

The novel presents three societies, two dystopias Feminania and Bruteland, representing extreme feminism and extreme machismo, and a eutopia, Melior that recognizes that men and women differ but that both should be able to lead a fulfilling life. Includes a vocabulary of Fairspeak.

PB - Backlash Books CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genetic Soldier Y1 - 1994 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a simple, fairly primitive future earth that practices eugenics. Conflict arises when a starship returns from its search for a new earth.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: AvoNova, 1995.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Report 323: A Quebecois Infiltration Attempt" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - G. N. Louise Jonasson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Canadian future of ethnic cleansing.

JF - New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing VL - 15.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Hama Tuma (b. 1949) KW - Ethiopian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in Ethiopia after the revolution showing the reality of frustrated hopes.

JF - "The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor" and Other Stories PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Destiny Makers Y1 - 1993 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of extreme overpopulation, corruption, and a radical gap between the rich and the poor. A plan had been developed to kill much of the world’s population so that the earth can recover and much of the novel centers on personal and political intrigue. See also 1999 Turner.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Garden" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alayne Gelfand ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

While the emphasis in the story is on the sex, it is set in a future in which men and women do not know of the existence of the other. The female protagonist resents the authoritarianism of the women leaders and breaks the rule by regularly visiting a prohibited area. 

JF - Worlds of Women: Sapphic Science Fiction Erotica PB - Circlet Press CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in The New Worlds of Women. Exp. ed. Ed. Cecilia Tan (Boston, MA: Circlet Press, 1996), 63-77; and in The Circlet Treasury of Lesbian Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Cecilia Tan (New York: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2013), 156-67. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mural" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Meryl Thompson (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Separate between employed and unemployed.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vermin" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fundamentalist religious dystopia as background.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best of Both Worlds" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia focusing on the development of instantaneous human transport and the power that gives to remodel humanity mentally and physically.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Couples" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia which has past a Fetal Rights Bill.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gehenna Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Thomas] Paul Thigpen (b. 1954) KW - Male author AB -

A trip through Hell.

PB - Creation House CY - Lake Mary, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War Y1 - 1992 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

With the help from future South African supporters of apartheid, who provide Robert E. Lee with AK-47s, the South wins the Civil War. After the war, Lee wants to gradually abolish slavery, and the Confederacy has to defeat the technologically advanced South Africans before that becomes possible. Other, non-utopian, alternative futures by Turtledove set after the South won the Civil war are How Few Remain. New York: del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1997; and The Great War: American Front. New York: Del Rey, 1998.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parsnips and Prune Juice: Comic Mayhem in the Year 2049 Y1 - 1992 A1 - Burnett R. Toskey (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor in a futuristic setting. Some eutopia; some dystopia.

PB - University Editions CY - Huntington, WV ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen and I Y1 - 1992 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. The U.K. becomes a republic, and the Queen is given a pensioner's flat where she lives with her family. See also 2006 Townsend.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Part republished as The Queen in Hell Close. London: Penguin, 2005. Theatre version as The Queen and I: The Play With Songs. London: Methuen Drama in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 1994 [Songs by Ian Dury and Mickey Gallagher]. Rev. and re-written as The Queen and I: A Play. London: Samuel French, 1996. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Remember, the Dead Say" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The U.S. has fragmented, with the capital of the Free State Alliance in Omaha, Nebraska. The FSA has been successfully invaded by the Franco-Maghrebi Coalition, which controls Eastern Canada and has imposed Sharia (Islamic) law. The opposition comes from net experts from both countries.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 102-13. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beauty Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly fantasy deriving from the tale of Sleeping Beauty presented as “The Journal of Beauty daughter of the Duke of Westfaire” with interpolations by “Carabosse, the fairy of clocks, keeper of the secrets of time”. Beauty travels into various futures, including an authoritarian 21st century dystopia. On the dust jacket “A Note from the Author” connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1992. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of a Seagull" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Lois [Ann] Tilton (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia-- a near future story of refugees forced to live on ships constantly wandering the seas.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 47 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Creating an Ecologically Sustainable Australia for 2001" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Phillip Toyne KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia described in a section entitled "A Vision of Future Australia" (8-9).

JF - Social Alternatives (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) VL - 10.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Still Call Australia Home" Y1 - 1990 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Returning spaceship discovers an Earth destroyed by their generation and regenerating into a religious matriarchy which rejects them. Presented as a troubled utopia that is clearly better than the past, which, from our perspective, would be the near-term future.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt.in Metaworlds: Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins (Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1994), 197-218.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Raising the Stones Y1 - 1990 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel about two planets, one, Voorstad, is a religious dystopia with slaves and women veiled and hidden. Violent. The other, Hobbs Land, is a simple agricultural society. It, and the rest of the settled planets, are matrilineal. Much fantasy in that one focus of the novel is the death and rebirth of the old gods of Hobbs Land.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mr Smith's privatised penis" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The concluding chapter of an attack on the failure to fully implement the welfare state and the bureaucratic inefficiencies of what was put into place. A dystopia showing how privatization would be worse.

JF - Mr. Bevan's Dream PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London VL - Chatto Counterblast No. 9 U1 -

On cover Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1998 Y1 - 1988 A1 - Richard Turner A1 - William Osborne (b. 1960) KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Future focusing on instant stardom for cash. Based on a radio series.

PB - Sphere CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Backward, Turn Backward." Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Love story with a background of a future dystopia--a deeply divided society with the middle class and above living in enclaves.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 208-70. 

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James Tiptree Jr. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Busman's Holiday" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Louise Turner ED - Duncan Lunan KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future feudal, depopulated Glasgow in which owners of the bus systems have become the ruling lords.

JF - The Glasgow Herald Weekender N1 -

Rpt. in Starfield: The Anthology of Science Fiction by Scottish Writers. Ed. Duncan Lunan (Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1989), 89-96. Collection rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: New Curiosity Shop, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cityscape Y1 - 1988 A1 - Frances Thomas (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A young adult authoritarian dystopia where reading is prohibited.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gate to Women's Country Y1 - 1988 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe world divided into a women’s and men’s communities in which the women try to keep alive the best of the post-catastrophe world and the men are warriors. There is a mixed carnival once a year, and boys stay with their mothers until five, when they join their fathers, visiting their mothers twice a year. At fifteen the boys choose to be warriors or live with their mothers with some having been rejected by their fathers. The novel begins with two ceremonies, the first on a boy’s fifteen birthday and the second at a boy’s fifth birthday, both reflecting the pain experienced by the mothers. In fact, the women have been using birth control and selecting the men who father children to try to breed out male violence. There are a number of subplots that make it a quite complicated novel.

PB - Foundation Books/Doubleday/Bantam Doubleday Dell CY - New York SN - 0-385-24709-5 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1989

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genesis: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1988 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about the terraforming of Mars and the conflicts it engenders with a mild dystopia as background.

PB - Saybrook Publishing Co CY - Dallas, TX ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sideshow Y1 - 1988 A1 - W[illiam] R[och] Thompson (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future United States during a new Great Depression. Three extremist groups fight for power: The Iron Guard, who are Neo-Nazis; the New Redeemers, who are religious fanatics; Sere, who believe that civilization must be destroyed to save the planet. In addition, there are telepaths who are treated as witches and being hunted.

PB - Baen CY - New York SN - 0-671-65375-X U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sykaos Papers: Being An Account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim in the Seventeenth Galaxy; of his Mission to the Planet Sykaos; of his First Cruel Captivity; of his Travels about its Surface; of the Manners and Customs of its Beastly People; of his Second Captivity; and of his Return to Oitar. To which are added many passages from the Poet's Journal, documents in Sykotic script, and other curious matters. Selected and Edited by Q, Vice-Provost of the College of Adjusters Y1 - 1988 A1 - E[dward] P[almer] Thompson (1924-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rational dystopia contrasted to dystopian earth. While the latter is generally preferable, it destroys itself.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World of One Y1 - 1988 A1 - Charles [Bardley] Templeton (1915-2001) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Novel about a future corrupt cult.

PB - Doubleday Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of Leaving Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian, isolated small town as a dystopia.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1988.

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - First Citizen Y1 - 1987 A1 - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the U.S. repudiated its national debt and a nuclear attack on the capitol, the country collapses into regions, each with a private army. One man takes advantage of the situation to build a huge fortune and ultimately reunited the country under his leadership.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York SN - 0-671-65368-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea and Summer Y1 - 1987 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Class divided future dystopia.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Grafton, 1989. U.S. ed. as Drowning Towers. New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988. Part originally published as "The Fittest." Urban Fantasies. Ed. David King and Russell Blackford (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Ebony Books, 1985), 105-31. Story rpt. in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 175-207; and in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. Terry Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 229-62.

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 U.S. ed. as Drowning Towers.

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A, M, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Fingers in Utopia" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Philip Sidney Jennings ED - Trevor Jones ED - George P. Townsend KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Eutopia of love and ease is maintained by individuals experiencing a dream of past ugliness.

JF - Dream Magazine VL - no. 11 N1 -

Rpt. in A Book of Dreams: An Anthology of the best SF from ‘DREAM’ and ‘NEW MOON’ 1985-1987. Ed. Trevor Jones and George P. Townsend (Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambs., Eng.: Weller Publications, 1990), 38-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Band of Angels Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian F. Thompson KW - Male author AB -

Young adult quest novel with a dystopian background. A group of anti-nuclear teenagers set off across the U.S. followed by government agents intending to kill them.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Ninety-Four Y1 - 1986 A1 - William Osborne (b. 1960) A1 - Richard Turner KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four complete with an appendix on Adspeak.

PB - Arrow Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Not in Front of the Children" Y1 - 1986 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Generational conflict in a society with eight generations alive at the same time. Presents the radical separation between the generations of the extremely wealthy who could afford longevity treatments and between them and the majority who could not.

JF - Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia) VL - no. 5 N1 -

Rpt. in Matilda at the Speed of Light. Ed. Damien [Francis] Broderick (North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1988), 152-74; and in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 37-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - O-Zone Y1 - 1986 A1 - Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia set in the early 21st century. The O-Zone or Outer Zone is what used to be called the Ozarks and is an area that was contaminated with nuclear waste. The novel focuses on New York City and the idle rich, known as Owners, who inhabit it in contrast with the poor, who are the overwhelming majority and are kept in check by the Owners.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

A limited first edition signed by the author, with a frontispiece by Douglas Smith, and a lengthy “A Special message for the first edition from Paul Theroux” for the members of The Signed First Edition Society. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987.

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shut the Door When You Go Out" Y1 - 1986 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Development of the hypothesis that the earth is a living entity. All of humanity has become a part of the Nexus, which, together with the earth, acts as one being.

JF - Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia) VL - no. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 85-91; in Glass Reptile Breakout and Other Australian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin ([Perth, WA, Australia]: The Centre for the Study of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, 1990), 139-43; and in Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia), no. 25/26 (October 1997): 53-57. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All This and Heaven Too" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A humorous story set in an ecological eutopia, Ecologia-Bella, that is contrasted with an environmental dystopia, Pluvia-Acida. The eutopia uses clean electric power, has full employment, and the people care for the land, the flora and fauna, and each other. The dystopia is capitalist with a high rate of industrial accidents, extreme pollution, no trees, little vegetation, and a good supply, of rats and cockroaches but few other animals.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.13 N1 -

Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 96-129. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1990), 96-129.

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Illus. Daniel R. Horne

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James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.].

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New World: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1985 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe eutopia/dystopia set 400 years in the future in which both fossil and nuclear fuels have been exhausted, many people have been killed in pogroms aimed at the middle class and others have left Earth altogether. The U.S. has divided into old cities that dominate the remaining suburbs, whose inhabitants are slaves, fundamentalist religious areas, and the Free Counties, which are under attack. 

PB - Princeton University Press CY - Princeton, NJ SN - 0-691-06641-8 N1 -

An excerpt was published in Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias. Ed. Kim Stanley Robinson (New York: Tor, 1994), 215-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conscience Place. A Novel Y1 - 1984 A1 - Joyce [Marie] Thompson (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A hidden community where the mutant children of those damaged by a nuclear accident live with no awareness of the outside world. For the children the community is eutopian, but the so-called Fathers who fund and control the community decide to use the children in experiments and turn the community into a dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Higher Education 2004: A Fable" Y1 - 1984 A1 - David L. Travis KW - Male author AB -

Short educational dystopia in which students skip classes, don't read, and still graduate with high grades.

JF - Phi Delta Kappan VL - 65.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Natfact 7 Y1 - 1984 A1 - John [Kimberley] Tully (b. 1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although originally published as for young adults, this is a fairly standard dystopia and revolt. In this case the dystopia turns out to be better than the goal of the revolt.

PB - Methuen Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. [London]: Magnet, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songs to the Judges with Music by William Dart Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mervyn Thompson (1936-92) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Ends with a brief "vision of justice and unity" based in part on the Maori prophet Te Whiti Rogomaii III (1815?-1907), the pacifist Maori leader at Parihaka, a Maori village that tried to stand against the theft of land by peaceful means.

PB - Playmarket New Zealand Theatrescipts CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Steps of the Sun Y1 - 1983 A1 - Walter [Stone] Tevis (1928-84) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian setting with a future U.S. without energy sources. China is the dominant world power.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday's Men Y1 - 1983 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy. In this volume conflict develops between earth and the Lagrangists, who live in satellites and plan to begin exploring space. See 1978 and 1981 Turner.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Avoiding 1984: Moving Toward Interdependence Y1 - 1982 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book includes a number of scenarios of the future with the emphasis on the positive. The book begins with brief life histories of five people with one of them Teg from 1969 Theobald. It then presents five scenarios from different perspectives set in 2000. The future is politically and economically troubled but moving in the right direction, but the emphasis of the book is on ecology and improvements in interpersonal relations and life patterns, with an emphasis of variety and significant changes in lifestyle throughout life. See also 1968 Theobald and 1969 Theobald and Scott. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - Swallow Press--Ohio University Press CY - Athens, OH U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mosquito Coast. A Novel Y1 - 1982 A1 - Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in the dystopia of migrant labor in the U.S. and follows a Yankee family to Honduras, where they attempt to create as eutopia in the jungle. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U1 -

Woodcuts by David Frampton

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Islanders Y1 - 1981 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which an isolated island with a rule that no outsiders will be allowed has to deal with the disruption caused by two young people saving the lives of two other young people from outside.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng.: N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1981.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Orange Blossom Time" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of urban crime and pollution.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Zebra, [1981]), 87-100.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrection Days Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Arthur] Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world of women with one man from the past who disrupts the women's world.

PB - Timescape CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vaneglory: A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1981 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy set in a future dystopia. In this volume the society evolving at the end of the previous volume has to deal with the discovery of a group of humans who do not die. See also 1978 and 1983 Turner.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The King Is Dead! Long Live--" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which an electronic chastity belt produces great pain in rapists and is used by women to punish men.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 8 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Zebra Books), 60-74.

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Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mockingbird Y1 - 1980 A1 - Walter [Stone] Tevis (1928-84) KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia. Humans can no longer read or write and no longer have children (all women had been sterilized). People take drugs, smoke marijuana and watch test patterns on television. Many commit suicide. Everything is breaking down, including the robots that run everything. People are supposed to follow three slogans, "When in doubt, forget it" (20), "Don't ask--relax" (21), and "Alone is best" (23).

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valhalla Y1 - 1980 A1 - Newton [Kendall] Thornburg (1929-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future post-catastrophe dystopia brought about by the collapse of the U.S. dollar. Government and jobs disappear and gangs control cities. Valhalla is an ex-monastery now the fortress compound of one man, and the novel focuses on the attacks on it and its defense.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ultima Thule" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Arline Todd ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author AB -

Transplant dystopia in which needed organs are harvested from unwilling donors.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Zebra Books CY - New York VL - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With Mingled Feelings of Anticipation and Apprehension the Emigrants Leave Their Native Earth for a Far-Off Destination" Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Zebra Books CY - New York VL - 6 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beloved Son Y1 - 1978 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Complex new society established to be a eutopia, but it has serious problems. At the end of this volume, the dystopia is being replaced in the name of a new eutopia, which looks to be set to become the next dystopia. First volume of a trilogy; see 1981 and 1983 Turner.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Best Interests" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An over-caring apartment computer system produces a dystopia.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Zebra Books CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. as "Best Interest." In her Signs and Portents (Santa Cruz, CA: Dream Press, 1984), 75-85.

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Rpt. as "Best Interest." 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future Y1 - 1978 A1 - William Irwin Thompson (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future speculation by the founder of the Lindisfarne Community, in Southampton, NY, which was established in 1973. Although much of the text uses the language of the New Age and is vague about the eutopia to be produced, he suggests what he calls "The Metaindustrial Village" that will involve both agricultural and industrial work and be connected to the world through computer technology.

PB - Anchor Books CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Parts of the first two chapters were originally published as "Beyond Civilization: Auguries of Planetization." Quest/77 1.2 (May/June 1977):69-72, 74, 92-93; and "Auguries of Planetization: Braving a New World." Quest/77 1.3 (July/August 1977): 55-60, 94-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In a Petri Dish, Upstairs" Y1 - 1978 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) ED - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. A new society emerges in satellites orbiting Earth. The society has common property, authoritarian "communal fathers", and a system of effective slavery. Earth also has centralized power, but, with a dramatically lower population brought about by a series of catastrophes, it has abundance for all. The story is about conflicts between the satellites and Earth.

JF - Rooms of Paradise PB - Quartet CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 325-59; in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 131-64; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 211-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blue Chair. A Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - Joyce [Marie] Thompson (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Social institutions and personal relations produced in a society where immortality is available to those who choose not to have children.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Petals of Blood Y1 - 1977 A1 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (b. 1938) KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel depicting, among other things, a post-independence African dystopia and various people with utopian aspirations. Includes the idea that an African utopia will need to be found in the African past.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver's Visit to Walden III; A Report on Values in Education Y1 - 1976 A1 - William Clark Trow (1894-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing education. A descendant of Lemuel Gulliver visits Walden III, which is described as "a laboratory, not only to introduce intuitive innovations, but to test hypotheses about the nature of a (not the) good society and how it might be built" (x). The book proposes a model of education based on what the author calls "The Seven Worlds" that include the mental, physical, aesthetic, social, political, economic, and ethical aspects of life.

PB - Kappa Delta Pi Press CY - West Lafayette, IN U5 -

IedS, L, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hotel De Dream Y1 - 1976 A1 - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A series of conflicting dreams by people living in a boarding house take on reality and merge. Some of the dreams are eutopian or dystopian; e.g., one is of an ideal city and one is of Amazonian women. Also, the characters in a novel being written by one of the tenants come to life.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) ED - Susan Janice Anderson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia composed only of women, mostly clones but with a few new genotypes still being created, confronts men returning from a long space voyage. The eutopia came because an epidemic caused widespread infertility and no male babies were born. It has a small population and is without hierarchy or government and, while it has space travel, it is based more on agriculture than technology. The three men include an extreme chauvinist, a Christian who believes that God established a patriarchal system, and one man who struggles to understand and accept the situation.

JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

Rpt. in Star Songs of an Old Primate (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 164-226; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 582-632; under the title of the story New York: Tor, 1989 as part of Tor Double Novel # 11 bound with Joanna Russ’s Souls; and in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 168-222.

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James Tiptree Jr. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Creature Come Y1 - 1975 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Borderline young adult novel in which society is divided into Persons, who rule and are indulged, and Creatures, who revolt with the assistance of two young people from the colony of Persons.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Creatures. New York: J.B. Lippincott. 1980.

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U.S. ed. as The Creatures.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walls Within Walls Y1 - 1975 A1 - Arthur [Reginald] Tofte (1908-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia concerned with controlling mutants. The mutant society is also described.

PB - Laser Books CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Android Armageddon Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Sandor] Robert Tralins (1926-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which a machine, called Justivac, creates a "perfect" society where humans no longer need to make decisions.

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Born Free: A Feminist Fable" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia. The story follows the first thirteen years of the life of a girl born into an egalitarian society at midnight on January 1, 2000. Each person works twenty-five hours a week with an additional six hours a month of volunteer work, although they can arrange their hours as they choose (11-12). Much of the story concerns childbirth, day-care, which is available everywhere, and education, all with many alternative arrangements. People are completely free to arrange their relationships (6). Male and female contraception is freely available, and abortion is a woman’s right (7). Cooperative housekeeping (9). All sport, including professional sport is mixed sex (18). Gay people are now completely accepted (22-23). The U.S. is now a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one (4). The female author was an editor of Ms. Magazine.

JF - Woman in the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chief Justice Wore a Red Dress" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris L[ipson] Sassower (1932-2019) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of gender equality with a focus on the legal profession presented partially fictionally and partially in an historical essay. In the eutopia, the Equal Rights Amendment had passed. A Parental Responsibility Act limited the hours of work of parents with pre-school-age children to twenty-five hours a week, and there was free federally funded day care for twenty-five hours per week. 

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Femininity: 2000" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Carol [Gene Eisen] Rinzler (1941-90) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short story of the future for women. Some technological eutopia, some dystopia, some unchanged, which can be read as part of the dystopia.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Impact of the Mid-Twentieth Century Movement for Sex Equality in Employment On Three Contemporary Economic Institutions" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Caroline Bird (1915-2011) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. “A paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association” illustrating the effect of gender equality on the National Employment Exchange (115-18), the Neighborhood Play Group System (118-21), and the Minimum Income Security System (121-25). The Equal Rights Amendment had passed.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Country House Murders Y1 - 1974 A1 - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother Earth Revisited: When Women in Politics Are Old Hat" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Bella [Savitsky] Abzug (1920-1998) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An interview that is presented as having taken place in 2000 set in a world where Earth is primarily female and the moon and satellites in space are primarily male, a situation brought about by negotiation and political compromise. There had been a nuclear war, Earth had been made largely uninhabitable and people on Earth lived underground. Traditional gender roles have disappeared. 

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noah’s Castle Y1 - 1974 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world with a collapsing economy with extreme inflation, based on Post-World War I Germany. The novel focus on a man who hoards non-perishable goods to protect his family while causing problems for others.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Proposed Constitutional Model for the Newstates of Americas" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Rexford G[uy] Tugwell (1891-1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposed new constitution for the U.S. designed for a reconfigured United States and to correct flaws in the original document. Includes a section of rights and responsibilities, a single presidential term of nine years, an appointed Senate with life terms, a House of Representatives with some at-large members representing regions rather than the fifty states, a Electoral Branch to oversee elections, a Planning Branch to coordinate income and expenses over time, a Regulatory Branch to charter and regulate corporations, and a reformed judiciary designed to be more efficient. One underlying principle, particularly influencing the changes to Congress is to create a strong national government with lesser regional power.

JF - The Emerging Constitution PB - Harper Magazine Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Transhumans--2000" Y1 - 1974 A1 - F[ereidoun] M. Esfandiary (1930-2000) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Iranian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future eutopia in which human differentiation is overcome.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waves of Ecology" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Leonard Tushnet (1908-73) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a temporarily successful attempt to eliminate cars and improve the ecology.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 46.3 (274) UR - https://tushnet.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/fsf-march-1974-waves-of-ecology.pdf N1 -

Rpt. in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 145-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women in Motion" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Lucinda [Laura] Franks (b. 1946) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing physical fitness for both men and women with schools no longer having boys' teams and girls' teams.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your Time, Your Station" Y1 - 1974 A1 - David [Allan] Saperstein (b. 1937) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The present day presented from the point-of-view of a future eutopia that stresses great variety rather than the uniformity seen in the present.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia that outlaws any misrepresentation of a product (advertising) is being successfully undermined by corporate interests.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 3 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1989. Tor Double bound with Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019). Screwtop [Originally published in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 151-208]; in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 44-79; in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 178-213; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 74-120; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 151-90; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 135-184, with a biographical note on 469-471 and notes on the text on 483-485.

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James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.]

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Regained" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Theodore Rose] [Cogswell] (1918-87) A1 - [Theodore Lockard] [Thomas] (1920-2005) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 171-79.

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Cogswell Thomas [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans become addicted to contact with aliens. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.3 (250) SN - 9780141188928 N1 -

Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 52-60.

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James Tiptree, Jr.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Century of the Manikin Y1 - 1972 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society that is non-violent, and has heavy drug use and free sexuality, but there is underground sadism.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Millington, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City Machine Y1 - 1972 A1 - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Class-based overpopulation dystopia on a colonized planet. Those in power had instituted a new language and destroyed the books so that no one had the knowledge to construct new cities and undermine the system. One man who can read searches for and finds the information to build new cities, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, HRC, Merril, MoR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hippie-Dip File” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Robert Thurston (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which drugs provided by the government are used to “rehabilitate” those on the left.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.3 (250) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The 1990 Draft Constitution" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Arthur [Israel] Waskow (b. 1933) ED - Robert Theobald (1929-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A new constitution for the Federal Commonwealths of America that is based on autonomous ethnic, regional, and occupational groupings. The text is accompanied by a number of articles, all originally published in motive in its March and April 1971 issues, critiquing the proposed constitution. These articles are Jim Stenzel, “Tokyo: An Asian Critique of ‘1990’ (253-57) motive 31.5 (March 1971): 24-26; Steve Nickeson, “Toward a Civil Future” (258-61) motive 31.5 (March 1971) as “Notes Toward a Civil Future” (21-22); Merrill Jackson, “Weaknesses and Problems of the 1990 Constitution” (266-68) motive 31.6/7 (April-May 1971): 87 [Page wrong in Contents]; and Eleanor Burns Women’s Collective, “In a New Society Why Do We Have to Have a Boring Constitution?” (269-75) motive 31.6/7 (April-May 1971): 83-85 [Page wrong in Contents]. See also 1973 Waskow.

JF - motive VL - 31.5 N1 -

Rpt. As “Draft Constitution.” Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 245-52. According to a note on 245, this was to be published in a book entitled The 1990 Draft Constitution, said to be forthcoming from The New American Library in January 1972. No such book exists. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scorpius Equation Y1 - 1971 A1 - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gay male dystopia.

PB - Traveller' Companion CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Badboy, 1993.

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Larry Townsend [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The T.N.A. Constitution (first draft 1971) Y1 - 1971 A1 - Terranian Nationalist Association AB -

Constitution for a democratic world government with restrictions on the powers of the individual states (known as Sectional National Governments). 

PB - The Association CY - Burwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

See also Terranianism: A Plan to Unite Humanity. Humanity and the World in Unity and Peace, One World, One People, Terrania. [Burwood, VIC, Australia: np, 1973]; The Terranian, no. 1 - 73 (May 20, 1969 - December 1975); The Terranian National Constitution (third draft 1972). Burwood, VIC, Australia: The Association, 1972; and Join the Terranians/Terranian National Association. Burwood, VIC, Australia: The Association, [1972]. All at the State Library of Victoria.

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VSL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2020 Hindsight" Y1 - 1970 A1 - William Thompson ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Future of Canada as a eutopia with scientists in control. No equality. The U.S. is fascist.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy Y1 - 1970 A1 - Louis P[reston] Trimble (1917-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One setting of the novel is a small-town eutopia in England that is basically Victorian but includes modern technology.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Lost" Y1 - 1970 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Pollution dystopia. A pristine planet is discovered, but the man doing so keeps it a secret to avoid it being destroyed by others.

JF - Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 33.6 U5 -

A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your World, and Welcome to It (the 33rd Earl of Chesterfield writes to one of his sons)" Y1 - 1970 A1 - A[rchibald] P[aton] Thornton ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist satire. Pills against aggression. Racial peace because pills make everyone the same color.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2069 Y1 - 1969 A1 - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gay male dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are 2069 + 1. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 245-464; and 2069 + 2. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 465-656.

PB - Phenix Publishers CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 9-243.

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Larry Townsend [pseud.]

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CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gardens 12345 Y1 - 1969 A1 - Peter Tate (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia in which social experiments are run on people by placing them in gardens and observing their actions when changes are made.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teg's 1994; An Anticipation of the Near Future Y1 - 1969 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) A1 - J[ean] M. Scott KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on ecology, personal growth, and interpersonal communication. Problems remain, and the author's say, "In our opinion, Teg's world would make a very poor Utopia for anybody" (x, 1972 ed.). See also 1968 Theobald and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - [Theobald and Scott] CY - [Phoenix, AZ] N1 -

New ed. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972.

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ISS, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Alternative Future for America. Essays and Speeches Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) ED - Kendall College KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 Theobald and Scott and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - Swallow CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. as An Alternative Future for America II. Essays and Speeches. Ed. Noel McInnis. Chicago, IL: Swallow, 1970. Parts that had been previously published were rpt. in the 1st ed. as follows: “The Problem” (17-21) originally published as “The Revolution of the ‘Powerless’.” The Los Angeles Times (September 8, 1967), Part 2, p. 5; “The Guaranteed Income” (93-131) was originally published in the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Guaranteed Income, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, December 9, 1966; “The Communications City” (132-44) was originally published in The Christian Century (March 27, 1968): 385-88; “Green Force” (145-50) was originally published as “Green Force: A Mechanism to Speed Urban Peace.” The Los Angeles Times (March 12, 1968), Part 2, p. 5; and “Education for a New Time” (151-63) was originally published in Journal (Division of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) 5.6 (March 1967): 3-7. Parts that had been previously published but not included in the 1st ed. were rpt. in the 2nd ed. as follows: “Incredible man and His Credible Future.” Reflection. A Journal of Opinion at (Yale Divinity School (November 1967): 1-5; “Women” (85-96) originally published in Dialogue on Women (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1967), 11-17 [In the original, the piece is described as being by unidentified editors, but there is no mention of anyone else in the reprint]; “Ecology: A Dangerous Crusade” (151-56) was originally published "War on Pollution Could Backfire." The Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1970). Part G, p. 7; and “Freedom in Education” (157-81) was originally published in Journal (Council of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) (April 1969): 10-16.

Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anthropol Y1 - 1968 A1 - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of gender-role reversal with women ruling men.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

OAdN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Day of the Republic Y1 - 1968 A1 - Geoff[rey] Taylor (b. 1920) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting Australia on the day it became a republic under what is essentially a fascist dictatorship. The novel is presented from the point of view of those preparing the last issue of the last independent newspaper as all opposition is being suppressed. Ends with nuclear war.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U5 -

A, ATL, CLU, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ministry of Procreation Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Nevil Tronchin] [James] KW - Male author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Nevil Tronchin-James [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild in the Streets Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Thom (1929-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a teenage takeover.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York U5 -

IEN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Is a Dream Y1 - 1967 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future world with the knowledge of previous reincarnations. Extreme laissez-faire capitalism. Selfishness.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Megan Terry's Home: or, Future Soap Y1 - 1967 A1 - Megan Terry (b. 1932) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stranger from the Depths Y1 - 1967 A1 - Gerry Turner (1921-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A young adult novel about the discovery of an undersea technological eutopia with gender equality that predates humanity and disappeared because of a plague. This is contrasted with a dystopian community from the same time that survived. The dystopia has gender inequality, drugged citizens, and violence.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

An abridged paperback version as published by New York: Scholastic, 1970.

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CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Post-mortem People" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Peter Tate (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Transplant dystopia in which the ability to transplant organs leads to the development of an elaborate system to profit from the death of others by claiming their bodies.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 49.160 N1 -

Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 383-97.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow is Another World" Y1 - 1966 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which an overpopulated earth is also over-regulated.

JF - Man (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 60.4 U5 -

A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turning Into Tomorrow Y1 - 1966 A1 - Watson Thomson (d. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay with a focus on communal or "group" utopias.

PB - Philosophical Library CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Masculinist Revolt" Y1 - 1965 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. A pro-male revolt follows the reintroduction of the codpiece but ultimately fails.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 29.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 213-51; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 213-35 with an "Afterword" (236-37).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Laughing Matter Y1 - 1963 A1 - Senator Thinkwell [pseud.] AB -

A series of essays describing a better world called Newtopia. The essays are on Greed, Thinking, Foresight, and Population and each includes a discussion with the President of Newtopia.

PB - National Purpose Associates CY - Np VL - v. 1 U3 -

Senator Thinkwell [pseud.]. 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weather Man" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Theodore L[ockard] Thomas (1920-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World control of weather has generally produced a eutopia.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction (New York) PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA VL - 69.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Days After Tomorrow. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971), 95-142. 

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MoS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eastward Ho!" Y1 - 1958 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which Indians have retaken the American continent.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 15.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 73-93; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Ed. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Primus, 1985), 278-94; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 187-98 with an "Afterword" (199-200).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Man of Family" Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Must have money and the right heredity to reproduce. The more money the more allowed children and losing money requires giving up a child.

JF - The Human Angle PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 415-25 ("Afterword" 425).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "There Will Be School Tomorrow" Y1 - 1956 A1 - V. E. Thiessen AB -

Robot teachers programmed to serve the best interests of the children remove their parents.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 6.4 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forbidden Kingdom Y1 - 1955 A1 - Elleston Trevor (1920-95) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s story where there is a high technology enclave, but the story is mostly intrigue and adventure. 

PB - Lutterworth CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Servant Problem" Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satiric authoritarian dystopia in which each of a series of people believe that they have absolute power because they have power over the one who is apparently more powerful.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 10.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Human Angle (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 44-75; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 393-413 ("Afterword" 414).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Star Ship" Y1 - 1955 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a multi-generation spaceship. All must die by age forty. Dueling is used to eliminate the unfit, for room, and so forth.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction (London) VL - 12.34 - 36 N1 -

Repub. as The Space-Born. New York: Ace, 1956. Ace Double bound with Philip K[indred] Dick's The Man Who Japed (1956).

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Repub. as The Space-Born.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flight to Utopia" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Jan Tourneau KW - Male author AB -

Changing fashions in utopias; one generation's utopia is rejected by the next generation in favor of a new one.

JF - Science Stories VL - 1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Limbo" Y1 - 1953 A1 - William F[rederick] Temple (1914-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of National Socialists ruling Earth.

JF - Nebula (Glasgow, Scot.) VL - 1.3 U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Professor Mmaa’s Lecture Y1 - 1953 A1 - Stefan Themerson (1910-88) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -

Satire on human relations through the depiction of relations in a termite hill and the senses of the termites as they try to understand humans through exploring a dead body and literally digesting written works. 

PB - Gaberbocchus Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1984 with the "Preface" unpaged.

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Illus. Franciszka Themerson

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L, PScU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ultimate City" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Richard [Presley] Tooker (1902-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopian story. Perfection brought about by using atomic power solely for its benefits is so boring that there is a plague of suicides. Some choose to start over with a primitive life.

JF - Science Fiction Plus VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 ([September 1955]): 12-27.

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A, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Malan Goes": A Progressive Programme for South Africa Y1 - 1953 A1 - Jan Toekoms [pseud.] KW - South African author AB -

Mostly non-fiction. A ten-point proposal for solving South Africa's problems with a brief future vignette showing them solved. The points are The Establishment of a Democratic Republic. The Maintenance of European Supremacy for the Next Hundred Years. The Maintenance of Social Apartheid. The Abolition of the Economic Colour Bar. The Establishment of Suburbs with Freehold Rights for Non-Europeans. The Representation of Non-Europeans in Local and Central Government. Better Pay and Conditions for the Police. The Simplification of the Pass Laws with a view to their Eventual Abolition. Recognition of the Plural Nature of South African Society. The Adoption of a Rigid South African Constitution.

PB - Central News Agency CY - [Johannesburg], South Africa U3 -

Jan Toekoms [pseud.]

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IEN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women's World" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Ted Taine KW - Male author AB -

Amazons on another planet are at least fifteen feet tall. A strong man, even though small by the standards of the planet, woos and wins the Queen.

JF - Fantastic Adventures VL - 15.3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ah! Men! A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Dagmar Vola] [Sandeen] KW - Female author AB -

Sex role reversal satire that reverts at the end.

PB - The Northwestern Press. CY - Minneapolis, MN N1 -

Rpt. Pasadena, CA: Stage Door Play Co., 1994.

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Dana Thomas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City in the Sea Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Arthur] Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. One man and women from a country of women cross a U.S that has been devastated by a nuclear war and discover the beginnings of the redevelopment of civilization.

PB - Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A compelling human story of one man and an army of women! New York: Galaxy Publishing Co, [1951]. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Null-P" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A post atomic war satire in which the absolute average becomes the goal and the person representing that becomes President of what remains of the United States. The human race degenerates and is replaced by intelligent dogs.

JF - Worlds Beyond VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 57-71; in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 121-31; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 201-09 with an "Afterword" (210-11).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Venus is a Man's World" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Contrasts the frontier world of Venus where men rule with an Earth ruled by women and where men cannot be citizens. Both have problems but Venus is presented more positively.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Square Root of Man (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 145-69; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 551-65 with an "Afterword" (565).

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Illus. Gene Fawcette. 

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cities Under the Sea Y1 - 1948 A1 - E[dward] V[ivian] Timms (1895-1960) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Atlantis under the sea is a highly advanced but cruel society. Identified as a boys' book.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution. As Proposed and Signed by Robert M. Hutchins, G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Committee to Frame a World Constitution] KW - Male author AB -

A proposal for a constitution for a way of peacefully governing the entire world, including governmental structure and some material on the rights of citizens.

PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. in G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese (1882-1952), Foundations of a World Republic (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 305-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adrift in the Boneyard Y1 - 1947 A1 - Robert Lewis Taylor (1912-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A humorous post-catastrophe story (storm) in which only a few people survive. The story follows their struggles to find a place to live, and the end up on at a tropical island paradise, where the squabble on whether to develop it for a future tourist trade.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Avon, [1963]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Gladiators" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Walt Dennis A1 - Ernest Tucker KW - Male author AB -

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.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Traveller Y1 - 1943 A1 - Ruthven [Campbell] Todd (1914-78) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Surrealist fantasy of an imaginary country that is an authoritarian dystopia. At the end the protagonist turns into a bird.

PB - The Grey Walls Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the Craxton drawings and "An Attempt at a Preface" (1-6) by the author. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968.

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Illus. John Craxton.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christianity and Social Order Y1 - 1942 A1 - William Temple Archbishop of York (1881-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction that lays out of the principles for a Christian democratic socialist eutopia after the war.

PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drives Toward War Y1 - 1942 A1 - Edward Chace Tolman (1856-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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).

PB - D. Appleton-Century Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sown in the Darkness A.D. 2,000 Y1 - 1941 A1 - William Richard Twiford KW - Male author AB -

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.

PB - Orlin Tremaine CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Louis Jambor.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Over the Mountain Y1 - 1939 A1 - Ruthven [Campbell] Todd (1914-78) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with some satire. The country described has spies throughout the population and concentration camps. It tortures its political prisoners, and all the secret police are recruited from among the mentally retarded.

PB - George G. Harrap & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: The Falcon Press, 1946. US ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hobbit or There and Back Again Y1 - 1937 A1 - J[ohn] R[onald] R[eul] Tolkien (1897-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic children's fantasy novel. Hobbiton-across-the-Water is an arcadia.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

2nd. ed. 1951; 3rd ed. 1966; 4th ed. 1978; [50th] anniversary ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987 with a “Foreword” by Christopher Tolkien (i-xvi); 75th Anniversary Edition. London: Harper Collins, 2011, with a “Preface” that is excerpts from the 50th ed. “Foreword” (v-xiv). For further information see The Annotated Hobbit. Rev. and exp. ed. annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Illus. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 2002. It includes “The Quest of Erebor” [“Gandalf’s explanation of how arranged Bilbo’s adventure”] (367-77); “On Runes” (368-69); and a bibliography that includes, among other things, an extensive list of editions of The Hobbit.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rhubarb Tree Y1 - 1937 A1 - Kenneth [Cyril Bruce] Allott (1912-73) A1 - Stephen Tait KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which one focus is a fascist dystopia.

PB - The Cresset Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Comet: A Tale of Travel in the U S S R Y1 - 1936 A1 - Geoffrey Trease (1909-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children’s book that depicts the Soviet Union as a eutopia seen through the eyes of two children from the United States who are able to fly around the country. Particular emphasis on the Soviet children. An author’s note at the end says that it is based on his own travels around the country in 1935.

PB - Co-operative publishing society of foreign workers in the U.S.S.R. CY - Moscow N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1937. U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1937. Both the U.K. and U.S. eds. were printed in Moscow.

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Illus. Fred Ellis

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blind Mouths Y1 - 1934 A1 - Thomas [Frederick] Tweed (1890-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Federation of Danubian States rejects a Christ figure.

PB - Arthur Barker, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. by T[homas] F[rederick] Tweed, Destiny’s Man. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Arnoldi Y1 - 1934 A1 - Tiffany [Ellsworth] Thayer (1902-59) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Julian Messner CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frankie in Wonderland With apologies to Lewis Carroll, the originator and pre-historian of the New Deal Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Latham R.] [Reed] KW - Male author AB -

Satire on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) and the New Deal using Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U3 -

A Tory [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Label Y1 - 1934 A1 - J[ames] B[ennett] Tombleson KW - Male author AB -

The novel is about a scientific device that allows a person to read the minds of others, which being in the hands of highly moral people, is first used to reduce crime, and that takes up most of the novel. At the end, there is a short presentation of how politics and international relations are transformed with the suggestion of the eutopia to come.

PB - John Heritage CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Norman [Mattoon] Thomas (1884-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Personal essay. Socialist. "I want a fellowship of free men who have learned the secret of the shared abundance which the modern machine makes possible. I want a world rid for once and for all of poverty, economic insecurity, and the menace of war. Such a world would release unbelievable energies for the discovery of truth and the creation of beauty." 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) PB - 235 VL - 92.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Approaching Storm Y1 - 1932 A1 - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist dictatorship in Britain. See also 1930 Tillyard, Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Time Stream" Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Eric Temple] [Bell] (1883-1960) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure story, but it includes a future eutopian world based on reason and individual freedom. A eugenic sub-theme is concerned with the conflict between reason and love.

JF - Wonder Stories VL - 3.7 - 10 N1 -

Rpt. as The Time Stream. By John Taine [pseud]. [Providence, RI: Buffalo Book Co. and G.H.E., 1946; and New York: Garland, 1975. Slightly rev. rpt. New York: Dover, [1971].

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John Taine [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence Y1 - 1930 A1 - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of reason and communism. People are euthanized if they fail a physical. Kissing children is illegal because it is unhygienic. People are bored. See also 1932 Tillyard, The Approaching Storm.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thirteen O'Clock; A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Eric] Anthony Thorne (1904-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting of the play is "a super-city of the future" which is in fact a dreary place where little works right. Conflict over its future makes it worse.

JF - Contemporary British Dramatists PB - Ernest Benn CY - London VL - 71 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis" Y1 - 1926 A1 - Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Women achieve equality after they stop wearing their “feminine” veils. Some women then return to the veil, which reintroduces inequality but with women dominant. Conflict follows and brings about the destruction of Atlantis.

JF - The Forum (New York) VL - 75 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 34.2 (February 1968): 121-28; in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 95-103; and in More Voices from the Radium Age. Ed. Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023), 207-218.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Murderers' Island Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Hilda C.] [Adshead] (1901?-85?) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Romance but includes both a eutopia and a dystopia. The eutopia is a reformed future world. The emphasis in the novel is on the legal system, but hints of more general reform abound. The dystopia is a self-governing island to which convicted murderers are sent.

PB - Methuen CY - London U3 -

Yate Tregarron [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of My Race. A Dream of the Future Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[ohn] Lionel Tayler M.R.C.S. (1874-1930) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

In the very far future Homo sapiens, now known as Homo Ignorans, has long disappeared and been replaced by what was then called Homo sapiens, who was then replaced by Homo Sapiens Varius, a species far above the human race, who was then replaced by Sapiens minimus, who is close to pure intelligence.

PB - J.W. Ruddock & Sons/Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent CY - Lincoln, Eng./London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Podd Y1 - 1923 A1 - Freeman Tilden (1883-1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An intentional community founded on an island is a failure. Satire on the Peace Ship, which Henry Ford (1863-1947) sponsored to sail to Stockholm, Sweden during World War I in a failed attempt to negotiate an Armistice.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - And It Came to Pass Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially a religious novel, but a brief section (234-42) describes the conservative post-World War I eutopia brought about by the development of a "United Council of Empire" that brought the countries of the British Empire together. This eliminated liberal education, which was replaced by vocational education and common sense. Trade unionism eliminated. Piece-work and short contracts replaced union contracts; this produced prosperity for all. Feudalism reinstated.

PB - Jarrold & Sons CY - London U3 -

Guy Thorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The United States of the World; An Utopian Essay Towards a Better Ordering of the Affairs of Men Y1 - 1916 A1 - Trygaeus [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. Eugenics. World government. Stress on the means of avoiding war.

PB - George Routledge & Sons CY - London U3 -

Trygaeus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Who Rocked the Earth" Y1 - 1914 A1 - Arthur [Cheney] Train (1875-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly war and political intrigue, but at the beginning of the novel war has produced a world-wide dystopia with nations collapsing and significant sections of the world destroyed. The inventor of a new power threatens world destruction if peace does not come. After much adventure, the final chapter describes a world at peace under a Law of Humanity with an international police force. All weapons abolished.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 187.20 - 22 N1 -

Repub. as by Train and Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955). Illus. Walter L. Greene and Woods. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974. 

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Illus. Harry Raleigh. Rpt, Illus. Walter L. Greene and Robert William Woods (1868-1955). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Work for All. A Co-operative Commonwealth based on Ruskin's Teaching Y1 - 1914 A1 - Albert Ernest Taber KW - Male author AB -

Cottage industry. Single tax. Little government. The first part is organized as a Platonic dialogue among past social reformers. Then the eutopia is shown by John Ruskin (1819-1900) to visitors from the past. The idea of a single tax on land originated with 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.

PB - Arthur Wigley CY - Leeds, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What will Posterity Say of Us? An Address Delivered in the Darwin Hall, on October 1st, 1912” Y1 - 1913 A1 - The Hermit of Prague [pseud.] AB -

The lecture is given by a visitor from another planet who says that human beings have evolved similarly on thousands of worlds. From his description, Earth is very early in the process in that in all cases social evolution ultimately produces an egalitarian, cooperative society. The key step is getting over the stage where people believe in invisible beings.

JF - Bedrock: A Quarterly Review of Scientific Thought (London) VL - 1.3 U3 -

The Hermit of Prague [pseud].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day That Changed the World Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Through what may or may not be a miracle, people change their behavior so they behave as good Christians should, which at least begins the process toward eutopia.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U3 -

The Man Who Was Warned [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Derelict Empire Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Henry Crossley] [Irwin] KW - Male author AB -

An anti-socialist dystopia is the cause of the neglect of empire through abolishing the House of Lords, giving women the vote, giving Ireland Home Rule, and establishing a pension system, among other things.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

Mark Time [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great State: Essays in Construction Y1 - 1912 ED - [Francis Evelyn] [Warwick] (1861-1938) ED - G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor ED - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other.

PB - Harper and Bros CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, "The Past and the Great State" (1-46), also published as "Socialism." Harper's Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as "The Great State." In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), "The Great State and the Country-side" (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, "Work in the Great State" (67-119); Ray Lankester, "The Making of New Knowledge" (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, "Health and Healing in the Great State" (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, "Law and the Great State" (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, "Democracy and the Great State" (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, "Women in the Great State" (219-47); Roger Fry, "The Artist in the Great State" (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, "The Present Development of the Great State" (273-99); Conrad Noel, "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, "The Growth of the Great State" (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, "The Tradition of the Great State" (357-78).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reign of the Saints Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Ernest George] [Henham] (1870-1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist, racist, sexist dystopia and a failed attempt to re-establish a true English life. Britain becomes part of the Japanese Empire.

PB - Alston Rivers CY - London U3 -

John Trevena [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Appeal to the Artist [To Professor Patrick Geddes.]" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Poem reflecting the ideas of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) and depicting a eutopia of regionalism.

JF - Rose and Vine PB - Elkin Mathews CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. (London: Elkin Mathews, 1910), 162-67. Rpt. without the subtitle in Victor Branford, Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia (London: Williams and Norgate, 1921), xi-xiii.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Columbia or the Re-United States Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George Hamilton] [Phelps] (b. 1854) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Public ownership; no private monopolies. Deport all who won't work. United States and Canada united. Get rid of all current money and use labor checks instead. Land cannot be held for speculative purposes, and no rent can be charged.

PB - New Columbia Publishing Company CY - Findley, OH U3 -

By Patrick Quinn Tangent [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shanghaied Through Space or A Trip To Mars and Other Psychic Experiences Y1 - 1909 A1 - W. Bronson Taylor KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia on Mars, which is technically and socially advanced. Food produced industrially. No divorce.

PB - W. Bronson Taylor CY - Middle Grove, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Taken from His Own Ms" Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on heaven as eutopia.

JF - Harper's Monthly Magazine (New York) VL - 116.691 - 92 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909; and Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” In The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2018), 123-74. Editions with additional materials can be found in his Report from Paradise. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952, which includes “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (1-83), “Letter from the Recording Angel” (84-94), “Report from Paradise Introduction” by Dixon Wecter (ix-xxv), and drawings by Charles Locke; and Ray Browne, ed. Mark Twain’s Quarrel with Heaven: “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” and Other Sketches. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1970, which includes an “Introduction” by Browne (11-37), “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (39-110), which is based on the manuscript in the Twain papers at the University of California, Berkeley, “The Late Reverend Sam Jones’s Reception in Heaven” (111-16), with the note “Not published--forbidden by Mrs. Clemens.--S.L.C., “Mental Telegraphy” (117-19), and two brief appendices. This version rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 14-58; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 14-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Made in His Image Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The establishment of slavery in England and how Christianity overcomes it.

PB - Hutchinson and Company CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906.

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Guy Thorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Spirit of Co-operation. Written by "Truth" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Truth [pseud.] AB -

The Spirit of Co-operation presented as a Christ figure struggling with Competition, Creed, and Sect. It is crucified and resurrected and a cooperative eutopia will be achieved. The booklet also includes a detailed description of cooperation, a cooperative code, a brief set of questions to ask businesspeople, and the outline of a People's University.

PB - The Co-operative Association of America CY - Lewiston, ME U3 -

"Truth" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prince of the People: A Romance of Modern Royalty Y1 - 1904 A1 - Major Philip [Christian William] Trevor (1836-1932) KW - Male author AB -

Abolition of party government brings a better society. The country is called Arcadia.

PB - Isbister and Company CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eutopia. A Text-book on the Divine Economy, As Taught in the Bible. Otherwise Land Resumption. Common Property versus Private Property. The Gospel of Work, Divine and Human. Land and Labour. Rent and Wages. Justice and Equal Opportunity for All. Health Happiness and Holiness. A Catechism for the People Y1 - 1901 A1 - Rev. S[amuel] W[hitfield] Thackeray M.A., LL.D KW - Male author AB -

Detailed religious eutopia with community ownership of all land. Written as a catechism with 175 questions and answers.

PB - S.W. Thackeray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intermere Y1 - 1901 A1 - William Alexander Taylor (1837-1912) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A technological, property-owning eutopia set in a re-surfaced Atlantis. Pure democracy. Labor honored. Simple life. Communicate by thought.

PB - XX. Century Publishing Company CY - Columbus, OH N1 -

Rpt. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1969; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Secret History of Eddypus, the World Empire" Y1 - 1901 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) ED - John S. Tuckey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Christian Science written in 1901-1902. The author projects the domination of the United States by Christian Science at various places in his Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Rpt. without the subtitle Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993. U.K. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. A critical ed. in What Is Man? Ed. Paul Bender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 215-397, 553-77, 651-705.

JF - Mark Twain's Fables of Man PB - University of California Press CY - Berkeley N1 -

Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 176-223; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 176-223.

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Mark Twain [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Trip to Mars: An 'Awful Venture,' A Curious Message. Being a copy of a circular addressed to the inhabitants of this world, by Mr. H.V. Mundo, the late visitor to the planet Mars. Reprinted from the Wellington A1 and New Zealand Tit-Bits" Y1 - 1901 A1 - J[ohn] M. T[orrens] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in which people are naturally good.

JF - A Trip to Mars: An "Awful Venture," A Curious Message. Being a copy of a circular addressed to the inhabitants of this world, by Mr. H.V. Mundo, the late visitor to the planet Mars PB - Wilson and Horton CY - Auckland, New Zealand VL - Cover says 2nd ed. N1 -

The 1st ed. of the book was entitled A Song of Auckland and does not include "A Trip to Mars." The 3rd ed. of the book is entitled A Visit to Mars: How I Got There: How Long I Stayed: What I Saw: How I Got Back by Albert Robertson [pseud.] (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Robert Dey, Son and Co., 192?), 5-25. The 3rd edition varies only in that it is redesigned as if told to children with some questions from the children.

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Mr. H.V. Mundo, the late visitor to the planet Mars

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Imaginary Interview With the New Year" Y1 - 1900 A1 - J[ohn M.] T[orrens] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian poem with an emphasis on technology.

JF - A Song of Auckland and Other Verses PB - Author CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Through the Mists; or, Every Hearth Knoweth Its Own Sorrow Y1 - 1899 A1 - L. Norton Thomson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly romance but includes a scheme to help the poor build a town and industries.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light Y1 - 1898 A1 - Samuel Bowles (Spirit) (1826-78) A1 - Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (Medium) (b. 1844) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Domestic Heaven. See also 1880 Twing, 1881 Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).

PB - Star Publishing Co CY - Springfield, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zelma, The Mystic: or, White Magic, Versus Black Y1 - 1897 A1 - Alwyn M. Thurber KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel includes an Ideal city and has a letter supposedly from 1907 describing the first steps to it.

PB - Author's Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897. © by C.M. Loomis.

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3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897.

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NN, W3,5464

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven on Earth Y1 - 1896 A1 - Gerald Thorne KW - Male author AB -

Intentional community based on Christian socialism.

PB - Lovell Brothers CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hedged With Divinities Y1 - 1895 A1 - Edward Tregear (1846-1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

All men die but one, who has been put into a trance by Maori elders. The women generally make a mess of things. When the man awakes, he is made king, whereupon he organizes the women, who only needed a man to direct them, and the road to recovery begins. But he is required to marry one hundred women and runs away for true love with a woman who won't share him with others.

PB - R. Coupland Harding CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Story of Strange Sights" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Ethel Turner (1870-1958) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. Future in which many of the social fads of the time have been implemented, but with children raised by the state and everyone better off.

JF - Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 51 U5 -

NSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Arcadia: An Australian Story Y1 - 1894 A1 - Horace [Finn] Tucker (1849-1911) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Story of a successful intentional community based on representative democracy that, after many trials and tribulations, produced a good life for its members. Tucker founded village settlements in Australia in the early 1890s. See The Tucker Village Settlements of Victoria. Handbook for the Information of Contributors and Intending Settlers containing--A Brief History of the Movement; An Account of Its Aims, Methods, and Progress; and Particulars As to Settlers. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Walker, May & Co., 1892.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London N1 -

Also published Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson and Co., 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prospectus of Socialism; or, A Glimpse of the Millenium, Showing Its Plan and Working Arrangements and How It May Be Brought About Y1 - 1894 A1 - William Thomson KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of a socialist eutopia including chapters on housing, the distribution of goods, the organization of trade and commerce, the organization of agriculture, training, religious freedom, government, law and order, and amusements and recreation.

PB - Ptd. by W. Reeves CY - London U5 -

Hathi, ICN, L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Not? or Lawyer Truman’s Story Y1 - 1894 A1 - Dr. W[illiam] W. Totheroh KW - Male author AB -

The novel depicts the transformation of a small town into a small city following the arrival of people displaced by the Chicago fire of 1871 and the emergence of one of its churches into an engine for social reform. Some members and others connected to the church create a “Settlement” in a working-class area that provides housing, classes for children through adults, recreation, entertainment, and so forth. The Settlement is connected to a university and students living in it. Unusual in that denominations are rejected, taxing church property is proposed, and missionaries to the cities in the area are preferred over sending people on foreign missions.

PB - W. Ward & Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Alice Ilgenfritz] [Jones] (1846-1906) A1 - [Ella] [Merchant] (1846-1906) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing equality between men and women.

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. ed. Carol A. Kolmerten. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 157-75 with an editor’s note on 155-56. Chapter 3 “The Aurora’s Annual” rpt. with Merchant’s name misspelled as Marchant (her husband was Lorenzo Stoddard Merchant) in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 18-27.

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Two Women of the West [pseud.]

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HRC, PSt, MoU-St, W3,5627

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Advancing Kingdom or The Wonders of Foretold History Y1 - 1892 A1 - Rev. F[rances] E[mory] Tower A.M. (1836-1916) KW - Male author AB -

A large volume with eighteen illustrations, all but one in color, tracing the history of the human race from its creation to the millennium. In discussing conditions leading up to the millennium, both socialism and the Nationalism of Looking Backward (1888) are presented positively. All but the last five chapters were initially presented as a series of Sunday evening lectures.

PB - American Publishing Co. CY - Hartford, CT U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Peasant; A Timely Allegory Y1 - 1892 A1 - T[homas] H[enry] Tibbles (1840-1928) A1 - [Elia Wilkinson] [Peattie] (1862-1935) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in a temperate continent in the Arctic. Christian. Few laws because equality is more important than laws, but women are not yet considered capable of full citizenship. United States as a dystopia.

PB - F.J. Schulte & Co CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 20A (September 1892) of The Ariel Library N1 -

Also published Indianapolis, IN: Vincent Brothers Publishing Company, 1892. 

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Another [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - San Salvador Y1 - 1892 A1 - Mary Agnes Tincker (1831-1907) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Very small, Christian, aristocratic eutopia in a hidden valley. Garden-like. Stress on personal character, and morals.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crystal Button or, Adventures of Paul Prognosis in the Forty-Ninth Century Y1 - 1891 A1 - Chauncey Thomas (1822-98) ED - George Houghton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on scientific advances and a eugenic policy that eliminated the unfit. Focus on mechanical and material developments. By the time of the novel, there is little change and custom is the rule in most things. The crystal button of the title is a symbol that the followers of the man who started the process of reform wear, and there is an emphasis on how the eutopia was achieved. In Houghton’s “Editor’s Preface”, he says that it was written between 1872 and 1878 and published as the result of the popularity of Bellamy’s Looking Backward (viii). 

PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction by Ormond Seavey" (v-xiii).

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Hathi, MoU-St, PSt, W3,5430

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dorothy’s Experience" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Adeline Trafton (1842?-1920?) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Social Gospel novel that includes a woman establishing a place for homeless young women to live. 

JF - Christian Union PB - Lee and Shepard Publishers CY - Boston, MA VL - 42.1 - 8 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The University of Utopia. An Address Delivered at the Commencement of the Ohio State University June 25, 1890 by Albert H. Tuttle of the University of Virginia Y1 - 1890 A1 - Albert H[enry] Tuttle (b. 1844) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a consideration of education in More’s Utopia as a way of critiquing contemporary higher education in the U.S. Co-education. Physical exercise. 

PB - Hahn & Adair CY - Columbus, OH U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire presenting a failed attempt to build a democratic, technological society in the time of King Arthur. Satire particularly aimed at government, technological innovations, and the Church.

PB - Charles L. Webster CY - New York N1 -

Critical ed. ed. Bernard L. Stein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Rpt. with partial illus. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997 with an “Introduction (vii-xxv) and “Explanatory Notes” (358-60) by M. Thomas Inge. An excerpt was published as “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Century Magazine (New York) 39.1 (November 1889): 74-83. U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. 

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U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. 

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Illus. Dan Beard

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Mark Twain [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Koradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls Y1 - 1889 A1 - Alice B[unker] Stockham M.D. (1833-1912) A1 - Lida Hood Talbot KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The book was designed to show the ideal growth and education of a girl from childhood to womanhood, including her sexual education. The novel, in letters from the girl Koradine, includes a description of an intentional community putting its ideals into practice. See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45). 

PB - Alice B. Stockham & Co. CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. as Koradine Letters. A Girl’s Own Story. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1893 without Creative Life. Some copies have one title on the cover and the other on the title page. Creative Life has been excised from all copies that I have been able to examine, but it was published separately Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham Co, 1896. It was then reprinted new, rev., and enl. ed. Illus. Bertha L. Corbett. Chicago, IL: The Progress Co., 1904 and partly concerns basic information on reproduction with illustrations of the uterus and the “mammary gland,” and partly on suitable activities for women, including occupations and exercise, with illustrations of the appropriate clothes. It is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007683219

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Hathi, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" Y1 - 1886 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One section of the poem (lines 155-74 in the Ricks edition) has the future of 1842 Tennyson facing overpopulation and the renewal of war.

JF - Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Etc. PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After."  Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), III: 148-59, with an introductory note (148-49) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 551-61. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Utopia, or England in 1985. A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Sunday February 8th, 1885 Y1 - 1885 A1 - Rev. W[illiam] Tuckwell (1829-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Village society with trained farmers and all land owned by the state and rented to farmers based on their qualifications.

PB - Birmingham Sunday Lecture Society CY - Birmingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ballymuckbeg. A Tale of Eighty Years Hence Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Edwin] [Hamilton] (1849-1910) KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Under Home Rule Ireland has divided into two parts at a canal dug between Dublin and Galway. Above the canal retains the name Ireland; below it is Mud Island. Dublin is also divided into Dublin and Ballymuckbeg. England and Mud Island are at war. No English are allowed in Ballymuckbeg without surrendering all their property. English is forbidden except for begging.

PB - Griffith, Farran & Co./William McGee CY - London/Dublin, Ireland N1 -

2nd ed. London: Griffith, Farran & Co./Dublin, Ireland: William McGee, 1885. Another ed. London: Griffin & Farran, 1892 is recorded in Stephen J. Brown, SJ. Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore (Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1919), 128, where it is credited to Hamilton, but it cannot be found.

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W. Ridley Thacker [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conquest: A Story of the Present, and Future, Real and Ideal. This Story Delineates in Part the Greatest Conception of the Age, and is the Most Important Work of Fiction Since "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Y1 - 1884 A1 - O[rson] H[arold] Truman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious transformation and political organization achieve eutopia. Temperance. Enfranchisement of women. Wages sufficient for a decent life. One language. See also his The Seventh Angel’s Blast and Christian Government. A Lecture. Fairfield, NB: Author, 1903.

PB - O.H. Truman CY - Monticello, IA N1 -

[Rev. ed.] without the second subtitle. La Crosse, KS: O.H. Truman, [1909].

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Palingenesia; or, The Earth's New Birth Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Rev.] [Gideon Jasper Richard] [Ouseley] (1875-1906) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An extremely detailed eutopian picture of the City Four Square from Revelation 21:16. The text is represented as having been seen in three separate visions and parts in dreams and visions while apparently asleep.

PB - Hay Nisbet CY - Glasgow, Scot. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.

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The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.

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Theosopho and Ellora [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead Y1 - 1883 A1 - [John] [Macnie] (1836-1909) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The "Preface to the Second Edition" says it is a forecast. A pre-1888 Bellamy book set in the 96th century with a great emphasis on custom. Unlike Bellamy this eutopia includes a violent revolution in its past. Stress on morality. Religion rationalized, and the Roman Catholic Church has disappeared.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. [2nd ed.]. entitled Looking Forward; or, The Diothas. New York: [cover says London]: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890; and entitled A Far Look Ahead; or The Diothas. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Both by Ismar Thiusen [pseud.].

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Ismar Thiusen [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contrasts in Spirit Life; and Recent Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in the First Five Spheres. Also a Thrilling Account of the Late President Garfield's Reception in The Spirit World. Written Through the Hand of Carrie E.S. Twing Y1 - 1881 A1 - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Domestic heaven. The five spheres are the stages that the spirit goes through after death if it is capable of becoming more and more refined. There are separate heavens for Chinese and Negroes. The spirit world also contains hospitals for sick souls. See also 1880 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).

PB - Star Publishing Co CY - Springfield, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk Abroad (A Relation of Things Heard and Seen.) 1866" Y1 - 1881 A1 - James Thomson (1834-82) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A dystopia in which the protagonist takes a trip around the solar system and sees extreme poverty everywhere and then returns to Earth to find the same situation.

JF - Essays and Phantasies PB - Reeves and Turner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in Spirit Life; or, Life As He Now Sees It From a Spiritual Standpoint. Written Through the Mediumship of ----------. Westfield, N.Y. Y1 - 1880 A1 - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia but little changed. See also 1881 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Handfasted Y1 - 1879 A1 - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Feminist eutopia focusing on trial marriage set in the US. The Commonwealth of Columba existing in an isolated valley has developed "handfasting" or trial marriage. The word handfasted comes from Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, where it was a promise of fidelity for a year and a day. In Columba it can be extended to two or three years and marriage cannot take place without it. Generally an egalitarian society. See also 1884 and 1888-89 Spence.

PB - Penguin Books of Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Curious Republic of Gondour" Y1 - 1875 A1 - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire (?) proposing additional votes based on education and wealth because universal suffrage resulted in giving power and office to "the ignorant and non-tax-paying classes". Every person has one vote, but extra votes are given for each level of education up to nine for a university education and for different amounts of property. Property votes could be lost if the property is lost; education votes are permanent, except in the case of insanity. Education is free. Women could vote and be elected to office.

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 36.216 N1 -

Rpt. in America Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.

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Mark Twain [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Experiences of the A.C." Y1 - 1872 A1 - Bayard Taylor (1825-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a utopian experiment called the Arcadian Club. The focus is on the individuals and their idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies.

JF - Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home PB - Putnam & Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Garrett Press, 1969), 193-240.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mrs. Strongitharm's Report" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Bayard Taylor (1825-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the enfranchisement of women, who get the vote in one state and do nothing with it.

JF - Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home PB - Putnam & Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Garrett Press, 1969), 307-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of a Voyage to the Moon; with an Account of the Adventurers' Sub-Sequent Discoveries. An Exhumed Narrative Supposed to Have Been Ejected from a Lunar Volcano Y1 - 1864 A1 - [H.] [Cowen] ED - Chrysostom Trueman [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia with a simple language, private property, and no corruption. Emphasis on moderation.

PB - Lockwood CY - London U3 -

Howard, Stephen [pseud.] and Carl Geister [pseud.]. Ed. Chrysostom Trueman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sense & Sensation; or, The Seven Sisters of Thule. A New and Original Morality, in a Prologue and Seven Scenes Y1 - 1864 A1 - Tom Taylor KW - Male author AB -

Satire using an imaginary country to attack the usual human foibles.

PB - Thomas Hailes Lacey CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scenes in the Spirit World; or, Life in the Spheres Y1 - 1855 A1 - Hudson Tuttle (1836-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. Spiritualism. Descriptions of both those who find happiness there and those still too attached to earth. Also describes Hell as dystopia.

PB - Partridge and Brittan CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. as Life in Two Spheres. Philadelphia, PA: Carter Pub. Co., 1892. [Rev. ed. on cover] as Life in Two Spheres, or Scenes in the Summerland. Sunderland, Eng.: Thomas Olman Todd, 1895. No obvious differences between the two revised texts.

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Life in Two Spheres

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Encantadas” Y1 - 1854 A1 - [Herman] [Melville] (1819-1891) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

See Jonathan Beecher, Variations on a Dystopian Theme: Melville’s ‘Encantadas’.” Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000): 88-95, who says “The Encantadas” “presents an image of nature as a wasteland utterly inhospitable to human purposes, of human beings as either predators of victims, and of existence as so painful that endurance is the sole virtue” (90).

JF - Putnam’s Monthly Magazine VL - 3.15 - 17 N1 -

Rpt. in The Piazza Tales (New York: Dix & Edwards/London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856), 287-400; separately in a limited edition of 550 copies. Burlingame, CA: William P. Wreden, 1940; and in The Writings of Herman Melville. The Northwestern-Newberry Library Edition. Volume 9. The Piazza Tales Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860. Ed. Harrison Hayford (Evanston, IL/Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1987), 125-173, with “Notes on ‘The Encantadas’” (600-617.

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Salvator R. Tarnmoor [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How I Came to be Governor of the Island of Cacona: With a Particular Account of My Administration of the Affairs of that Island. Respectfully Dedicated To My Fellow Labourers in the Colonial Vineyard Y1 - 1852 A1 - [William Henry] [Fleet] KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on colonial politics using an imaginary country but specifically referring to Canada in the 1830s.

PB - H. Ramsey CY - Montréal, QC, Canada N1 -

Originally published in four parts (Part 1, pp. 1-48; Part 2, pp. 49-112; Part 3, pp. 113-60; Part 4, pp. 161-220). Rpt. as one vol. by the same publisher, 1853; and San Francisco, CA: Arion, 1989.

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Francis Thistleton [pseud.]

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Can, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Locksley Hall" Y1 - 1842 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One section of the poem (lines 119-30 in the Ricks edition) depicts a future world war followed by a world federation and universal law. See also 1886 Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years Later”.

JF - Poems PB - Edward Moxon CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 2: 92-111. Rpt. in The Poems of Tennyson. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longmans, 1969), 2: 688-99. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), II: 120-30, with an introductory note (118-20) and textual notes as footnotes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Century Hence or, A Romance of 1941 Y1 - 1841 A1 - George Tucker (1775-1861) ED - Donald R. Noble KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mildly dystopian and emphasizes the effects of overpopulation stressing problems related to food production, unemployment, and the quality of life. In New York City, people live on sampans. In England, there is no uncultivated land left, and in Asia the situation is worse. There are various proposals to reduce population growth, including birth control and delaying marriage with a tax on those who marry young. Also depicts the advancement of women in Europe, where they are physicians and preachers, but not in the U.S., which has not changed. Some on international relations. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Society" Y1 - 1841 A1 - [Betsey Guppy] [Chamberlain] (1797-1886) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

A short dream of proposals for a future egalitarian society presented through resolutions from the “Annual Meeting of the Society for the promotion of Industry, Virtue and Knowledge” of 1860. .

JF - The Lowell Offering; A Repository of Original Articles, Written Exclusively By Females Employed in the Mills (Lowell, MA) VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). Ed. Benita Eisler (Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1977), 208-10.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - L.... A... T... to his fellow citizens of the United States of America; and Through Their Medium, To All His Other Human Beings on Earth, Not Any Where Else! Y1 - 1837 A1 - Louis Anastasius Tarascon (1759-1840) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Argues that an intentional community to be called Startspoint should be founded on the Upper Mississippi (called the Missouri in the text), and presents detailed regulations of life in it, including the structure and rules of the community (Magazine of History 23-32), and a description of the daily life (32-37), which is very organized and highly structured. Later communities further West will be established called, in order, Union and Perfection. Earlier the author had published L. A. Tarascon, To His Friends, &c. &c. &c. Louisville, KY: Np, 1836. 14 pp., which suggests the establishment such a community but without any social details. See also his 1836 Republican Education, the 2nd ed. of which is printed in this book. 

PB - H. D. Robinson CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Magazine of History With Notes and Queries (New York), no. 148 (1929): 5-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Republican Education, and Gradual Western March, of Enlightened, Laborious, Virtuous, and Happy Generations, from All the Present and Future United Sates and Territories of North America Through Their Rocky Mountains, To Their North-West Coasts on the Pacific Ocean; whence, in time, Further On--The Only Means, Not Only of Extending Knowledge and Happiness All Around the Whole Earth, but, the Only One, Also, of Maintaining Their Union: nay, more, the Only One of Maintaining Any One of Their Republics Y1 - 1836 A1 - Louis Anastasius Tarascon (1759-1840) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed description of the settlements he hopes will be established with a stress on education (15-16) and a description of “Regular Daily Life” (16-23). See also 1837 Tarascon, which reprints the 2nd ed. of this book. The author was born in France and moved to the U.S. in 1794, where he became a successful businessman.

PB - Ptd. S. Penn, Jr. CY - Louisville, KY N1 -

2nd ed. rpt. in his L.... A... T... to his fellow citizens of the United States of America; and Through Their Medium, To All His Other Human Beings on Earth, Not Any Where Else! New York: H.D. Robinson. Rpt. in Magazine of History With Notes and Queries (New York), no. 148 (1929): 5-42. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lotos-Eaters" Y1 - 1833 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sailors are shipwrecked on an island that is a simple eutopia where all needs are easily met, but the implication is that such a life is ultimately not a good one.

JF - Poems PB - Edward Moxon CY - London N1 -

Substantially rev. in his Poems. 2 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1842), 1: 175-84. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 1: 175-84. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), I: 468-77, with an introductory note (467-68) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 76-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Monadelphia; or, The Formation of a New System of Society, without the intervention of a Circulating Medium Y1 - 1832 A1 - J[ohn] Thimbleby KW - Male author AB -

Monadelphia means a single brotherhood. Mostly an essay, but there is a description of a model town for 6000 people and the conclusion shows the eutopia in operation (64-70/Claeys 185-90). There is no money and no individual property. All goods are freely taken to and from a central warehouse. See also his A Lecture on the Currency, In Which Is Explained the Represented Time Note Medium of Exchange, in Connection With a Universal System of Banking; Delivered at the Barnet Institute. London: Willoughby & Co., [1850]; A Lecture Upon the Science of Labour, In Which Is Explained a Time Note Currency, Based on a National Banking System For All Classes Delivered at the Barnet Institute. London: Ptd. for Jackson and Keeson, 1857; and "What Is Money" or Man's Birthright "Time," The Only Real Wealth; Its Representative Forming the True Medium of Exchange. London: Effingham Wilson, [1849?], all of which suggest time notes.

PB - Ptd. for the Author, and W. Baldock, and W. Ford CY - Barnet, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Cooperative Communities: Plans and Descriptions. Eleven Pamphlets 1825-1847. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Items separately paged; and in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 4: 162-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unknown Region" Y1 - 1827 A1 - Herbert Trevelyan ED - Piers Shafton Gent. KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The "unknown region" is Russell Square in London.

JF - Sketches from Oblivion, Being the Remains of Herbert Trevelyan, Esqr PB - Hurst, Chance & Co. CY - London N1 -

Another ed. as by Pierce Shafton, Gent. "The Unknown Region." Vagaries in Quest of the Wild and the Whimsical (London: Ptd. for J. Andrews, 1827), 181-98. L has both names with no clear indication of which is the pseudonym.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians Y1 - 1827 A1 - George Tucker (1775-1861) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly satire but includes a eutopia called Okalbia, meaning Happy Valley, that is almost self-sufficient and has little outside contact. People marry young and limit family size to means. Traditional gender roles. See also 1841 Tucker.

PB - Elam Bliss CY - New-York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with a brief “Preface” (vii-ix) by David G. Hartwell and reprinting  (267-94) an anonymous review from the American Quarterly Review (Philadelphia, PA), no. 5 (March 1828): 61-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fragments of the History of Bawlfredonia: Containing an Account of the Discovery and Settlement, of that Great Southern Continent; and of the Formation and Progress of the Bawlfredonian Commonwealth. By Herman Thwackius. Translated from the original Bawlfredonian Manuscript, into the French language, by Monsieur Traducteur and Rendered into English, by a citizen of America Y1 - 1819 A1 - [Jonas] [Clopper] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on American history using the utopian form. Anti-democratic with particularly strong attacks on Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Caricatures both Yankees and Southerners. Disapproves of Stinkum-Puff (tobacco).

PB - Ptd. for the American Booksellers CY - [Baltimore, MD?] N1 -

Rpt. as Bawlfredonia. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House/Gregg Press, 1969.

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By Herman Thwackius [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Man in the Moon, from Terra Firma; in an Air Balloon. A Romance Y1 - 1815 A1 - Timothy Tumble [pseud.] A1 - Richard Quixote [pseud.] A1 - John Telltruth [pseud.] AB -

Brief eutopia on the moon. No poor. No war. Healthy, long-lived people. Structured class system with each class having a chief and with a monarch over all of them. Education in “learning, manual employment, and diversion” (9). Any dispute that went to court decided by five “middle aged personages” (10). Leisure described as taking place in a spacious garden where all classes of men and women mixed freely with areas for dancing, sports, and food. Language of the moon is Welsh.

PB - S. Carvalho CY - London U2 -

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Timothy Tumble, Richard Quixote, and John Telltruth [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, Containing A Relation of the most Memorable Transactions, Revolutions and Heroick Exploits in that Kingdom, from the first Foundation thereof unto this present time. Collected from the most Antient Records of that Country, and Translated into our Language, not only for Delight, but for the abundant Instruction that may be learned there-from, in these Remote Parts. Written in Discharge of the Trust reposed in the Author by his Majesty, for the Discovery of Foreign things Y1 - 1715 A1 - [Joseph] [Morgan] (1671-ca. 1749) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Allegorical depiction of the theology of Calvinism as believed by the Puritans in early America. Traces the history of Basaruah (“flesh-spirit”) from its establishment through its various trouble to the eutopia (the millennium), which occurs before its king (God) defeats its enemies. The “Introduction” argues that Morgan’s depiction moderated a few of the strictures of early Puritanism as stated in Michael Wiggleworth’s Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment (1662), specifically regarding infant damnation, salvation of heathens, and the rewards of the saved (4-6). 

PB - Np [Actually Bradford] CY - Boston, MA [Actually New York] N1 -

 Rpt. as The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, and Three Unpublished Letters. By Joseph Morgan. Ed. Richard Schlatter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1946.

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By a Traveller in Basaruah [pseud.]

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