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

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

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

Illus. Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayo

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

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

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

Illus. Mikyung Lee

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of Milk Honey Y1 - 2023 A1 - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) ED - C. Pam Zhang KW - Chinese American author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 145.5/6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Brown Roof” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JF - Prism Review VL - no. 24 N1 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illus. Jacey

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Cuenista Y1 - 2021 A1 - Donna Barba Higuera KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel set on a generations spaceship after Earth was destroyed in a collision with Halley’s Comet. The protagonist is a twelve-year-old girl whose parents had been chosen to be among those saved and put into “hypersleep” to be cared for by generations of Monitors. The Monitors, though, resent their role, form the dystopian Collective, and wake up everybody while erasing their memories, except, by accident, the protagonist’s. She had always wanted to be a cuenista or storyteller and she fills that role by telling the other children stories of old Earth. The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal. 

PB - Levine Querido CY - Montclair, NJ SN - 978-1646140893 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Cup of Coffee in the World” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Freiya Benson KW - Scottish author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set after a slow collapse, known as the Great Decline, and told by one of the few survivors

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 26 SN - 2059-2590 U2 -

Illus. Olen

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lights Out in Lincolnwood. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Geoff[rey William] Rodkey (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first days of an apocalyptic dystopia (all electricity fails) as seen through the eyes of the members of a dysfunctional family.

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-306592-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Like Flowers Through Concrete” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Louangie Bou-Montes ED - Alex Hernandez ED - Matthew Anthony Goodwin ED - Sarah Rafael García KW - Female author KW - Puerto Rican author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future trying to recover from while still dealing with the devastation of climate change and depicts personal relations within a fairly resilient community.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Line of Demarcation” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Patty Nicole Johnson KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - Puerto Rican author AB -

The story is set in a future where people working in fulfillment centers are given prosthetic limbs so that they can work more efficiently.

JF - Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London SN - 978-1-83964-480-1 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 - “Little Kowloon” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adrian Hon ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in an independent Scotland during a period of continuing pandemics. Little Kowloon refers to the fact that Edinburgh has become one of the main destinations for the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Honk Kong.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambrisge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Looney ka Tabadia (with apologies to Sa’adat Hassan Manto.” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Bina Shah (b. 1972) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Pakistani author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love at the End" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Deborah Germaine Augustin KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author AB -

Climate change story in which Malaysian and Singapore are mostly under water. It is told backwards from 2060 to 2040.

JF - khōréō magazine VL - 1.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Good Man Y1 - 2020 A1 - McMullan, Thomas KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is set in a post-pandemic world in which the protagonist escapes the crumbling city to a much too perfect village. The villagers write anonymous accusations on a huge wall, which bring the Reckoning. Reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948).

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London SN - 978-1-526-60924-3 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Testament” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Aurelius Raines II KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the future, the story is about the violence against young African American by the Chicago police. 

JF - FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 15 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last to Die” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rita Chang-Eppig KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which most people have become nearly immortal by uploading themselves into cyborg bodies, and those who could not be uploaded are isolated on islands and cared for by robots.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 160 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chang-eppig_01_20/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last White Rhinoceros” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Witi [Tame] Ihimaera[-Smiler] (b. 1944) ED - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) ED - David Larsen KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Māori author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (nuclear war) dystopia in which most humans died, most of the remaining preyed on each other, and the few insolated groups of survivors, most notably some Māori, were collected by the new android civilization in hopes of restarting homo sapiens. 

JF - Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Victoria University of Wellington Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand VL - 186-202 SN - 9781776563104 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Londonia Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kate A. Hardy KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

The novel is set in what remains of London after a series of climate-change catastrophes. It is divided between the “cincture,” a wealthy area protected from the climate, and Londonia where people get by as they can. The female protagonist wakes up in Londonia with much of her memory gone, and she makes a life for herself as a “finder” of artifacts from before the catastrophe which are traded within Londonia or sold/traded in the cincture. Uses an invented language that combines English with words derived mostly from French. There is a Glossary on 397-99. 

PB - Tartarus Press CY - Leyburn, Eng. SN - 978-1-912856-19-6 N1 -

This is a revised version of her Hoxton. Np: Lulu Publishing, 2016, which cannot be found. Hoxton is the name of the protagonist in Londonia

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Loop Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ben Oliver KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The first volume of a planned young adult trilogy. In this volume a sixteen-year-old boy is being held in prison awaiting execution. As the world outside changes, the world in the prison deteriorates even further as the boy tries to escape. The second volume is The Block. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House, 2020. U.S. ed. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2021.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. SN - 978-1-338-58930-6 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2020.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lucy Jones KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The book is a science based exploration of the point made in the subtitle, but it begins with a brief “Prologue” (1-4) and ends with a brief “Epilogue” (199-200). The Prologue set in the near future our world where a girl walking outside needs a hat, goggles, and respirator and the girl’s grandmother explaining about nature and why it ended. The Epilogue is set in a future where the girl can walk outside in the woods.

PB - Allen Lane/Penguin Random House CY - London SN - 9780241441534 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lyceum. Aiden Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -

A three-part dystopia in which a company is developing a neurological educational link that will give all children access to knowledge and help in understanding it. The eutopian possibilities of the project are derailed when the teenage son of the developer is killed in an accident, and she becomes fixed on the neurolink, which had named after her son. In the second part, the man who took over its development makes it possible for the link to be shared, and it spreads throughout the population beyond schools, with some seeing the results positively and others seeing them negatively. In the third part, the developer creates an android that can access the neurolink and looks and acts as if it is human.

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 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 - “The Last Stand” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Christoph Weber KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia about the destruction of the last Redwoods.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/12/27/the-last-stand/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 171-75.

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

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

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

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

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

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letters From Nowhere" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rowan B. Fortune ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist is an elderly, terminally ill woman who begins to receive letters from her doppelganger who lives in a parallel, eutopian world that branched off our timeline in about the eleventh century. She is only one of many receiving such letters, and a picture of the other world is pieced together from the letters.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life Sentence" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In this future, criminals are punished by having much of their memory wiped with the story told from the point-of-view of a such a man and narrowly focused on the experiences of the man and his family.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 105 SN - 9781250237200 978-1328613103 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/life-sentence/ N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 62-90; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 1-25, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light at the Bottom of the World Y1 - 2019 A1 - London Shah KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lightest Object in the Universe Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kimi Eisele KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic novel with one member of a couple on the East Coast of the United States and the other on the West Coast. The novel follows the man across the country to find the woman and the woman’s search for a community that is being established in northern California. 

PB - Algonquin Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Luna 6000" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Lauren Cherelle KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which advanced monitoring technology makes life and death decisions. 

JF - Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction PB - BLF Press CY - Clayton, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Graphic novel satire on immigration with aliens from space landing in Nigeria and providing the country with the technology to radically improve life, while also mixing their DNA with human DNA. The novel depicts opposition to the aliens as immigrants, particularly in the United States.

PB - Dark Horse Comics CY - Milwaukie, OR N1 -

Collects issues 1 - 4 of LaGuardia from Berger Books, 2018-2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leaving" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Monique Cuillerier ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which eastern and lakefront Canada is under water. In the story a woman struggles over deciding to leave her hometown, which is completely submerged, for one of Human colonies in space. Lesbian themes. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Left to Take the Lead” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an Earth with a badly damaged environment, with the protagonist an indentured laborer from a space colony. One of her “Oort Cloud” stories. Other stories in the series include “Points of Origin.” Illus. Keith Negley. Tor.com (November 34, 2015). https://www.tor.com/2015/11/04/points-of-origin-marissa-lingen/

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 138.7&8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Levellers" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Deji Bryce Olukotun ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in in a future where the countryside is dominated by radical environmentalists who take the land of even those who are running sustainable farms if they disapprove of the person. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life Is a Devil’s Bargain” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Justin Zimmerman (b. 1977) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form about the dan8er of experimenting with DNA. 

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

Illus. Ethan Claunch. Colors by Fran Gamba. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liquid Reign Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tim Reutemann (b. 1982) KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. People vote constantly on all sorts of issues. No nations, although there is still regional and national identity. Limit on private wealth. Most of the seventy-two short chapters end with web addresses for additional information. 

PB - Author CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Little Grey Weirdos” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Anna Ziegelhof KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic story set in California in which three individuals trying to escape from the dangerous cities and hoping to find a rich uncle’s bunker come across two people who have found a way to life. It is told by one woman from each side.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 44 UR - The Future Fire: 2018.46 fiction littlegreyweirdos U2 -

Illus. Fluffgar [The Internet Speculative Fiction Database gives the name as Miranda Jean]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Livewire" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ayame Whitfield ED - Elly Blue KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future society with deep rich/poor divisions. Its focus is on whether “bots” have developed with emotions, with people destroying those they think have. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland. OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Logistics" Y1 - 2018 A1 - A. J. Fitzwater KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Transgender author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) dystopia told by an immune survivor wandering south across Europe.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 138 SN - 9780473491260 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fitzwater_04_18/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_04_18c/ N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson ([Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2019), 30-43.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Loser" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Hughes (b. 1949) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which a man has been imprisoned for writing in opposition to the policies of the Trump administration and is manipulated into betraying his friends. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Y1 - 2017 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy novel that includes an anarchist eutopia, Freedom City, Iowa: “An entire town, abandoned by a dead economy and occupied by squatters and activists and anarchists” (12). But as people learned of it and moved there, one man took control, dividing the community. One man knew magic and summoned a protector spirit that killed the man, but later that spirit turns on its summoners. The rest of the novel concerns the community’s attempts to control the spirit. The

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-0-7653-9736-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Chance" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tyler Young ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story set on a planet called Last Chance settled after the Earth’s ecosystem had been destroyed. At a young age, children are separated from their parents and live in an underground school, under a desert, where they are taught that the settlers had done the same thing to the new planet, but what they are taught is not true. Last Chance is like Earth once was, and the children are being taught what could happen again and must not.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Dog on Earth Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adrian J. Walker KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia (bomb) told from the points-of-view of a dog and his master. 

PB - Del Rey/Ebury Publishing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leila Y1 - 2017 A1 - Prayaag Akbar (b. 1982) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

In a future India that is a dictatorship and dealing with climate change, a woman’s husband is killed, her daughter is abducted, and she is sent to a prison camp. Escaping, she searches for her daughter. 

PB - Simon & Schuster India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 9780571341313 N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2018. 265 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Letter from the Federal Women’s Prison” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stephanie L. Weippert ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women lose all their rights. Some form an underground railroad to help others escape to Canada. When they are discovered, many are killed, and the others are imprisoned for life. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Letters from the Heartland” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Janka Hobbs ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, climate change has drowned much of the coasts, and the middle of the country has become a dictatorship.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Link Boy. A Free World Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2014 Martineck that follows the lives of three people as they navigated life in a world controlled by competing corporations.

PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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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 - Lost in Arcadia Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sean Gandert KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people in the U.S. are addicted to Arcadia, an immersive virtual-reality system. The effect is to cut people off from each other, and the novel follows one family whose matriarch tries to hold them together.

PB - 47North CY - Np U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lowland Clearances.” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on the Highland Clearances in which the people of Glasgow are resettled in the Scottish Highlands and replaced by sheep. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8½ Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition U5 -

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

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

JF - Humanity 2.0 PB - Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Girl. Book One of the Dominion Trilogy Y1 - 2016 A1 - Joe Hart KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a world in which the birth of girls has dropped to near zero. The novel focuses on a young woman who has been kept in a U.S. research facility for twenty years, having been told that there are no survivors outside. She escapes and discovers that there are survivors, some of whom help her. The Final Trade: Book Two of the Desolation Trilogy. [Seattle, WA]: Thomas & Mercer, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist of the first volume discovers, with the help of her friends, the records on who she and the other captive girls are. In The First City: Book Three of the Dominion Trilogy. [Seattle, WA]: Thomas & Mercer, 2017, the protagonist manages to get the Seattle, the last city in the country, to find answers.

PB - Thomas & Mercer CY - [Seattle, WA} 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 - "Lawman" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caldon Mull KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future violent, corrupt South Africa with deep rich/poor divisions. Some fantasy. 

JF - Fragments: The Anthology of Short Stories PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Le Carré rouge” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Claudie Arseneault KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian depiction of the future of Québec under a repressive government and powerful corporations, particularly one that, with the cooperation of the government, controls all food production and distribution. The story focuses on the resistance to the dystopia over the lifetime of the protagonist. 

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - http://www.solarpunkpress.com/stories/2016-11-7/011-le-carr-rouge-by-claudie-arseneault ER - TY - ABST T1 - Learning to Speak Tiger" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Trina Marie Phillips ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a very high-tech future Hanoi with strong eutopian elements but with the technology largely integrated into daily life. The story is about a poor, young girl struggle to find her place. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Leaves No Longer Fall” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jodi Cleghorn ED - Dan Rabarts ED - Lee Murray KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia. 

JF - At the Edge PB - Paper Road Press CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legacy of Shadow Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gallant, Craig KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure, but it is set in a future where there is a multi-species Galactic Council with the goal of the betterment of all species.

PB - Zmok Books CY - Point Pleasant, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Your Light Shine Before Men” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Christopher Caldwell KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - Queer author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where climate change led to the abandonment of New Orleans while saving white areas of the country. 

JF - Obsidian VL - 42.1-2 Speculating Futures: Black Imagination & The Arts ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Light Times" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ari Popper ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Nigeria, which, after a devastating war, is recovering using high-tech and the help of the United Nations. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Love in a Lonely City 2050" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Deborah Walker ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a very high-tech future London with strong eutopian elements and is about how hard it still can be to find love. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Luv Story” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A retelling of the story of the Garden of Eden by a girl in a post-catastrophe (climate-change, loss of civilization) dystopia. 

JF - Dreaming in the Dark PB - PS Australia CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lament for the Fallen Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chait, Gavin KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a West African community when a space craft crashes nearby with a human-like being who has escaped from Tartarus, “a place where hope doesn’t exist” (back cover). As he heals, he helps his rescuers to a better life, but of course complications arise. A novel set after Lament for the Fallen and with some of the same characters is Usan Abasi’s Lament, available at https://gavinchait.com/w/X3zHq2t7da4e/.

PB - Doubleday/Transworld Publishers CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Black Swan/Transworld Publishers, 2017.

Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Land of Light" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stephen Embleton ED - Billy Kahora KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story set is set in The Congo in a future eutopian high-tech, unified Africa.

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan African Publications CY - Lilongwe, Malawi N1 -

Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7680.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of Promise. Book 1 of the Counter-Caliphate Chronicles Y1 - 2015 A1 - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An anti-Islamic novel that depicts the establishment of a free micro-state eutopia with considerable detail on citizenship, which requires ownership of a minimum of one hectare of land and military service for full citizenship, which gives the individual ten votes. Described as volume one with Piece of Resistance scheduled for late 2016.

PB - Liberty Paradigm Publishing CY - Moyie Springs, ID U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Language of Paradise Y1 - 2015 A1 - Barbara Klein Moss KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Critique of utopianism. The novel follows the experiences woman whose husband is influenced by a man hoping to create a eutopia, a eutopia that she finds troubling. 

PB - W.W. Norton & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Wave" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) UR - https://jaladaafrica.org/2015/01/15/last-wave-by-ivor-w-hartmann/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Schlesinger ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York SN - 9781558619005 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lesbo Island" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jill Soloway (b. 1965) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humorous call for the establishment of a women-only state.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lesson Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sowmya Rajendran KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopia satire in which the Adjustment Bureau enforces the Conduct Book but people, and women in particular, still do not always follow the rules, and that calls for additional means to bring them under control. 

PB - HarperCollins India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 9789351770367 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 - Lie of the Land Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael F. Russell KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Near future post-apocalypse dystopia set in the Scottish Highlands.

PB - Polygon CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lightning Jack’s Last Ride” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by oil running out.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 128.1/2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2016. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), 174-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Girl Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adam Nevill (b. 1969) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Pan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Love and Prejudice” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dore, Amatesiro KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future where same-sex marriages are the norm, and parents have a legal right to forbid marriages. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. X UR - https://omenanadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/omenana-x.pdf U2 -

Illus. Sunny Akporobaro

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Anthropocene Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dale Jamieson (b. 1947) A1 - Bonnie Nadzam KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of stories set in a future in which the natural world is almost entirely created by humans. 

PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Luna: A New Moon Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia of a future settled moon where a feudal system has been established with various dynasties fighting for control of the moon’s resources. First volume in a series. The second volume is Luna: Wolf Moon. London: Gollancz, 2017. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2017, which follows the complexities of the fighting among the dynasties. The third volume is Luna: Moon Rising. London: Gollancz, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2019, in which continues the struggles with an apparent resolution at the end.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.S. Ed. New York: Tor, 2017. The U.K. ed. was published a week before the U.S. one.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lagoon Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Land of Two Suns” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Katarina Marković ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia that heals a disaffected woman from our time by letting her know that someplace good, where they do not even know the word misery, exists.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Days in Eden Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and the revolution that overthrows it. The dystopia is set in a future that has been transformed by climate change.

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Supper Y1 - 2014 A1 - Allison M. Dickson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that follows a disaster. In the dystopia everyone must pass an annual trial called “Justification;” those who fail are killed. The book includes an “Introduction” (i-xii) by Vincent Hobbes that discusses the characteristics of dystopias.

PB - Hobbes End Publishing CY - Aubrey, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leaving Ashwood Y1 - 2014 A1 - Cynthia Kraack KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Kraack. In this volume, the protagonists become involved in the process of trying to reestablish democracy in the U.S.

PB - North Star Press of St. Cloud CY - Saint Cloud, MN 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 - “Lights On Water” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) ED - Will Martin ED - Kat Phan KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone lives in an enclosed city. The protagonist, an artist, is given permission to go outside to paint and uses the opportunity to create a subversive work showing his daughter happily swimming with other happy people.

JF - The Short Anthology: Fiction From Photography. The First Issue PB - Ptd. by Ditto Press CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in his A Killing in the Sun (Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa: Black Letter Media, 2014), 86-106.

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 All the stories in the book were written in response to photographs by Joe Nigel Coleman that are included in the book. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma Y1 - 2014 A1 - Brian [Patrick] Herbert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a green agenda.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Little Red Suit” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Justine Larbalestier (b. 1967) ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood as a climate-change dystopia in which the few remaining people in Sydney, Australia, now an island, live underground. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 29-45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lockstep Y1 - 2014 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a far-future, galaxy-spanning civilization in which hibernation leads to extremely long lives, and the story focuses on the tyrant who controls the system and his brother, who awakes from an immensely long hibernation. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Y1 - 2014 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a series set in a future with many species, including AIs, interacting with each other in mundane, everyday life activities like shopping for food and working together, as well as developing animosities, friendships, and love. The future depicted has both dystopian and eutopian elements with the author stressing the positive more than the negative. The second volume A Closed and Common Orbit. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyage, 2016 is mostly about personal relations, and love in particular, with a main character on the Asperger’s/Autism spectrum. The third volume Record of a Spaceborn Few. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 is the history of those who left the decaying Earth and stayed together as a fleet of ships, known as the Exodus Fleet, as it faces a crisis. The fourth volume The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 focuses on cultural differences among various aliens temporarily trapped on a transit planet.

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Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2015. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Colony of Roanoke" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Daniela Hodak ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief community-oriented eutopia where decisions are made collectively, and mutual aid is the norm.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Emotion” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adrian Ellis ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - Male author AB -

Corporate ownership of emotions, which they use primarily in advertising.

JF - Arc. 2.1 Exit Strategies VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Lovely Way to Burn Y1 - 2014 A1 - Louise Welsh (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of the Plague Times Trilogy. This volume depicts the initial impact of a pandemic that kills almost everyone. It was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. In Death is a Welcome Space. London: John Murray, 2015, the second volume, two men escape from prison and make their way through the devastated country. No Dominion. London: John Murray, 2017, the third volume, takes place seven years later and involves the protagonist of the second volume leaving the relative safety of Orkney and return to the post-apocalyptic mainland. 

PB - John Murray CY - London SN - 9781848546516 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last President Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Barnes in which an effort is being made to bring the remnants of the U.S. back together under a President and Congress.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Reader Y1 - 2013 A1 - Thomas Norwood KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with a deep divide between rich and poor as seen by a poor boy who wants to learn how to read. 2013 Norwood, Perfectible Animals, is set in the same future.

PB - Global Activision Limited. EBook CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Later His Ghost” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - New Statesman SN - 9780062657060 UR - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost N1 -

Also online illus. Matt Saunders and Handsome Frank. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 99-119. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 99-119.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liquid Loyalty" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Redfern Jon Barrett KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which drugs have been developed so that each person is completely devoted to one and only one other person. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 26 UR - http://futurefire.net/2013.26/fiction/liquidloyalty.html N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 57-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Living in the Singularity” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tom Borthwick KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A corporation announces that, in exchange for all their possessions, it can upload a person’s consciousness into a supercomputer where they will be able to live happily ever after. Millions choose to do so. The story focuses on an individual who resists but finally decides to join his wife.

JF - Bewildering Stories VL - no. 550 SN - 978-0-9571130-4-6 UR - http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity1.html; http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity2.html; http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity3.html N1 -

Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (London: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 33-45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lone Star Daybreak Y1 - 2013 A1 - Erik L. Larson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which political polarization leads Texas to secede and a civil war follows with both sides using nuclear weapons.

PB - Tate Publishing & Enterprises CY - Mustang, OK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Long Indeed We Do Live. . .” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

In a future after an undescribed environmental catastrophe, society has developed inside domes with different arbors devoted to different trees. Presented mostly positively. While there is much fantasy in the story, it appears that human life has also adapted to life outside the domes and that here is communication between life outside and the trees inside. 

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] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward: 2050-2013 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ravi Morey KW - Indian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The current situation rapidly deteriorates into a dystopia after Sarah Palin (b. 1964) supported by a Congress dominated by the far-right, was elected President in 2020. The U.S. economy collapses. As the price for bailing out the U.S., other countries insisted on the establishment of a world government (the United States of the World) and nation-states disappear. Presented as if a history of the period. Includes biographies of a number of recent and current political figures, some projected into the future.

PB - CreateSpace CY - North Charleston, SC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Toward Eden Y1 - 2013 A1 - Pellman, Terry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and an emerging eutopia. As the U.S. faces collapse as a result of liberal policies, a successful secessionist movement develops in the central U.S. which intends to institute conservative policies and return to the U.S. Constitution.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lotus" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Joyce Chng ED - Fabio Fernandes ED - Djibril al-Ayad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia in which much of the world has been inundated by melting ice caps and tsunamis produced by earthquakes and most people life on boats and scavenge from half-submerged buildings.

JF - We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology PB - Futurefire.net Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Time of Global Warming Y1 - 2013 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl searches for her family after a devastating earthquake and discovers her own strength. Much fantasy. References throughout to Homer’s Odyssey.

PB - Christy Ottaviano Books Henry Holt and Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Diplomat Y1 - 2012 A1 - Don [F.] Marrs KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which nuclear weapons are detonated in U.S. cities and China invades.

PB - Don F. Marrs CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Judgment" Y1 - 2012 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This is framed as a detective story in a future in which aliens have removed all men from the planet and women are struggling to adjust. Some of the aliens are having second thoughts, but this theme is not developed. His “Men Are Trouble.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 28.6 (341) (June 2004): 104-35 is set in the same future and has the same protagonist, Fay Hardaway, a private detective. Compare to Philip Wylie, The Disappearance (1951).

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 36.4&5 (435 & 436) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 300-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberty Gulch: Part One Y1 - 2012 A1 - A. G. Fredericks KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia after the collapse of the U.S. economy and the government of what it calls large farms and food camps that are in fact concentration camps. Continued in his Liberty Rekindled. Part Two. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013], in which a small group at one of the camps tries to reestablish some liberty.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liberty's Daughter" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kritzer, Naomi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed libertarian utopia that has indentured labor and is much more authoritarian than it pretends to be. It is a seastead, a set of man-made islands off the west coast of the U.S. See also 2012 Kiritzer, “High Stakes,” 2013 and 2014 Kritzer, and 2015 Kritzer (2). 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 122.5 & 6 (701) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “LIMBs” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Julia Elliott (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of growing old in the future. The story is set in an old age home where the residents are being used to test high-tech ways of improving their ability to think and remember as well as to move around. 

JF - Tin House VL - no. 51 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in her The Wilds: Stories (Portland, OR/Brooklyn, NY: Tin House, 2014), 45-74; and in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 59-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lips & Teeth" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jon Wallace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future North Korea.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 239 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Hawk" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Erica Lindquist A1 - Aron Christensen ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

While the story is set in a future dystopia of a collapsing world, it is a thoroughly contemporary story about the traumas of a boy being bullied.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyk Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward: 2162-2012: A View from a Future Libertarian Republic Y1 - 2012 A1 - Beth Cody KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in which the U.S. has been reorganized into a number of independent nations with a focus on the Free States of America located in the middle west and mountain region. Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy lives there.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] VL - Rev. ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Code. Book One of the Atlanteans Y1 - 2012 A1 - Emerson, Kevin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set on an Earth that continues to damage its environment. The protagonist is a descendent of Atlantis, which had done the same, and is searching for the code that would help him reverse the process. First volume in a series followed by The Dark Shore. Book Two of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and The Far Dawn. Book Three of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014 resolves the issues raised in the previous volumes.

PB - Katherine Tegen Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Everything Y1 - 2012 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which war has ravaged the countryside along the Susquehanna River and individuals are struggling to survive and reconnect.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Day of Work” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Douglas Rushkoff (b. 1961) ED - [Brian David] [Johnson] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by the last man who will ever have to work, with even robots no longer needed.

JF - The Tomorrow Project: Bestselling Authors Describe Daily Life in the Future PB - Intel CY - Np SN - 978-1934053423 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Election Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kevin [C.] Carrigan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. in which an incumbent president sets out to literally eliminate the opposition.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners: Seeding a Revolution" Y1 - 2011 A1 - David L. Clements KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which commercial interests with the support of the police are destroying all plants and seeds not owned by companies. The story is continued in “Seed Dealer.” Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 25-36. 

JF - Nature VL - 469.7330 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Leftovers Y1 - 2011 A1 - Tom [Thomas R.] Perrotta (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) with some struggling to create a good society, various religious fanatics, and some of the expected dystopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legend Y1 - 2011 A1 - Marie Lu (b. 1984) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with the U.S. split into warring nations. The second volume in the series, Prodigy. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 continues the same themes with the protagonists having to choose sides. The third volume, Champion. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 is mostly adventure and intrigue but ends with the dystopia improved. The fourth volume and final volume is Rebel: A Legend Novel. New York: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2019. It is set in Antarctica and focuses on the three main characters from the earlier volumes, but they are older and is told from the points-of-view of two of them. A prequel to the series, Life Before Legend. New York: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 was published only as an ebook. There is a graphic novel series: Legend. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015; Prodigy. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016; and Champion. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Christian. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - David Gregory KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2088 when the U.S. is no longer Christian and the struggle to re-introduce it.

PB - WaterBrook Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Flight to West Bay" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Roz Clarke ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed ecosystem in an overpopulated world.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Trumpet Project. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kevin MacArdry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a future in which a significant part of the population has been uploaded into computers and live their lives in alternative realities, both religion and government are set upon keeping power and destroying the hidden computer banks.

PB - [lulu.com] CY - [Middletown, DE] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legacy Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fourth volume in a series; see 2007 and 2008 Malley. See also 2010 Malley, The Returners. In this volume very few children are being born and a plague is devastating the population. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberal Utopianism Is Destroying the United States: Liberal Secularism Is Destroying Our Christian Values Y1 - 2010 A1 - Charles Keitz (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. in 2010 as a dystopia as a resulting from liberal policies and liberalisms perceived attack on Christianity. Obama is said to be the forerunner of the coming of the Anti-Christ. Presented as non-fiction.

PB - Xulon CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Libertarian Russia" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future depopulated Russia that keeps rigid control of population centers seen through the eyes of someone who hopes to find a libertarian Russia but fails.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 34.12 (419) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011), 468-76 with an editor’s introduction on 468.; and in his Not So Much, Said the Cat (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 182-94. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in the Anthropocene" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe society in which all humans live above or below the 45th parallel. Appears to be a high tech eutopia, but it is absolutely dependent on a fragile power supply. Extreme limits on uses of fossil fuels, so very little travel.

JF - The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF PB - Constable/Robinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 407-422.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Limping Man Y1 - 2010 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Third volume in a series of related young adult dystopias. This volume sees the rise of a dictator in the city who controls his followers with an exceptionally strong mental control. He is ultimately defeated and the peaceful society that had been growing in the countryside is saved. See also 2007 and 2008 Gee.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Line Y1 - 2010 A1 - Teri Hall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which there is a line at the border of the Unified States that is not to be crossed. See also 2011 and 2013 Hall. 

PB - Dial Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Brother's World Y1 - 2010 A1 - T[homas] Jackson King Jr. (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme rich poor divisions.

PB - Fantastic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Long Night" Y1 - 2010 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Essentially a horror story, but the background is a religious dystopia.

JF - Dark Tomorrows PB - JLBryanbooks.com CY - [Atlanta, GA] N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Tomorrows. 2nd ed. Ed. J[effrey] L. Bryan (Lexington, KY: CreateSpace, 2011), 202-17. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Wild Witch Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Children's book describing a "perfect" over-organized town improved by a bit of natural wildness.

PB - Mother Tongue Ink CY - Escatada, OR U2 -

Illus. Lindy Kehoe

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Starhawk [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Word. Writer's Block" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire in which the Ministry of Fiction controls the production of fiction. Writers work in offices at desks set in long rows and produce fiction on topics they are set.

JF - RSA Journal VL - 155.5537 N1 -

An extract was published as “Ministry of Fiction.” The Guardian Review (March 4, 2009): 5.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Day Y1 - 2009 A1 - James Byrd KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the environmental movement has gained power throughout the world and forced everyone underground as a means of protecting nature. An enclave of survivalists continues to live above ground, fight back, and win.

PB - Booksurge CY - [Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Long Stay" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - George Mann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Luton-Stansted car park stretches for twenty-six miles between the two airports with crops growing among the cars. The story focuses on people who got stuck in the car park and have ended up living there permanently.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

 Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-99 with an author’s note on 199. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost in sun and silence: The Golden Age of Communications" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Vincenzo Palermo KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. In a world of constant connectivity, a man tries to escape to silence.

JF - Nature VL - 457.7233 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lunar Braceros 2125-2148 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Rosaura Sánchez A1 - Pita, Beatrice KW - Chicana author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, and the parts are under corporate control. The poor and minorities are held in enclosed reservations with some sent to the moon to help bury nuclear and toxic waste because there is no longer space on Earth. The novel follows one family on Earth and on the moon.

PB - Calaca Press CY - National City, CA U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Actor" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Linda L. Donahue ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by poor quality education and the growth of mass culture.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leaving Fortusa: A Novel in Ten Episodes Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in ten loosely related chapters. The epigrams to each chapter suggest a connection to the presidency of George W. Bush (2001-09), but much of the action is set in a variety of futures of growing violence and authoritarian governance. There is some suggestion that in the future of the future a better society will be reestablished.

PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, CA N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Hard Stuff." Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction. Ed. Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson (Edinburgh, Scot.: Crescent Press, 2005), 229-70; "Q." Sci-Fiction (2004) [No longer available online]; "The Unforbidden Playground." Postscripts, no. 9 (Winter 2006): 54-87; and "The Most Marvelous Story in the Whole Wide World." Whispers of Wickedness [No longer available online].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Let Their People Go: The Left Left Behind" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the Left Behind series (see 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins) in which the capitalists, conservatives, and religious bigots  are removed, which allows the remaining people to begin to create a cooperative, world-wide eutopia.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 15 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’” In his The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’ plus Special Relativity and ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009), 11-48. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Letter From Utopia” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nick Bostrom (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - Swedish author KW - UK author AB -

A letter from a posthuman future. Very general and mostly on the problems of the present.

JF - Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology [An online journal] VL - 2.1 UR - http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/letters-from-utopia.pdf. Accessed December 4, 2015. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia of the economic collapse of the U.S.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life Without Crows” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gerri Leen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia as seen through the eyes of one of a group of survivors who have lived an isolated life in the mountains for hundreds of years and perceive it as a good life. 

JF - Life Without Crows and Other Stories PB - Hadley Rille Books CY - Overland Park, KS N1 -

Originally published in Fusion Fragment. Ed. Cavan Terrill (2008), an on line journal that is no longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Brother Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia of U.S. Home Security targeting San Francisco because the administration sees it as too liberal. Home Security is fought by a group of teenage hackers with some success and ends with the administration freeing those responsible and the hackers continuing their opposition. The title refers to “Big Brother” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. First volume in a loosely connected series; see also his Homeland (2013) and Attack Surface (2020). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York SN - 9780765319852 978-1-250-77458-3 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 11-317, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking for Mr Piggy-Wig Y1 - 2008 A1 - Andy [Andrew] Secombe (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia as background to a detective story. After the Second Battle of Britain, Britain is poor and has rationing, and the world is experiencing the effects of severe global warming.

PB - Macmillan CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Arts" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia on a planet colony of Earth that is benevolently controlled by Artificial Intelligences. The focus of the story is how to deal with aberrant behavior in a eutopia.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Colours of the Chameleon Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mandla Langa (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is set in the fictitious country, Bangula, which was supposed to become a eutopia but is faced with all the usual problems of an ex-colony. Satire on the politics of developing nations set on an island after the founder, who had a vision of transforming the lives of the inhabitants, dies.

PB - Picador Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa SN - 978-1-77010-0848 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Continent" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the then current situation in Iraq and the refugee crisis it caused projected into the future.

JF - The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology PB - Viking CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Crystal Nights and Other Stories Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 11-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Time of Fridges Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tim Scott (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a future Seattle, Washington, a walled city, that has become obsessed with health and safety. Considerable humor. There are refrigerators hoping to escape to Mexico where electric goods have rights, and they help the protagonist to bring freedom to Seattle. See also 2007 Scott.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U1 -

The cover adds A Sci-Fi Thriller (of Sorts)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Headless: A Simple Story Y1 - 2007 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of religious fundamentalism.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last American" Y1 - 2007 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that follows the history of one man who is instrumental in creating the political and religious system that led to the collapse of the world economy and ecosystem and the end of the human race. Written from the perspective of posthumans.

JF - Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction VL - 36.100 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 241-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Light Y1 - 2007 A1 - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by halting global oil production followed by economic and social collapse. See also 2010 Scarrow.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let Not the Left (Fifth Episode of Enemies of Society) Y1 - 2007 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Fifth of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume continues the buildup to war and the war. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Morituri.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Glass Y1 - 2007 A1 - James R. Strickland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia in which a paraplegic can live and work effectively in a virtual world but is still vulnerable there to the usual corporate and governmental plots.

PB - Flying Pen Press CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Art Y1 - 2007 A1 - Simon Morden KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe religious dystopia. The central focus of the novel is on a young man who is a member of a religious order that guards the scientific knowledge of the past to keep it from being misused again.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) ED - Jonathan Stahan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia following a nuclear attack on Baltimore. The story is about a boy who lost his memory. 

JF - Eclipse One PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. in her After the Apocalypse. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 87-99. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love, American Style, 2033" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Darcy Cosper ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Competitive swinging becomes the national pastime but excludes same-sex couples and thus the U.S., which is the only country that excludes them, does not participate in international competitions.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Mortal Man. Book One of the Deathless Y1 - 2006 A1 - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The Deathless are those who have been turned into nanobiology and are presumably immortal but the technology is being attacked.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Straw" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Hal Duncan (b. 1971) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Very near future authoritarian Britain and the terrorist response.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lettuce" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) ED - Rusty Morrison ED - Ken Keegan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief surrealistic dystopia.

JF - Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories PB - Omnidawn Publishing CY - Richmond, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Ducornet, The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 123-25.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Library" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) ED - Donn Albright ED - Jon[athan R.] Eller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a dictator tries to burn all the books in a library, but people have been memorizing them.

JF - Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 PB - Gauntlet Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 63-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Library of Pi" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a police state.

JF - Polyphony 6 PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life As We Knew It Y1 - 2006 A1 - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of the Young Adult Last Survivor series. In this volume, a meteor hits the moon pushing it closer to the Earth and causing widespread destruction on the Earth. The novel follows a young woman's struggle to survive. The second volume, The Dead and the Gone. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, moves the action to New York City but continues the same themes. The third volume, This World We Live In. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 continues the same setting and themes as the first volume. In the fourth volume, The Shade of the Moon. Boston, MA: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, the protagonist is living in a safe community in Pennsylvania, but his ability to do so depends on his continued success at soccer and obeying the strict rules of the community. He violates the rules by falling in love. 

PB - Harcourt CY - Orlando, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Long After Midnight" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) ED - Donn Albright ED - Jon[athan R.] Eller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a man is constantly worried about his books being burned.

JF - Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 PB - Gauntlet Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 139-202.

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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 - Last Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book One Y1 - 2005 A1 - Terri Blackstock (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a Christian dystopian series in which God takes way all electricity. Followed by Night Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book Two. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2006; True Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Three. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2007; and Dawn’s Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Four. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2008. The series follows the experiences of various people, some of whom trust in God, who restores power at the end.

PB - Zonderavan CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Public Event” Y1 - 2005 A1 - Peter Murphy KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in an unnamed “banana republic” in which people are made brain dead so that they can their organs will remain functioning until their organs can be harvested. 

JF - Social Alternatives VL - 24.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lone and Level Sands" Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - Ernest Lilley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Future Washington PB - Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) CY - Washington, DC ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lady and the Tiger Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jody Lynn Nye (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A planet believed to be perfect is not. A previous novel with the same characters is her Taylor's Ark. New York: Ace Books, 1993.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Love Story: A fairytale of the day after tomorrow Y1 - 2004 A1 - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

City divided between a brutal, religious dystopia and a wealthy, free eutopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the desire and attempt to escape from one to the other. A note by the author (256) refers to the divisions of Germany and Korea and the beginnings of the wall between Israel and Palestine.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leviathan Wept" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Daniel [James] Abraham (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia produced by the policies against terrorism in which both sides kill with impunity.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted July 7, 2004. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 283-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in Globus Cassus" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael Stauffer A1 - Christian Waldvogel KW - Male author KW - Swiss author AB -

Essay briefly describing the eutopian life, which emphasizes equality and freedom, in their newly created space, which is described as “a successful social sculpture” (93). Globus Cassus has been created from Earth but is larger than Earth so as to be able to hold Earth’s large and growing population.

JF - Globus Cassus PB - Bundesamt für Kultur CY - Bern, Switzerland U4 -

In German and English on facing pages with summaries in French (152-54) and Italian (168-70).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life Lottery Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia. The final volume of the three the author wrote on ecological subjects. See also 2000 and 2003 Irvine. This volume focuses on the disruptions caused by climate change, particularly the radical increase in the number of refugees and the growth of an anti-refugee movement.

PB - Pocket Books CY - Pymbale, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Liberal Masters. A Satire Y1 - 2003 A1 - David L. Hale KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Hale in which authoritarian “liberals” from another planet invade Earth and the resistance that develops. Considerable humor.

PB - Elderberry Press CY - Oakland, OR U1 -

A Fantasy on the cover.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Line of Defence" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Homeland Security.

JF - Aurealis (Australia) VL - no. 32 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Through Lace" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A feminist eutopia with female and male languages.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 27.9 (332) N1 -

Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2003), 131-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lapsit Chronicles Y1 - 2002 A1 - Edith Shaw KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

PB - Dealan-dé Publishing CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light Music Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Goonan In this volume, the Crescent City has become vulnerable to attack and the technology that built it and could rescue it has been lost. Ultimately, alien technology brings about a positive ending. humanity appears to be on the edge of a major evolutionary step forward. Loosely related to 1994 and 1997 Goonan. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liking What You See: A Documentary" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ted Chiang (b. 1967) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author AB -

Whether this suggests a eutopia or a dystopia is up to the reader. "Lookism", or prejudice against unattractive people, has been added to racism and sexism as a social problem and a solution has been found in a neurological treatment that ensures that "good" looks do not register with the viewer. A campaign to require the treatment at a college campus fails, but it does so as a result of the enhancement of a speaker against it, a speaker paid by the cosmetics industry.

JF - Stories of Your Life and Others PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. 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), 113-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Y1 - 2002 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

An alternative history novel in which Africans are the slave owners and whites the slave in a North America, known as Bilalstan, which is divided among Zulus, Arabs, Aztecs, Vikings and Native Indians. The novel focus on the relationship between the Irish Christian Aidan O’Dere and his owner the African Muslim African Muslim, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid. A sequel, Zulu Heart. New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2003. 463 pp. continues the story with O'Dere, now free, must accept being re-enslaved for the chance of gaining permanent freedom for himself and his sister while his former owner, now friend, struggles with the immorality of the slavery that underpins his status and wealth. A third volume was mentioned in a blog post in 2007 but has not been published.

PB - Aspect/Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Sister" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Donna Bowman ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Canada disintegrated after Québec withdrew from the confederation, and most power now is held by corporations. The prairie provinces are extremely poor and the story focuses on the use of prison labor to search in old garbage for antiques to be sold to people in the wealthy provinces.

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada 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 Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! Y1 - 2001 A1 - Heatherly, L.S KW - US author AB -

New Age environmental eutopia.

PB - Nature-Human Society CY - Phoenix, AZ N1 -

Rev. as The Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! Phoenix, AZ: Nature-Human Society and [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2002. Except for the title and some minor changes throughout, the texts are the same. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Jet-Engine Laugh Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ruchir Joshi (b. 1960) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future India that is developing as a military superpower, but the focus is on the relations among the characters rather than on the society.

PB - Harper Collins India CY - Noida, UP, India N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 2001. [Book jacket adds India 1930-2030: A Novel]. Part was originally published in Civil Lines (Delhi, India).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Underclass Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dean Warren KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia set in 2152 where AI have taken over many jobs. Genetic engineering controlled by the wealthy, known as Achievers, who plan to transplant the personalities of the wealthy aged into the improved bodies of the poor, known as “Welfies”.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] SN - 1-4010-2416-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Law, In Its Majestic Equality . . ." Y1 - 2001 A1 - Mary Catelli KW - Female author AB -

Satire on legal systems and economic status on the Earth and the Moon.

JF - Absolute Magnitude Science Fiction VL - no. 17 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legend of New Earth Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with problems. Children's book. After earth was destroyed, humans settled Venus. Primitive but good life, but the cities dominate the countryside for the benefit of the rulers.

PB - Australian Broadcasting Commission CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Albatross Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by a collapsing ecology. Ecoterrorism in conflict with a growing authoritarianism. See also 2003 and 2004 Irvine.

PB - Simon & Schuster Australia CY - East Roseville, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Book in the Universe Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rodman Philbrick (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set many years after a worldwide earthquake destroyed civilization. The novel is in the form of a quest by a young man, an old man in a society controlled by gangs from one area to another under a different gang. Along the way, a child and a genetically enhanced young woman from Eden, a high-tech enclave completely cut off from the surrounding area, joins them.

PB - The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic CY - New York N1 -

. Part originally published as “The Last Book in the Universe.” Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future. Comp. Michael Cart (New York: Scholastic Press, 1999), 9-23 with an “Author’s Note 22-23. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Learning to Mind" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Terry Hayman KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A future authoritarian dystopia where the state controls child-rearing. Escape to an undescribed anarchist eutopia.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 12.4 (43) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lima Beans Would be Illegal: Children's Ideas of a Perfect World Y1 - 2000 ED - Bender, Robert AB -

One sentence descriptions of children's views of a better world.

PB - Dial Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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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 - "The Lady Macbeth Blues" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of immorality.

JF - Interzone (Brighton, Eng.) VL - no. 148 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Dog" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Katherine Paterson ED - Michael Cart KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A young adult story about a domed community that is rigidly controlled to exclude any possibility of illness and a young man's venture outside.

JF - Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Testament Y1 - 1999 A1 - Marcel M. Monfort KW - Male author AB -

A very odd post-catastrophe novel. The town of Paraíso in western North America is one of few communities left after the catastrophe. Initially it is completely isolated, but refugees come and the population grows until it becomes a problem. There is a revolution and the town is divided into the states of Para (democratic) and Bator (a Communist dictatorship).

PB - Minerva CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Letter Girl Y1 - 1999 A1 - Andrew Masterson (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia in which books are banned.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Life in a Day" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Shelley Bovey ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A eutopia where being fat is the norm and honored. The protagonist is a fat woman living comfortably in a society designed for her remembering what it was like to live when being fat was treated as a fault open to criticism.

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lifework" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Mary Soon Lee KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the government believes it knows better than the individual how to achieve an individual's happiness. Marriage considered to have been superseded; partners chosen by the state.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 144 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Y1 - 1999 A1 - Susan George (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - French author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A report on what is required to keep free market capitalism in control in the future that identifies a number of major issue, the most important being the growth of population in the developing world. The report says that policies should be implemented to ensure that starvation, disease, war, and so forth ensures that this problem is controlled. Compare to 1967 Lewin, Report from Iron Mountain.

PB - Pluto CY - London N1 -

New ed. London: Pluto, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Golden Clouds Y1 - 1998 A1 - Archie Weller (b. 1957) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Set in a post-catastrophe Australia 3000 years in the future. Conflict among the surviving groups, all of whom have taken on at least part of the Aboriginal world view. The groups that are closest to the Aboriginal way of life are presented most positively.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - St. Leonards, NSW, Australia N1 -

An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 131-40 with an editor’s note on 131-32, 247. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liam Hannigan's Hyperbreed Robowar Y1 - 1998 A1 - Liam Hannigan (b. 1978) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Comic. First, and apparently last, of a series about a future eutopia based on limited population and the labor of robots. The Hyperbreed are genetically created superior humans. The robots and disaffected Hyperbreed revolt and civil war begins.

PB - Author CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora. A Novel Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Robert] Michael Nesmith (b. 1942) KW - Male author AB -

The novel includes both eutopian and dystopian elements and fantasy.

PB - St. Martin’s Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lethe" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of cloning. See also 2003 Williams.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 21.9 (261) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 29-59 with an "Afterword" on 59-61.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life House Y1 - 1997 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which it is possible for others to edit a person’s memories. The third volume of what comes to be called the Lifehouse Trilogy, which includes his 1982 Mindkiller and 1992 Time Pressure

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Lifehouse Trilogy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 439-632.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life on Planet Heaven Y1 - 1997 A1 - Tony Zuly KW - Male author AB -

UFO novel in which the abductee visits a planet very similar to Earth that is deeply concerned with the possibility of nuclear warfare on Earth. Heaven is a eutopia with no money. It purports to have gender equality, but women choose to stay out of politics because it requires masculine characteristics. Girls and boys are separated at fifteen for education but encouraged to develop relations with the opposite sex, including sexual relations, outside the educational environment. Generally marry after 25. Numbers rather than names. Very religious but no denominational differences. Constant computer surveillance everywhere as a means of social control.

PB - Antonio Zuliani Publisher CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lightpaths Y1 - 1997 A1 - Howard V[incent] Hendrix (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Orbital habitat that is supposed to be a eutopia undermined by the usual human foibles. His Standing Wave. New York: Ace Books, 1998 uses the same setting.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Like the Gentle Rain" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.”

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 93.4 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 4: The Burning Forest Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The fourth volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1995 Mann. In this volume, Rome decides to burn the British forests to use the land for agriculture and a struggle between rational, scientific, technological Rome and the myth-based British ensues.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Capitalist: A Dream of a New Utopia Y1 - 1996 A1 - Steve Cullen KW - Male author KW - Scottish author PB - Freedom Press CY - London SN - 9780900384820 U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Glypt on Demeter Y1 - 1996 A1 - Henry M. Greenwald KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The history of a planet from its peak to its destruction by aliens as told by the last man. Demeter was a flawed utopia with a world government, a single language, no disease, and with all weapons and weapon delivery systems outlawed. The people lived over 350 years, which required population control. The family had been abolished, couples or singles got an apartment with a garden and aquarium where they produced their own food. But few people ever had jobs, and most people spent their time as spectators at a wide range of games (cards, computer games, and sports).

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Homosexual" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Paul [Claiborne] Park (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has broken up into individual states, and the story focuses on Louisiana under the New Baptists.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 20.6 (246) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 167-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Integrationist Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jake Lamar (b. 1961) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a near future U.S. with extremely harsh laws against drugs and public executions enforced by a conservative black Attorney-General.

PB - Crown Publishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in Our Solar System Y1 - 1996 A1 - J. H. Vernon (b. 1916) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

New Age eutopia.

PB - Silver Fern Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes Book 3: The Dragon Wakes Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The third volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mann. In this volume,  Rome  is preparing to conquer those parts of  Britain  it does not control.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Real Cirkus: A Futuristic Fairytale Y1 - 1995 A1 - Bottari, Bridie KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Background is a fairly near future of excessive regulation.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Left Behind: A Novel of Earth's Last Days Y1 - 1995 A1 - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016) A1 - Jerry B[ruce] Jenkins (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of the Left Behind series, which describes those left on earth after the Rapture, a premillennialist belief based on 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17 developed initially in England in the 1830s and included in the Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch/London: H. Frowde, 1909. Mostly dystopian, but the last volume, Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007), includes the Second Coming of Christ, and there is a eutopia of the community of believers struggling to survive. Other volumes are Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (1996); Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (1997); Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (1998); Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed (1999); Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (1999); The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (2000); The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (2000); Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (2001); The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (2002); Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (2003); and Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (2004), and Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007). Three volumes of prequel include The Rising: Antichrist is Born. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); Regime: Evil Advances. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); and The Rapture: In a Twinkling of an Eye. Before They Were Left Behind (2005). See also Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Are We Living in the End Times. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999. There are also graphic novels, films, videos, video games, forty books for children, and related products. See http:www.leftbehind.com for all the books and related materials. LaHaye gives what he calls the Biblical basis of the series in Revelation illustrated and Made Plain. rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1975. Rev. as Revelation Unveiled: A revised and updated edition of Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1999. See also LaHaye, Jenkins, and Norman B. Rohrer, These Will Not Be Left Behind: Incredible Stories of Lives Transformed After Reading the Left Behind Novels. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2003. Utopian spinoffs include 2003 Hart and 2003, 2004, 2005 Jenkins, and 2010 LaHaye and Parshall.

PB - Tyndale House Publishers CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Living in Paradox: A Utopian Soap Opera" Y1 - 1995 A1 - John Frederick Heider (1936-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a new eutopian college located in Paradox, Kansas based on “human potential theory”. Excerpt from a work in progress, and this excerpt focuses on an initial encounter group among the faculty and their partners and an explanation of the purpose of the education, which is to raise awareness. 

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 86 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Living Theatre's Utopia" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Judith Malina (1926-2015) A1 - Hanon Reznikov (1950-2008) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Notes for a play called Utopia by Malina with sketches by Reznikov.

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lure of Satyria Y1 - 1995 A1 - Cheryl Mildenhall AB -

In a series of erotica for women. Includes a number of dystopian communities and one, Satyria, that the heroine finds eutopian.

PB - Black Lace CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 2: Stand Alone Stan Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The second volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1993, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, the three young Romans are forced to flee the security of the village in the forests where they found refuge in the first volume. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land O'Goshen Y1 - 1994 A1 - Charles McNair KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future war between government and Christian right. Religious dictatorship.

PB - A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Resort" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jain Scott KW - Australian author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Rich people can choose a eutopian life inside a computer system.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 13 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Sisters of the Apocalypse Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Unusual dystopia. The "Little Sisters of the Apocalypse" are biker nuns who are expert hackers. Focus is on a society of women waiting for men to return from the war.

PB - Black Ice Books CY - Boulder, CO N1 -

Rpt. in her Seven for the Apocalypse. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999), 73-203.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 1: Escape to the Wild Wood Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1994, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, three young Romans flee to the forests and discover the older Britain. The novel stresses the cold rationality of the Romans in contrast to the more feeling British. See the note at 1982 Mann.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Dancer Y1 - 1993 A1 - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a trilogy. This volume is set in 2076 with the authoritarian United Nations ruling Earth but with various forces, including the two remaining telepaths, opposed to its rule. See also 1988 and 1989 Moran.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Local Code: The Constitution of a City at 42° N Latitude Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael [David] Sorkin (1948-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The presentation of an ideal city through its building code.

PB - Princeton Architectural Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Under Siege" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Carrington McDuffie AB -

Dystopian setting for pornography.

JF - Future Sex VL - no. 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia of a collapsing high-tech society.

JF - Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales PB - Swan Press CY - Austin, TX N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 346-56; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 365-79. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the Pleasurehouse Y1 - 1992 A1 - Agnetha Anders KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and revolt. Erotica set in 2031. Sequel to 1991 Anders.

PB - Nexus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Heterosexual" Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Garvin Robert] [Gilbert] (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from the perspective of the point-of-view character, who lives in a eutopia from the point-of-view of the rest. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.

JF - By the Light of the Moon PB - dean farran printproductions CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

Eidel Rasmuss [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Human Y1 - 1992 A1 - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy that includes an attempt to build a eutopia. Mostly action. The first two books--Walker of Worlds (New York: Bantam Books, 1990) and The End-of-Everything Man (Garden City: Doubleday, 1991) are not utopian.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U1 -

Book 3 of Chronicles of the King's Tramp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Refuge Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The eutopian Shambala (Shangri-la) and the devastated outer world as a dystopia. Loose sequel to the 1991 Scarborough. For the classic eutopian Shangri-la, see 1933 Hilton.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let Us Prey Y1 - 1992 A1 - Bill Branon KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of a U.S. with government waste and corruption and the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service) as an authoritarian institution trying to collect taxes by any means possible. A taxpayers' revolt overthrows the system, but the ending suggests further problems to come and possible sequels, but none were published.

PB - Black Seal Press CY - Carlsbad, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Back From 2992. A World History, Chapter 13: The Disastrous 21st Century" Y1 - 1992 AB -

A history of the dystopian twenty-first century written from the perspective of a eutopian thirtieth century.

JF - The Economist ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Real New Yorker in the World” Y1 - 1991 A1 - James D. Macdonald (b. 1954) A1 - Debra Doyle (1952-2020) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of New York City as a theme park. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc Books CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lesson in the Foothills" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Lynne Armstrong-Jones KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merill

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a future New York that has outlawed candy.

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lunar Justice Y1 - 1991 A1 - Charles L[eonard] Harness (1915-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on a corrupt legal system.

PB - Avon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land Beyond Y1 - 1990 A1 - Gill[ian] Alderman (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Anthropological science fiction presenting a remnant of the people of the far north who are kept in city in the ice working for their captives. The arrival of the Democratic Travelling Circus brings ferment.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Grafton, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Largest Theme Park in the World Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on European union. When the single currency is created all Europeans move to the Mediterranean resorts and refuse to return until non-Europeans start to move in to their abandoned properties.

JF - The Guardian N1 -

Rpt. in his War Fever (London: William Collins Sons, 1990), 73-80; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1139-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Green-Toed Fruit-Bats: A Fairy-Tale for Adults Y1 - 1989 A1 - Toni Jeffreys KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part dystopia, part fantasy, part feminist eutopia. The story, written as if from 2019-20, is of an island in the eastern Pacific called New Balkland, which has an ecology and history similar to New Zealand. The novel is written from the point-of-view of one woman from her earliest years to her full development as a powerful witch. Her history parallels a series of environmental and political disasters that leads to the destruction of the world, except for New Balkland, which is saved by its women, with the help of the world's whales.

PB - Waiake Wordsmiths CY - Auckland, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Oliver Calvert.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Habit of Living Y1 - 1989 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Problems of immortality.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time Y1 - 1989 A1 - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The middle volume in a trilogy. This volume is primarily adventure as the United Nations Peaceforce tries to eliminate the few remaining telepaths. See also 1988 and 1993 Moran.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love in a Colder Climate" Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, sex is made compulsory as part of national service for virgins.

JF - Interview Magazine N1 -

Rpt. as “Love in a Cold Climate.” Observer Magazine (July 16, 1989): 36-37, 39, 40; as “Love in a Colder Climate.” In his War Fever (London: Collins, 1990): 65-72; and in The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1124-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "La Vie Continue" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future America that tries to co-opt or, if that fails, kill authors who oppose the current regime.

JF - Other Americas PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lake At the End of the World Y1 - 1988 A1 - Caroline Macdonald (1948-97) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author AB -

Set in 2025. Story of a post-catastrophe world with few survivors, some of whom are in an underground dystopia with a dictator. Two teenagers bring the people together and move them above ground where a new beginning is possible.

PB - Viking Kestral CY - Ringwood, VIC N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Bank on Earth Y1 - 1988 A1 - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire of a bank after a nucear war.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last of the Winnebagoes" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia in which there are severe restrictions on vehicles and travel and most animals have died.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 12.7 (132) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 182-222 with an editor's note on 181.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic Y1 - 1988 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia following on his 1961 Cosmocracy, which he here spells “CosMocRacy.” This volume also includes a theory of creation first described in his The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government as well as some more personal material. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - Ballmark Publications CY - Foremost, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Orbit Y1 - 1988 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex future dystopia where many people lived fantasy lives and robots did their work for them. The novel focuses on a man who lived the fantasy of being a detective in the 1940s but is hired to be a detective in the real world of corporate conflict.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Exit Funtopia. London: Sphere, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lunatics" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) ED - Beth Meacham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of mining on the moon which is the equivalent of slavery.

JF - Terry's Universe PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Remaking History (New York: Tor, 1991), 236-63; and in Infinity Plus one. Ed. Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers (Leeds, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2001), 255-81; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 293-313; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 293-313; and in Alaya Dawn Johnson and Kim Stanley Robinson. Metamorphosis (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2015), 59-91. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legend Y1 - 1987 A1 - Barry Maher KW - Male author AB -

Complex dystopia on a future Earth after some unidentified catastrophe had destroyed much of the Earth and left the people deeply divided into those few with jobs (the bureaurers), majority of people (the folkers), and the disciples of new, authoritarian religions. At the end no one is left on Earth.

PB - Freedeeds Library CY - Blauvelt, NY N1 -

Rpt. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in a Peaceful World Y1 - 1987 AB -

Six page tract depicting the world after the millennium.

PB - Watchtower Bible and Tract Society CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Heroes Y1 - 1987 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel depicting a future U.S. dystopia. Commercial control; drugs; financial depression. Reality Liberation Front and rock and roll will provide a touch of hope, but they will probably lose out to commercialization.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lacey and His Friends Y1 - 1986 A1 - David [Allen] Drake (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of constant surveillance and ruthless police.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as “Nation Without Walls.” Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 97.7 (July 1977): 10-14, 16, 18-38; rpt. in his Grimmer Than Hell (New York: Baen, 2003), 268-98; “The Predators.” Destinies 1.5 (October-December 1979): 254-94; rpt. in his Grimmer Than Hell (New York: Baen, 2003), 299-328; “Underground.” Destinies 2.1 (February-March 1980): 218-72; “Travellers.” Destinies 3.1 (Winter 1981): 234-86; rpt. in his Grimmer Than Hell (New York: Baen, 2003), 329-73; and “Time Safari.” Destinies 3.2 (1981): 182-270. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Election Y1 - 1986 A1 - Pete Davies (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a future Britain under the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013; Prime Minister 1979-90).

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Vintage, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Ranger Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Jan] [Stacy] (1948-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war survivalist dystopia. A single heavily armed man fights against a different evil force in each volume as he single-handedly saves America. At the end of the last volume the Earth is completely destroyed.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U3 -

Craig Sargent [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last War Y1 - 1986 A1 - Martyn Godfrey (1949-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set after a nuclear war. 

PB - Collier Macmillan CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada N1 -

US ed. Illus. Greg Ruhl. New York: Collier Books/Macmillan, 1989. 91. pp. 

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Illus. Greg Ruhl

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lear Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a group of individuals travel around a devastated New Zealand performing Lear and taking on the roles they play. The author also wrote an environmental political novel aimed at Monsanto's herbicide Roundup--Lethal Dose. Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand: Hard Echo Press, 1991. 

PB - Hard Echo Press CY - Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand U1 -

Cover adds The Shakespeare Company Plays Lear at Babylon.

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ATL, PSt, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Less Than Human Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Charles] [Platt] (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor set in a future New York City dystopia. The main character is a flawed robot.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U3 -

Robert Clarke [pseud.]

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MoU-St, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Letters from Hav Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Description of a visit to an imaginary country, which the author says was intended to reflect her lack of understanding of the countries she had visited and the changes they were undergoing. The country has both eutopian and dystopian elements.

PB - Viking CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in her Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav and Hav of the Myrmidons (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), 1-187.

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Limits of Green Y1 - 1985 A1 - Rachel McAlpine (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

An environmental dystopia with elements of a feminist eutopia in which New Zealand, called the "Sleeping Islands," is the site of nuclear and chemical plants that are destroying the environment. In addition, a missile base and warheads for the missiles have been placed in New Zealand. All are under the control of a world power, the RUSA, which has a policy of "voluntary colonization" in which small countries agree to be effectively but clandestinely controlled in exchange for investment. A group of people, but one woman and man in particular, learn to communicate with nature, which destroys both the chemical and nuclear power plants and the weapons. Presented as a memoir "The Harmony of Snails" with additional material from the RUSA embassy. See also 1987 McAlpine.

PB - Viking Penguin Books (N.Z.) CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lipton Village Society" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

This story is tangential to Sussex's utopianism in that it posits a group of young people on the margins of society in the process of willing a utopia into existence, one that they have created collectively in their imaginations. Only brief indications of what the utopia will be like.

JF - Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Hale & Iremonger CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 213-36; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 135-50.

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lover from Beyond the Dawn of Time" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Begins with a highly organized eutopia,but shifts to a horror story.

JF - The Power of Time PB - Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ladies Y1 - 1984 A1 - Doris Grumbach (1918-2022) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Three women live an isolated life on an estate in Wales with that life presented as idyllic. Based on a real group called the Ladies of Llangollan, on which see May Gordon, Chase the Wild Goose. London: Hogarth Press, 1937. 

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of Ordinary People. For John Lennon" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) ED - Ruby Rohrlich ED - Elaine Hoffman Baruch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Poem that gives the sense of an anarchist eutopia.

JF - Women in Search of Utopia; Mavericks and Mythmakers PB - Schocken Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 3-5.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Amazon Y1 - 1984 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1968 Chandler in which women are born and Amazons emerge on the planet New Sparta that was originally all men. John Grimes is instrumental in defeating the Amazons. Graham Stone in his Australian Science Fiction Bibliography (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 2004), 11 says that its working title was Find the Lady.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Patriot Y1 - 1984 A1 - James N[orbert] Frey (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with one man trying to save the U.S.

PB - Zebra Books/Kensington Publications CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lagrangists Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Space/colony station described in 1979 is threatened by various forces from Earth. See also 1984 Reynolds and 1985 Reynolds with Ing.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lessons Learned" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Peter Fuller KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Six excerpts from "A Documentary History of the State of New Zealand, 1982-1998" published by the Trevor Richards Foundation for Legal Studies, 2004, Hong Kong illustrating the rise of a police state and its ultimate defeat.

JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 35 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lady of Light Y1 - 1982 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly fantasy but includes a future post-catastrophe eutopian kingdom.

PB - Timescape CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light on the Sound Y1 - 1982 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia that destroys all utopias because of its belief that due to the Fall all utopias are necessarily false. But after the destruction of the twelfth utopia, a thirteenth is discovered that causes those assigned to destroy it to try to save it. The book discusses the nature of utopia. First volume in a series; see also 1983, 1984 and 1985 Sucharitkul.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

Rev. as The Dawning Shadow: The Light On the Sound. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Part previously published as "The Thirteenth Utopia." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact [99].4 (April 1979): 144-60, 162-64; which was rpt. in The Annual World's Best SF 1980. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: DAW Books, 1980), 20-42; and in his Fire from the Wine Dark Sea (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1983), 17-38; and "Light on the Sound." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 4.8 (August 1980): 84-169. Described as the first volume of a trilogy, the series was later extended to four volumes.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lanark; A Life in Four Books Y1 - 1981 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Complex dystopia that follows the character Lanark through the surrealistic city of Unthank, which has severe economic and political problems and is threatened environmentally. Includes a side trip to a version of Hell.

PB - Canongate Publishing/Harper & Row CY - Edinburgh, Scot./New York N1 -

Rev. ed. Edinburgh, Scot: Canongate Publishing, 1985. Rpt. London: Picador, 1994. Parts published as "From the World of Lanark." Scottish International, no. 12 (November-December 1970): 30-40 (Chapters 6 and 7); "Extract from Lanark." Words, [no. 1] (Autumn 1976): 3-6; "Alexander Comes (an extract from Lanark)." Words 6 [1978]: 5-9 (Chapter 41); "Prologue to Lanark." GUM: Glasgow University Magazine (1974) [Not held by the Glasgow University Library or the Glasgow University Archives]; and "From Lanark." Words (1979) (Chapter 35). See "Lanark Storyboard" [A Projected film of Lanark]. Scottish Book Collector 2.1 - 2.6, 2.8 - 2.12, 3.2 - 3.6, 3.9, 3.11, 3.12, 4.3 - 5.1, 5.3, 5.5 - 5.7. 5.9 - 5.10 (August/September 1989 - August/September 1990, December 1990/January 1991 - August/September 1991, December 1991/January 1992 - August/September 1992, February/March 1993, June/July 1993, February/March 1994 - Winter 1996/97, Summer 1997, Autumn 1997): 16-17; 16-17; 16-17; 16-17; 24-25; 28; 31; 19; 32; 30-31; 26-27; 14; 13; 29; 14; 17; 20; 13; 25; 10; 26; 21; 21; 21; 21; 21; 19; 23; 23; 19; 8; 23; 30; 30; 27. The last gives the authors as Gray and Ms. Fairlie Fox; all the others are by Gray.

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Illus. by the author

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land's End Y1 - 1981 A1 - Peter Francis Browne KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Near future dystopia focusing on a dictator for life gaining control through a combination of rewards for behavior he approves and violence. Book burnings. Dissenters and anyone not white is considered a terrorist and can be killed by the police. The novel follows an average school teacher most of whose books had burned who tries to save a wounded Pakistani man whose wife and child had been killed.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London SN - 0-436-07098-7 U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Crime Y1 - 1981 A1 - John Domatilla (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Computer dystopia with the ultimate elimination of all humans. The last crime is one of the last two humans murdering the other.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1980.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Piece of Trade in America" Y1 - 1981 A1 - John Mitzel ED - Ian Young KW - Male author AB -

Future in which gay men dominate generally presented positively.

JF - On the Line: New Gay Fiction PB - Crossing CY - Trumansberg, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last President Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Kurland (b. 1938) A1 - [Barton Stewart] [Whaley] (1918-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Watergate scandal following the break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic Party national headquarters in June 1972 turns the U.S. into an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - William Morrow & Co CY - New York U3 -

S.W. Barton [pseud.]

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MoSp

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Dennis R. Caro (b. 1944) ED - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief story set in an overpopulated world.

JF - Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 204-06. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lifekeeper Y1 - 1980 A1 - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of computer perfection and the problems that develop as the computer appears to start wars.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Logan's Search Y1 - 1980 A1 - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1967 Nolan and Johnson and 1977 Nolan. Mostly adventure but some on the eutopia from 1977 Nolan.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy. Baltimore, MD: Maclay and Associates, 1986), 261-384. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Looking Backward' from 2030 (with apologies to Edward Bellamy)" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Jayne Burks A1 - Melvin Rubenstein KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

History of the period from the mid-twentieth century to 2030 with a focus on child-rearing and education, both of which change to take individual differences into account. Governmentally supported childcare facilities. Parents are encouraged to raise their children at home and are provided with financial support to do so after taking parenting courses.

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Philosophy of Love Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Roy Victor] [Wallace] (1927-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia called Many Waters of about 2,000 people based on agriculture and light industry. Calls it a commune. Common meals. Has its own school. A lot of New Age healing. The second edition is illustrated. The author says that an alternative title could be The Way to Utopia.

PB - Author CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia SN - 9780959368017 9780959368000 N1 -

Rev. ed. illus. Fold-out map. Brisbane, QLD: Love Publications, 1982. 61 pp.

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Roy Victor Love [pseud.]

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A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love Explosion Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Another of Rimmer's novels of the good life through sex. In this novel two couples have sexual and other revelations while on a vacation on Guadeloupe, which produces a temporary utopia, which is then incorporated into their lives. See also 1966, 1968, 1975, 1978, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lagrange Five Y1 - 1979 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A space colony/station is a eutopia of great beauty, but the eutopia is undermined by what seems to be almost an illness that strikes from time to time in which people become claustrophobic. See also 1983 and 1984 Reynolds and 1985 Reynolds with Ing.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Mary Vigliante] [Szydlowski] (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Women are rulers and men are "Beasts" not considered human. One woman starts a movement to free the Beasts, who almost enslave the women, until a balance is achieved with hope of turning the dystopia into a eutopia.

PB - Manor CY - New York U3 -

Mary Vigliante [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Possible: A Report of the First Visit to Prire Y1 - 1979 A1 - Mary Alice White Ph.D. (1920-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A very detailed eutopia depicting Prire, a long established, isolated country that welcomes its first visitor in many years. Variety of ways of life, with the novel depicting Capital City, Blue Lake Village, which is a cooperative, Mountgate, a village of artists, Ponyo City, which has a university, and Shin, a factory town. There is also an area set aside for those who simply want to be left alone. Experiments are being constantly run to provide the evidence for policy choices. Stress on the small, local face-to-face community using appropriate technology that was available in the late 1970s. Every person from age twelve has two jobs, a community service job as well as an occupation. Life-long education. Gender and age equality. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Legend of Lady Bruna" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

This is a story of a strong woman who fought to keep her people free and is one of the legends of the Free Amazons.

JF - Legends of Hastur and Cassilda PB - Friends of Darkover CY - [Berkeley, CA] N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 24-32 with an introductory note on 23. No copy of the Legends appears to be held in any library. Information from Catherine Coker, “The Friends of Darkover: An Annotated Bibliography and History.” Foundation 37.104 (Winter 2008): 52. 

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Merril, HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legion Y1 - 1979 A1 - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia set in 2257 as background. Part of a series that follows the same family from 1976 and 1977 Grant.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leviathan's Deep Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Conflict within a world dominated by women over how to respond to contact and growing conflict with Earth. Part of the solution is to educate the men on the woman-dominated world.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues Y1 - 1979 A1 - Ronald Sukenick (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of modern life with some elements of science fiction.

PB - Fiction Collective CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published under the same title in Granta, [no. 1] (Spring 1979): 181-90; Luna Park; and Ploughshares, no. 18 (5.3) (Fall 1979): 165-76.

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AU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Walk Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Stephen Edwin] [King] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which one hundred teenage boys participate in an annual ritual of walking until only one is left alive, most of the rest having been shot for infractions of the rules. 

PB - Signet CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man (New York: New American Library, 1985), 133-322 with "Why I Was Bachman" (v-x); and separately New York: Signet, 1996 with "The Importance of Being Bachman" (v-xiii).

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Richard Bachman [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love Siege Y1 - 1979 A1 - Tom [Donald] Wakefield (1935-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future authoritarian dystopia. In 1983 "political" meetings of any sort are forbidden, with even school staff meetings having to have a government official in attendance. Nonconformists are killed. But there is successful resistance.

PB - Routledge & Kegan Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the Sunshine People Y1 - 1978 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A play about a plan to eliminate all Blacks in the U.S. showing the stages it goes through and the failure of Blacks to believe warnings. Closely related to his 1973 Count-Down to Black Genocide in that in both, a “Black Day” is proclaimed as a holiday to honor blacks, but it is actually the day on which the slaughter of blacks is to happen. At the end, some Blacks do come to believe the plan is real inspired by a man who has been given a book called The Code of the Black Brotherhood. These blacks decide to create a new nation, Afro-America, also mentioned in Count-Down to Black Genocide. See also 1971, 1974, and 1975 (2).

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U1 -

The cover adds about The Beginning of the coming BLACK HOLOCAUST

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Saggittarus [pseud.]

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Rose of Summer Y1 - 1978 A1 - Stephen Gallagher (b. 1954 KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with governmental control through computers that provided everything to the people except freedom. See also 1983 Gallagher.

PB - Corgi Books CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Leprosarium" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a large insurance company punishes those who deviate from its rules by incarcerating them in the Leprosarium where large numbers of people are kept together but prohibited from most contact, with such contact warranting further physical punishment. Those who survive are sent to isolated islands, where they take large doses of the drug orgone, which causes hallucinations.

JF - Seasons Such As These. Two Novels PB - The Swallow Press CY - Chicago, IL U2 -

Illus. Barbara Mueller

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MoU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Long Walk to Wimbledon Y1 - 1978 A1 - H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating (1926-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which extensive fighting has broken out in London, which lays in ruins as the conflicts continue. The novel focuses on one man who must navigate his way across the devastated city.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love Me Tomorrow Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Revision of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) to produce a highly eroticized eutopia. Although the theorist of the society presents himself as a reincarnation of Bellamy, and wrote a book entitled Looking Backward II, the economics are based on the people's corporation proposed by Louis Kelso (1913-91) and the political system on the ideas of Rexford G. Tugwell (1891-1979). The Church of United Love or Unilove is related to Tantrism and based in part on the ideas of Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957). There is also a new language called Loglan, which is used together with English. 

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Transaction Y1 - 1977 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the near future when people gain control of U.S. nuclear reactors and try to force the country to disarm and establish a world government. 

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Little Knowledge Y1 - 1977 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Christian fundamentalism and religious revivals in a future fragmented United States and the arrival of Aliens.

PB - Berkley/Putnam CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1978. Substantially revised in His The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 228-97.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Logan's World Y1 - 1977 A1 - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1967 Nolan and Johnson in which Logan and the other runners settle a new world. Although there are problems that drive the plot, a nonviolent society is created that operates without a leader. See also 1980 Nolan.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 139-259. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Man" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Jon Inouye KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia of homosexual men with one brutish earlier man left. Clearly a utopia, but the homosexual men are presented as generally negative stereotypes.

JF - A Night Tide PB - Randen CY - Culver City, CA U5 -

GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Thing You'd Want To Know Y1 - 1976 A1 - Eric Koch (b. 1919) KW - Canadian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A witch becomes President of the U.S. Struggle between reason and unreason. Presented by an advocate of reason (an ex-Nazi) who sells out at the end.

PB - Tundra Books CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can, IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lifeline Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Jerome] [Gardner] (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a Soviet occupied U.K. in 1998.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

John Gilchrist [pseud.]

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L, Merril, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Book of All Colors" Y1 - 1976 A1 - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) ED - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia describing the country of Seeklaria, a small country located in the European Alps. Constitutional monarchy. Influenced by Christianity and China. Racially mixed and culturally well integrated. A modern society with the charms of the past. Based on interviews with the King. Much comment on current affairs, particularly Vietnam.

JF - Papers in Honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham: A Festschrift for His Seventy-fifth Birthday PB - Chinese Materials Center CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Traveller; A Motorcycle Grail Quest Epic and Science Fiction Western Y1 - 1976 A1 - Steve Wilson (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia centered on biker gangs.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. 

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GU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter from London, 1985" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert Moss (b. 1946) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist dystopia. Buckingham Palace is now the Ministry of Equality. Northern Ireland and Scotland have declared independence. The U.S. has been expelled from what is now the Socialist United Nations. Rationing. While the dystopia is presented as economically unsuccessful, it uses its majority in Parliament to push through all the changes it wants to make.

JF - The Collapse of Democracy PB - Temple Smith CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976), 21-35. Updated ed. (London: Abacus, 1977), 23-34.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Life and Times of Multivac" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which everyone lives well, but all important decisions are made by a large computer, which, for example, decides who can have children and when. Also, people are only allowed to do unimportant work and that only with permission.

JF - The New York Times Magazine ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Log of a Superfluous Son. A Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - Michael Henderson (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the experiences and thoughts of a successful lawyer who chooses to quit his well-paying job and work on a cattle boat between Auckland, New Zealand and Guam, but in the background is the contemporary dystopia of the Vietnam War and a growing authoritarianism and militarism in New Zealand.

PB - John McIndoe CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the American Empire Y1 - 1974 A1 - Bruce [Allen] Powe (1925-2018) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the world is experiencing a long drought, have little technology, and people are starving. North and South America consists of two empires that have extensive advanced technology and are wealthy, but much of the population is being kept alive by medical science. Unable to survive in drought conditions, people in Africa and Europe invade North America.

PB - Macmillan of Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1975.

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Merril, 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 - The Legacy. A Drama in One Act Y1 - 1974 A1 - Paul Elliott KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which around a quarter century has passed since the last child was born and people are living in the remains of damaged buildings.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life and Times of Michael K Y1 - 1974 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia that follows a poor, uneducated man through the turmoil of social conflict/civil war with South Africa under the control of the military.

PB - Ravan Press CY - Johannesburg, South Africa N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Conquers All" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on Zero Population Growth.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.11 - 36.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1979. Rev. ed. New York: Baen, 1985.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lust in Action" Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Stinsom] Glassco (1909-81) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Lesbian dystopia. All men are castrated at age twenty. Any insult to a woman before that age results in prison and a band around the penis that causes intense pain if there is an erection. The women are generally presented negatively. The story takes place within a prison.

JF - The Fatal Woman PB - Anansi CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Left On! The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution Y1 - 1973 A1 - Harry [Heinrich August] Rositzke (1911-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on U.S. politics seen through a eutopia of "evolutionary democracy", which has striking affinities to aspects of China under Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976), including a "Cultural Revolution". Some have read it as intending to present a eutopia; others have read it as an attack on the left. The inside front and back covers have a Chronology of the period covered by the book (July 1972 to February 1975).

PB - Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Leisure Riots; A Comic Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Eric Koch (b. 1919) KW - Canadian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of vast unemployment. People riot against leisure activities.

PB - Tundra Books CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Percival Goodman (1904-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

General overview of a better society. See also 1947 Goodman and Goodman and 1977 Goodman.

JF - Royal Institute of British Architects Journal VL - 80.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London Times, 2075 July 15. Reporter Visits Lincoln. First Reporter in 100 Years" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Marion L[undy] Dobbert (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia--ecologically sound society that stresses the human scale.

JF - 1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume PB - [Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, University of Minnesota] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lone Warrior" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 Y1 - 1973 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy, waking in Reynold’s future, described here in the most eutopian of his novels. Everything automated. New world language. The woman he falls in love with rejects him as a throwback. See also 1977 Reynolds, Equality.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. edition. Morley, West Yorkshire, Eng.: Elmfield Press, 1976.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lynchers Y1 - 1973 A1 - John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

As a part of their protest against the dystopia created for blacks in the United States, four black man plan on lynching a white policeman. 

PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lear Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Lear as a vicious, paranoid autocrat who tries to keep out imaginary enemies by building a wall. Sometimes called the most violent play ever staged.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: Two (London: Methuen Drama, 1989), 1-102.

U.S. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Les Blancs. A Drama in Two Acts. Final Text Adapted by Robert Nemiroff Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lorraine [Vivian] Hansberry (1930-65) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The play explores the dystopia of colonialism in Africa. The title refers to Jean Genet’s Les Nègres (1958).

PB - Samuel French CY - New York N1 -

Also published in Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. Ed. Robert Nemiroff. New York: Random House, 1972. “Les Blancs is 47-172, with “A Critical Background” (35-46) and “Postscript” by Neimroff (173-86) that discusses reviews of the play. Includes materials not part of the Broadway production. The play is also analyzed by Julius Lester in his “Introduction” (3-32).

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light That Never Was Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Some dystopia and some satire. The novel is set on a planet that is devoted to art and once produced many great artists but is now flooded with mediocre artists selling to hordes of tourists. The plot centers on pogroms against non-human aliens.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1973.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lathe of Heaven" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a dystopian background stressing pollution and overpopulation. Search for eutopia driven by a power-hungry psychiatrist controlling a man whose dreams can change reality.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.6 - 45.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1972. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Dog's Day. A Novel Y1 - 1971 A1 - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia and an anti-bureaucratic movement.

PB - Allison & Busby CY - London U5 -

CaTU, InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lorax Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Theodor Seuss] [Geisel] (1904-91) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s picture book depicting the creation of an environmental dystopia through logging an area until no tree is left, and all the wildlife have fled. Terri Birkett wrote a response to defend logging, The Truax. illus. Orrin Lundgren Memphis, TN: Hardwood Forest Foundation, 1995, which was sponsored by the National Wood Flooring Manufacturers’ Association. http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/NDow/files/TRUAX1.pdf. A TV adaptation was aired on CBS February 14, 1972. A feature film directed by Chris Renaud (b. 1966) with a screenplay by Cinco Paul (b. 1964) and Ken Daurio (b. 1972) was released March 2, 2012. A musical version with music and lyrics by Charlie Fink (b. 1986) ran at the Old Vic in London from December 2, 2015, to January 16, 2016, returned in 2017, and has toured in the U.S.

PB - Random House CY - New York U2 -

Picture book illus. by the author

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Dr. Seuss [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Los Angeles A.D. 2017 Y1 - 1971 A1 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.

PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Popular Library, nd.

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DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Walker Percy (1916-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia located in Louisiana depicting a general collapse of the U.S. with some local institutions surviving. Racial conflict and, at the end, the northern cities with large African American populations have seceded. The protagonist believes himself to be a collateral descendant of Thomas More and regularly refers to him.

PB - Farrar, Straus, & Giroux CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last of the Urbanites" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Coughlan, L.W AB -

Dystopia. Technology and cities are destroyed.

JF - Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - NS 34.2 U5 -

A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Learning in the Age of Wonder" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Lloyd [Arthur] Dennis (1923-2012) ED - Robert F. Nixon KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of future education that is free and individualized and begins with parenting education.

JF - The Guelph Papers PB - Peter Martin Associates CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Visions 2020. Ed. for the Canadian Forum by Stephen Clarkson (Edmonton, AB, Canada: M.G. Hurtig, 1970), 183-88.

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Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leatherjacket. A Thriller Y1 - 1970 A1 - Arthur Wise (1923-83) KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but based around a movement to revive National Socialism.

PB - Weidenfeld and Nicolson CY - London U5 -

CtW, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Back on Illth" Y1 - 1970 A1 - John T. McLeod ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of medicine in the future. Mostly a critique of the past, but describes "one-stop" health care.

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 Lost Continent." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an "Introduction to The Lost Continent" (331-33).

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CNoSt, NLS, PSt, TxCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lustopia Y1 - 1970 A1 - Scott Harford KW - Male author AB -

Erotica describing a commune where all sexual desires can be fulfilled.

PB - Pendulum Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Continent Y1 - 1969 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Advanced blacks from Mars return to Earth and find primitive whites in a tropical Antarctica. Interracial conflict and interracial love.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. Rpt. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 1971.

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CNoS, CU-Riv, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Left Hand of Darkness Y1 - 1969 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. The novel is best known for its depiction of a hermaphrodite or ambisexual (both words are used in the text) society in which the people are neuter most of the time but can become female or male for a period with another person and can both sire and give birth to children. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between two countries on the planet and within each country during the period after initial contact with an envoy from off planet. A related story is her "Winter's King." Orbit 5. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969), 67-88; rev. with the pronouns changed to they in her The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 75-95, which has some revisions (see the note on 75); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 301-16 with an editors' note on 200; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 923-43 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and the original Orbit 5 version (1044-64). See also, 1995 Le Guin, "Coming of Age in Karhide." Three stories by Stevan Allred set in Gethen are “Ib & Nib and the Ice Berries”, “Ib & Nib and the Golden Ring”, and “Ib & Nib and the Hemmens Tree” in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 76-82, 216-223, 358-362.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Also published New York: Walker and Co., 1969. The New York: Ace Books, 1976 edition has an unnumbered six-page introduction by Le Guin which is rpt. in her The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979), 155-59; Rev. ed. ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (London: Women's Press, 1989), 130-34. 1st American ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 150-54. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Kelly Freas with an "Preface" by Joan D. Vinge (v-xiii) and the 1976 "Introduction" by Le Guin xv-xviii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. The 25th anniversary ed. New York: Walker, 1994 contains an important "Afterword" (287-93) and appendices (295-345) concerning the issue of gendered language. The 40th Anniversary ed. London: Gollancz, 2009 includes an "Introductory Note for the 40th Anniversary Edition" (ix-xii), 1995 Le Guin (249-68), "Some Kardish Words, and Two Songs from the Domain of Estre" (269-72), and "Author's working sketch map" (273). The Library of America edition reprints the 1969 Ace Books edition; Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 385-611 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), “Notes” (1090-91), and “Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1023-27). The London: Gollancz, 2017 ed. has an “Introduction” by China Miéville (ix-xii) and the 1976 “Introduction” by Le Guin (xiii-xvii), albeit not identified as such. 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Ace Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by David Mitchell (ix-xiv) and an “Afterword” by Charlie Jane Anders (305-15).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light a Last Candle Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of alien invaders who have created mutated humans. The few normal people are outlaws. The focus of the novel is on the struggle.

PB - Rapp & Whiting CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971

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Vincent King [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward Y1 - 1969 A1 - Kenneth S. Keyes Jr. (1921-95) A1 - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. "Part II A Projection of Our Future" (87-195) is a computer-based eutopia using atomic power. Government replaced by computers. Extensive genetic engineering. Production and distribution computer controlled, and no industrial work for people. Human work is administrative and creative. People sleep little. Extremely healthy with constant automated health checks at home. No Money. The third part, "Looking Forward," is a single chapter, "Education for Change". See also 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.

PB - A.S.Barnes\Thomas Yoseloff CY - South Brunswick, NJ\London U2 -

Designs and illus. Jacque Fresco

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lovely Y1 - 1969 A1 - David Meltzer (1937-2016) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian pornographic series depicting a future bureaucratic, militaristic dystopia in the U.S.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ladies' Day Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal dystopia. Woman had taken over after another war. A revolt of men is put down, but a movement toward equality is beginning.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Moobs Y1 - 1968 A1 - Seymour O. Kopf KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the inhabitants of the Moon, called Moobs, are divided into Royalists and Rebels. The Rebel society is run by a Chief Bureaucrat, who is corrupt and power-hungry. War between Rebels and Royalists. "Spoilers" is a dystopia in which Communists control most of the world and many religious groups were forced to migrate to the moon.

PB - Ptd. by the South China Morning Post CY - Hong Kong U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Starship from Earth Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic dystopia and the struggle against it. Science rules. Everyone is classified according to their talents and can only marry within their caste.

PB - Weybright and Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lines of Power: We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Conflict between two visions of a better life, one technologically based and one off the grid. The law requires that every community above a certain very small size must be provided with electrical power whether it is wanted or not.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 34.5 (204) N1 -

Rpt. as “We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line.” In his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352. Rpt. (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 139-90. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-84. Rpt. Illus. Michael Sorkin. in his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352; rpt. illus. Michael Sorkin (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-83; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 155-222; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 122-81. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Big Mouth: The Story of a Little Girl Who Became Prime Minister Y1 - 1968 A1 - Neil Rowe (1941-2003) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A little girl who talks constantly and becomes known as "Little Big Mouth" but no one listened. When the Prime Minister couldn't talk, she was made PM because she was the only person who could talk constantly and only by talking constantly could politicians ensure that no one listened. She chose to say nothing, which kept the politicians from doing their usual stupid things. When the PM recovered his voice and tried to throw her out, the people rose up and demanded that she become PM; she agreed.

PB - Cockerel Print CY - Wellington, New Zealand U2 -

Illus. Brent Wong

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lucifer Cell Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Ian Campbell] [McDougal KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a background of Britain as occupied by China.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

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William Fennerton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Logan's Run Y1 - 1967 A1 - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) A1 - George Clayton Johnson (1929-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is killed at 21 but those who manage to win a race get to live. See also 1977 and 1980 Nolan, which focus on, Logan, the protagonist.

PB - Dial CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 21-137. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992. 

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of Light Y1 - 1967 A1 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on control of technology by a group ruling as the Hindu pantheon.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2006 with an "Introduction" by George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (vii-xii). Chapter 2 was previously published as "Dawn" and Chapter 3 as "Death and the Executioner." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 32.4, 6 (April, June 1967): 4-36; 4-36. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lords of the Starship Y1 - 1967 A1 - Mark S[ymington] Geston (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of militarism in a post-catastrophe world.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sphere, 1971. Rpt. in his The Books of the Wars (New York: Baen, 2009), 15-205.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Refuge Y1 - 1966 A1 - John Petty (1919-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The countryside has been paved over, and private homes have been replaced with huge apartment blocks.

PB - Ronald Whiting & Wheaton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Loafers of Refuge Y1 - 1965 A1 - Joseph L[ee] Green (b. 1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Blending of two branches of humanity on a distant planet, one stressing technology and one stressing mental control. Problems and possibilities of both but with a particularly sympathetic portrayal of the latter.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Pan, 1967. Earlier version published in New Worlds Science Fiction as "The Colonist." 41.121 (August 1962): 4-34; "The-Old-Man-In-The-Mountain." 44.131 (June 1963): 4-30; and "Refuge." 44.132 (July 1963): 4-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Diaries of Albert Smith Y1 - 1965 A1 - Robert Muller (b. 1925) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which Fascists come to power in Britain.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as After all, this is England. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1967.

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Later ed. as After all, this is England

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let the Spacemen Beware! Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia in that the people of an apparently eutopian planet have a homicidal instinct.

PB - Ace CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1963. 

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DLC, MoU-St, PSt, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Living Gem Y1 - 1963 A1 - Paul [Samuel] Charkin (1907-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a Health Police. There is a small free love sect.

PB - Brown, Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lani People Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[esse] F[ranklin] Bone (1916-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A planet is inhabited by beautiful women who have been bred to perfectly please men and are only happy if completely naked. They are shipped throughout the galaxy.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Transworld, 1962.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Year's Grave Undug" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) ED - Groff Conklin KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that is the result of two fascists fighting for power in the U.S. and destroying it. .

JF - Great Science Fiction by Scientists PB - Collier Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 141-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Life for the Stars Y1 - 1962 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with a dystopia of an Earth depleted of resources with entire cities leaving Earth as physical units to roam space looking for work. The focus of the novel is a young man who is impressed into the work force of a leaving city and then traded to another city.

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

UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Also published in Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.1 - 2 (September - October 1962): 6-51, 111-61. Part of a series collected in his Cities in Flight (New York: Avon, 1970), 131-234. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lovers Y1 - 1961 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an overpopulated theocratic society, which appears to have Islamic roots. In North America, there is only when area, the Hudson Bay Wildlife Preserve, that is not fully built-up. There are rigid controls on all aspects of life, and a minder assigned to individuals. Everyone must wear a hood when eating. Married couples never see each other nude, and sex is considered an unpleasant duty. Uniforms indicate class with badges to indicate rank, and even access to elevators is by rank. The regime is looking for new planets to colonize with no concern for the indigenous populations. Most people are specialists, and the protagonist is a linguist who is sent to one such planet with the avowed purpose of learning about the indigenous population. But his real mission is to find and excuse for exterminating them. The dystopia provides the background to a story about interspecies love.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Rev. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979; rpt. New York: Ballantine, 1980. Earlier short version under the same title in Startling Stores 27.1 (August 1952): 12-63; rpt. in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 55-141.

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PPT, PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life on Mars" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Werner [Wernher Magnus Maximilian] Von Braun (1912-77) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on Mars based on unlimited electrical power.

JF - This Week Magazine (New York Herald Tribune) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Division Y1 - 1959 A1 - Anthony [Ronald St. Martin] Delius (1916-89) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Poem. The first section briefly describes a technological eutopia and asks the question, “What happened to that curious lot/Of legislators in that Southern Land?” (5). The first Canto that follows is a satire on the stupidities of the human race and ends by focusing on South Africa and apartheid. The rest of the poem is a satire on South African politics. One of the politicians is Satan and takes all of them to Hell. 

PB - Human & Rousseau CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Level 7 Y1 - 1959 A1 - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. government, preparing for nuclear war, builds many fallout shelters at various levels, with level one for civilians, and others for the elite, government officials, and the military. Level 7 is the deepest and designed for those who will push the buttons to send the missiles. The novel is presented as a diary by X-127, one of the button-pushers, and presents the society created. When the war comes, apparently accidentally with automated responses on both sides, the world is destroyed, and the shelters all fail.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1960]. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1962; London: Allison & Busby, 1981. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 1989; and ed. David Seed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Life and A Half" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Frederik George] [Pohl] [Jr.] (1919-2013] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - If Worlds of Science Fiction PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - 8.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Abominable Earthman (New York: Ballantine Books, 1963), 48-54. 

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Paul Flehr [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lunatic Republic Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Edward Montague] Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satiric authoritarian dystopia on the moon, the Lunatic Republic, in which everyone does the same thing at the same time. Names are three letters and a number. The moon had been mostly destroyed by war, which is why the part we see is desolate. On Earth the novel is set after the Chinese, which dominates the Prosperity Union of Asia, defeats of Russia. There is also a Welfare State of Europe, and the U.S. dominates all of North and South America.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Letter" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a technologically oriented society that uses most of the technology for advertising. People live in hives overseen by a Queen Mother and every boy in the hive must marry one of the “Girls Next Door.”

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 16.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 132-44; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 219-32. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 219-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last of the Deliverers" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between Freeborn and Communist communities showing flaws in both systems. The Freeborn community appears to be a capitalist eutopia, but there is very little economic activity.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 14.2 (81) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Living City Y1 - 1958 A1 - Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) KW - US author AB -

Architectural eutopia describing Wright’s eutopias Usonia and Broadacre City. Includes both building designs and layouts for towns and cities plus an argument for the beneficial effects of his ideas. See also his The Disappearing City. New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932; When Democracy Builds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945; and “Broadacre City: An Architect’s Vision.” The New York Times (March 20, 1932): 8.

PB - Horizon Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for 'Eros Y1 - 1957 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) A1 - J[ohn] B[arclay] Pick (1921-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Primarily humor. Satire on a British movement to root out "subversives" similar to that of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-57) in the U.S. that was known as McCarthyism.

PB - Arco CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Language of Love" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting of the story is a future eutopian earth in which the entire landscape is carefully tended, it rains as needed in the middle of the night, and all animals are in zoos. The story is about an inarticulate young man learning the rational language of love of extinct aliens and its effects.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 14.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 369-80; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 375-84; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 253-65 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "License" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 12.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Seven Conquests (New York: Collier Books, 1969), 140-66. UK ed. as Conquests (London: Granada, 1981), 157-86.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lone Star Planet" Y1 - 1957 A1 - H[enry] Beam Piper (1917-81) A1 - John J[oseph] McGuire (1917-1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A planet settled by Texans with an almost anarchist society. The workings of its political and legal systems are presented positively, although with satirical elements.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 7.3 N1 -

Rpt. as A Planet for Texans. New York: Ace Books, 1958. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton (1912-2005), Star Born; and as Lone Star Planet. New York: Ace Books, 1979 with no mention of McGuire. Bound with his Four-Day Planet, which was originally published New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961.

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Rpt. as A Planet for Texans

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The "Lomokome" Papers Y1 - 1956 A1 - Herman Wouk (b. 1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the arms race in which the two countries of Lomokome and Lomadine practice "responsible war" because war is necessary for their economies and morale. Responsible war includes the regular announcement of war by a College of Judges followed by moving to a war economy, the invention but not building of new weapons, voluntary death by young men, the announcement of victory by the College of Judges, and the death of some of the leaders of the losers. Lomokome and Lomadine present themselves as very different but are quite similar. In the "Preface to the Paperback Edition," Wouk says that it was written in 1949 and that "Lomokome" is Hebrew for Utopia or Nowhere.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1968. Also published illus. Bernard Perlin in Collier's 137.4 (February 17, 1956): 69-84. The illustrations in the book and magazine versions are completely different but the texts are identical.

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Illus. Harry Bennett.. Collier's illus. Bernard Perlin/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Incorporated" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Earth, exhausted of its natural resources, is a vacation planet selling true love (by hypnotizing the women), vicarious violence, and sexual perversion.

JF - Playboy VL - 3.9 N1 -

Rpt. as "Pilgrimage to Earth." Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 209-20; U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 209-20; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-18; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 347-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life, Incorporated" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Alice Eleanor Jones (1916-81) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia where everyone knows their life span is visited by a thief from Earth who temporarily brings corruption.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 3.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Orphan Android" Y1 - 1955 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which androids and robots almost completely control humans and wipe human memories for disobedience. A small group of humans begin to educate themselves so that they can regain power over their lives. One theme is consumer androids developed to keep industrial society consuming goods at the highest possible level, which is similar to 1954 Pohl, "The Midas Plague."

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect (New York: Bantam Books, 1964), 17-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Live in Amity" Y1 - 1955 A1 - D. A. Jourdon AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia.

JF - Science Fiction Stories VL - 5.6 U2 -

Illus. [Frank Kelly] Freas (1922-2005)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Tomorrow Y1 - 1955 A1 - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After an atomic war the New Mennonites become powerful because they know how to survive on the land. They pass the thirtieth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads "No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." Other religious groups are even more extreme than the New Mennonites. There is a small, threatened enclave that hopes to bring back the old technology.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Long Way Home" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging authoritarian dystopia with Anderson’s usual libertarian themes in opposition

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 55 N1 -

Repub. London: Panther, 1975. US ed. New York: Ace Books, 1978. Abridged ed. as No World of Their Own. New York: Ace Books, 1955; and New York: Ace Books, 1955 as an Ace Double bound with Isaac Asimov's The Thousand-Year Plan. Original Title: Foundation, abridged from New York: Gnome, 1951; rpt. as The Long Way Home. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction" (v-vi) by the author. The copyright page says that the book is a reprint of the Ace edition; Anderson's introduction says that it restores the Astounding Science Fiction version. Anderson's version is correct.

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DLC, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Beyond Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lin Yutang (1895-1976) KW - Chinese author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed conservative eutopia based on classical Greek models on an island in the mid-Pacific set in the early 21st century. Stress on traditional gender relations. Outside World War IV has ended, and the Democratic World Commonwealth tries to maintain peace.

PB - Prentice-Hall CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Unexpected Island. London: William Heinemann, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love and Lunacy: A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts Y1 - 1955 A1 - Peter Philp (1920-2006) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The three acts take place in Atlantis in the remote past, on an island in the near future, and on Luna and Earth in the remote future. Atlantis is vaguely utopian, but, in the play, it is primarily the setting for a "peace conference" among the major powers of the time, which ends with Zeus's destruction of Atlantis. The second and third acts are dystopian, with another failed peace conference followed by an authoritarian regime on the moon. The play ends with the death of the dictator.

PB - J. Garnet Miller CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Laminated Woman" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which women regularly change their skin and hair color and body shape.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 2.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last of the Masters" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between the last of the robots that had dominated an authoritarian system and the anarchist league that overthrew them.

JF - Orbit Science Fiction VL - 1.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Ed. Patricia Warrick and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), 103-28; in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 3 The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 75-99. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 3 Second Variety (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1991), 75-99; in The Early Work of Philip K. Dick. Volume Two: Breakfast at Twilight & Other Stories. Series ed. Gregg Rickman ([Rockville, MD]: Prime Books, 2009), 97-131, with a note on the story on 283; in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954]. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 93-122; and illus. Blair Gauntt in AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1]. Ed. Dana Rich (Victor, IA: Obsolete Press, 2014), 93-124.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Way Back Y1 - 1954 A1 - Margot M. Bennett (1912-80) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia of science in Africa whose explorers discover primitive life in Britain.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of the Flies Y1 - 1954 A1 - William Golding (1911-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Children left alone on a island revert to a violent, primitive existence showing that civilization is only a veneer.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. Rpt. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999. 50th anniversary ed. New York: Berkley, 2004. Rpt. New York: Penguin Books, 2016 with a “Foreword” by Lois Lowry (xi-xv), an “Introduction” by Stephen King (xvii-xxii) rpt. from the London: Faber & Faber, 2011 edition, “On Reading and Teaching Lord of the Flies” by Jennifer Buehler (263-76), “Suggestions for Further Exploration” by Jennifer Buehler (277-93), “Introduction to the 1962 Edition” by E.M. Forster (295-300), and “Notes on Lord of the Flies from the 1959 Edition” by E[dmund] L. Epstein (301-07). Films in 1963 directed and with a screenplay by Peter Brook (b. 1925) and in 1990 directed by Harry Hook with the screenplay by Jay [Jacqueline] Presson Allen (1932-2006) writing as Sara Schiff [pseud.]. A TV takeoff on the book appeared as on “Das Bus.” The Simpsons. Season 9, Episode 14 (February 15, 1998), written by David S. Cohen in which Bart, Lisa and other children from Springfield Elementary School are stranded on an island and are forced to work together. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lovers in Mars Y1 - 1954 A1 - Lucile Palmer KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian Mars that is extremely wealthy due to very advanced technology, an elaborate eugenic program, and a limited population. The focus of the novel is on the group marriage system, which is unappealing to the young lovers from earth.

PB - Sargent House Publishers CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lady With a Past" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Irving E[ngland] Cox Jr. (1917-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Earth a rational eutopia based on More's Utopia.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction VL - 5.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Land of the Matriarchs" Y1 - 1953 A1 - E. Bruce Yachen KW - Male author AB -

Standard sexist gender-role reversal satire.

JF - Fantastic Adventures VL - 15.3 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 - The Lost Valley Y1 - 1953 A1 - Hector Hawton (1901-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Adventure novel with elements similar to 1933 Hilton.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love Among the Ruins; A Romance of the Near Future. With decorations by varying eminent hands including the author's Y1 - 1953 A1 - Evelyn [Arthur St. John] Waugh (1903-66) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a dreary dingy life in the welfare state. Reformatories are the best place to live and within them the best places go to murderers followed by sex offenders.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Very slightly shorter version illustrated by Mervyn Peake published in Lilliput 32.6 (May-June 1953): 73-96.

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Adam Y1 - 1952 A1 - Ronald [Frederick Henry] Duncan (1914-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of being the last man, but the last man finds the last woman. He chooses not to repopulate the world.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Days of Shandakor” Y1 - 1952 A1 - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an inhabited Mars, and Shandakor is the eutopian city of Mars’s past, now in its last stages.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 25.3 N1 -

Rpt.  without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 346-52 with an editor’s note on 346. 

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Illus. Alex Schomburg

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Limbo Y1 - 1952 A1 - Bernard Wolfe (1915-85) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After a world war that has destroyed most countries, the U.S. becomes the center for men voluntarily amputating limbs to stop them from waging war. The prosthetics are very advanced and are perceived as enhancing human abilities. War resumes anyway. 

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Illus. London: Gollancz, 2016 xi + 413 pp. , with an “Introduction to Bernard Wolfe” by Harlan Ellison® (ix-xi) (Excepts had appeared in Again, Dangerous Visions. Ed Harlan Ellison. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972; other excerpts originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times (September 23, 1974); and an “Introduction to Limbo by David Pringle (1-2) Originally published in Science Fiction: The 100 best novels: An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984. Ed. David Pringle (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1985); New York: Ace Books, [1963]; and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987. U.K. ed. as Limbo ‘90. London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. 438 pp.

A story that became part of the novel is “Self Portrait.” Illus. Martin Schneider. Galaxy Science Fiction 3.2 (November 1951): 58-83.

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U.K. ed as Limbo '90

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Illlus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lion's Mouth" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After an alien invasion, children are brainwashed to become the enforcers of the alien rule. They regularly review people, including their relatives, and the story is about such a situation, but ends with some escaping and finding a better society being established in the countryside.

JF - Fantastic Adventures VL - 14.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Looking Forward: An Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Milton [S.] Lesser (New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1953), 195-210.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord Lollypop: A Timely Allegory Y1 - 1952 A1 - Hope Robertson Norburn AB -

Satirical anti-communist poem.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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DLC, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Story" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Kendall Foster] [Crossen] (1910-81) ED - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which children in the United States discover that their parents tell them one thing and then behave differently and decide that what they are told is the truth. They then kill all the adults. The story is set many years later depicts the results.

JF - Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction PB - Greenberg/Ambassador Books CY - New York/Toronto, ON, Canada U3 -

Christopher Monig [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Luckiest Man in Denv" Y1 - 1952 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. People live in huge high-rise buildings with their status determining how high they live. Constant war. The story focuses on intrigue in trying to move up the building.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Mindworm (London: Joseph, 1955), 188-202; in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 179-93; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 151-63; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 70-82; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 70-83; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 108-17. Merril, MoU-St, PSt

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by Simon Eisner [pseud.]

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Story" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Alexander Samuelson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which an overly rational society destroys fiction.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 24.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Late Final Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Joseph Walter] [Cove] (b. 1891) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the human race has relapsed into barbarianism.

PB - J.M. Dent CY - London U3 -

Lewis Gibbs [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Forgotten Women Y1 - 1950 A1 - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian lost race matriarchy that practices human sacrifice.

PB - Skeffington and Son CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Let Freedom Ring" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that drafts men to almost certain death.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 24.4 N1 -

Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). Also rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (New York), no. 23 (February 1972): 4-48. U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), [no. 1] (nd): 90-134. 

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CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Black Bag" Y1 - 1950 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A medical bag from an obviously medically eutopian future accidently appears in a contemporary slum and transforms the lives of the doctor who cared for the slum dwellers even though he had been prohibited from practicing and the people of the slum. Then the future takes the bag back.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 44.5 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 415-21 with an editor’s note on 415.

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Illus. [Edd (Edward Daniel)] Cartier (2009)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Space Ship Y1 - 1949 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Technology that allows government to punish selected individuals at a distance leads to universal tyranny. Emphasis on a successful revolt.

PB - Frederick Fell CY - New York U3 -

Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Late Night Final" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 42.4 N1 -

Rpt in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 287-313.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Times of the Shmoo Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Alfred Gerald] [Caplin] (1909-79 KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Comic strip. The Shmoo is a creature who provides all the food anyone wants, thus producing a classic Cockaigne. The strips recount the eutopia produced, the troubles this gives rise to, and the attempts of government and business to destroy the Shmoo. Other Shmoo material includes Gerald Marks and Al Capp, Shmoo Songs. New York: Bristol Music Corp., 1949 [held by the Los Angeles Public Library]; and a series of Hanna-Barbera films in 1979 (Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo) and 1987-88 (sixteen films). See also Al Capp, The Return of the Shmoo. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Rpt. as “The Shmoo: 1959.” In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 93-143; rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Convoy Publications, 1949. Rpt. as "The Shmoo: 1948." In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 1-93. All the strips rpt. in Al Capp's Shmoo: The Complete Newspaper Strips. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2011. See also Al Capp's Shmoo Comics, no. 1 - 5 (July 1949 - April 1950). 5 vols. New York: Toby Press, 1949 - 50 [held by Michigan State University]. Some rpt. in Washable Jones and the Shmoos, no. 1 (June 1953) [all published. Held by Michigan State University]. Rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.

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Al Capp [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lottery" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Shirley Jackson (1916-65) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which each year every community chooses one person by lot to be stoned to death in the belief that this will make for a better year to come.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 24.18 SN - 9781598530728 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1949), 291-302; in ovels and Stories: The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Other Stories and Sketches. Ed Joyce Carol Oates (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 227-35; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 3-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 3-10; and illus. Garrett Grove. The New Yorker 96.21 (July 27, 2020): 50-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Things" Y1 - 1946 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future society perceived as a dystopia by the hero. In fact, it is a society designed to avoid war, and thus is a eutopia, but secrecy and some authoritarianism are necessary to achieve this end.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 29.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Bypass to Otherness (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 101-14. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Living Lies" Y1 - 1946 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Racial dystopia on Venus where there are many different skin colors.

JF - New Worlds: A Science Fiction Magazine of the Future VL - no. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in Other Worlds Science Stories 2.4 (8) (November 1950): 96-130.

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John Beynon [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Government; or, Do You Really Like It? A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups Y1 - 1945 A1 - Jiri Weiss (1913-2004) KW - Czech author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. After World War II a government in exile returns, finds that the people have taken over and have no need for them, and leaves.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lights Were Going Out Y1 - 1944 A1 - Arthur Guirdham (1905-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia that will follow peace without victory with the National Socialists gaining influence over Britain and the U.S.

PB - Quality Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let's Triumvirate or Man, Government and Happiness. A Philosophy of Man and a World-Wide Government Founded Upon Laws of Nature Y1 - 1943 A1 - Oswald Francis Zahn (b. 1874) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on Uupolach or the universal urge principle of love and happiness, which is ". . . a strong desire or urge for, a thrilling, joyous ecstasy or emotion of order, harmony, concord, betterment, pleasure, happiness, contentment, universal love, charity, kindness and gratitude" (18). Argues that there is evidence of a former eutopia on Earth. The first step to the new eutopia is "honest information", and he gives "A Code for Honest Information" (235-55). The new "Triumvirate System" will divide the world into equal parts (suggested maps are provided), with various subdivisions so that every voter (all adults) will know personally the person they vote for.

PB - Author CY - San Diego, CA 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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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man Y1 - 1940 A1 - Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of being the last man, but the last man finds the last woman, so they think. He battles another man, and then they discover a group beginning to rebuild what they hope will be a better world.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as No Other Man. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1940. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1946.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale Y1 - 1940 A1 - Douglas [Frank Lambert] Brown (1921-64) A1 - Christopher Serpell (1910-91) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II. New Zealand narrator.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale. London: Pub. for The British Publishers Guild by Faber and Faber, 1941. There are small differences between the editions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lord of Tranerica" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Hereditary dictatorship in a supposedly computer-perfect, business-based, and leisure-oriented society set in the 25th century. Robots do all the work, and there are mechanical judges that decide cases and sentences. Tranerica is North and South America combined.

JF - Dynamic Science Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 1.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1966.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Act (A.D. 1995)” Y1 - 1937 A1 - F[rank] L[aurence] Lucas (1894-1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the world is divided between those nations subservient to Japan (Asia to the Urals and Australasia) and Germany (Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa), with the Pan-American Union between them. The story details the dystopia as it exists in the areas controlled by Germany and ends with the human race destroyed.

JF - The Woman Clothed With the Sun and Other Stories PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Love Starved World Y1 - 1937 A1 - Jacob Leon Pritcher KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with emphases on good medical care, a healthy sex life, and eugenics.

PB - The Yale Pub. Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Civilization: A Story of Adventure in Central Australia Y1 - 1936 A1 - Val[entine Voltaire] Heslop (1894-1936) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race utopia in the center of Australia. A scientifically advanced society with similarities to both ancient Egypt and the Mayans. Vegetarian. Peaceful. Use Telepathy. There is an authoritarian monarch and vestal virgins, who cannot marry. All work for the good of the community and all needs are provided. Men marry whom they choose; women not consulted. Believe in a Supreme Being. Equality except for a few nobles. Standard evil High Priest, prohibited love, adventure, some escape. 

PB - St. George Pub. Coy CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Paradise" Y1 - 1936 A1 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story in the author’s series about the character Northwest Smith in which he visits the far past when the inhabited moon was called Seles and in a golden age. 

JF - Weird Tales VL - 28.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land Under England Y1 - 1935 A1 - [John] Joseph O'Neill (1886-1953) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race dystopia of a Roman civilization under England in which all but a few people are absorbed mentally into the whole. Children are taught only what they need to know for their station in life.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. Rpt. with an “Introduction” by Anthony Storr (1-4). Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1981. 

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With a Foreword by A.E. [George William Russell].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laughing Buccaneer Y1 - 1935 A1 - Will[iam] Lawson (1876-1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Amazons enslave men but a white man conquers and enslaves the women.

PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle on the cover A Romantic Story of the South Seas. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Frank Johnson, [1942].Also published as a supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly 6.17 (October 1, 1938): 1-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lift Up Your Eyes Y1 - 1935 A1 - Ambrose [Goddard Hesketh] Pratt (1874-1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious eutopia, mostly seen in the planning stages. Orphans are educated to be missionaries.

PB - Robertson & Mullens CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Landslide Y1 - 1934 A1 - Monica [Mary] Curtis (1892-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Political novel set in an alternative future in which nothing was done after World War I to support the peace and another brief war followed that united Europe as the Confederation of Western Powers, which continued after the war under a leader who became a dictator.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Lemuel Gulliver in Distia. (Omitted from all published editions of the famous Travels')" Y1 - 1934 A1 - R. M. F[reeman] AB -

Political satire about a nude lost race. The nudity is a recent innovation.

JF - Truth Christmas Number 1934 (London) VL - 116 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London Utopia: Democracy in Disarray" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Adelaide Ann] [Boodle] KW - Female author AB -

Presents a utopian experiment of 1750 people in London named Cosmopolitan House or London Utopia with restaurants, gymnasium, indoor pool, library, nursery, and so forth. Various nationalities represented and one goal was to overcome national animosities.

PB - MS. University of Missouri-St. Louis CY - Birmingham, Eng. U3 -

Barbeque [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost City of Light Y1 - 1934 A1 - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is about the quest by a descendant of the Templars for a lost Christian city, during which he is captured and taken to a dystopian Chinese city that has enslaved the Christians, who are allowed, at night, to live in their own city and govern themselves. He leads them to freedom.

PB - Frederick Warne CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Japs and Jews Y1 - 1933 A1 - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a future war story, but it begins in 2940 when all Jews have been eliminated and whites are slaves. The world is under the control of China, India, and Turkey with the Western Hemisphere a protectorate of these three inhabited by its indigenous peoples. Includes some of the characters in his other works. See also 1940 and 1946 Cruso.

PB - H.W. Lefkowitz CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Library of the Future” Y1 - 1933 A1 - Angus Snead Macdonald (1883-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian library of the future. 

JF - Library Journal VL - 58.1 - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in a Technocracy; What It Might Be Like Y1 - 1933 A1 - Harold Loeb (1891-1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction that includes a partial description of the social, political and economic changes that would be brought about by technocracy, a system in which engineers and scientist are politically empowered. Emphasis is on the economic dimension. 

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. “With a New Introduction by Howard P. Segal.” Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life in the Year 2106” Y1 - 1933 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief but detailed eutopia.

JF - The Rotarian VL - 43 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Arthur's History of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1933 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Transition to a world state. Satire both on failed experiments and on the uniformity of the future world state. 

PB - J.M. Dent & Sons CY - London N1 -

Parts originally published in Time and Tide 14.6 - 12 (February 11 - March 19, 1933): 141-43; 174-76; 210-12; 243-45; 283-85; 314-16; 351-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Horizon Y1 - 1933 A1 - James Hilton (1900-54) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic lost race eutopia set in Tibet. Longevity.

PB - William Morrow & Co CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. Films directed by Frank Capra (1937) and Charles Jarrott (1973).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Men in London Y1 - 1932 A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Loosely related to 1930 Stapledon, Last and First Men, but, even though it begins with a message from the last humans of two thousand million years in the future, the book is more restricted in scope. The people of this future have both evolved and re-designed themselves to live on Neptune. Children spend their first thousand years in a children's club, which they run, and which includes basic education. The second thousand years is spent on a separate continent, the Land of the Young. There are 96 sub-sexes. Telepathic. More leisure than work with each person specializing. Most of the book is then concerned with the modern world before, during, and after World War I. It then ends back on Neptune and with an "Epilogue" by Stapledon.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1934. There do not appear to be any differences in the editions. First ed. rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an "Introduction" by Curtis C. Smith and Harvey J. Satty (v-xiv). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 11-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Woman" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Thomas S. Gardner (1908-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Last woman and the man who came to love her killed in a world of macho men.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 3.1 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 131-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Liberalism and the Revolutionary Spirit. Address to the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, July 1932” Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World state and the Open Conspiracy (see 1928 Wells), called the X Society and elaborated in the footnote. 

JF - Forward View The Young Liberal’s’ Paper VL - 7.67 N1 -

Rpt. in his After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation (London: Watts & Co., 1932), 1-28. A badly cut version appeared in The Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1932): 393. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Children Y1 - 1931 A1 - H[enry] Herman Chilton (1863-1945) KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although it all turns out to be a dream, the novel describes the eutopia formed where the children were taken by the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Simple life. Arcadian. Crafts.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future Y1 - 1930 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One of Stapledon’s visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species. It begins with an Introduction by One of the Last Men and then moves initially to World War I and after and the relatively near future. It then traces humanity through millions of years with both eutopian and dystopian periods to the end where a eutopian cosmic consciousness is developing and humans as such will disappear. Loosely related is 1932 Stapledon, Last Men in London.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as by W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon with editorial cuts and “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3). Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 1-220; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 1-220; and in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 1-246, which includes “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3) and “Preface to the English Edition (9). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 3-11; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 436-52, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 434-35. Chapter IX: Earth and Mars in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 57-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Garden Y1 - 1930 A1 - Geo[rge] Cecil Foster (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Golden Ages at various times and places beginning with Atlantis and ending in the contemporary world. None are quite as “golden” as the myth suggests.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Wallace G[eorge] West (1900-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Sexless women rule a dull and dying world.

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 3.11 N1 -

Rpt. in Amazing Stories 40.5 (April 1966): 64-87; and in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 104-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief depiction of a future eutopia based on a rural world-wide democracy.

JF - Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY) VL - 4.9 N1 -

Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp, and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 9-13; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 23-28 with an editor’s note on 23.

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Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light In the Sky Y1 - 1929 A1 - Herbert Clock (1890-1979) A1 - Eric Boetzel KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that is more of a eutopia than many. Descendants of the Aztecs who are advanced scientifically live in caverns under Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. They do not die and use both a spoken language and telepathy. The people live well, and there is a project designed to end war everywhere. As in most lost race novels, a struggle takes place and the protagonist and the princess escape while the society is destroyed.

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Husbands" Y1 - 1928 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Minor gender-role reversal story. Seventy-foot-tall Amazons with normal sized husbands.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light from Sealonia Y1 - 1927 A1 - Arthur W. Barker KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure but includes a lost race eutopia at the North Pole with a racist theme. “The Nodolians are not our equals, and their tainted blood would soon contaminate your racial purity, for history proves that they are not assimilable” (83).

PB - The Four Seas Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lamentations of a New Jeremiah. Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Appointed to be Read Surreptitiously in Churches Y1 - 1926 A1 - Herbert Vivian (1865-1940) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on England using the form of a jeremiad.

PB - Allen and Unwin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Brentano’s, 1926?.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lucullus The Food of the Future Y1 - 1926 A1 - Olga Hartley A1 - Mrs. C. F. [Hilda] Leyel (1880-1957) KW - Female author AB -

Future history ending in a eutopia. Considerable satire presented through a speech by a scholar in the far future. First vegetarians win the day; then Neo-Vegetarians, who won't eat plants; then scientists create chemical food. A backlash against science occurs when Glasgow is destroyed during an experiment and then all science is regulated and begins to develop things that are useful. General decentralization occurs and people return to eating meat.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Latin Blood Y1 - 1925 A1 - [David Graham] [Fischer] KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents two islands -- an authoritarian dystopia and a capitalist eutopia with a good government -- and relations among them. The dystopia is destroyed in a natural disaster.

PB - Authors Pub. Corp CY - Hollywood, CA U3 -

? [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward Y1 - 1925 A1 - Arthur Williams KW - Male author AB -

Detailed cooperative, democratic eutopia with a new world constitution with five national governments and an international government. All property to be under the control of the governments.

PB - Author CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lysistrata: Or, Woman's Future and Future Woman With a Foreword by Norman Haire, Ch.M., M.B. Y1 - 1925 A1 - Anthony M[ario] Ludovici (1882-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the short book is about the current position from a conservative viewpoint. The last chapters “Woman’s Future” (66-90) and “Future Woman” (91-125) project as the better future women staying home, caring for the husbands, and raising children.

PB - K. Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1925. 

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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 - "The Lost Car" Y1 - 1924 A1 - James J. Hayden KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of New Hellas (later just Hellas), a society of four million square miles in the Southern Hemisphere descended from classical Greece, which has chosen to remain isolated until the rest of the world becomes peaceful The story includes both a description of the eutopia by an outsider and a history of the eutopia by a resident. No poverty because land cannot be privately owned, and everyone works. Taxation based on the use of the land, which covers all costs. A brief vignette at the end set in 3003 AD shows contact between the Hellenes and future, peaceful humanity with wings but no legs.

JF - Odds and Ends (Miscellaneous Writings) PB - Privately ptd. [Plimpton Press] CY - ([Norwood, MA] N1 -

In his "Note The Lost Car" (xvii-xxi) the author says that the story was originally published in "over a dozen installments" in the "Journal", previously the Sewanee Banner (presumably Sewanee, OH). No such paper appears to survive.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Millionaire; A Tale of the Old World and the New Y1 - 1923 A1 - Duncan Campbell KW - Male author AB -

Nationalization of land and a limit on income brings a eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lavender Dragon Y1 - 1923 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A delightful satire with a rational, vegetarian dragon and a rather dull knight. The dragon creates a eutopia by picking up unhappy people and children from the area and bringing them to an isolated area where they create a eutopia of equality without money. Includes a reflection, by the dragon, on the positive and negative aspects of human hope and dreaming.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Chord: A Description of the Future Society Y1 - 1922 A1 - Carl M. Ofsthun (b. 1885?) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Cooperative commonwealth and workers' control.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lolly-pop Land. A Poem" Y1 - 1921 A1 - Minna B. Noyes KW - Female author AB -

A children's cockaigne. The Brownies' Book was a periodical for African-American children founded in 1920 by W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1868-1963).

JF - The Brownies' Book VL - 2.4 (16) N1 -

Rpt. in facsimile in The Best of the Brownies' Book. Ed. Dianne Johnson Feelings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 316-17.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Whereisit Y1 - 1919 A1 - Henry E[rnest] Boote (1868-1949). KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian allegory in which God teaches lessons to the leaders of a country who are only concerned with maintaining their power and benefiting themselves.

PB - Judd Publishing Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" Y1 - 1919 A1 - John Cournos (1881-1966). KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.

JF - The Nineteenth Century and After VL - 85 N1 -

Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Limit" Y1 - 1917 A1 - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Gender-role reversal set in 2676. Having returned to a set of villages, London is presented in eutopian terms.

JF - Red Magazine (London) VL - 34.204 U3 -

Reid Whitly [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laborers' Catechism: The Open Road to the New Utopia Y1 - 1913 A1 - Thomas Jefferson Sandford KW - Male author AB -

Literally a catechism with questions and answers. Proposes various reforms in the financial and political systems that produce a eutopia and provides apparently fictional examples of the results of specific reforms. A new voting system is designed to include all the proposed voting reforms of the time. New system of taxation at 2% per year on personal and real property.

PB - The Society for the True Republic CY - St. Paul, MN N1 -

2nd ed. The Laborers' Catechism: or The Wide Way to a New Republic. New York: The Society for the True Republic, 1914; 3rd ed 1916; 4th ed. 1928 New York with the 2nd ed. title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days; or, Time of the End! Nearness of "The Great and Dreadful Day." Tribulations to Come! Armageddon--A Descent on Palestine--The Dominions to the Rescue--Russia and Turkey to be Overthrown--"Babylon" and "The Beast"--Germany and Japan's Action. The Millennium! Christ's Coming--His Kingdom on Earth--Conversion of the Jews--"My Servant David" of England--His Reign at Jerusalem Y1 - 1913 A1 - J[ohn] Liddell Kelly (1850-1925) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia of British Israelism with the Second Coming of Christ being a member of the British Royal Family. 1928 will be the end of the current age and the beginning of the Reign of Righteousness.

PB - Ptd. for the Author by The Wanganui Chronicle CY - Wanganui, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in Heine and the Apocalypse. some poetry and prose by John Liddel Kelly. an edition prepared by F[rank] W[illiam] Nielsen Wright (Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand: Cultural and Political Booklets, 1997), 55-103 with "An Afternote on Kelly's The Last Days by F[rank] W[illiam] Nielsen Wright" (104-111).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Wicket Gate. An Experience ex nihilo Y1 - 1913 A1 - Petworth, Algernon KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia with problems, primarily population pressure. Religion. Equality of the sexes. Marriage for life. Three-and-a-half-hours workday. No money. No prisons. Stress on self-expression.

PB - A.C. Fifield CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward: A Study in Social Justice Looking to Co-operation as Offering the Solution of Difficulties Y1 - 1913 A1 - Isaac Roberts KW - Male author AB -

Cooperative eutopia presented through the reports of various conferences from the present until the establishment of the eutopia. Equal suffrage for women is the first step. Cooperation is seen as an expression of Christianity.

PB - Roberts & Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward. The Strange Experience of the Rev. Fergus McCheyne Y1 - 1913 A1 - Rev. Hugh Pedley B.A., D.D. (1852-1923) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The United Church of Canada, which was created in 1925, has brought about eutopia by becoming deeply involved in the community and leading on both practical and moral issues. 

PB - William Briggs CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love of Meltha Laone; or, Beyond the Sun Y1 - 1913 A1 - David Leroy Stump KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This is a much-expanded ed. of 1896 Stump at the end of which the protagonist's interest in Meltha Laone is mentioned but not developed. Detailed eutopia set on a planet on the opposite side of the sun. No money. Technology. “Everybody has all of everything they need and can use and consume. . .” (33). Stress on the family. No pets. Refers to a related work entitled A Romance of Two Planets that appears to be lost.

PB - Roxburgh Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lady Ermyntrude and the Plumber; A Love Tale of MCMXX Y1 - 1912 A1 - Percy [Arthur Perceval] Fendall (1850-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

The Great Compulsory Work Act requires that everyone work. For example, the monarch is paid by the job for ceremonial duties, and the Queen takes in paying guests. No House of Lords. Illegal to give credit.

PB - S. Swift CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: S. Swift, 1919

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life--the Jade Y1 - 1912 A1 - Martin H[enry] Potter (1871-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a substance that granted immortality. Set between its discovery in 1921 and the rediscovery of the need to love and bear children in 2021.

PB - Everett & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady Y1 - 1912 A1 - Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) KW - Female author AB -

Humorous eutopia describing the joys and pitfalls of love. Arkady, the capital and chief city of Arcadia, is “the Mecca of all Lovers” (1). In Dan Cupid’s Heartware shop, broken hearts can be repaired while you wait (54). 

PB - Frederick A. Stokes Co. CY - New York U2 -

Illus. A.D. Blashfield. Maps. George W. Hood. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laws of Leflo Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Beatrice May Butt] [Allhusen] (1853-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Leflo is a lost colony in Africa that has been isolated for over a century. The community was established with very strict laws that were to be followed to the letter. The result was a peaceful community, but the negative effects outweighed the positive. An example is that at eighteen girls must choose to marry or not. They are provided for by the community whatever their choice, but if they choose not to they wear distinctive dress and can never marry. Much of the novel is romance.

PB - John Ouseley CY - London U3 -

The Author of Miss Molly [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of the Blow (After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others.)" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gulliveriana. The protagonist visits a number of countries which provide the basis for wide-ranging satire, particularly on religion, capitalism, and politics.

JF - Collected Works PB - Neale Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 89-196; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 32-74. According to Joshi and Schultz "The Land of the Blow" is composed of a number of short stories previously published as follows: "Sons of the Fair Star." San Francisco Examiner (June 10, 1888): 11; "An Interview with Gnarmag-zote" (published as "The Golampians." San Francisco Examiner (November 24, 1889): 11; "The Tamtonians: Some Account of Politics in the Uncanny Islands." San Francisco Examiner (November 11, 1888): 9; "Marooned on Ug." San Francisco Examiner (February 20), 1898): 18; "The War with Wug." San Francisco Examiner (September 11, 1898), 20; "The Dog in Ganewag." New York American (May 12, 1904): 14; "A Conflagration in Gharagarod." Cosmopolitan (New York) (February 1906): 457-58; "An Execution in Batrugia." from "A Letter from Btrugumian." New York American (April 30, 1903): 16; "Small Contributions." Cosmopolitan (New York) (May 1907): 96-97; "The Jumjum of Gokeetle-guk" (published as "Trustland: A Tale of a Traveller"). San Francisco Examiner (November 19, 1899): 15; and "The Kingdom of Tortirra." San Francisco Examiner (April 22, 1888): 12.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Persecution Y1 - 1909 A1 - S[idney] N[ewman] Sedgwick (1872-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A successful Chinese invasion of Europe is possible due to a falling away from God. A religious revival brings the overthrow of the Chinese.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars. Together with an Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann Y1 - 1909 A1 - James B[radun] Alexander (1831-1914) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presents a variety of pictures of the future. In the main eutopia a reformed government for the United States is shown, which puts more power in the House of Representatives. Strict control of population. People have an instinct to work for the community and to respect others. In one the single tax system is tried and fails. 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 - Np CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Generation: A Story of the Future Y1 - 1908 A1 - James [Herman] Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia produced by trying to achieve eutopia. People stopped producing children in order to live better. Horrors of the last generation.

PB - New Age Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Prose (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), 1-32; rpt. (London: William Heinemann, 1922), 1-32; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 46-64, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 44-45. Expanded version of a story first published in his privately printed The Best Man. Eights Weeks, 1906. Oxford: np, 1906), 9-13. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legions of the Dawn. A Novel Y1 - 1908 A1 - [G. H.] [Davis] KW - UK author AB -

Gender-role reversal set in a hidden area of Africa with some satire but presented somewhat more positively than most such fiction in that one of the men chooses to stay.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Volume 2 Fictions of a Feminist Future. Ed. Kate Macdonald (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 1-67 with “Commentary on the Texts” (267-74, 285) and “Editorial Notes” (287-96). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Liberators; A Story of Future American Politics Y1 - 1908 A1 - Isaac N. Stevens (1858-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the nationalization of utilities and railroads. The attention of the book focuses on one individual who fights throughout the entire time for these changes, including battles in the streets and almost class war. The ultimate conversion of one of the capitalists due to the love of his daughter for this man is the key to getting the railroad bill passed.

PB - B.W. Dodge & Company CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Nella Fountain Binkley.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed Y1 - 1908 A1 - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

1908 Rosewater, Frank (1856-1934). Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed. Chicago, IL: Century Publishing Co. NN

Proposes what he calls “Centrism,” a two-money system, one used by buyers the other by sellers, which is given when receiving money. The system will require that money be spent. No usury. See also 1894, 1908 Rosewater, The Making of a Millennium, 1917, 1920, and 1924 Rosewater.

PB - Century Publishing Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Lord of Lands Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Percival] Ramsey Benson KW - Male author AB -

Formation of an intentional community for a group of poor people from a city with the usual trials and tribulations.

PB - Henry Holt & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Mars: An Extraordinary Communication Y1 - 1907 A1 - Will[iam] Ford KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A conversation with a man from Mars, who lectures the man from Earth on the failings of Earth and describes a eutopian Mars. Earth is primarily faulted for its religious superstitions, its class system, and the way it chooses its leaders. Mars stresses reason/knowledge, has no money and no competition, is egalitarian (including economic, gender, and racial equality), is spiritually advanced and can communicate with the dead, and has evolved past war. Politically it is described as scientific anarchism and has evolved past socialism, although socialism is described as better than the Earth's competitive capitalism.

PB - Ptd. for the Proprietor by the Co-operative Printing Works CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U1 -

Cover adds The Dawn of a New Civilization in Harmony With the Seven Laws of Nature.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Limit of Wealth Y1 - 1907 A1 - Alfred L. Hutchinson KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which a limit on wealth is the solution to all social problems. Stresses morality.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of the World Y1 - 1907 A1 - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) after split between secular humanism and the Roman Catholic Church. See 1911 Benson for an alternative future.

PB - Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908; New York: Arno Press, 1975; South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2001; and in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 101-481, with a brief note by the editor (97-99).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Hath Wings. Time: 2007" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Henry Fletcher (1856-1932) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic marriage laws enforced by the Sydney Marriage Bureau of the Co-operative Commonwealth in conflict with love. Hygienic clothes for all. Notes that for all the control of marriage, most people had false teeth and had to wear glasses.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Nison Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Charles Percy] [Sanger] (1871-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nison means no sin and generally the language is simply the reversal of letters. Rule of wisdom. Few institutions. Women are considered to be inferior to men.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U3 -

C. Regnas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward; The Phenomenal Progress of Electricity in 1912 Y1 - 1906 A1 - H[arry] W. Hillman (b. 1870) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia by 1912 through cooperation and electricity. Based on 1888 Bellamy.

PB - Valley View Publishing Company CY - Northampton, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Unreason. A Satire Y1 - 1905 A1 - Dean Gulliver [pseud.] AB -

Satire on British life using the imaginary country approach.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall & Co CY - London U3 -

Dean Gulliver [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laputa Revisited by Gulliver Redivivus in 1905 Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Theophilus Bulkeley] [Hyslop] [M.D.] (1863-1933) KW - Male author AB -

Standard satire. Laputa, the floating island from 1726 Swift, has degenerated, every institution is poorly managed, and contradictions in behavior are common.

JF - 1905 PB - Hirschfeld Brothers CY - London N1 -

3rd ed. London: Hirschfeld Brothers, 1906. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in a Thousand Worlds Y1 - 1905 A1 - Rev. W[illiam] S[huler] Harris (1865-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief pictures of various worlds. Many of the worlds visited are only briefly described with only a few of the characteristics of the inhabitants indicated. Anti-capitalist, particularly concerned with the evils of monopolies and depicting a number of worlds with monopolies. Various worlds are eutopias based on socialist principles, a rigidly enforced moral system, a national health system, or technology. There is repeated stress on the need for non-combustible building materials. Concerned with the religious practices of the planets described. Sexual purity is important. The concluding chapter describes Heaven.

PB - Pub. By G. Holzapfel CY - Cleona, PA N1 -

Sold by subscription only. Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company, 1905; Illus. Sold by subscription only. Boston, MA: James B. Earle & Co., 1906; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971, which reprints the Minter Company edition. All the versions are identical except for the title page. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - London's Transformation; A Suggestive Sketch of Days to Come" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Tems Dyvirta [pseud.] AB -

England and the United States, which becomes a monarchy, are at war. The U.S. invades England. The British aided by Canada and the other colonies invade the U.S. Peace is brought by the Emperor's daughter marrying the King.

JF - Knowledge and Scientific News VL - ns. 2 - 5 (os. 12 - 15) N1 -

Repub. London: King, Sell & Olding, 1906.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light Ahead for the Negroes Y1 - 1904 A1 - E[dward] A[ustin] Johnson (1860-1944) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2006 in an improved but still segregated South, which is presented as a much better situation for African-Americans. Very paternalistic attitudes by whites, so much so that there may be an element of satire. Unions opened to Negroes, and, in separate meetings, to women; the unions train the men, and Schools of Domestic Science were opened to professionally train the women. The first part of the work is a description of the situation of the black at the beginning of the twentieth century (21-98). The economy has been partially nationalized. Blacks and whites “naturally” associate with their own people. Southern cotton plantations bought, broken up, and re-sold to African-Americans at low prices at which time they are given assistance and training. Technologically advanced with electric cars that run on dedicated elevated tracks. In Adam vs. Ape-Man and Ethiopia. Illus. New York: Ptd. by J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1931, he argues that American Negroes are descended from Ethiopians, which were the first civilization in Africa.

PB - Grafton Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 335-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Limanora. The Island of Progress Y1 - 1903 A1 - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Detailed eutopia divided into two books, "The Outer or Material Civilisation" and "The Inner Life of a Self-Selected People". Both technically and spiritually advanced, with spiritual advancement more important than technical. The Limanorans can fly due to a combination of technical advances and re-modeling of their bodies. Concerned with overcoming the physicality of the body. Education lasts fifty plus years. See also 1901 and 1920s Brown.

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

2nd ed. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. No differences between editions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lake of Gold: A Narrative of the Anglo-American Conquest of Europe" Y1 - 1902 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Power of money used for good--free trade, trusts abolished, no strikes or lockouts, arbitration, and no war.

JF - Argosy VL - 41.1 - 42.4 N1 -

Repub. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: F.V. White, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man. A Novel Y1 - 1900 A1 - N[athan] Monroe McLaughlin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 1926 when the U.S. has expanded to fifty states, and it is depicted in eutopian terms. African-Americans are presented as uneducated servants. In this case the last man is the last survivor of the Northern army in the U.S. Civil War, and the novel is primarily his life story. The novel includes one chapter (186-94) describing a colony established for ex-soldiers.

PB - The Neale Company CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let There Be Light; The Story of a Workingmen's Club, Its Search for the Causes of Poverty and Social Inequality, Its Discussions, and Its Plan for the Amelioration of Existing Evils Y1 - 1900 A1 - David Lubin (1849-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious belief and practice will bring about a eutopia based on equality and justice. The novel follows the trajectory of a workingman's club over eight months, reporting the talks given at the club.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Letters from New America; or an Attempt at Practical Socialism Y1 - 1900 A1 - Clark Edmund Persinger (b. 1873) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia. Everyone is employed by the government and all property is public. Advancement is through the civil service and complaints about service limits such advancement. Slums removed and good and varied housing built. Cities are all mid-size to combine the advantages of city and country living. Churches are not regulated, and there is a free press as well as government sponsored newspapers. Public education from kindergarten through college and then three years of technical training. Stress on individual variety and the need to keep the system flexible to take this into account.

PB - Charles H. Kerr & Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life-Theory and Socialism: Essays Y1 - 1900 A1 - O. C Ironside AB -

State socialist eutopia.

PB - Milner & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Reason. Showing The First Step The Nation Should Take Toward A Social Order Based On Justice Y1 - 1899 A1 - A[braham] B[enjamin] Franklin KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia with land and all natural resources owned collectively. Much discussion of the need to go off the gold standard. The work is structured as a book within a book with the fictional elements at the beginning and end.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Ahead: Twentieth Century Happenings Y1 - 1899 A1 - H[enry] Pereira Mendes (1852-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Struggle among all religions for control of holy places with arguments for each religion and a decision by a council giving them to the Jews. In the buildup to the conclusion an Anglo-Saxon Confederation of the British Empire and Canada and the U.S. is formed with a federal constitution based on that of the U.S. Also, a document was drawn up by Christians and Jews that established the basis for the eutopia to come. 

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward; A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 Y1 - 1899 A1 - Arthur Bird KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing patriotism and the manifest destiny of the United States. The U.S. governs the entire Western Hemisphere, which is now known as the United States of the Americas and controls the Philippines. English is the universal language. The national capital moves to Mexico but is still known as Washington. The Papacy has moved to Rio de Janeiro. Technologically advanced. Racist with all Blacks transferred to Venezuela. Highly moral tone with, for example, cursing outlawed. Kissing prohibited as dangerous to health.

PB - [Press of L.C. Childs & Son] CY - [Utica, NY] N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 

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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 - The Last War or The Triumph of the English Tongue. A Story of the Twenty-Sixth Century, Compiled from the Official Notes of Newman, Reporter to the President of the United America Y1 - 1898 A1 - S[amuel] W. Odell (1864-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a united Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the English-speaking world dominated by white Anglo-Saxons that have followed the lead of the U.S., which, after the voluntary, supported migration of blacks to Africa, has established a reformed capitalism. Limit on wealth; corporations replaced by large cooperative industries; and everyone is a property-holder with a homestead. Temperance. Eugenic laws and the examination of morals make marriage more difficult, but divorce is easier. The causes of crime have been eliminated. The text, though, is mostly on the preparations for war with a new Holy Empire led by the Czar-pope of the Russian Empire, which the Anglo Saxons win.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legal Revolution of 1902 Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Bert J.] [Wellman] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Populist eutopia. The revolution takes place through calling a constitutional convention to amend the U. S. Constitution, with details given on the amendments. Direct election of the President, Vice-President, and Senate. Graduated income tax. Future amendments possible by a direct vote of the people. Proportional representation. All property held by an individual over $500,000 to revert to the government. Concern to create uniform laws across the country. Nationalization of agriculture with huge irrigated, technologically sophisticated farms.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. incorrectly attributed to William Stanley Child. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Loma; A Citizen of Venus Y1 - 1897 A1 - William Windsor (b. 1857?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on Venus and based on phrenology. Women and men are more nearly equal than they were at the time. Free love with the emphasis on love rather than sex.

PB - Windsor and Lewis CY - St. Paul, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Tribes And The Land of Nod. An Original Natural Gas Story Y1 - 1897 A1 - Artemus P. Kerr (1851-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia in which people rarely ate anything but fruits and vegetables, and men and women wear similar clothing. Simple furniture. Ten large households. Little work needed; men fished, and women did spun and wove. Gold common. The visitor from the outside (brought by a tornado) establishes a school to teach English and then various technologies that introduce complexity and conflict.

PB - Press of the Indiana Newspaper Union CY - Indianapolis, IN U2 -

Illus. H.A. Huey

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DLC, W3,3081

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Eden or A Historical Narrative of the Barbarian Age. A Scientific Discovery Y1 - 1896 A1 - [Swan] [Burg] KW - Male author AB -

Detailed single tax eutopia called Eden. Government guarantees full employment. 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 - S. Burg CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Labor As Money: A Story With a Purpose. Presenting a Practical, Automatic Currency of Stationary Value, Contracting and Relaxing According to the Demands of the Country for Exchange Y1 - 1894 A1 - John O[tho] Yeiser (1866-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Economic novel that includes a proposal for Labor Certificates replacing U.S. currency that is expected to lead to a eutopia. The Appendix (202-12) includes the proposed legislation.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Versions of the same argument were made in Automated Elastic Currency. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1915; Exp. as My Country! My Congress! Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1917. 69 pp.; and Debts of Today and Hell To Pay. Illus. Maps. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1918. 88 pp. An extract had been published in Successful Farming (Des Moines, IA) (February - March 1915). 

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Hathi, MH, NbOU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of the Changing Sun Y1 - 1894 A1 - Will[iam] N[athaniel Harben (1858-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race novel set inside the Earth. On the whole the society is presented positively and can be considered a technological utopia. The exception to the positive presentation is that dissidents are banished to a barren waste and almost certain death. At the end a natural disaster threatens to destroy the society, and the people choose to become Christians, divide their wealth equally, and return to the surface.

PB - Merriam Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975.

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MoU-St, PSt, W3,2447

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of the Hereafter" Y1 - 1894 AB -

A means of freezing people for a specified number of years replaces other forms of punishment. A man is sentenced for a crime of passion and wakes up in a future eutopia in which educated apes do all the work.

JF - St. Paul's (London) N1 -

Rpt. as part of the serial by [George Locke], “Cheap Century Return.” By Ethan Barlass [pseud.] (London: Ferret Fantasy, [2004]), unpaged. The serial ran in Ferret Fantasy book catalogs between 2003 and 2008. In a 2013 email to me Locke told me that Barlass was a pseudonym he used.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lords of Misrule; A Tale of Gods and of Men Y1 - 1894 A1 - William C[urtis] Pomeroy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of future dystopias. The excesses of capitalism are replaced by the excesses of state socialism, which collapses into simple rule by violence. Suggests that the United States in the 1890s was a eutopia.

PB - Laird and Lee CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A League of Justice or Is It Right To Rob Robbers? Y1 - 1893 A1 - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A league of men who take from the rich and give to the poor gradually transform society. Start a free newspaper (first monthly, then weekly, then daily) in all the major languages of the world. Attack lawyers, abolish political parties, improve education, and bring about a revolution. See also 1903 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.

PB - The Commonwealth Society CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leeward Land. An Account of a Visit to the United States of America in 1992" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Felix L[eopold] Oswald (1845-1906) KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia with lots of inventions. Cable station in the middle of the Atlantic. Little pollution. Sewage no longer dumped. Balloons for rapid transportation and deliveries. Animal breeding, including fish. Physical exercise, including for women. Prohibition. All buildings absolutely fireproof. Race mixing considered bad. Abolishing study of dead languages has radically improved education. Electric ads. Poor sent to the country farm after the fifth request for support.

JF - San Francisco Chronicle N1 -

There appears to be no chapter 13, which should have been in the December 16, 1893 issue. While the December 30 issue says to be continued, it does not continue in 1894.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Within. The Misleading Tendencies of "Looking Backward" Made Manifest Y1 - 1893 A1 - J[ohn] W. Roberts (1824-1900) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopia written against 1888 Bellamy. Life in Bellamy's Boston shown in an unfavorable light, with inequality, alcoholism, and violence common. People shirk work whenever possible.

PB - A.S. Barnes CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Ahead! A Tale of Adventure (Not by the Author of "Looking Backward") Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Alfred] [Morris] (1859-1932) KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel depicting the failure of a socialist revolution and the beginning of a new feudal system.

PB - Henry & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. corr. and rev. with a brief "Preface to the Second Edition". London: Henry & Co., [1892]

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Illus. W.G.R. Browne.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Forward" Y1 - 1892 A1 - J. O. Andrew AB -

Dystopian satire. An inventor creates an instrument for looking into the future on fifty years in the future Birmingham, Alabama is the national capital and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is President for life. Women have gained power and taken the vote away from men. Men stay at home and care for the children, but, over time, there are fewer children. The race problem has been eliminated through the ability to change skin color and straighten hair, thus eliminating all non-whites. Education is through technology, with knowledge passed electronically from the brain of the teacher to the brains of the pupils. Crime has been almost eliminated by having magistrates read everyone's brain regularly, and the few crimes of passion are treated in hospitals. Almost all domestic chores like cooking and dish washing have been fully automated with food delivery by aircraft. The women mess up, the country is run down, and men take back power and women return to the home. But the men mess up as badly.

JF - Belford's Monthly and Democratic Review VL - 8.47 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Upwards; or, Nothing New. In Two Parts.--Part I. The Up Grade: From Henry George Past Edward Bellamy on to Higher Intelligences Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Arthur William] [Sanford] (1859-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through the nationalization of land and industry.

PB - H. Brett CY - Auckland, New Zealand U3 -

Robinson Crusoe [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Island Y1 - 1892 A1 - Edward J. Austen A1 - Louise V[escelius] Sheldon KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which a ship is wrecked on an unknown island that turns out to be owned by one of the sailors. He imposes a capitalist system until the others build a raft and leave him behind. On the single tax, see Henry George, Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. 

PB - Fels Fund of America CY - Cincinnati, OH N1 -

Rpt. illus. in The Cosmopolitan 14.3 (January 1893): 365-84. Rpt. without the author’s names as The Lost Island with a Conclusion by William Lloyd Garrison as The Sterling Weekly 2.3 (February 13, 1897): entire issue with “Concluding Chapter” (31-35). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Labor Town. An Address Delivered by Frederic Jones to the Presidents and Secretaries of New South Wales Trades Unions at the Temperance Hall, Sydney, September 15th, 1891, Mr. P.J. Brennan in the Chair Y1 - 1891 A1 - Frederic Jones KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a socialist town of 5000 acres five miles from Sydney, including a map showing the precise location. The government is asked to lease the land to Labor Town for 99 years. The author proposes establishing a bank and building a tramline to connect with the already established lines. Most of the pamphlet consists of practical details of the proposed town.

PB - Printed by Higgs & Townsend CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia VL - Cover says 2nd ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laws & Habits of People Who Live in Other Worlds Y1 - 1891 A1 - Carlenent [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia on another planet that can be contacted from Earth through spiritualism. Much technological improvement. Temperance was the key reform. Marriage with children only allowed between healthy people. Those unhealthy or deformed could marry but were prohibited from having children. Blacks cannot marry whites. Improved, free health care; better, free education; and no poverty. Phrenology is considered a science. 

PB - Hector Ross CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Another volume was planned, but there is no evidence it was published.

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Carlenent [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Beyond. A Sequel to "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy, and An Answer To "Looking Further Forward," by Richard Michaelis Y1 - 1891 A1 - L[udwig] A. Geissler KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia which follows on from Michaelis's 1890 sequel to Bellamy. In this book, the future Boston depicted by Michaelis is a nightmare and Julian West wakes up in the future Boston of Bellamy rather than that of Michaelis. In this future the demoted Professor deserved demotion, and all is fine.

PB - L. Graham and Son CY - New Orleans, LA N1 -

UK ed. London: William Reeves, 1891. U.K. ed rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Colony Y1 - 1891 A1 - James F. Raymond (b. 1826) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Much of the novel is concerned with family life in the American South before the Civil War and about events during the war, but about halfway through the focus sporadically shifts to an isolated island that is settled by a set of well-provisioned castaways, who had been deliberately marooned for opposing the Confederacy. The castaways were three men, including one stereotyped black man, who did the cooking and carried the provisions but is described as a friend. They sail to another island that has not had contact with the outside world since the early seventeenth century, speaks the English of that period, and has created a largely egalitarian eutopia. At twenty-one, a man gets a tract of land. Upon marriage, a house is built. Six-hour workday for men; no outside labor for women. No money. No alcohol. No crime. All change is prohibited, but the arrival of the outsiders poses problems.

PB - T.B. Peterson & Brothers CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

CU-Riv, DLC, MnU, W3,4446

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lady Gwen, or, The Days That Are To Be" Y1 - 1890 A1 - A Welsh Nationalist [pseud.] KW - Welsh author AB -

Detailed eutopia of Wales in 2000 inspired by 1889 Vogel. Wales is an independent member of the Imperial Empire with a young woman as Prime Minister. A reformed Calvinism played a significant part in bringing about the change.

JF - Cymru Fyad VL - 3.3 - 4.2 U3 -

A Welsh Nationalist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Sinner" Y1 - 1890 A1 - H. Elton Smith KW - Male author AB -

Anti-utopian story set some time into the future of 1888 Bellamy when Nationalism has become authoritarian. A throwback to capitalism rallies opposition, which leads to war.

JF - Overland Monthly VL - 2nd ser. 15.90 U5 -

MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Leap into the Future; or, How Things Will Be. A Romance of the Year 2000 Y1 - 1890 A1 - Donald McMartin KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia although much is a criticism of the past. Standard support of 1888 Bellamy using Bellamy's setting and characters, with his Julian West the protagonist. Technologically advanced with food from chemicals. Cemeteries have been abolished, the bodies disinterred and cremated, and the land turned into parks. Judges write the few laws needed. No lawyers. No appeal from the court's decision. Young men and women work in separate jobs because women working with men lose their femininity. Seen as still improving.

PB - Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers CY - Albany, NY U1 -

[Cover adds (A Sequel to Looking Backward)].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in the Stone Age: The History of Atharael, Chief Priest of a Band of Al-Aryans; An Outline History of Man. Written Through the Mediumship of U.G. Figley Y1 - 1890 A1 - U.G. Figley (b. 1864) KW - US author AB -

Lost race and spiritualist novel that includes a brief description of a eutopian future based on cooperation and democracy that will ultimately be followed by renewed war.

PB - U.G. Figley CY - Defiance, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in Utopia; Being a Faithful and Accurate Description of the Institutions that Regulate Labour, Art, Science, Agriculture, Education, Habitation, Matrimony, Law, Government, and Religion in this Delightful Region of Human Imagination Y1 - 1890 A1 - John [Aloys] Petzler (1814?-1898) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Fairly standard socialist eutopia. See also 1870 and 1876 Petzler, his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). 

PB - Authors' Cooperative Publishing Company CY - London U5 -

L, NLS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward; and What I Saw Y1 - 1890 A1 - W. W. Satterlee KW - US author AB -

Written against 1888-Bellamy and Henry George, the theorist of the single tax. The protagonist is R.E. Former and other names are similar. Proposes standard reforms of the times. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - [Harrison and Smith] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] VL - 2nd ed. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Forward" Y1 - 1890 AB -

Satire on the power of unions.

JF - Liberty (Boston, MA) VL - 7.13 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Further Backward. Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to the Freshman Class at Shawmut College, by Professor Won Lung Li (Successor of Professor Julian West), Mandarin of the Second Rank of the Golden Dragon and Chief of the Historical Section of the Colleges in the North-Eastern Division of the Chinese Province of North America. Now, For the First Time, Collected, Edited and Condensed Y1 - 1890 A1 - Arthur Dudley Vinton (1852-1906) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-1888 Bellamy dystopia. The title indicates the situation; the future described by Bellamy proved weak militarily, and the Chinese successfully invaded.

PB - Albany Book Company CY - Albany, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Further Forward; An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Y1 - 1890 A1 - Richard Michaelis (1839-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-1888 Bellamy. The author shows Julian West starting his teaching job and being confronted by the Professor he replaced, who is now a janitor because he did not follow the party line. The “real” future Boston is corrupt, class-ridden, and authoritarian. The final chapter, dropped in some reprints, depicts the murder of West, the professor and Dr. Leete and the abduction of Edith Leete, who had refused to marry the leader of the radical opposition. But in this version it had all been a dream, and West wakes up in nineteenth century Boston. 1891 Geissler is a response.

PB - Rand McNally CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library Digital Collections, 1996 with Looking Further Forward [1890] on the cover. Also published as Looking Forward. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890; and A Sequel to Looking Backward or "Looking Further Forward." London: William Reeves, [1891]. This ed. drops the final chapter of the first ed. An Australian ed. was published as A Social Tangle. Being a Sequel and Reply to Bellamy's "Looking Backward". Melbourne, VIC, Australia: E.W. Cole, [1891]. In German as Ein Blick in die Zukunft, Ein Antewort auf Ein Ruckblick von Edward Bellamy. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Looking Rearward” Y1 - 1890 AB -

Satire on 1888 Bellamy in which all names have been abolished and replaced with a number that is tattooed on the forehead and the forearm.

JF - Liberty (Boston, MA) VL - 6.26 (158) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ladies Triumph" Y1 - 1889 A1 - George Phipps Williams (1847-1909) A1 - W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (1857-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric poem on the success of women getting the vote.

JF - Colonial Couplets: Being Poems in Partnership PB - Simpson and Williams CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lady of the Bush. The Dream of an English Traveller” Y1 - 1889 A1 - David Christie Murray (1847-1907) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Australia in the future as a metropolitan eutopia. The eutopia is in the last paragraph only with the rest a vision of the Australian bush.

JF - Adelaide Advertiser (Adelaide, SA, Australia) N1 -

Also in the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW, Australia). The Adelaide paper says that it was written for the Advertiser. The Grafton paper says it was originally published in the Daily Telegraph.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last American: A Fragment From the Journal of Khan-Li Prince of Dimph-yoo-chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy Y1 - 1889 A1 - J[ohn] A[mes] Mitchell ] (1845-1918), ed. [written by] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a future expedition from Persia visits a devastated New York and Washington, DC. Much misinterpretation of what they find. In DC, they discover the three last Americans alive, and when one of the Persians tries to kiss the woman, a fight breaks out, and many Persians and all the Americans are killed. 

PB - Frederick A. Stokes & Brother CY - New York N1 -

Extract rpt. with illus. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 111-48, with an editor’s note on 109. Rpt. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1893. Exp. as Edition Deluxe. Illus. in Color by F. W. Read. With Decorative Designs by Albert D. Blashfield and illus. by the Author. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1902. 151 pp. Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. U. K. ed. London: Gay and Bird, [1894]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lesbia Newman Y1 - 1889 A1 - Henry Robert S[amuel] Dalton (1835-1902?) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Rights for women with training so they can exercise them effectively. Roman Catholic church allows priestesses.

PB - George Redway CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 371-702, with a brief note by the editor (367-69).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Forward A D 1976" Y1 - 1889 A1 - C. Howard Wilson KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist dystopia.

JF - Belford's Magazine VL - 4.19 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Inca; A Tale of Discovery in the Vale of the Inti-Mayu Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Alfred] [Sears] (1826-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost Incan society with advanced technology presented as a eutopia.

PB - Cassell CY - New York U3 -

Inca-Pancho-Ozollo [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Y1 - 1888 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The classic American eutopia in which both business and labor were nationalized. Quite a few works have been published responding to or elaborating on Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. He also wrote two utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward; see 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

PB - Ticknor and Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: William Bryce, [1888]. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1889. Rpt. as Looking Backward--If Socialism Comes 2000-1887. London: W. Foulsham, [1930]; and under the original title Vancouver, BC, Canada: The Totem Press, 1934. Critical editions include ed. John L. Thomas. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967, with an “Introduction” (1-89); ed. Alex MacDonald. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” (1-42) and appendices that include material by Bellamy and others; and ed. Matthew Beaumont. London: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” (vii-xxxvi) and “Explanatory Notes” (198-220), which includes notes on the changes from the first to the second edition. Chapters I-IX of the 1888 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 21-56. It was adapted as a play by C. Bernard Jackson that was first performed in April 1974 in Los Angeles, CA.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Lady and the Lords” Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women getting the vote.

JF - Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letters from the Planets" Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Wladjslaw Somerville] [Lach-Szyrma] (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.

JF - Cassell's Family Magazine VL - 13 N1 -

The stories from April and October are rpt. as “Letters from Mars.” in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 53-72 with an editor’s not on 51-52. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red PlanetSeries continued as "The Portals of the King of Day. A Journey To the Regions of the Sun." 14 (January 1888): 96-98; "Our Second Voyage to Mars." 15 (February 1889): 166-70; "Letters from the Planets--Canal Life on Mars." 16 (February 1890): 285-87; "A Trip to Jupiter's Moonlet." 18 (December 1891): 55-56; and "Corresponding With the Planets." 19 (June 1893): 403-05. Entire series rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 1-26.

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Our Roving Correspondent [pseud.], Signed Alerial [pseud.]

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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 - Life and Labor in the Spirit World. Being a Description of the Localities, Employments, Surroundings, and Conditions in the Spheres. By Members of the Spirit-Band of Miss M. T. Shelhamer, Medium of the Banner of Light Public Free Circle Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Mary Theresa] [Longley] (1853-1928) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of the spirit life which is presented as the writings from the spirit world of Ann Frances Kinsey (1856-77). Uses the language of Andrew Jackson Davis; see 1847, 1874 and 1878 Davis. Stresses gender equality, education, peace and beauty.

PB - Colby and Rich CY - Boston, MA N1 -

There is a later printing, sometimes cataloged as a second edition, with Second Thousand on the title page and the publication date of 1885, but it is otherwise identical.

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Members of the Spirit-Band of Miss M[ary] T[heresa] Shelhamer, Medium of the Banner of Light Public Free Circle [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Little of the Future of the North of Auckland" Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Edwin] [Fairburn] (1827-1911) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Description of the future of the area North of Auckland as a eutopia based on developing its agricultural potential. See also 1867 Fairburn. There is also a non-utopian The Ships of the Future. Being an Epilogue to The Ships of Tarshish. By "Mohoao" [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Np, [1889] (ATL).

JF - Prologue Written in 1884 PB - H. Brett, General Steam Print CY - Auckland, New Zealand U3 -

Mohoao [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver" Y1 - 1883 AB -

Satire on contemporary England in a journey to the Isle of Moralia.

JF - The World ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Little Pilgrim: In the Unseen. (For Easter)” Y1 - 1882 A1 - [Margaret] [Oliphant] (1828-97) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Experiences after death in the first level of heaven where those arriving are introduced to their beautiful surroundings.

JF - Macmillan’s Magazine VL - 46.271 N1 -

Rpt. with “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” In The Little Pilgrim. Reprinted from Macmillan’s Magazine. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1882.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land Ho!! A Conversation of 1933, on the results of the adoption of the system of "Nationalizing the Land of New Zealand," adopted in 1883 Y1 - 1881 A1 - [Alexander] [Joyce] (1840/41-1927) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on Land Nationalization. Very detailed on the working of the system. See also his Land Ho! A Pamphlet Advocating the Re-purchase and Settlement of the Large Freehold Blocks.  Christchurch ,  New Zealand : Simpson & Williams, 1889 ( ATL, DU-Ho, VUW).

PB - F.L. Davis CY - Lyttelton, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Days of the Republic Y1 - 1880 A1 - P[ierton] W. Dooner (1844-1907?) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Yellow war dystopia in which China conquers the United States.

PB - Alta California Publishing Company CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last African Explorer” Y1 - 1879 A1 - Eustace Hinton Jones KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on African exploration in which a man walks from London to Central Africa and comes across a eutopia. Government ministers are paid to think; other government officials are paid to propagandize and not think; murderers become army officers with those guilty of violent assaults forming the ranks; thieves are placed in the financial ministry or made tax collectors. Since no debt is recoverable by law, all transactions are in cash.

JF - Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel PB - Pub. by the Proprietors at the Fun Office CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in the Future Y1 - 1879 A1 - H. R K. AB -

Rapture (see see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) in which the saved are lifted off earth preliminary to the Second Coming. Shows the punishment of those not raptured and, briefly, the life of those who are.

PB - G. Morrish CY - London VL - 2nd ed. N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Inca; or, The Story of Tupac Amâru Y1 - 1874 AB -

The last chapter is an Incan socialist eutopia. Idleness is punished as a crime. All land is divided with a third belonging to the people, a third to the nobility, and a third to the Inca. Mines belong to the state. All men must bear arms and participate in the national games. Compulsory education for boys to 14; no girl is allowed to attend school past 7, but they are taught at home and examined every nine days.

PB - Tinsley Bros CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ludibria Lunae; or, The Wars of Women and the Gods. An Allegorical Burlesque Y1 - 1869 A1 - William John Courthope (1842-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Epic poem. Satire on women's rights following Aristophanes. Presented as beginning in a eutopia which has no rights for women. Women plan to travel to the moon, discover that it is inhabited by the old gods and goddesses, who they challenge. Women are defeated by love and vanity. See also 1879 Courthope.

PB - Smith, Elder and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Labour's Utopia" Y1 - 1857 A1 - [William Thomas] [Thornton] (1813-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.

JF - Modern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and Other Poems PB - John W. Parker and Son CY - London N1 -

Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68.

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"A Poet hidden / In the light of thought / Singing hymns unbidden, / Till the world is wrought / To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Among the Ruins" Y1 - 1855 A1 - Robert Browning (1812-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem set in the ruins of a city in which the rural life and love are the eutopia.

JF - Men and Women PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. In Men and Women. Ed. Paul Turner (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1972), 5-8, 312; Men and Women and Other Poems. Ed. J.W. Harper (London: J.M. Dent/Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975), 1-3, 231; in The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations. Ed. Roman A. King, Jr. 5 vols. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1981), 5: 163-66, 360; The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Volume 5 Men and Women. Ed. Ian Jack and Robert Inglesfield (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1995), 3-8; and Robert Browning. Ed. Adam Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 157-59.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lucy Boston; or, Woman's Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1855 A1 - Fred Folio AB -

Satire on women's rights and spiritualism.

PB - Alden and Beardsley/J.C. Derby CY - Auburn, NY/New York U1 -

A Book for the Times at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberia; or Mr. Peyton's Experiments Y1 - 1853 A1 - Mrs. Sarah J[osepha Buell] Hale, ed. [written by] (1788-1879) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel concerns the activities of a Virginian who wants to improve the lives of slaves. His first two schemes fail, but he discovers the American Colonization Society, which was founded in 1816 to send emancipated slaves to Africa and decides to work with it. The novel continues with the settlement of Liberia, the initial problems there, and its emergence as a eutopia. The book concludes with letters sent from Liberia and documents regarding Liberia and related activities, including excerpts from a Declaration of Independence and Constitution. .

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life and Adventures of Capt. Jacob D. Armstrong Y1 - 1852 A1 - [Nathaniel Cook] [Meeker] [supposed author] (1817-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A ship wrecks on the island of Nede, which is inhabited by simple people (with no secondary sexual characteristics), who live a happy life of idleness in complete equality. Vegetarian; work to grow food. Perpetual Spring. No snakes. No religion. An elaborate funeral ritual is described. The discovery of iron leads the shipwrecked sailors to introduce the dystopian modern world of work, money, theft, law, government, newspapers, and alcohol.

PB - DeWitt & Davenport CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Peer Y1 - 1851 AB -

Future dystopia in which machinery releases labor, causing widespread unemployment, social upheaval, and the abolition of the aristocracy and the monarchy.

PB - Thomas Cautley Newby CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Life and Adventures of Miss Robinson Crusoe" Y1 - 1846 AB -

Satire on contemporary life in England.

JF - Punch or the London Charivari VL - 11.260 - 74 U2 -

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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 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1839 A1 - Edward Wallace KW - Male author AB -

Long poem detailing the travails, mostly emotional, of the last man.

JF - The Last Man; A Poem, in Three Cantos PB - Hugh Cunningham CY - London U5 -

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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 - "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 - A Legend of Another World Y1 - 1832 AB -

A retelling of the history of Earth set on Venus, much of it in the Biblical version with all of its eutopian and dystopian elements.

PB - Sampson Low and J. Maynard CY - London U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London in a Thousand Years" Y1 - 1830 A1 - Eugenius Roche Esq. (1798-1829) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. While the poem begins with an almost eutopian description of London, it quickly becomes a description of London's disintegration and collapse.

JF - London in a Thousand Years; With other Poems PB - Colburn and Bentley, 1830 CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Letter from Sydney, the Principal Town of Australasia. Together with the Outline of a System of colonization Y1 - 1829 A1 - [Edward Gibbon] [Wakefield] (1796-1862) ED - Robert Gouger Editor KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Some damning of the settlement process, particularly convict labor and the quality of some of the other immigrants. Shows the difficulty of working the land. Objections to the provincialism of the politics. But he sees Australia with a positive future, an “extension of Britain” that could be settled by young men and women, sent in equal numbers, which would reduce what he saw as the too-rapid growth of the population in Britain. Treated as a eutopia in Matthew Graves and Elizabeth Rechniewski. “Essays for an Empty Land: Australia as Political Utopia.” Cultures of the Commonwealth 17 (Winter 2010-2011): 37-51.

PB - Joseph Cross/Simpkin and Marshall/Effingham Wilson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man Y1 - 1826 A1 - [Mary Wollstonecraft] [Shelley] (1797-1851) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the last man on earth.

PB - Henry Colburn CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Ed. Hugh J. Lake. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxi); 2nd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, with an “Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Judith Tarr (vii-xi); Ed. Morton D. Paley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994 with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (471-79); Ed. Anne McWhir. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 1996 with an editor’s “Introduction” (xiii-xli); and as vol. 4 of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Ed. Jane Blumberg with Nora Cook. 8 vols. London: William Pickering, 1996 with an “Introductory Note” (xi-xv) and “Silent Corrections” (366-67). Muriel Spark’s, Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. Hadleigh, Eng.: Tower Bridge Publications, 1951 contains an “Appendix--The Last Man--An Abridged Version” (195-230) that summarizes the three volumes. Chapters I-V rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 321-71.

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By The Author of Frankenstein [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1826 A1 - Thomas Hood KW - Male author AB -

A last man dystopia.

JF - Whims and Oddities, In Prose and Verse; With Forty Original Designs PB - Lupton Relfe CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1823 A1 - Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Short poem describing the dystopian world as seen by the last man.

JF - The New Monthly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 8.33 N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, With A Memoir of His Life, and an Essay on his Genius and Writings (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), 86-88; in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. Ed. J. Logie Robertson, M.A. 2nd ed. (London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1907), 232-34, with a brief note on 234; and in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, With A Memoir of His Life by William Allingham (ix-lxxiv) (London: G. Bell, 1875), 88-90; Rpt. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1975), 88-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Loyal Man in the Moon. With Thirteen Cuts Y1 - 1820 A1 - Author of the Constitutional House That Jack Built [pseud.] AB -

Satire in verse on the supporters of Queen Caroline (1768-1821).

PB - Ptd. for C. Chapple and J. Johnston CY - London U2 -

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The Author of the Constitutional House That Jack Built [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos" Y1 - 1819 A1 - F[rederick] C[orfield] KW - Male author AB -

Poem beginning with a visit from a prince of the moon to a wealthy Persian man in hopes of marrying his daughter. Much detail on the lavish wealth of the Persian, but Persia is presented as a absolute and cruel monarchy with women obedient. The eutopia on the moon is a limited monarchy with gender equality. Few clothes. High morality. Authors are fined for wasting their time, and the fines support the poor. The poem is followed by "Wonders, A Lunarian Poem, In Two Parts" (49-64), which is an example of a poem for which an author was fined.

JF - The Mélange, Containing The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos. Wonders, In Two Parts. The Picture Gallery, In Nine Cantos. And Various Other Pieces, In Verse PB - Ptd. by J. Poole CY - Taunton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser Y1 - 1817 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Includes a eutopia inspired by the French Revolution and the writings of William Godwin (1756-1836). The eutopia occurs throughout the text and stresses liberty, equality, and the emancipation of women.

PB - Ptd. for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones and C. and J. Ollier CY - London N1 -

This was the original edition which was withdrawn and slightly revised because the printer objected to the suggestion of incest and the radicalism of parts of the text. It was rpt. as The Revolt of Islam; A Poem in Twelve Cantos. London: Ptd. for C. and J. Ollier, 1817 [Some copies have 1818 as the publication date] and was known under this title for some time, with the original title being restored in late 20th century editions. Rpt. as “Laon and Cythna or the Revolution of the Golden City [Usually known as 'The Revolt of Islam' 1817]”. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume II 1814-1817. Ed. Neville Rogers. 4 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1975), 99-270, including “Laon and Cyntha: Rejected Passages” (265-270) with “Note by Mary Shelley On Loan and Cyntha [The Revolt of Islam]” (270-73) and “Notes” (360-95); as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Jack Donovan. The Poems of Shelley. Volume Two 1817-1819. Ed. Kelvin Everest and Geoffrey Matthews (Hatlow, Essex, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000), 10-265, with an [“Introduction”] by the editor (10-29), extensive footnotes throughout, and “Fragments from the L&C Notebooks.” Ed. Jack Donovan (261-65); and as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Michael J. Neth. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume Three. Ed. Neil Fraisat and Nora Crook (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 109-320, with “Commentary” by Michael J. Neth (550-941), including “Supplements: Rejected Opening and Ancillary Fragments for Laon and Cyntha” (908-941) “Historical Collation” (993-1061), Mary Shelley’s “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1073-75), “The Revision of Laon and Cythna to The Revolt of Islam (1077-88), and “Shelley’s List of Errata for Laon and Cythna/The Revolt of Islam (1082). See also The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. A Facsimile Edition, with Full Transcripts and Scholarly Apparatus. Ed. Donald H Reiman. Volume XIII Drafts from Laon and Cythna Facsimiles of Bodleian MSS. Shelley ADDS. e 14 and ADDS. e. 19. Ed. Tatsuo Tokoo with an Introduction and Notes. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders Y1 - 1816 A1 - [Melesina (Chenevix) St. George] [Trench] (1768-1832) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

A poem in two cantos describing the moon where people are born old and grow young. Traditional gender roles.  The men can fly, the woman can’t. Notes to the text on 45-47. 

PB - Ptd. For J. Hatcher CY - London UR - https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/bl-002087615 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Studies, no. 101 (34.1) (March 2007): 1-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Libellus: or, A Brief Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham. Containing Observations respecting its King, Princes, Nobles, and Inferior Senators: Its Mode of Election; The Duration of Its Parliaments; Its Ministers of State, Judges, and Other Professors of the Law: Customs of the People, Their Dress, and Amusements; Their Agricultural Regulations, Commercial Pursuits, and the Natural Productions of Their Country: Their Well-Managed Police; Their Ecclesiastical Polity, and Their System of Politics. Under the Cover of a little Fiction, a great deal of Truth may often be conveyed Y1 - 1798 AB -

Eutopia. Society in which everything and everybody works or behaves as they are ideally expected to work or behave, which functions as a satire on contemporary Britain.

PB - J. Jordan and W. Glendinning CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 441-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter XV. For the Lewes Journal. A Midsummer-Night's Dream; or, a Trip to the Moon" Y1 - 1787 A1 - Richard Michell KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The moon is described as having luxuriant parks, with lots of flowers and other natural and artificial beauties. The parks were filled with people “. . . variously engaged, but to appearances all equally happy.” Elegantly simple dress. Huge amphitheatre that can hold the entire population of the planet filled for the Autumn Festival to given thanks for the year’s productions. “The inhabitants of the Moon, Man, are perfect strangers to all those irregular, turbulent passions, in the gratification, instead of the government of which, you mortals are madly seeking happiness. . .” (89. Original emphasis). “. . . total absence of all the disorderly affections that torment the HUMAN breast” (89. Original emphasis). “The Lunarians are wiser, and better, and therefore happier beings than you are” (90. Original emphasis). 

JF - Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects PB - Ptd. for the Author by W. and A. Lee CY - Lewes, Eng. VL - 2 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter XXIX. A Dream; or the present state of Man compared with one more perfect" Y1 - 1782 A1 - [John] [Stedman] (d. 1791) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set on the moon, which is visited in a dream. The people are ruled by reason and motivated by benevolence. Mostly a comparison with earth's weaknesses.

JF - Laelius and Hortensia; or, Thought on the Nature and Objects of Taste and Genius, in a series of letters to Two Friends PB - Ptd. For J. Balfour; and T. Cadell, London CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Garland, 1970), 277-88. Rpt. as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream. In a letter to Hortensia.” The Ladies Magazine; and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge 1.5 (October 1792): 218-23 [The cover of the volume has Lady’s Magazine, but each issue is headed Ladies Magazine]; and as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream: From Lelius and Hortensia.” The Massachusetts Magazine: or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment 7.5 (August 1795): 261-64.

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Rpt. as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream. In a letter to Hortensia.” The Ladies Magazine; and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge 1.5 (October 1792): 218-23 [The cover of the volume has Lady’s Magazine, but each issue is headed Ladies Magazine]; and as “The present State of Man, compared to one more perfect. A Dream: From Lelius and Hortensia.” The Massachusetts Magazine: or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment 7.5 (August 1795): 261-64.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector. With an INTRODUCTION, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Death on landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several CUTS, clearly and distinctly representing the Structure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either to swim or fly Y1 - 1751 A1 - [Robert] [Paltock] (1697-1767) KW - English author AB -

Imaginary voyage which begins with a Robinsonade in which the man then meets and marries a winged woman. She then takes him to her homeland where the man introduces reforms, with, for example slavery being abolished and democratic procedures introduced.

PB - J. Robinson and R. Dodsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Dublin. Ireland: George Faulkner, 1751; in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 201-348 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with very slight changes in the title and illus. D. H. Friston. London: John Dick, [1861]; with an “Introduction” by A. H. B. (vii-xiii). London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, [1915]; with the same “Introduction” (vii-xiii) illus. Edward Bawden. London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928; Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; Ed. Christopher Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1973 with an “Introduction” (ix-xviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88); rev. ed. ed. Bentley with a new “Introduction (vii-xxxiii) by James Grantham Turner and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88) by Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; New York: Garland, 1974; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 143-410, which reprints the first edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself Y1 - 1719 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

This work gave rise to a whole sub-genre of works dealing with a castaway on an isolated island, the most famous of which is The Swiss Family Robinson (1812-1827) by Johann [Rudolf] Wyss (1781-1830) that appeared in hundreds of versions. Possible to treat it and the sub-genre as eutopias of solitude. See also 1719 Defoe. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe which is much more clearly a utopia in that more people are involved. A third volume was published, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-226, 266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes. A related work is J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940), Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986.

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Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 349-582 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” (iii-xiv) by Ford Madox Ford. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930; ed. Michael Shinagel. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Owens (15-51), “Explanatory Notes” (287-324) and “Textual Notes” (325-28); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from many different editions (ix-x), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xlviii), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (253-260), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (261-289), “Variants” (291-357), “Works Consulted” (359-360), a “Selected Bibliography” (361-365), and an Index (369-379). An interesting edition for children is Robinson Crusoe In Words of One Syllable. Illus. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, 1900.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Long Ramble, or Several Years Travels, In the Much Talk’d of, But never before Discover’d, Wandering Island of O-Brazil. Containing a full Description of that Whimsical Country; it’s Extravagant Product; an almost incredible, but true’ Account of the High Manners, Low Customs, No Religion, and Little Government of many of the Inhabitants; an Abridgment of their unaccountable History, and a thousand other Rarities, not to be parallel’d elsewhere Y1 - 1712 AB -

Satire on travel literature and the discovery of places like Utopia and New Atlantis. Pretends to describe the place, but the author lacks the knowledge to do so. Says the people are prideful and vain and pretend to be free but enslaved to their passions and to anyone who grabs power. Lots of writing without prior thought.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Law Book" Y1 - 1700 A1 - Sir Ambrose Crowley (1658-1713) ED - M. W. Flinn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very odd book that presents one hundred and thirteen "laws" for the operation of the author's iron works. It is borderline as a utopia but is included because it details all the daily activities of the workers in a large factory including "welfare services" and "poor relief".  See the discussion in J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700 (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 351-55.

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The original manuscript in 307 folios, which is incomplete, is in the British Library Add. Ms. 34,555.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Letter Touching a Colledge of Maids, or, a Virgin-Society. By B.C. Appended to St. Cyprian Bishop and Martyr, Anno 250. Of Discipline, Prayer, Patience. St. Basil the Great, Of Solitude Y1 - 1675 A1 - C[lement] B[arksdale] (1609-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a community of young women being educated. Most will leave for marriage. The inspiration was probably Anna Maria Schurman (1607-78), The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise. [Trans. Clement Barksdale]. [London: Ptd. by John Redmayne, 1659]. Rpt. London: Virago Modern Classic, 1986.

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Trans. C[lement] B[arksdale]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Letters from Utopia"] Y1 - 1657 A1 - [Marchamont] [Nedham] (1620-1678) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Broad ranging satire on British customs and particularly on Thomas More and James Harrington. The last letter is from Oceana.

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Rpt. in The English Revolution IV. Newsbooks Volume 15. Mecurius Politicus 1657 (London: Cornmarket Press, 1971), 39-40; 53-55; 69-71; 85-88; 101-02; and Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England 1641-1660. Ed. Joad Raymond (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 369-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths Army in England, Scotland, and Ireland. And to all Englishmen my brethren whether in Church-fellowship, or not in Church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the Order of The Gospel: and from them to all the Nations in the World. Wherin is Declared, What is Kingly Government, and what is Common-wealths Government Y1 - 1652 A1 - Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia including detailed economic, legal, political, and social reform.

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Rpt. as by Jerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform. Sutro Branch California State Library. Occasional Papers. English Reprint Series No. 3. Sutro: California State Library, 1939; as by Gerrard Winstanley, “The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored.” The Works of Gerrard Winstanley with an Appendix of Documents Related to the Digger Movement. Ed. George H. Sabine (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1941), 499-600 (Rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965), 499-600); under the full title in The Law of Freedom and Other Writings. Ed. Christopher Hill (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 273-389; and in The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley. Ed. Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes, and David Loewenstein. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2009), 2: 278-404.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lady-Errant. A Tragi-Comedy Y1 - 1651 A1 - William Cartwright (1611-43) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief satirical description of an intended women's Parliament in Cyprus when most of the men are absent fighting in a war.

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The publication information is from the separate title page for the play in his Comedies Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems. London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1651, which, although it probably had been staged between 1634 and 1637, was the play’s first publication. Rpt. in The Plays and Poems Of William Cartwright. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1951), 89-161 with the editor’s “Introduction” (81-88) and “Textual Notes” to the play (575-87).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Horns Doom & Downfall: Or A Scripture-Prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late Tragedies that have bin acted upon the Scene of these three Nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared. And What the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the Second Part. Y1 - 1651 A1 - M[ary] Cary (fl. 1636-53) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fifth Monarchist eutopia. Description in some detail of life as it will be lived during the millennium. The Little Horn is Charles I (1600-49). See also 1653 Cary. Fifth Monarchists believed, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Female author.

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Second title page--A new And More Exact Mappe Or, Description of New Ierusalems Glory when Jesus Christ and his Saints with him shall reign on earth a Thousand years, and possess all Kingdoms. Wherein Is discovered the glorious estate into which the Church shall be then put both in respect of externall and internall glory, and the time when. And also, What hath been done these eight yeares last past, and what is now a doing, and what shall be done within a few years now following in order to this great work. Wherein also That great Question, whether it be lawfull for Saints to make use of the materiall Sword in the ruining of the enemies of Christ, and whether it be the mind of Christ to have it so, is at large debated and resolved in the Affirmative from clear Scripture, and all others answered. London: Ptd. by H.W.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legend of Captaine Iones. Relating His adventure to Sea: His first landing and combate with a mighty Bear. His furious battell with his sixe and thirty men against the Army of eleven Kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper Castle. His strange and admirable Sea-fight with sixe huge Gallies of Spain, and nine thousand Souldiers. His taking prisoner, and hard usage. Lastly His setting at liberty by the King's command, and return for England. Y1 - 1648 A1 - [David] [Lloyd] KW - Male author AB -

Classic extraordinary voyage with visits to many imaginary countries including, in the second part, paradise. The protagonist also travels to No-land

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Rpt. with minor changes in spelling London: Ptd. for Richard Marriot, 1656; and London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1659. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament. A Continuation of the Parliament of Ladies. Their Votes, Orders, and Declarations. Die Martis August 2, 1647. Ordered by the Ladies assembled in Parliament, that their Votes, Orders, and Declarations, be forthwith Printed and Published. T. Temple. Cler. Mrs Martha Peele Messenger Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary issues, with a focus on religion. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is a sequel to his 1647 The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lunarian [Seleno-Graphia--crossed out and re-entered in pencil] Or News from the World in the Moon to the Lunaticks of this World. Wherein are accurately described their Citties, Towns, Countries, & Provinces, with ye Seas, Sinuyes, Lakes, Rivers, Ports, Forts & Castles thereunto belonging: with the manner & means of Travelling [sayling--crossed out] thither through the vast Ocean of Air[e--crossed out], & ye ready Roade to the Citty of Cynthea-polis, the Metropolis of that World: as also the shape, conditions & qualities of ye Inhabitants, with the Manners, Lawes, Religion, Liberties, Properties, Priviledges, [Plottes--crossed out], & Policy of the People now in possession thereof. First discovered by Cornelius van Drebble of Alcmar in Holland, but since more perfectly described [pierced into--crossed out] by ye famous Tudeskin Vertuoso, Lucas Lunarismus of Lunenberge [pseud.], & originally written by the same hand in the Lunick Language: and now transposed out of the Bobelonick meeter into plain English [Coffee Dialect & exposed to ye luminaried of all illuminated Lunaticks by a lover of Light & so forth By the way of Romance--crossed out] Adapted to the humours of our Times qua ad Fabulas Convertuntus. Y1 - 1600 KW - English author AB -

The first part is a general satire on human foibles, particularly in England. The second part focuses on religion. Travel is by balloon.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A letter sent by I.B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Maystet [sic] R.C. Esquire: vvherin is conteined a large discourse of the peopling & inhabiting the cuntrie called the Ardes, and other adiacent in the north of Ireland, and taken in hand by Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel, and Thomas Smith Esquire, his sonne Y1 - 1572 A1 - Thomas Smith (1513-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The work uses the word “eutopia” in discussing a plan for the colonization of the Ards Peninsula of Ireland and designed to recruit appropriate colonizers. Published at the end of the book is The offer and order giuen for the by Sir Thomas Smythe Knighte and Thomas Smythe his sonne, unto suche as be willing to accompanie the sayd Thomas Smythe the sonne, in his voyage for the inhabiting some partes of the north of Irelande. London; Ptd. by Henry Binneman for Anthonhson, nd. 8 pp. Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo reip[ublicae] statu, deq[ue] noua Insula Vtopia Y1 - 1516 A1 - Thomas More (1478-1535) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The classic work presenting a better society on an isolated island and commenting on the current situation in England.

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The first English translation was published as A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. Trans. Ralphe Robynson. London: Ptd. by Abraham Vele, 1551. For early editions and translations, see R.W. Gibson, comp. St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography of His Works and Moreana to the Year 1750 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961), 3-57; and Constance Smith, An Updating of R.W. Gibson’s St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography. Sixteenth Century Bibliography, No. 20 (St. Louis, MO: Center for Reformation Research, 1981), 20-29. For a consideration of some translations, see Elizabeth McCutcheon, “Ten English Translations/Editions of Thomas More’s Utopia.” Utopian Studies 3.2 (1992): 102-20. Important recent eds. are Utopia. Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Ed. Edward Surtz, S.J. and J.H. Hexter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965 [The trans. is based on the 1923 trans. by G.C. Richards] with an Introduction” by the editors (xv-cxciv), “Commentary” (255-70, 585), “More’s Visit to Antwerp in 1515” by Hexter (571-76), “Vocabulary and Diction in Utopia” by Surtz (577-82), and an Index (587-629); Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Ed. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence M. Miller. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Utopia. Ed. and trans. David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999 with an “Introduction” by Wootton (1-37); “Utopia” in Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-148 with and “Introduction” to all three texts (ix-lxi) and “Explanatory Notes” to Utopia (213-31); Utopia. Trans. Paul Turner. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 2003 with an “Introduction” by Turner (xi-xxviii), “Appendix: More’s Attitude to Communism” (114-17), “Glossary” (118-20), and “Notes” (121-35); Utopia A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. and with a rev. trans. by George M. Logan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; Utopia. Trans. Clarence H. Miller. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), “Notes” (141-162), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (163-165); and an Index (167-173); 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014, with the same “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), an “Afterword” by Jerry Harp (141-60), “Notes” (161-187), “Suggestions for Further Reading” Updated by Jerry Harp (189-194), and an Index (195-201); Utopia. Trans. and ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith. London: Penguin Books, 2012 with an “Introduction” by the editor (xi-xxxix), “Appendix 1 ‘Between friends all is common’ (123-25), “Appendix 2 An Account of the Taíno People” (127-29), “Glossary of Names: (131-32), and “Notes” (132-46); as Open/Utopia. Ed. Stephen Duncome. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2012, with an editor’s “Preface Intellectual Commons” (v-vii), “Introduction” (ix-lxv), a “Cast of Contributors” (23-34), “Sources’ (235-40), footnotes throughout the text, and the translation is “assembled from translations and editions of More’s Utopia that are in the public domain (v); Utopia. Ed. George M. Logan and trans. Robert M. Adams. 3rd ed. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2016, with “Ancillary materials from the first four editions: (114-35), introductory material by the editor (vii-xli), and an “index” (136-41); as Utopia The Island of Nowhere. Trans. Roger Clarke. Richmond, Eng.: Alma Classics, 2017, with “A Pen Portrait of Thomas More by His Friend Desiderius Erasmus” (vii-xvii), “Correspondence Relevant to Utopia and Other Contributions from More’s Contemporaries” (133-92), “Index of Contemporary Europeans Mentioned in Utopia and Related Documents” (193-205), “Index of Utopian and Other Exotic Names” (206-208), “Notes” (209-44), and “Extra Material on Thomas More’s Utopia (245-65); based on the March 1518 edition with the two books using Clarence H. Miller’s New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001 translation and the all other material using the translations in the 1965 Collected Works. In The Essential Works of Thomas More. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), 143-215, with an introduction on 141-42; and, also using the March 1518 edition, Utopia & Selected Epigrams. Utopia. Trans. Gerald Malsbary. Epigrams. Trans. Bradley Ritter, Carl Young, and Erik. Ellis. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer Stephen W. Smith (Dallas, TX: CTMS Publisher at the University of Dallas, 2020, with “Notes and Commentary” on 115-62. https://thomasmorestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Utopia-Selected-Epigram-Notes-11-23-2020-compressed.pdf. An edition using a 1901 translation by Gilbert Burnet (London: Verso, 2016), includes an “Introduction” by China Miéville (1-27), part of which, “The Limits of Utopia” (11-27) was originally published in Salvage #1: Amid This Story Rubbish (2015) and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin (161-216), parts of which were originally published  as “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be (1982).” The Yale Review 72 (Winter 1983): 161-80, Rpt. with (1983) at the end of the title in her Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 80-100; and “The Operating Instructions.” The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004), 206-10. [Book Two] rpt. with no indication of the translation used in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 231-91. 

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The first English translation was published as A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. Trans. Ralphe Robynson. London: Ptd. by Abraham Vele, 1551. Important recent eds. are Utopia. Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Ed. Edward Surtz, S.J. and J.H. Hexter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965 [The trans. is based on the 1923 trans. by G.C. Richards] with an Introduction” by the editors (xv-cxciv), “Commentary” (255-70, 585), “More’s Visit to Antwerp in 1515” by Hexter (571-76), “Vocabulary and Diction in Utopia” by Surtz (577-82), and an Index (587-629); Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Ed. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence M. Miller. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Utopia. Ed. and trans. David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999 with an “Introduction” by Wootton (1-37); “Utopia” in Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-148 with and “Introduction” to all three texts (ix-lxi) and “Explanatory Notes” to Utopia (213-31); Utopia. Trans. Paul Turner. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 2003 with an “Introduction” by Turner (xi-xxviii), “Appendix: More’s Attitude to Communism” (114-17), “Glossary” (118-20), and “Notes” (121-35); Utopia A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. and with a rev. trans. by George M. Logan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; Utopia. Trans. and ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith. London: Penguin Books, 2012 with an “Introduction” by the editor (xi-xxxix), “Appendix 1 ‘Between friends all is common’ (123-25), “Appendix 2 An Account of the Taíno People” (127-29), “Glossary of Names: (131-32), and “Notes” (132-46); Utopia. Ed. George M. Logan and trans. Robert M. Adams. 3rd ed. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2016, with “Ancillary materials from the first four editions: (114-35), introductory material by the editor (vii-xli), and an “index” (136-41); and as Utopia The Island of Nowhere. Trans. Roger Clarke. Richmond, Eng.: Alma Classics, 2017, with “A Pen Portrait of Thomas More by His Friend Desiderius Erasmus” (vii-xvii), “Correspondence Relevant to Utopia and Other Contributions from More’s Contemporaries” (133-92), “Index  of Contemporary Europeans Mentioned in Utopia and Related Documents” (193-205), “Index of Utopian and Other Exotic Names” (206-208), “Notes” (209-44), and “Extra Material on Thomas More’s Utopia (245-65). An edition using a 1901 translation by Gilbert Burnet (London: Verso, 2016), includes an “Introduction” by China Miéville (1-27), part of which, “The Limits of Utopia” (11-27) was originally published in Salvage #1: Amid This Story Rubbish (2015) and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin (161-216), parts of which were originally published as “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be .” The Yale Review 72 (Winter 1983): 161-80. Rpt. with (1983) at the end of the title in her Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 80-100; and “The Operating Instructions.” The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004), 206-10. [Book Two] rpt. with no indication of the translation used in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 231-91. 

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