TY - ABST T1 - The New Naturals. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - Gabriel Bump KW - African American author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trans. into Italian Gabriella Gregori

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

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

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

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

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

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 92.9&10 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A New Constitution for the United States” Y1 - 2021 AB -

Just what the title says. It begins with the radically revised and expanded Bill of Rights. A Council of Indigenous Nations is added as a third branch of Congress, and Article Four of the Constitution concerns United States Relations with Indigenous Nations. All other institutions are significantly revised.

JF - Democracy: A Journal of Ideas VL - no. 61 UR - A New Constitution for The United States : Democracy Journal U2 -

Illus. Pep Montserrat

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Child of Mine Y1 - 2021 A1 - Olga Gibbs KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Russian author AB -

Dystopia set in a totalitarian state from the point-of-view of a true believer.

PB - Raging Bear Publishing CY - Np SN - 978-1-9164710-7-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noor Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A complex dystopia using traditional African myths and stories and magic realism concerning a immense company that sells everything that is trying to enlarge food sales by eliminating the farmers and herders.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York SN - 978-0756416096 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from the Burning Age Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The Burning Age was a past time of climate disaster and excess, and the protagonist is a keeper of the archives of that time dedicated to not revealing their secrets to avoid a repeat.

PB - Orbit/Hachette CY - London SN - 9780316498838 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Orbit/Hachette, 2021

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Claire North [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Never a Butterfly, Nor a Moth with Moon-Painted Wings” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future depicting the treatment of refugees from an island that sank beneath the waves in a country that accepts them as menial laborers while eliminating their language and culture. 

JF - Beneath Ceaseless Skies VL - no. 300 UR - http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/never-a-butterfly-nor-a-moth-with-moon-painted-wings/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Mutants" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Fawns, Angelique ED - Juliana Rew KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A virulent virus wipes out most of the population, with most of the survivors are young adults, who form gangs around different bands. 

JF - Gotta Wear Eclipse Glasses. Third Flatiron Anthologies Volume 9, Book 28 (Summer 2020) PB - Third Flatiron Publishing CY - [Boulder, CO/Ayr, Scotland] VL - Volume 9, Book 28 SN - 978-1-7339207-7-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Wilderness. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Diane [Marie] Cook (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a severely polluted future, a woman, whose daughter is dieing from effects of the pollution, decides to escape to the Wilderness State, an area that has been off limits to people. The novel follows her life and the lives of others in the wilderness. Female author.

PB - Haper CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-233313-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No One Who Runs Is Innocent” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Bracken MacLeod ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a surveillance, anti-immigrant, racist future United States.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Notes on the Supply of Material in the Bodies Market” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rodrigo Juri (b. 1971) ED - Crystal M. Huff KW - Chilean author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate controlled dystopia.

JF - Recognize Fascism: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054507 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notice" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story in set in a religious community called Reliance that imagines itself as self-sufficient and is cut off from the outside world as seen through the eyes of a young man in the community. 

JF - Us in Flux PB - Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflux/sarah-pinsker-uif U2 -

Illus. Nina Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neon Empire Y1 - 2019 A1 - Drew Minh KW - French author KW - Male author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in Eutopia in the near future. Eutopia is not eutopian, but a dystopian city where social media drives the economy.

PB - Rare Bird Books/California Coldblood Books CY - Los Angeles, CA SN - 9781947856769 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Jesus" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tommy Orange (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in Oakland, California, which is now at sea level and most of the time Oaklanders are walking through water and most people had left for higher ground or moved onto a boat. The story concerns the impact of stories of a New Jesus is not the Second Coming but “lives in each of us and in our action. . . . New Jesus is our cooperation with each other and with the earth” (69). The protagonist rejects and makes fun of his niece, who is telling him and his wife about the New Jesus.

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

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Night Drinker” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Luis Alberto Urrea (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Mexico City and is described as “A Chronicle of the last days of Tenochtitlan, Built on Lake Texcoco, known now as Mexico City, Home of the Ancient Gods. 2040 A.D. (From the Notebooks of Joaquin Hernandez III, Historian, Found in the Ruins of Iztapalpa, 2045). Mexico City is one of the last place standing after multiple climate change disasters that destroy both land and sea and produce huge shifts in population.

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

 Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Algorithms in the World” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nobody People Y1 - 2019 A1 - Bob Proehl KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with fantasy elements in which the government and, with the encouragement of the government, bigoted people attack people with special talents, Muslims, and others.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Not Only Who You Know” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jay O'Connell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where bots have replaced almost all jobs, producing extreme inequality and focuses on a woman who will go to any length to succeed.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.5-6 (520-521) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes on the Plague" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Shamar Harriott KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set during a plague that mostly impacts African Americans. 

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 9 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nový Ys” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Krzysztof Fijalkowski KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia of a dangerous, future city that slowly disappears under rising tides. 

JF - The Ashes of the Cities. Eldorado. Liber Tertius PB - Raphus Press CY - São Paulo, Brazil VL - 16 copy ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Name Unspoken” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In this future New York City, the name unspoken, known as the Monster, is Trump.

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 - “Nation Building and Baptism” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Powerful story about a ceremony welcoming refugees into Aotearoa/New Zealand set in an environmentally devastated world. 

JF - Capricious VL - no. 10 UR - http://www.capricioussf.org/nation-building-and-baptism/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Negative Space" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Max Knight ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Vietnam author AB -

The story is set in a future China with extreme pollution but that has areas that under domes that are accessible to those with sufficient money or status and is building a city that is pollution free and in the open air. The protagonist is a fairly high-status functionary who is trying to quit smoking during a crackdown on smokers. 

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

JF - e-flux VL - no. 93 UR - http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_211366.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Black" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nora O Murchi ED - William Davies KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia in which most people have lost their jobs to algorithms and the few who work with the algorithms are constantly monitored and required to work precisely as directed. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newsletter" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of censorship. 

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 - Night of the Party Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tracey Mathias KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which Britain is controlled by a single party and everyone born outside the country is considered illegal and subject to arrest and deportation. Not reporting an illegal is itself a crime. 

PB - Scholastic CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nine Y1 - 2018 A1 - Zach Hines KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A young adult dystopia in which everyone has nine lives, and, in order to avoid overpopulation, the government encourages suicide by providing benefits for those who kill themselves until they have one life left. 

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No Point Talking” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States is experiencing the effects of climate change and has fractured into areas dominated by conservatives and areas dominated by the left. 

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 - “Notes on Retrieving a Fallen Banner” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marguerite Reed ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia in which abortion providers are being by the authorities even though abortion remains legal. 

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 - "Native Seeds" Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the population of Earth is dwindling long after much of the population left to settle other planets. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 137.11&12 U2 -

Illus. Vincent DiFate

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Catherine Wells [pseud.]

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Merril, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New World Coming: Experiencing a Radically Different Future in the Kingdom of God Y1 - 2017 A1 - John [R.] Claeys KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Biblical exposition from the premillennial perspective including details of life during the millennium with Biblical references. There will be physical bodies (147-58). Quite a bit on what might loosely be called the politics of the millennium with Christ ruling, and the Mosaic Law enforced (159-89). Refers to the feasts of the Old Testament (199-213). Harmony between animals and humans (216). No fear (216). Parenting based on the Old Testament, with serious punishment, including death, for misbehavior (217-19). Significant population growth (219-20). Earth will have no waste spaces (220-21). Manual work will be done by “mortal-bodied unbelievers,” while the “glorified” will be administrators (224). See also his The Impending Apocalypse. Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2014.

PB - 289Design CY - Longview, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New York 2140 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. Includes the characters Mutt and Jeff from 2016 Robinson, “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button.”

PB - Orbit CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Night Divers" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lynn Hutchinson Lee ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia with extreme drought and all water sources and distribution are taken over by a corporation. 

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

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

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

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Noise and the Silence” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Christien Gholson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there is constant loud noise and silence is consider opposition.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 268 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “None But the Brave” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dan Lee ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the policies of the Trump administration. The story focuses on terrorism and anti-terrorism.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Non-White in America” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Debora Godfrey ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia of being non-white in contemporary America.

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 - Numbercaste Y1 - 2017 A1 - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992) KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

The main protagonist is recruited by a start-up that is developing a way to rate every individual in the world based and assign them a number that fluctuates depending on their actions is will be available for everyone else.

PB - [Author] CY - Np SN - 9781521795439 9789353023331 N1 -

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins India, 2019. It was first published on Kindle and then, a day later, as a paperback, and then in India.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Né Łe!” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Hope Nicholson ED - Erin Crossar ED - Sam Beiko KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The background to the story is a future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Mars has been successfully settled, and various space habitats have been developed with different rules and regulations and some designed for specific ethnic groups, including one Orbiter Diné [Navajo]. But all Native Americans not living on reservations have been forced off their land, and most people still on Earth live in huge megaplexes. 

JF - Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Bedside Press CY - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] SN - 9780993997075 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Necessity Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 2014 and 2015 Walton. In this novel Zeus has transported all the inhabitants of the Just City to another planet named Plato, and the inhabitants are interacting with aliens and have just been contacted by humans. The relocation has generally been successful, and a number of city states have been established that reflect different interpretations of Plato’s Republic.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nethers: Frontiers of Hinterland Y1 - 2016 A1 - M[itch] E. Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to 2014 Parker where the man from the earlier novel is sent to find scrap metal outside the Jonesbridge complex, and he and the woman finally escape after many adventures.

PB - Diversion Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Law" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jeff Parsons KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a totalitarian regime in which a new law allows a judge to misrepresent a decision to a defendant and senior party members to do whatever they want with anyone found guilty of a crime.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Panama" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change has greatly reduced the islands and coastal areas of the world, and the next stage will be in space. The story focuses on a strong Caribbean woman negotiating over the future of her people.

JF - Bim: Arts for the 21st Century VL - 8.1 UR - https://www.bimlitfest.org/articles/new-panama N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Monica Louzon, Jake Weisfeld, Heather McHale, Barbara Jasny, and Rachel Frederick (Washington, DC: Museum of Science Fiction, 2017), 118-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “New Wild of Generopia: A Hope of New Eaarth” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Julianne Lutz Warren KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The talk begins with Raphael Hythloday’s depiction of Utopia, moves to Utopia’s adoption of modern methods, which severely damages the country, and continues with Raquel Savetheday’s depiction of a group of Utopians who leave to create an ecological island utopia for the twenty-first century.

JF - Talk given at the “Stories of the Anthropocene Festival,” Stockholm, Sweden, October 28, 2016 UR - http://www.openwikitopia.org/index.php?title=Generopia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night My Dead Girlfriend Called Y1 - 2016 A1 - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - South African author AB -

Set in twenty-second century Nigeria, the protagonist starts getting phone calls from his dead girlfriend and goes in search of answers. The story includes a version of the robot policemen from the author’s 2014 story “This is Africa.” 

PB - CreateSpace CY - Middletown, DE SN - 978-1722408978 N1 -

Originally published as a series in Brittle Paper beginning November 7, 2016) https://brittlepaper.com/2016/11/night-dead-girlfriend-called-episode-1-call-feyisayo-anjorin/ [No other episodes remain on line]. Rpt. Np: Okada Books, 2017 [Not found]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night of the Animals Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bill Broun KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2052 after the European Union has collapsed, the UK is a surveillance state with the majority indigent, who are drugged, and a dwindling middle class, and a cult originating in California wants to kill all the animals and institute mass suicides. One elderly homeless man who believes the animals are talking to him tries to free them from London Zoo.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - North Country Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tajinder Singh Hayer (b. 1980) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia after a pandemic/plague has killed much of the world’s population. The novel follows the struggle to survive of three teenagers of British Asian descent, like the author, from Bradford. The book was published to coincide with the opening of the play directed by Alex Chisholm October 26, 2016, in Bradford, England in the basement of an abandoned Marks & Spencer. For an article by the director, see http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/north-country-post-apocalyptic-story-bradford/

PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nostalgia Y1 - 2016 A1 - M[oyez] G. Vassanji (b. 1950) KW - African author KW - Canadian author KW - US author AB -

In the future seeming immortal people regularly have their memories erased and replaced with more pleasant ones that help them fit in with their current reality, but the memories do not completely disappear. 

PB - Penguin Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 9780385667166 N1 -

Indian ed. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nothing to Fear" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nat Newman KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Brief dystopia set in a society in which the activities for every day and most hours are set centrally. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 5 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Natural Way of Things Y1 - 2015 A1 - Charlotte Wood (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a group of young women are kidnapped, drugged, and imprisoned in an abandoned building somewhere in the outback of Australia. The novel focuses on the growing friendship between two of the women. 

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Europa Editions, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ‘Naw First Minister!’ Irascible Big Nellie Nellis Becomes First Minister . . . pity help Scotland! Y1 - 2015 A1 - Allan Morrison KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on Scottish politics.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nemesis: Inception Y1 - 2015 A1 - G. Michael Hopf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia with women as central protagonists. Related to the series that began with 2013 Hopf and 2015 Hopf, Exit in that all begin with a major attack on the U.S. A trilogy is planned.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Hokkaido Y1 - 2015 A1 - James McNaughton (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which Japan did not bomb Pearl Harbor, the U.S. stayed out of World War 2, and Japan occupied New Zealand in 1942. The novel is set during the occupation.

PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New US" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Pepe Rojo ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-9910444-3-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the Clouds Y1 - 2015 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A volume in a series with 2012 and 2013 Llewellyn in which the protagonist travels to three futures. In this volume, Earth has been devastated by the effects of the environmental policies of the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Nothing grows on the surface of the planet and only a few insects remain. Humans live in cities, called culverts, built to survive 500 kilometers per hour winds and in huge balloon-like “clouds” traveling around the planet. Scientifically and technologically advanced. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ellen Bravo ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A poor woman cleaner is briefly transported to a future where people like her are fully equal and collectively control their workplace.

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 - Not on My Block: Envisioning a World without Street Harassment” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Giorgis, Hannah ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief essay presenting the eutopia of the title.

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 Nether, A Play Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jennifer Haley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Nether is a virtual world where anyone can log in, claim an identity, and live out their fantasies. The play concerns a subsection of the Nether designed for pedophiles and depicts the investigation of this subsection by an online detective. The play received its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in California in March 2013, after being first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center as part of the 2011 National Playwrights Conference. Subsequent productions have been mounted at the Royal Court Theatre in 2013, MCC Theater in 2014 and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2015. It won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

PB - Northwestern University Press CY - Evanston, IL SN - 9780810130630 978-0573703911 N1 -

U.K. edition London: Samuel French, 2015

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

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

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from the Internet Apocalypse Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gladstone, Wayne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that follows the collapse of the internet. Followed by Reports on the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014; and Agents of the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2015.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Neighborhoods" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dean Wesley Smith ED - John Helfers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A wealthy man, upset by the continuing death in gang violence of Chicago teenagers decides to recreate the entire way of life by building huge, completely self-contained apartment complexes. The story includes details of power sources, gardening, schools, shopping, and so forth.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 N1 -

Rpt. in Smith’s Monthly #6 (March 2014): 66-78; ISSN 2474-5294 and in Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Story Series. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Np: WMG Publishing, 2021), 419-436. 978-1-56146-387-9

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Neptune Project Y1 - 2013 A1 - Polly Holyoke KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult series in which a group of genetically modified teens must, guided by dolphins, swim to the undersea Neptune Project, where they are expected to help create a better life than that on the surface. The second volume is The Neptune Challenge. New York: Disney/Hyperion, 2015; U.K. ed. as The Neptune Dilemma. London: Penguin Books, 2015, which is a typical middle volume where the struggle to survive. In the third volume, The Neptune Promise. Plano, TX: Holyoake Enterprises, 2017, the people fight to save the planet from climate change.

PB - Hyperion/Disney CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. The Neptune Conspiracy. London: Penguin Books, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Year’s Tale Y1 - 2013 A1 - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which senior citizens are considered an unnecessary expense and disposable. Everyone is forced to retire at 65, and the Senior Laws are designed to ensure no one reaches old age. For example, under the Diminished Culpability Act, if you kill someone who is 70, you get two-years in prison; if you kill someone 80, you get two years community service. The African gods, upset at the lack of respect for elders, choose four seniors to fight back.

PB - Author CY - Portal, AZ SN - 978-1-4827-9566-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zapata Y1 - 2013 A1 - Teri Hall KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Texas has seceded from the U.S. and outlawed abortion, birth control, and divorce. The novel follows one young woman trying to escape. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From the Squares Y1 - 2013 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes a society in which women are dominant and the entire country is laid out in squares. Loosely a sequel to 2012 Llewellyn. See also 2015 Llewellyn.

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not a Drop to Drink Y1 - 2013 A1 - Mindy McGinnis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult climate change dystopia in which a young woman, surviving alone while protecting her water source, has to adjust to nearby neighbors. In a sequel, In a Handful of Dust. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014, she and another young woman set out to try to find more water.

PB - Katherine Tegen Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Notes from a Pleasant Land Where Broken Hearts are Like Broken Hands” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kevin Waltman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed religious eutopia contrasted with a free people seen from within the religion as living in a dystopia.

JF - Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet VL - no. 28 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nova’s Cycles” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Aaron M. Wilson ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the colonies built on the moon and other places in the solar system are being drained to support the rich colonists.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland. OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nature of Ash Y1 - 2012 A1 - Mandy [Amanda] Hager (b. 1960) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world where two power blocs, one led my China and one led by the United States have formed are in conflict. New Zealand is caught in the middle, and one university student is drawn into the conflict after his father’s murder. A sequel is Ash Arising. Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2018 in which his exposure of the corruption at the heart of New Zealand political life only brings more danger. 

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From Gardenia Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Next Door" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people are homeless and living in garages and other places not suitable for human life. Gay male themes. 

JF - Diverse Energies PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Not Yet Y1 - 2012 A1 - Moira Crone (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the division between the long-lived and those trying to become the long-lived.

PB - University of New Orleans Press CY - New Orleans, LA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Now Purple with Love’s Wound" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which girls are injected with a serum that makes them love the boy who claims them for marriage. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/R.P. Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Nation of Ruins Y1 - 2011 A1 - Robert John Burke KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the American right in power.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New and Perfect Man" Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a couple decides to create the perfect child by raising it in a technologically advanced but artificial environment and the girl's revolt against them.

JF - The New and Perfect Man PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts Number 24/25 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Dystopia Y1 - 2011 A1 - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel related to an art exhibition depicting, as did the exhibition, the dystopia of the current world.

PB - CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux/Sternberg Press CY - Bordeaux, France/Berlin, Germany U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Patriot. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Theodore Doyle KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a false religious fundamentalism combined with corporate dominance set in the 22nd century in the Confederacy of Incorporated States.

PB - Np CY - Lexington, KY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Next Future” Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay in which the author describes various possible utopias, which he rejects, and one, briefly, that he accepts that combines anarchism and a command economy.

JF - Lapham’s Quarterly VL - 4.11 N1 -

Rpt. as “Totalitopia.” In his Totalitopia plus “This Is Our Town” and “Everything That Rises” and “Paul Park’s Hidden World” and “I Did Crash a Few Parties” Outspoken Interview and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017), 23-36. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nine-Tenths Y1 - 2011 A1 - Meira Pentermann KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a better alternative, an enclave that is only briefly described and that remains under threat from the dystopia. The conceit of the novel is that a momentary decision can completely change history. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nowhere Fast” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) ED - Kelly Link ED - Gavin J. Grant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future recovering from climate change and focuses on the damage down by private cars when a young man has cobbled together one from spare parts that runs on hemp oil. The background is a fragmented United States.

JF - Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories PB - Candlewick Press CY - Somerville, MA SN - 978-0-7636-4843-5 9781616960865 N1 -

Rpt. Illus. John Coulthart. In Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 241-53; and in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 65-80.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Nature of Bees” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Priya Sharma KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia that is a human beehive. 

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 38 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Millennium Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dennis Pimm KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia but with the emphasis on the opposition to it.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Model Army Y1 - 2010 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In a sense this is a future war novel, but it is set in a future where it has become clear that Britain is ruled by similar competing oligarchy who periodically hold an election to give themselves a spurious legitimacy. The people are fed up and an army is created that is an Artificial Intelligence that is a real democracy in which everyone helps choose what it is to do.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Joel Kotkin (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A projection of the next forty years that is so optimistic that it can be read as a eutopia. America will solve all its problems and absorb a hundred million more people from a high birth rate and immigration with no serious problems.

PB - Penguin Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nina in Utopia Y1 - 2010 A1 - Miranda Miller (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Twenty-first century London as a eutopia from the perspective of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century. After she returns to her own time and is committed as insane, she also finds Bedlam a better place than the outside. First in a series followed by The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd. A Novel. London: Peter Owen, 2013 in which the protagonist meets the painter Richard Dadd (1817-86) in Bedlam where he created his famous paintings. Dadd also travels to the twenty-first, which he finds very difficult. 

PB - Peter Owen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noise Y1 - 2010 A1 - Darin Bradley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future violent America with a eutopian enclave that holds hope for the future.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nomansland Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lesley Hauge KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia of an all female island community where friendship is prohibited.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nostalgia" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gene O'Neill (b. 1938) ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where immortality is available and those who fail the screening test become illegal and are hunted.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Netherlands Lives With Water" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jim Shepard (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of global warming with Holland struggling to stay above the sea.

JF - McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 143-71. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Terra and Beyond: The Expanding Human Universe Y1 - 2009 A1 - Richard Michael KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia set on a colony planet which is provided with advanced technology but where the people are afraid to use it. A religious leader who opposes its use targets those who use it.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nelson Gregory's 2084 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nelson Gregory [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all power has been concentrated in the presidency and, in an anti-terrorist move, the president orders U.S. forces to attack and kill Muslims living in the U.S., including U.S. citizens.

PB - Frequent Flyer Books & Music CY - Kingwood, TX U3 -

Gregory, Nelson [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neptune's Children Y1 - 2008 A1 - Bonnie Dobkin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with only children surviving on an island theme park.

PB - Walker CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night Children Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of children living in a huge mall and coming out only at night.

PB - Starscape/Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night Sessions Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Conflict over religion in which Christians had used nuclear weapons on the U.S. Partially set in New Zealand, which is presented generally positively.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightship" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set in an environmentally devastated Australia where the different groups are at constant war and slavery and violence are standard. Very few women are born, and they are used for breeding.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Other Country" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Shaun [Chi Yeong] Tan (b. 1974) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

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

JF - Tales From Outer Suburbia PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Novel Excerpt: And the Women Take Over Jerusalem” Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Betty Susan] Weinbaum (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pretty much what the title says. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New You Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hilary Bromberg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is presented as if it is from the Second Dark Age having been founded after a future Great Devastation. The Second Dark Age is compared to Huxley's Brave New World (1932) with control by government and corporations.

PB - Oscura Press CY - Tijeras, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Man's Land" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) ED - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A planet where women and men have separated and the arrival of new men from space in the women's area. Both positive and negative impacts are described.

JF - The WisCon Chronicles PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA VL - Volume 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noble Phasic. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - David L. McClard (b. 1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a city divided against itself by class is transformed into a eutopia by tearing down the walls surrounding it and within it. The rigid divisions disappear, and a better, healthier society will be created.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes on Redevelopment" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire describing a future where the U.S. has disintegrated with areas seceding from the Christian fundamentalist dystopia that the country had become. Proposal for the redevelopment of Times Square as a sex zone.

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 - A New Nation Y1 - 2006 A1 - Dean A. Buchanan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by liberals, including world government with world taxes and making homeschooling illegal, leads to the successful secession of Alaska from the U.S. and the creation of a conservative eutopia there.

PB - Tate Publishing, LLC CY - Mustang, OK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Not Worth a Cent" Y1 - 2006 A1 - R. Neube KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future U.S. in which diseases are rampant and social security is broke and ends at 100.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 30.4& 5 (363& 364) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nowhere: A Dystopian Satire of Contemporary Society" Y1 - 2006 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Dystopia of technology and human isolation.

CY - Play first performed at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, May 31, 2006. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Necessary Beggar Y1 - 2005 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of present reality contrasted with Lémabantunk, the Glorious city, which is a eutopia of peace and plenty. Fantasy elements.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Never Let Me Go Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954) KW - Japanese author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia describing a future society where children are cloned and raised to become organ donors. The story is told from the point of view of one of the clones.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with minor revisions and illus. Kate Miller. London: The Folio Society, 2012, with an Introduction by Claire Mussud (vii-xiv). U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Society for Universal Harmony Y1 - 2005 A1 - Lenore Malen KW - Female author AB -

Art book describing the reinvention of a utopian experiment founded in Paris in 1783 by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1851), of mesmerism/hypnotism fame. The reinvention places the community in the contemporary United States and traces its rise and fall. The book represents a mid-point on an ongoing project that, under the title given to the book, originated in 1999 as “La Société de l'harmonie universelle,” a performance/exhibition that was presented from then until 2008. “Harmony as a Hive” is a performance piece presented between 2007 and 2009. “I Am an Animal, Part 1” (2009) is a documentary film about beekeepers. “Part 2” (2012) is a video installation that imagines human civilization as a hive. “Scenes of Paradise” (2015-2017) is a multimedia presentation of various scenarios, all of which are informed by climate change. The group of artists who work with her also uses the name The New Society for Universal Harmony.

PB - Granary Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Sister of Mine Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jeanne G'Fellers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in the far future on a planet that is divided between a patriarchal, heterosexual society known as the Autlach and an all-female telepathic society known as the Taelach. The two societies are in conflict and the all-female society is divided between those who want to enslave the Autlach and those who simply want to coexist. The Taelach society has elements of a lesbian feminist eutopia. The second volume, Sister Lost Sister Found. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2006, continues the story of the conflict between the two main societies with considerably more development of the lesbian eutopia, including a clan structure. The third volume, Sisters’ Flight. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2007, continues the story of the protagonist in 2006 G’Fellers who has become a warrior in one of the clans. All three volumes contain Glossaries, none of which include all the same words.

PB - Bella Books CY - Tallahassee, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nocturne Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jus Neuce [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set on a planet settled from Earth that has developed a class-based society. The dominant class stems from the early scientific settlers and is centered on their schools. The other class is based on the second group of settlers who were mostly from the working class. Class conflict ensues, and the book indicates that a sequel is planned, but none appears to have been published. An unpaged “Glossary” at the end of the book gives a summary overview of the planet, its history, and its institutions. 

PB - Aio Publishing CY - Charleston, SC U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes From a Coma Y1 - 2005 A1 - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which deep comas are tried to replace prison.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Novice Y1 - 2005 A1 - Glenda Millard KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Second volume of what is described as the the Carradon trilogy in sequel to 2004 Millard. The third volume does not appear to have been published. In this volume, the protagonists discover that a government plan to assist refugees in fact disguises a system of slavery. 

PB - ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nectar" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.1 (336) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neurolink Y1 - 2004 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel of sorts to 2003 Buckner set in the twenty-third century. Corporations have replaced nations and most of the world’s population are slaves owned by the corporations. A clone and an AI loaded with the same characteristics must work together,

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Coin Giver. Np: ereads.com, 2009. Rpt. under that title New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 ebook. UK. ed. under that title London: Gateway/Orion, 2012 ebook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newton's Wake: A Space Opera Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

While the novel is largely as described in its subtitle, it includes a flawed utopia in which all goods are available to all.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but includes a future in which houses are grown from seed. The story is set in Canada and the author is Canadian.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 27.6 (329) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Presents what can be considered a sexual eutopia in a world of multiple realities.

JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U3 -

John Grant [pseud.]

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

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

UR - http://www.soc.nu/utopian ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Noble Society: Adult Fairy Tales From Another Dimension Y1 - 2002 A1 - [Veronique] [Collignon] KW - Female author AB -

A collection of related stories describing a fantastic eutopia called Bullford, where no money is used and there is no competition. There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html. A second volume of stories that includes a section of illustrations in color is Vera Nova [pseud.], The Noble Society of Bullford: The Wonder-World beyond time, space or . . .Np: Outskirts Press, 2018.

PB - Thoughtmill Press CY - Las Vegas, NV N1 -

There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html. 

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Melissa Henry [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notable American Women Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ben Marcus (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Experimental novel which presents a dystopia in which silence is imposed on a family.

PB - Vintage Contemporaries CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as “Woman’s Pantomime.” Bomb, no. 69 (Fall 1999): 91-93; “The Faiting Project.” Tin House 1.4 (Spring/Summer 2000), 189-92; “The Launch.” Conjunctions 36 (2001): 167-99; “A Message from the Father of Fathers.” Fence 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2000-2001): 170-81; “The New Female Head.” Harper’s 304.1820 (January 2002): 84-87; “Women’s Pantomime.” The Pushcart Prize 25 (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2001), 248-54; “Literary Enhancement Through Food Intake: A Dietary Guideline for Reading.McSweeney’s, no. 5 (2000): 165-74; and “The Name Machine.” McSweeney’s, no. 8 (2002): 77-88. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New York's Transportation Future Is Coming Tomorrow. 1925 travels to 1950, and boggles" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Bruce McCall (b. 1935) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on future transportation taking some ideas from 1925 and placing them in a eutopian 1950 New York. Illustrations with captions.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 77.1 U2 -

Illustrations with captions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noughts and Crosses Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) KW - English author AB -

Noughts, who are considered inferior and suppressed. The novel concerns a young couple who fall in love across this divide. Sequels include An Eye for an Eye. London: Corgi Books, 2003, which is a short piece originally published for World Book Day 2003 set in a time between her 2001 Noughts & Crosses and 2004 Knife Edge.  Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 447-78; Knife Edge. London: Doubleday,2004. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007; and Checkmate. London: Doubleday, 2005.

PB - Doubleday CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 7-443.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New City. A Novel Y1 - 2000 A1 - Stephen Amidon (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ideal suburban community is created that is specifically designed for racial harmony, but over time the usual personality conflicts and differing needs and desires reveals it to be a better society albeit a flawed utopia. Set in 1973 and based on Columbia, MD, where the author once lived. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nadiria" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Stephen Barnwell KW - Male author AB -

Fictional religious utopian community founded in Antarctica.

UR - http://www.dream-dollars.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from the 21st Century" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Vanessa Baird (b. 1955) ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Short news reports from a future of much greater equality, particularly gender equality.

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 - “Nor a Lender Be” Y1 - 1999 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All U.S. public schools have been closed and the educational system is now run for a profit by the Disney Company. The story’s focus is a charismatic teacher in one of the few in-person schools left who is convinced to allow Disney to use map all his classroom behaviors so that they can create AI teachers.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 120.2 SN - 978-0-9668184-5-1 978-1-933846-95-8 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 50-67; and without the illus. The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 64-80.

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Illus. Darryl Elliott

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noir Y1 - 1998 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Background of an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nevermore" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia. Virtual reality becomes standard, and most people seem to live in it rather in the "foreal", which has become run down. During life people keep records of all their actions so that they can live on in virtual reality after death. The story focuses on an artist who prefers to live in the "foreal".

JF - Dying For It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love PB - HarperPrism CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.7 (271) (July 1998): 14-22, 24-32; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 488-504 with an Editor’s note on 488; and in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 202-34 with a note on 202; and in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013, an ebook with an “Afterword” by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Man's Land Y1 - 1997 A1 - Barry England (1932-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Violent struggle to survive by a small group of people after the collapse of civilization.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Novel of Queen the Eye Y1 - 1997 A1 - Paul Darrow (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Based on the computer game "Queen the Eye."

PB - Boxtree CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nymphomation Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian future society focused on a lottery that is controlled and manipulated by a corporation.

PB - Doubleday CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newtopia Y1 - 1995 A1 - D. K. Paul (b. 1914) AB -

A detailed proposal for founding a series of ecological communities based on some similarity, such as race or ethnicity, in the population forming it. The author argues that it is completely practical, and compares the idea to the Twin Oaks Community in Louis, VA.

PB - PakDonald Publishing Co CY - Tigard, OR U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Non-Money: that “other money” you didn’t know you had Y1 - 1995 A1 - Olaf Egeberg (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

“Non-money is everything you have (besides money) that you can use to get what you want, and to do what you want to do” (12). Begins with trading skills, work for services, paying bills, and so forth and expands into community-based systems including LETS. . See also 1992 Egeberg and his Coming Home: A Crossover Bible for Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and members of other religious faiths, as well as thoroughly non-religious persons. Np.: Lulu Press, 2006. http://changesahead.net/files/TheBook.pdf

PB - McGee Street Foundation CY - Washington, DC: U2 -

Illus. Joan Hancock

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue III: Earthsong Y1 - 1994 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of a trilogy following 1984 and 1987 Elgin. In this volume the women’s revolution begins with a minority of the men supporting them, but most men are still violently resisting at the end of the novel. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Native Tongue 3: Earthsong. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 257-68. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with a “Foreword: Evolutionary Song” on v-ix and an “Afterword: The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 221-34. PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Necroville Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia with the dead revived. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Terminal Cafe. New York: Bantam Books, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nekropolis" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of slavery as background to a love story about a slave and an android.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 18.4& 5 (214 & 215) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 77-110.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ngati Kangaru" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Patricia Grace KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Māori author AB -

Humorous Māori eutopia in which the Māori reclaim Aotearoa New Zealand from the pākehā (Europeans) who tricked their ancestors into signing over land. Since the pākehā used deeds signed by people who didn't own the land, they did the same and occupied resorts, summer homes, and golf courses when not being used and central Auckland where no one lived anymore. Families moved in and business catering to them opened. Her best-known novel, Potiki, Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books (N.Z.), 1986, resonates with this story in that it is concerned with Māori defending their ancestral land from developers.

JF - The Sky People and Other Stories PB - Penguin (NZ) CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. (London: Women's Press, 1994), 25-43. Story rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 131-44.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Retreat Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Nazis rule Britain.

PB - Sinclair-Stevenson CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Uncertain Terms" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kristy Schubert KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society based on eugenic selection that kills anyone deemed not to meet their criteria, which includes any opposition to the criteria.

JF - Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future PB - Pan Macmillan Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nation's Party Concept: A Political Alternative Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jack W. Boone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed proposal regarding what should constitute an American eutopia and how to bring it about. Generally conservative.

PB - Grafco Productions CY - Marietta, GA N1 -

The author, in a letter of January 17, 2002, says that he included here most of the book Rage in Utopia that he published under the name Jack Warren [pseud.]. Marietta, GA: Grafco Productions, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Near the Driver” Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The dystopia of a future highly automated Britain with the focus on British Rail.

JF - Ten Tales Tall and True PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 129-53. Rpt. in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 653-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nomansland Y1 - 1993 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--a society which is getting rid of men by ensuring that there are no boy babies.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Negrophobia: An Urban Parable Y1 - 1992 A1 - Darius James (b. 1954) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

An experimental novel that explores the dystopia of American racism. 

PB - Citadel Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993; and New York: New York Review Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Amy Abugo Ongiri (vii-xvi); and a “Preface” by the author (xvii-xxvi). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New City Y1 - 1992 A1 - Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Architectural eutopia. Architectural drawings, cityscapes, and buildings combined with short essays that make the utopianism explicit. Designed for people who are autonomous individuals living experimentally.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Next" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of racism in the future when dark skins are preferred as protection against the hole in the ozone layer.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 82.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newton's Sleep." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Doubleday CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come Y1 - 1991 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the book is about the study of the future and alternative scenarios that such a study can produce. The last chapter suggests that the actual future can be a world-wide eutopia.

PB - Greenwood Press CY - Westport, CT N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Adamantine Press, 1992.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Nice Place to Visit” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Warren Murphy (b. 1933) A1 - Molly Cochran ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. 

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 - No Such Country: A Book of Antipodean Hours Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gary [David] Crew (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult authoritarian religious dystopia called New Canaan that is ruled by one man and the successful struggle against him.

PB - William Heinemann Australia CY - Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Port Melbourne, VIC, VIC, Australia: Mammoth Australia, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nothing Sacred Y1 - 1991 A1 - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Net Songs" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Elaine Bergstrom ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Right wing dystopia controlling human relationships through fear of disease.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nightshade Y1 - 1989 A1 - Jack [Armand] Butler (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nuclear War Diary Y1 - 1989 A1 - James E. Stanford Jr. ED - Frank Alexander KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The diary of a teenager for the first year after a nuclear war.

PB - Front Row Experience CY - Byron, CA SN - 0-915236-28-2 U2 -

Illus. by the author

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - NEO Party Politics Y1 - 1988 A1 - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia non-fiction for New Zealand with a stress on political organization, in particular the restructuring of New Zealand into two state governments representing the North and South Islands. NEO = Newness with Equality and Organisation. See 1987 Mehlhopt for a set of detailed economic proposals. See also 1997 and 1999 Mehlhopt.

PB - Seagull Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U1 -

[Cover adds with New Zealand States]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nick and the Glimmung Y1 - 1988 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous children's story that begins on an overpopulated Earth with an anti-pet policy and moves to a planet with various sentient beings under threat of one powerful one. A young boy defeats the threat, and all will be able to live happily.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009. 

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Illus. Paul Demeyer

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue II: The Judas Rose Y1 - 1987 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Elgin in which the women’s plan to teach more women the women’s language is complicated by the presence of aliens on Earth and the infiltration of their movement by a woman at the instigation of the men. The aliens note that Earth women are ready to move onto a higher stage of civilization but that the me are not. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Native Tongue 2: The Judas Rose. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 365-80. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2019 with a “Foreword: The Veil of Language” by Rebecca Romney on vii-ix and an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 407-25.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New World" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A dystopia in which everyone is under corporate control and limited to one room. People are promised a new world where they are promised they will have more room, which is achieved by shrinking them. 

JF - Fiction Magazine VL - 6.2 N1 -

Rpt. illus. by the author in his Ten Tales Tall and True (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1993), 97-101. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 97-101; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 621-24. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night of No Joy" Y1 - 1987 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The second of three dystopian stories set in a world in which reality is unravelling and nothing rational appears to remain and violence erupts everywhere. See also 1986 and 1988 Wagar.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.6 (433) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night Walk" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Capitalist dystopia in an England occupied by an unidentified foreign power with reactionary policies. Some discussion of resistance/revolutionary tactics.

JF - The Night Walk and Other Stories PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1986 A1 - James [William] Kunetka (b. 1944) A1 - [Louis] Whitley Strieber (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia of an overpopulated, polluted world set in 2025.

PB - Grafton Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Jerusalem Y1 - 1986 A1 - Len Jenkin KW - Male author AB -

Two dystopias. One is the future United States in which the story focuses on journalism that is all fiction of sex and violence. The second is an ex-penal colony called New Jerusalem that is to be evacuated. Violence, drugs, consumerism.

PB - Sun & Moon Press CY - Los Angeles, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The News From D Street" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Andrew [Simon] Weiner (1949-2019) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are unable to remember.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 10.10 N1 -

Rpt. in his Distant Signals and Other Stories (Victoria, BC, Canada: Porcépic Books, 1989), 9-38.

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

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

PB - Arrow Books CY - London U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from Nowhere, 1984" Y1 - 1985 A1 - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Addition to his 1948 Walden Two in which George Orwell joins the community, and most of the story is in the form of conversations between Frazier, the main character in Walden Two, and Orwell.

JF - The Behavior Analyst VL - 8.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Upon Further Reflection (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987), 33-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night of Power Y1 - 1985 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a race war in New York City.

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1986.

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Can, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'No One Seems To Go To Work Anymore': Women Redesignating and Redesigning the City" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Suzanne Mackenzie KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia presenting the way women responded to a long, very deep economic collapse by creating new communities based on sharing and redesigning the physical layout of those communities.

JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nowhere Y1 - 1985 A1 - Thomas [Louis] Berger (1924-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire using the trope of a spy novel set in Sebastian, a dysfunctional country between Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany that has spawned the terrorist group the Sebastiani Liberation Front. 

PB - Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Natfact 7 Y1 - 1984 A1 - John [Kimberley] Tully (b. 1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

Rpt. [London]: Magnet, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Speech Y1 - 1984 A1 - Eric [Ellis] Overmyer (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set in the ruins of a city.

PB - Broadway Play Publishing CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1984; and in Word Plays 3: An Anthology of New American Drama. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1984. Rev. version in his Collected Plays ([Newbury, VT]: Smith and Kraus, 1993), 1-53. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Native Tongue Y1 - 1984 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a trilogy that traces the development of a women’s language that will allow them to function in a dystopia of male domination. This volume depicts the dystopia in which women are barely considered to be human. Women no longer have the vote, and the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution takes all civil rights away from women. See also her “An Update on Láaden.” Aurora Speculative Feminism, no. 23 (8.3) (Winter 1983-84): 10-13. 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org), 1987 and 1994 Elgin and her A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan. Madison, WI: Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1985. Rev. as A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan. 2nd ed. Ed. Diane Martin. Madison, WI: Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1988.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2000 with an “Afterword: Encoding a Woman’s Language” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 305-37. 2nd. ed. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2019 with a “Foreword: Giving Name to the Nameless” by Leni Zumas on v-ix, an Appendix From A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan” on 332-35, and an “Afterword: Encoding a Woman’s Language” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 337-62.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neuromancer Y1 - 1984 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An early cyberpunk dystopia in which corporations, governments, individuals, and artificial intelligences struggle to control and use each other and what comes to be called virtual reality.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Illus. ed. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1990. The 10th anniversary ed. London: HarperCollins, 1994 has a short afterword by the author. The 20th anniversary ed. New York: Ace Books, 2004 has a new introduction (vii-xi) by the author and an afterword (355-71) by Jack Womack.

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Navigator's Sindrome Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, violent, cruel dystopia on the planet Rabelais that is based on contracts that are manipulated for the personal benefit of the rulers. Her Rabelaisian Reprise. By Jayge Carr [pseud.]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1988 is a sequel set in the same planet and with many of the same characters. Her The Treasure in the Heart of the Maze. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1985 is described as a companion piece. Female author.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 188 pp. U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - New America Y1 - 1983 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia depicting the settlement and development of a planet by a group of individualists who make laissez-faire capitalism work. "A Fair Exchange" is the story most concerned with economic questions.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York N1 -

A linked series of stories. Four of them were originally published in the Continuum series ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood as “My Own, My Native Land.” Continuum 1 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), 42-75; “Passing the Love of Women.” Continuum 2 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), 51-81; “A Fair Exchange.” Continuum 3 (New York: Berkley, 1974), 29-53; and “To Promote the General Welfare.” Continuum 4 (New York: Berkley, 1975), 31-62. U.K. editions published as Continuum I, II, III, IV. First two vols. published London: W.H. Allen, 1975, 1976 with the Anderson stories on 38-62 and 43-65 respectively. Second two vols. published London: Star, 1977 with the same pagination as the U.S. ed. The others are “The Queen of Air and Darkness.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 40.4 (239) (April 1971): 5-45; “Home,” which was originally published as “The Disinherited.” Orbit 1: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1966), 65-81; and the essay “Our Many Roads to the Stars.” Galaxy 36.8 (September 1975): 73-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night Operation Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia set in the 22nd century in which people have fled underground into the sewer system to escape from terrorist attacks. Rock is played constantly over loudspeakers. The people have forgotten history and focus almost entirely on their biological lives with the Three Rs replaced with the Three Es (ejaculation, defecation, and eructation). Language has lost many words. No marriage or the family. 

JF - Towards VL - 2.4 - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Jeanne Clayton Hunter and Thomas Kranidas with an afterword by Owen Barfield (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 129-72; and separately as Night Operation. [Shinfield, Eng.]: Barfield Press UK, 2008. 2nd ed. [San Raphael, CA: Barfield Press, 2009. The book has a hagiographic “Introduction” by Jane Hipolito (ix-xii). 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not by Bread Alone Y1 - 1983 A1 - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Scientists develop a way of manipulating plants that makes it possible to produce a food called Freefood. A large corporation supports the development and distribution of Freefood while making immense profits. Various problems arise with the plants, and with the fact that feeding the entire world adequately is not enough to make everyone happy. Much of the novel is set in Australia, where the Aboriginals are establishing a new state in in northern Australia carved out of Queensland called Murngin, where they practice the old ways without the Freefood or alcohol. It is presented as a eutopia.

PB - Marion Boyars CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No Exit” Y1 - 1981 A1 - Paul Mavrides (b. 1952) A1 - Jay Kinney (b. 1950) ED - Jay Kinney (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on both punk rock and the anarchist eutopia. A punk rocker is frozen and revived thousands of years in the future in an anarchist eutopia, where his violence gets him sent back to the past, where he arrives at the corner of Haight and Ashbury during the “summer of love.” The eutopia is also satirized in that everyone lives on a commune; there is only healthy food, clothes and most other things are made from worms; Dolphins run an L 5 space colony and communicate with Earth by telepathy; and so forth.

JF - Anarchy Comics PB - Last Gasp CY - Berkeley, CA VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in Anarchy Comics. The Complete Collection. Ed. Jay Kinney (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2013), 97-104.

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MiU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Lasting City Y1 - 1981 A1 - Gordon [Thomas] Kerins KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

An attempt by priests to set up an agricultural commune to help Maori youth in the Taranaki region of New Zealand.

PB - Dunmore Press CY - Palmerston North, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It" Y1 - 1981 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all people live on a westbound highway with support services from, and it becomes clear, control by robots. Men are the drivers; women appear to be almost entirely in traditional roles. The story follows one boy from birth to getting his own car. Although the family has been travelling all the years in between, both events take place at the same mile marker. The Eastbound lanes appear to be a religious myth enforced by robots.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 61.3 (364) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Pure Product. Stories (New York: Tor, 1997), 303-328; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 11-33, with a note on the story on 563-565.

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303-28.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes In Passing" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Freundlich, Paul KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd story where the Second Coming requires everyone to examine their consciences, which leads to mass suicide. Ultimately the entire human race disappears and the planet and its flora and fauna flourish.

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 47 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nealities: Doc Genius and Henry the Stud Y1 - 1980 A1 - Merzie Wilson KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

African American eutopia using African and African American history and legend.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Number of the Beast Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of a tour of an imaginary solar system in which the protagonists land in a number of societies drawn from fantasy and science fiction. His The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes. Rockville, MD: Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor, 2020, which was put together from his manuscript and handwritten notes, begins with the same protagonists but then takes them into a parallel universe.

PB - Fawcett Columbine CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 25 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010. Extract published in Omni 2.1 - 2 (October - November 1979: 66-69, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138; 56-58, 60-64, 112, 114-18, 120, 122, 124-28.

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Illus. Richard M. Powers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Gulliver or The Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, Jr. in Capovolta Y1 - 1979 A1 - Esmé Dodderidge (1916-97) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Gender reversal satire. 

PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent, 1980.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Utopia Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter [Christopher] Milward [S.J.] (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia structured like More's Utopia with two parts. The first part is a factual journal of his trip with Japanese friends to Bruges, Belgium to visit the area where More was when he began writing Utopia. The second part (40-68) is a eutopia that contrasts the real Japan with a eutopian version that centers on religion and simplicity.

PB - Aratake Shuppan CY - [Tokyo] N1 -

The first two parts were published as In Search of Historic Britain. [Tokyo, Japan]: Aratake Shuppan, 1978; and In Search of More's England. [Tokyo, Japan]: Aratake Shuppan, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the City of the Sun Y1 - 1979 A1 - Isabel [Diana] Colegate (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about the history of an intentional community from the 1930s to 1970s. The members have divergent views of what eutopia will be like and how to bring it about.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No More Pencils, No More Books" Y1 - 1979 A1 - John Morressy (1930-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of future inner-city schools with constant violence, heavily medicated students, and no learning.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 56.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 269-81.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nuclear Fission" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Paul David Novitski ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author AB -

A decentralized eutopia with multiple gender relations that developed after an unexplained revolution that led to cities being abandoned and environmental damage that caused the desertification of the U.S. Midwest. The story focuses on one multi-relationship home in a community of fairly self-sufficient households.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 151-74 with an editor's note on 149-50.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night Above the Dingle Starry" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on education. Reformers have arranged for both teachers and pupils to be mildly sedated to avoid problems. All classes taped and inspected. Undermined by those pushing a franchised counseling service.

JF - Other Worlds PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nemo Y1 - 1977 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia with a successful revolt.

PB - Berkley Medallion CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1979.

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MoU-St, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Dimension of Freedom Y1 - 1977 A1 - Le Grand E. Day AB -

A pamphlet that includes a brief eutopia, "A Letter from the Future" (33-43), set in 2176 and a UFO story and essays explaining the institutions of the eutopia, which is essentially libertarian.

PB - Mojave Books CY - Reseda, CA U5 -

NbLU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nightwatch Y1 - 1977 A1 - Andrew M[ichael] Stephenson (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and intrigue. Authoritarian dystopia set in 2006 with the Earth near collapse and aliens arriving.

PB - Futura CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dell, 1977.

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MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Renewal" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia created by a fixed period for life.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 38.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Antinomy (New York: Dell, 1980), 240-45; and in his Melancholy Elephants (Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin, 1984), 125-30. U.S. ed. (New York: Tor, 1985), 135-40.

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Can, MoU-St, Merril, OrU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Navigator Y1 - 1976 A1 - Morris [Langlo] West (1916-99) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the search for a possibly mythical paradise island and the attempt to create a community on the island discovered.

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1976.

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ATL, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx Y1 - 1976 A1 - Colin Amery KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Treatment of the Atlantis legend by a believer. The hope of a eutopia is held out after the coming Armageddon (See Revelation 16), which will be followed by the re-emergence of occult masters and the return of people from space. Presented as non-fiction.

PB - Regency Press CY - London U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nozama" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Estacada, Alix A1 - Maridee Bona Dea KW - Female author AB -

Brief feminist eutopia. Excerpt from planned larger work that appears to have never been published.

JF - Women (Baltimore, MD) VL - 5.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Atlantis" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Bureaucratic, authoritarian, and violent dystopia. War is constant; global warming is destroying the planet; the government controls all power sources, which are failing; food and medication are in short supply; marriage and the nuclear family are illegal; women cannot be admitted to medical school; and minor bureaucratic rules are used to keep people in line for fear of being imprisoned.

JF - The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), 165-92; in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 185-205; in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 12-40. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 12-40; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 317-36; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 229-56, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 228.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Man's Land Y1 - 1975 A1 - Simon Watson KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia describing a future in which the past is being destroyed in the name of progress.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1976.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Lanark Y1 - 1974 A1 - W[illiam] L[eslie] Herd KW - Male author AB -

Poem with notes outlining the better society created by Robert Owen (1771-1858) at New Lanark, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

PB - P V Publications CY - Crowborough, Sussex, Eng. N1 -

2nd ed. Crowborough, Sussex, Eng.: P V Publications, 1974. 3rd ed. Crowborough, Sussex, Eng.: P V Publications, 1975.

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Illus. F.T. Hayes

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NLS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noah’s Castle Y1 - 1974 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world with a collapsing economy with extreme inflation, based on Post-World War I Germany. The novel focus on a man who hoards non-perishable goods to protect his family while causing problems for others.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The National Pastime." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence with combat football.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 96-113. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 171-97 with an "Introduction to The National Pastime" (169-70).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Nice Morning Drive" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Richard S. Foster KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian story in which government safety features on cars have gone overboard so that the cars are unwieldy, and few people drive for pleasure. The focus of the story is one such driver who drives an unimproved MG Roadster on the back roads, but encounters drivers in improved cars who try to crash into older cars knowing that they will be safe but destroying the older car. 

JF - Road & Track VL - 25.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Inspired ‘Red Barchetta’.” 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush. Ed. Kevin J. Anderson and John Mc Fetridge (Toronto, ON, Canada: ECW Press, 2016), 75-81 with a note by Anderson on 74 and an “Author’s Note” on 82-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Noonday Devil" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Dennis [Joseph] O'Neil (b. 1939) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 105-16.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes from 1999" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Arthur [Israel] Waskow (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented as a future history with the period from 1980 to 1990 called the Period of Transformation. In 1980 Quebec and northern New England become independent and other regional, ethnic, and workplace groups become autonomous. Between 1994 and 1999 the U.S. government collapses and, although there are some continuing problems, the autonomous groups simply work together outside and legal or political structure. The eutopia is presented through letters from a man in a "Irbutz", a farm and city kibbutz in the Washington, DC area that is part of the "Verein" or Jewish Commonwealth.

JF - Working Papers for a New Society VL - 1.1 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody's Home" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The focus of the story is an extended family of eighteen adults living in a future world with a fairly low population. The main technological change is a matter transmitter that allows nearly instantaneous travel to any place on Earth, which means that only some are living together at any one time. The family described values high intelligence, and it is implied that this is the norm. Each person must contribute "tax labor" to the Earth community.

JF - New Dimensions II PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1974), 231-56; illus. Dennis Neal Smith in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 52-69; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 249-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nowhere On Earth Y1 - 1972 A1 - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Direction Home" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Drug dystopia in which psychedelics are used in all aspects of life.

JF - New Worlds Quarterly PB - Berkley Books CY - New York VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 227-44; in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 263-86 with an “Introduction to No Direction Home” (261-62), and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 663-66 with an editor’s note on 663. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Arrangement" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gaeton Fonzi (1935-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay with some fictional elements about the better living arrangements in an intentional community, with the stress on child-rearing and the family.

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L, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Renaissance?" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gregory [G.] Baum ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Canada as a troubled religious eutopia in 2020. Canadian universities had been destroyed by student revolts in the 1990s and replaced with centers of conversation. These led to a revival of religion and a reduction in productivity. The government gives out drugs to get people re-connected to reality, and the church becomes an inquisitor.

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 - "No More Fun and Games" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Rosemary Cook ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on feminism. Government, among other advances, abolishes the masculine gender in French and prohibits marriage and heterosexual relations.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy Y1 - 1970 A1 - Louis P[reston] Trimble (1917-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One setting of the novel is a small-town eutopia in England that is basically Victorian but includes modern technology.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody Lives in Burton Street" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Greg[ory Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future U.S. dystopia. African Americans contained in ghettoes, but there are constant riots.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 9-16. Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There." Vertex 1.6 (February 1974): 72-75, 94.

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Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There."

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World by Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships. Wherein the Author returns and finds a New State of Liberal Horses and Revolting Yahoos Y1 - 1969 A1 - Matthew [John Caldwell] Hodgart ed. [written by] (1916-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on the Sixties using 1726 Swift.

PB - Duckworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Time Like Tomorrow Y1 - 1969 A1 - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate, authoritarian dystopia in the future. Classified as Young Adult.

PB - Crown CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neocracy; A Plan for Social Order and Co-operative Capitalism Y1 - 1968 A1 - Frank Herman Young (b. 1895) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. "Neocracy is co-operative capitalism utilizing representative rule of the people, by the people, for the people, in both business and government" (119). Guaranteed employment through United American Enterprises.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

LSE, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Constitution for a New Country Y1 - 1968 A1 - M[ichael] Oliver KW - Lithuanian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed capitalist eutopia containing a complete constitution (49-128). A review of the book by Robert L. Meiers, M.D. was published in The Capitalist Country Newsletter in 1.2 (August 1968): [1-3], a journal edited by Oliver. The book was meant to outline the reasons for and constitution of a new country that he called Minerva that the author hoped to establish and for which he minted a coinage. He found a reef near Tonga, and in 1971 built it up with dredged sand, built a concrete platform, planted a flag, and declared the Republic of Minerva. In 1972 the King of Tonga emptied its one prison and took the prisoners to the reef, where they destroyed the platform. See Raymond Craib, “The Brief Life and Watery Death of a 70’s Libertarian Micronation.” Slate (May 21, 2022). https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-republic-of-minerva-history-libertarian-micronations-tonga.html. A longer treatment by Craib can be found in Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022.

PB - Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press CY - Reno, NV N1 -

Rev. ed. Reno, NV: Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press, 1968.

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MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night Walk Y1 - 1967 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Novel set on the Planet Emm Luther, a strict Lutheran dystopia. Mostly adventure and intrigue. 

PB - Banner CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Corgi, 1977; and London: VGSF, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightmare" Y1 - 1967 A1 - George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A takeover of the U.S. by Communists, Jews, and Blacks set in 1971. Pages 339-57 is his commentary on his fiction.

JF - White Power PB - Ragnarock Press CY - Dallas, TX N1 -

2nd ed. (Dallas, TX: Ragnarock Press, 1967), 327-39.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Other Gods But Me" Y1 - 1966 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia in which adepts keep people at the level of earl agriculture with no technology.

JF - No Other Gods But Me PB - Compact Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Entry to Elsewhen (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 91-172; rpt. with a different cover in October 1972. Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody Axed You" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which violence is normal and the top-rated TV programs show people being killed.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 48.150 N1 -

Rpt. in his Time-Jump (New York: Dell, 1973), 130-60.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Encyclopaedist: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D." Y1 - 1964 A1 - Stephen [David] Becker (1927-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An entry in a future encyclopedia describing the survivors of a nuclear war who use what is left to build a eutopian future. See also his “The New Encyclopaedist--II: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.3 (160) (September 1964): 74-76; and “The New Encyclopaedist--III: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.4 (162) (November 1964): 62-64.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 26.5 (156) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Noman Way Y1 - 1964 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Competitive sports as population control. The losers die.

PB - Brown, Watson Ltd. Digit Books CY - London U3 -

J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

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Digit Books. L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not a Cloud in the Sky Y1 - 1964 A1 - Josephine Lawrence (1889-1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the elderly forced to move into rest homes at 65. At Tranquil Acres everything has been designed for what is good for them and also functions as “a center for the study of geriatrics” (41). Must move in no later than the morning of the day one turns 65. A spouse who is not yet 65 can move in or wait until they are. No one over 65 can smoke or drive. Ramps, no stairs, ground floor living except for the very wealthy. Moving sidewalks. The elderly poor and controlled even more than the others, which leads the protagonist to reflect that “money is the elderly’s best friend” (92). There is an underground railroad to help people escape to Canada. The author’s papers are held at Boston University. 

PB - Harcourt, Brace and World CY - New York U5 -

MoS, PP, WU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nova Express Y1 - 1964 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian imagery of an addicts’ world with the Nova Police versus the Nova Mob. Third volume of a trilogy following 1961 and 1962 Burroughs. 

PB - Grove Press CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Boss for the Slaughterhouse? The Report of the Planet Four Expedition" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Walter Gore KW - Male author AB -

The discovery of a new planet inhabited by vegetables with a highly developed civilization and in coalition with other vegetables on other planets. They believe that only vegetables can live peacefully and that all animals, which includes humans, should be exterminated.

JF - To the Keepers of the Slaughter House. Two Narrative Stories: A Fictional But Unfictitious Study Of The Elements of Violence In the Conditions of Human Existence In the Present And In the Future--Dedicated To Man’s Supreme And Unceasing Struggle To Conquer Violence Completely And for All Time PB - Mitre Press CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Laughing Matter Y1 - 1963 A1 - Senator Thinkwell [pseud.] AB -

A series of essays describing a better world called Newtopia. The essays are on Greed, Thinking, Foresight, and Population and each includes a discussion with the President of Newtopia.

PB - National Purpose Associates CY - Np VL - v. 1 U3 -

Senator Thinkwell [pseud.]. 

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Truce With Kings" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future North America that has broken into warring parts and with war within some of the parts.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 24.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Time and Stars (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 1-74; rpt. (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1965), 7-61; and in The Saturn Game. Volume Three. The Collected Stories of Poul Anderson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2010), 51-95.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nobody Starves” Y1 - 1963 A1 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the amount of food one receives depends on your work which is determined and judged by a machine. The protagonist is a man who hopes to be promoted but is fired instead and then falls down through the various stages of the community.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 26.2 (153) N1 -

Rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK] 5.7 (June 1964): 55-; and in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 111-124.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zealand: "The Small Utopia" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Kenneth [Hector] Melvin (1905-69) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

New Zealand as a eutopia. A picture book about New Zealand that explicitly contends that it is a eutopia. The epigram to the book is a poem from "'The Book of Tao': II-LXXX: Laotse translated by K.C. Lee", which is used with minor variations as chapter headings: "Let there be a small country, with small populationWhere the supply of goods is tenfold or hundredfold more than they can use: Let people value their lives and not migrate far. Though armour and weapons exist, there is no occasion to display them. Let them enjoy their food, beautify their clothing, be satisfied with their homes, delight in their customs; Needing never to move outside their own country" (5).

PB - Collins CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Notes Towards a Utopia" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short essay entitled "Why do we want to write another Utopia?" together with three rituals ("Celebrations") from the eutopia for childbirth, the movement of the child from the home to the children's community, and a girl becoming an adult. See also 1975 Gibbs and Golffing and 1991 Goffing and Gibbs.

JF - The Partisan Review VL - 27.3 N1 -

Rev. as by Golffing and Barbara Gibbs (1912-93). Stand 6 (Winter 1962): 51-58.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Naked Lunch Y1 - 1959 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of many dystopias by Burroughs which generally share the same characteristics: authoritarian tending toward the paranoid and concern with drugs and homosexuality. His dystopia, known as the Interzone, was based on Tangier, Morocco. 

PB - Olympia Press CY - Paris N1 -

Also pub. as Naked Lunch. New York: Grove Press, 1962. These two editions differ substantially. Grove Press ed. rpt. New York: Grove Press, 1992. UK ed. as The Naked Lunch. London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1964. Something approaching a critical edition is Naked Lunch: The Restored Text. Ed. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles. New York: Grove Press, 2001. This edition corrects errors and adds “Original Introductions and Additions by the Author” (197-229) and “Burroughs Texts Annexed by the Editors” (231-89), which includes “Editors' Note” (233-47). Rpt. as 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Grove Press, 2009 with an added “Afterword” by David L. Ulin (291-99). A bibliographic nightmare in that all the early editions differ because they are based on different versions of the text and have added differing front and back matter. Parts were originally published as by William Lee [pseud.] as “From: Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage.” Black Mountain Review, no. 7 (Autumn 1957): 144-48; “Have You Seen Pantapon Done.” Yūgen (New York), no. 3 (1958): 4-5; “Excerpt from Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.1 (Spring 1958): 25-30; and “Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.3 (Autumn 1958): 3-12. When further sections were stopped by the University of Chicago, Big Table was established to publish them and despite police attention published “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch.” Big Table, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 79-137; and “In Quest of Yage.” Big Table 2 (Summer 1959): 44-64. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New School: A Novel of the Creation of a New Society Y1 - 1959 A1 - Howard William Ray KW - Male author AB -

Series of utopian sketches beginning in contemporary Mexico and building through reincarnation to the development of a new school that develops into a community and influences the country as a whole. Vaguely religious.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

CtY

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nor Custom Stale" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of a house, which is supposed to be immortal, that took care of all needs of its occupants for many generations and its gradual failure.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.3 (100) N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 1.5 (April 1960): 34-; and in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 124-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Never Forever Y1 - 1958 A1 - Conyers, Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Astrological adventure story set in a generally eutopian future that has to deal with the issues raised by an elixir that will produce immortality without aging. Astrology used to choose members of the U.K. Cabinet, which includes the Ministers of Force, Economics, Education, Domesticity, the Arts, Diplomacy, Health, Justice, Commerce, Science, and Metaphysics plus the Prime Minister, each representing a sign of the zodiac. Technologically advanced. No alcohol; no tobacco..

PB - Regency Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Place on Earth Y1 - 1958 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2240 in which procreation without permission is treason.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Non-Stop Y1 - 1958 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A multi-generation spacecraft that has developed an authoritarian religion and government as well as biological changes returns to earth, where the people decide to keep it in permanent orbit.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989. Repub. as Starship. New York: Criterion Books, 1959. There are textual differences between the editions. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Americanism" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert [Winborne] Welch [Jr.] (1899-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Welch, the co-founder of The John Birch Society, calls this essay his utopia. In it he lays out a generally anti-government position.

JF - The New Americanism And Other Speeches and Essays PB - Western Islands, CY - Boston, MA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Naked Sun” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Related to 1953 Asimov, “The Caves of Steel,” and the beginning and ending of the novel is set in few years in the future of that dystopia. Most of the novel is in a dystopia on the planet Solaria, which has eliminated almost all human contact.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 58. 2 - 4 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1957. Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1971; and in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 203-404. 

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Illus. [Henry Richard] Van Dongen (1920-2010). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Native Problem" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous story which begins on a future earth that is a dystopia of conformity.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 13.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 279-99; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 357-74; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 145-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Arcadia" Y1 - 1956 A1 - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three supposed utopias in conflict with each other. Two of the utopias are humans and represent a division within a colony called Nouvelle-Arcadie, settled by French-speaking Swiss pacifists. The split between the two groups was mostly based of two men each wanting power. The third utopia was a subgroup of advocates of violence settled from a pacifist planet.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 30 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Gun for Dinosaur And Other Imaginative Tales (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963), 315-59.

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INS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ninya: A Fantasy of a strange little world Y1 - 1956 A1 - Henry A[llan] Fagan KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A world on the back of the moon that is mostly presented as a eutopia where labor is voluntary, but everyone must work. There are three racial groups with multiple languages, but all people sign, which acts as an international language. The three groups are white, which is the society, called Zelia, that is the center of the novel, brown, and black, and there is growing strife among them.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Refuge Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Bertram] John Boland (1913-1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia located at the bottom of a crater in central north Greenland. Good life but authoritarian under control of doctors and scientists. Lower birth rate and higher standard of living. No disease. No marriage with children raised by the state.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Step in Civilization; A Star to Steer By Y1 - 1955 A1 - F[rederick] Creedy (1883-1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Presents a society in the Amazonian jungle in which everyone tries to become more like Christ. This produces a eutopia in which there is fundamental equality. Two day's of labor is required each week where each person has a "chore" that is productive labor. "Work" is what else they do, such as writing, art, and publishing.

JF - Truth is Enough PB - The Ryerson Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada VL - Vol. 3 U5 -

Can, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Gun to the Victor" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Theodore [Rose] Cogswell (1918-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conditioning and violence.

JF - Imagination VL - 6.8 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 9 (May 1956): 87-88, 90-92, 94-98; in his Third Eye (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 7-17; The First Theodore R. Cogswell Megapack®: 16 Classic Science Fiction Stories. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2014. ebook; and rev as “Consumer’s Report.” Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth and Ballantine, 1971), 250-62. 

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Rev. as “Consumer’s Report.” Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not This August Y1 - 1955 A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. under a combined Chinese and Soviet Communism, which is defeated in the last pages.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Garden City, NY Doubleday_

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightsong" Y1 - 1953 A1 - W[illiam] T[reval] Powers (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a dystopian Venus after it has been settled from Earth with the first settlers enslaved by it came under the control of later settlers exploiting Venus’s resources. 

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 3 U2 -

Illus. Virgil Finlay

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Null-ABC" Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[enry] Beam Piper (1917-81) A1 - John J[oseph] McGuire (1917-1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Future society where illiterates dominate a small group of literates.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 50.6 - 51.1 N1 -

Rpt. as Null-ABC. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2006. Repub. in a different version as an Ace Double as Crisis in 2140. New York: Ace Books, 1957. Bound with an abbreviated edition of 1952 Kornbluth and Merril.

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Crisis 2140

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Greater Wisdom" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Roger Phillip] [Graham] (1909-65) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 26.1 N1 -

Rpt. In Future Science Fiction, no. 11 (September 1953): 4-9, 85-91, 93, 95-96. 

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Rog Phillips [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nice Girl With 5 Husbands” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in a high-tech future that includes space travel but with the emphasis on the way people live. There is what appears to be a group marriage, everyone has multiple professions and work assignments throughout the world, children raised collectively by the family, and no modesty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands.” Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 178-91; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 95-109. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 95-109. 

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Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands” 

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Illus. Phil Bard. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No War Tomorrow" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Wallace [George] West (1900-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Venus is where Earth offloads its misfits, troublemakers, and those who want to live without rules. These people have formed a community called Wildoatia, which implies that the people are there to sow their wild oats before, if they survive, settling down on Earth. The story focuses upon a conflict between the dominant people on Venus and Earth and a means of avoiding war.

JF - Science Fiction Quarterly VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.3 ([1954]): 35-60.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Null-P" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A post atomic war satire in which the absolute average becomes the goal and the person representing that becomes President of what remains of the United States. The human race degenerates and is replaced by intelligent dogs.

JF - Worlds Beyond VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 57-71; in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 121-31; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 201-09 with an "Afterword" (210-11).

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William Tenn [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next 50 Years; A Forecast of the Triumphant Progress Of The Race In The Next Half-Century: 1950-1999 Y1 - 1950 A1 - Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast and based on the assumption of the end of war and the development of the scientific management of the economy. Religion mostly gone. Stress on education, health and recreation. Sexual freedom virtually complete. Nudity accepted. Emphasis on economic planning for the world as a whole. Frequent positive references to the experience of the Soviet Union.

PB - Haldeman-Julius Publications CY - Girard, KS U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nutro 29. A Romance Y1 - 1950 A1 - Frank [Callan] Norris (1907-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discovery of a cheap food substitute and its consequences, which include competition between countries to control it and capitalists to produce it. The central theme of the novel is that with such a food substitute available, poorly paid and otherwise exploited workers will simply quit and leave, destroying the economy. To force people back to work the food is outlawed.

PB - Rinehart & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Eighty-Four Y1 - 1949 A1 - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic repressive totalitarian dystopia. The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. A novel on Orwell writing Nineteen Eighty-Four is Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe. New York: Overlook Press, 2017.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davison. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with a "Textual Note (327-41). US ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949. Edition With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1984 with the "Introduction" (1-154), the "Annotations to the Text" (429-49), and an "Index to Orwell's Text" (456-60). Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (iii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Centennial edition. New York: Harcourt Brace, 2003, with a “Foreword” by Thomas Pynchon (vii-xxvi) and an “Afterword” by Erich Fromm (324-37) originally published in 1984 (New York: Signet Classics, 1961) 257-67. A dramatized version was published as George Orwell's 1984. A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, Jr. and William A. Miles, Jr. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing, Inc., 1963. A graphic novel version illustrated by Fido Nesti was published in Brazil as 1984 in 2020, as Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel. London: Penguin, 2020; and as 1984: The Graphic Novel. Boston, MA/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. See also Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Ed. Peter Davison. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich/Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1984.

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The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. While many editions and reprints have the title in numbers, he insisted that it be spelled out.

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George Orwell [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The NRACP" Y1 - 1949 A1 - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Racist, authoritarian dystopia set in the U.S. in the near future with Colored Persons Reserves that are extermination camps. NRACP = National Relocation Authority: Colored Persons.

JF - The Hudson Review VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.3 (September 1960): 81-110; and in Human and Other Beings. Ed. Allen De Graeff (New York: Collier, 1963), 141-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Year's Revolution (A Satire)" Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Edythe] [Eyde] (1921-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A violent heterosexual man is transported to a future gay eutopia where the few heterosexuals are thought of the ways gays were at the time.

JF - Vice Versa: America's Gayest Magazine (Los Angeles, CA) VL - 1.8 U3 -

Lisa Ben [pseud.]

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CU-A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Thoughts for a New World Y1 - 1945 A1 - Bert[ram Wilson] Huffman (1870-1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three poems. “The Poet’s Dream Come True” [2] sees the return of a everyday, workingman Christ and the coming of the millennium. “O, Bells of Freedom” [3] is a plea for people to respond to the “Bells of Freedom” and build a eutopia. “When the Tumult Dies” [4] questions whether at war’s end people will create a “World at Peace” or more “Hatred.” T

PB - Author CY - Newton Station, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Order" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) ED - John Lehmann Editor KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief description of the dystopia that develops as the result of loss in a war with some suggestion of the development of resistance.

JF - The Penguin New Writing PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. VL - No. 14 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Railway Accident and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1969), 220-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Social Order Y1 - 1942 A1 - Cephas [pseud.] AB -

A detailed eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Nationalization of industries; all are employed by the government. Credit-card system for purchases and all credit must be spent each year. Cooperative housekeeping and cooking.

PB - Cornish Brothers CY - Birmingham, Eng. U3 -

Cephas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Trade Winds for the Seven Seas Y1 - 1942 A1 - Alaric J. Roberts KW - Male author AB -

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

PB - J. F. Rowny Press CY - Santa Barbara, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New World Order And How It Will Be Established: The World, As it was; As it is; And as it will be. An intensely interesting and thought-provoking book Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

British Israelism detailing the Mosaic system of representation (the decimal systems used by John Eliot and others) and the way that the Israel nations will become united. Includes a “Lecture Delivered by Request to the British Israel World Federation October 18th, 1939” (158-62) and a one page “Articles of Association Brotherhood of United Israel” (163).

PB - [Ptd by Clarke & Stuart] CY - [Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newtopia; The World We Want Y1 - 1941 A1 - Philip Whitewell Wilson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Newtopians are average people who are mostly focused on their homes. Most of the book is on current conditions and the war in particular. The eutopian aspects of the book focus on the conditions that will allow people to lead a decent life. International unity is one such condition, and the author refers to 1939 Streit. Reformed capitalism. Christian but more generally religious.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Industrial Dawn Y1 - 1939 A1 - A. T. Churchill AB -

Eutopia. Abundance through state capitalism. Meritocracy.

PB - Press of Lowman and Hanford Co CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nightmare for Future Reference” Y1 - 1938 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian poem about the next world war and its effects.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 14.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 250.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Borderland Y1 - 1938 A1 - M[artha] Marlowe Morris (b. 1867) A1 - Laura B[elle] Speer (b. 1883) KW - Female author AB -

Atlantis as an agrarian, tribal, spiritualist eutopia.

PB - Mathis, Van Nort CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Sting, No Honey Y1 - 1938 A1 - David [E.] Hussey KW - Male author AB -

Humor and satire including a matriarchal society organized like a bee-hive and a feminist eutopia.

PB - Arthur Barker CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Earth and A New Heaven Y1 - 1936 A1 - William Boyle Hill (ca. 1861-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Two eutopias. Hopetown is a model town for workers. Dawn City stresses eugenics. Vegetarian. No religion. No money. Health examination every three months. Standardized dress. Set in Australia.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightmare?--Or Vision" Y1 - 1936 A1 - F. E. Hayes AB -

Brief fascist eutopia. Better roads. Improved life for farmers and workers with new housing for both.

JF - Action (London) VL - no. 35 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nobody Talks Politics; A Satire with an Appendix on Our Political Intelligentsia Y1 - 1936 A1 - Geoffrey [Edgar Solomon] Gorer (1905-85) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which fascism is brought about by a lack of concern. Satire on the political awakening of the middle class.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nightmare Number Three” Y1 - 1935 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A revolt by machinery against humans. Animals and vegetation come to their aid.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 11.24 N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Works of Stephen Vincent Benét. Volume One Poetry (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942), 452-54. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Canada: An Engineer's Plans and Specifications for a New Economic Structure for Canada and Policies Relating Thereto Y1 - 1933 A1 - Edwin E.H. Hugli (b. 1890) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Extremely detailed plan for political and economic improvement. Result intended to be a eutopia. See also 1962 and 1963 Hugli.

PB - Author CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U1 -

At last something definite! at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Pleasure Y1 - 1933 A1 - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with the introduction of a substance that enhances the power of smell and its effects. The novel ends with the eutopia that is produced in which cities have been replaced by gardens, and the world is unified.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Day Dawns. A Brief History of the Altruistic Era (1930 to 2162 A.D.) A.E. 200. Writing for Jane Bradshaw Historical Section, The National Library Service. Washington, D.C. A Diagnosis and a Possible Prognosis of the Ills of Our Present Social Order Y1 - 1932 A1 - Charles Elton Blanchard M.D. (1868-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia emphasizing science and medicine in particular. National Health Service. The unfit are sterilized. Land publicly owned. Women economically independent. Revised constitution with unicameral legislature and fixed five-year terms for Congress and the President. The Supreme Court cannot declare a law unconstitutional. In his Our Unfinished Revolution. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1933, which is a critique of the current social order, he calls his eutopia as described in A New Day Dawns an industrial democracy. See also his Our Altruistic Individualism: A Critical Study of the Social Order. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1930. 

PB - Medical Success Press CY - Youngstown, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Gods Lead Y1 - 1932 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of stories, mostly linked by a concern with science, and eugenics in particular, from a dystopian point of view. “Justice” is concerned with a relaxation of penalties for killing old people in automobile accidents. “This Night” and “P.N. 40” are concerned with the manipulation of the laws so that rich, old men could have access to the most beautiful, young women. “Brain” describes a scientists’ government that eliminates democracy. “Proof” is concerned with the elimination of the unfit, and the problems that develop. “Original Sin” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race. 

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

Enlarged as The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, IA: Arkham House, 1949, with the addition of two stories, “The Temperature of Gehenna Sue”, originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 135-48; and rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 170-79; and “Original Sin” [see 1938 Wright], which was written in 1936 and originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 166-76, rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 13 (1950): 68-73; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 180-87. Parts were originally published as “Justice.” Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine 86.451 (December 1930): 26-29, 102, 104; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 24-36; “P.N. 40--and Love.” Britannia and Eve 1.4 (August 1929): 45-48, 160-163; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 96-120 [also pub. as “Love in the Year 93 E.E.” Red Book (1929): 66-69, 116, 119, 122, 124-25; rpt. in Fantasy Book 1.4 (May 1982): 73-80]; “The Rat.” Weird Tales 13.3 (March 1929): 337-50; rpt. as “Where the Rat Bites.” Fantasy: A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction (UK), no. 3 (1939): 33-44; and under the original title in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 133-52; and “Automata” Weird Tales 14.3 (September 1929): 337-44; rpt. Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 97-107; in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 121-32; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 117-132, with an editor’s note on 115-16. In The New Gods Lead, the Table of Contents is divided into “Where the New Gods Lead” and “Also”. The first group includes “Justice,” “This Night,” “Brain,” “Appeal,” “Proof”; “P.N. 40,” and “Automata.” The second group includes “The Rat,” “Rule,” and “Choice”. There is no such division in The Throne of Saturn. “This Night” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 37-49; “Brain” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 50-74; “Appeal” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 75-85; “Proof” is rpt. in Magazine of Horror 3.2 (14) (Winter 1966/67): 29-39; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 86-95’ “Rule” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 153-64; and “Choice”, which was originally published in Eve 36.473 (1929) is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 165-69.

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Enlarged as The Throne of Saturn Sauk City, IA: Arkham House, 1949.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Group of World Workers Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Alice Ann] [Bailey] (1880-1949) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The earliest of many works based on a group like the Samurai in 1905 Wells that will lead the world to eutopia. See also her The Next Three Years (1934-1935-1936). New York: Lucis Pub. Co., 1934 [Pub. in the U.K. as The New Group of World Servers]; and The Functions of the New Group of Servers. London: Edson, 1935, which focus on this group.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Traveller Returns Y1 - 1931 A1 - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia brought about by science; people selected for their scientific ability. All animals are destroyed. All culture eliminated.

PB - White Owl Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Narrative of Jasper Weeple: Being an Account of His Strange Journey to the Land of Midanglia and of all that happened to him in that country Y1 - 1930 A1 - James [Runciman] Sutherland (1900-96) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia with a benevolent monarchy. All people are paid equally. Education by apprenticeship. No marriage, religion, or technology. There is then a revolution by power hungry capitalists.

PB - Eric Partridge CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nephelococcygia or Letters from Paradise Y1 - 1929 A1 - Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia with an even, monastic life. Inhabited by famous people.

PB - W. Spurrell and Son CY - Carmarthen, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nor Shall My Sword Sleep Y1 - 1928 A1 - Stella Callaghan KW - Female author AB -

Presents a successful struggle to establish an intentional community on an estate. A physically good city for the poor and fair treatment for employers.

PB - Skeffington & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Life and Future Mating Y1 - 1927 A1 - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An elaboration of various points made in 1893, 1915, 1919, and 1923 Olerich. This short book stresses a world court, disarmament, and pacifism (all political candidates must be pacifists), with war only being able to be declared after a referendum. Eugenics is an important theme.

PB - Olerich Pub. Co CY - Omaha, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neutopia Y1 - 1925 A1 - E[mmeline] Richardson (b. 1867) KW - Female author AB -

Lost race socialist eutopia. Revolution had been brought about by women. Eugenics; hygienic life. If health standards are not met, health workers are punished. Mostly vegetarian. Free education. Stress on development and self-control. Training to be parents. Telepathy. Food, housing free. Solar power. Individual flight through a counter-gravity device. Main government departments are ones of Health and Education, Labour and Land, and Law and Economics. Changes are suggested and voted on by the people; if accepted, put into place for ten years and then resubmitted.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Negrolana Y1 - 1924 A1 - [Henry Franklin] [Triplett] (1854-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Paternalistic eutopia. Land founded for freed slaves by wealthy slave owners. Single tax. Very strict. Stress on a good, broad education. 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 - Christopher Publishing House CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Dr. Frank [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Capitalism Y1 - 1923 A1 - S[imon] A[lexander Baldus KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction plan for a new capitalist order, with pp. 1-242 on “The Established Order” and pp. 243-489 on “The New Order,” which is based on capitalists stopping being greedy and will require no fundamental structural changes.

PB - The O'Donnell Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New New Zealand" Y1 - 1922 A1 - A[lfred] Ernest Mander (b. 1892) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of Guild Socialism specifically adapted to the conditions of New Zealand.

PB - Clarté CY - Wellington, New Zealand U1 -

Cover adds A little book for those who EARN their livelihood.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Utopia Called A League-for-A Living Y1 - 1922 AB -

A detailed proposal to provide everyone with the basic necessities of life; everyone will work productively from 18 to 33 and live simply during that period, thereby providing sufficient goods for everyone for the rest of their lives.

PB - League-For-A-Living Committee CY - New York U1 -

"It Would Bring Much Happiness Into the World." at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Constitution for a New America Y1 - 1921 A1 - William Macdonald (1863-1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Precisely what the title says. Includes explanations for the changes.

PB - B.W. Huebsch CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Race of Devils Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Anna O'Meara de Vic] [Beamish] (b. 1883) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany creates supermen.

PB - Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co CY - London U3 -

John Bernard [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Robinson Crusoe. A New Version of His Life and Adventures With an Explanatory Note Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Henry] Gilson Gardner (1869-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Purports to be a volume co-authored by Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) and Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), generally considered to be the original of Robinson Crusoe. Presents the history of Crusoe’s island in economic terms, stressing the system of competition and exchange that results from trade with other islands. Ends with a revolution with the intention of establishing common ownership of land.

PB - Harcourt, Brace and Howe CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Heaven Y1 - 1919 A1 - G[eorge] Warren Russell (1854/5-1937) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia. Technically as well as spiritually advanced. The ability to determine a person's talent and a good educational system makes for eutopia. Intense mental activity. No money. 

PB - Methuen & Co. Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Town, A Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Reconstruction Y1 - 1919 A1 - W[illiam] R[avenscroft] Hughes, M.A. (b. 1880), ed. for The New Town Council KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction presenting a detailed cooperative eutopia. Specifically, it proposes to establish a new country town, and a slip dated June 1921 tipped into the CtY copy says that “The proposals contained in this book are being put into operation at Welwyn Garden City. . . . .” Discusses industry, which must “enrich the lives of all associated with it. . .” (45), agriculture, education, which will include learning handicrafts and vocational skills in school workshops and adult education, and homes, which will include grouped cooperative homes, professional household services, and social life.

PB - Pub. for The New Town Council by J.M. Dent CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zealand in 1980: A Glimpse Forward Y1 - 1919 A1 - Cha[rle]s August Wilson (1883-1962) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Brief socialist eutopia in which the society is highly advanced technically. Equality for women. Solar heat and light. Stress on reason. No tariffs. Government is always meeting--a People’s Council half men and half women. One representative for each thousand people. Science used for human betterment.

PB - Walsh Print CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Another version with the author's name as Charles A[ugustus] Wilson, F.R.A.I. was published as England in 1980: A Glimpse Forward. London: The Angus Press, 1936.

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Another version with the author's name as Charles A[ugustus] Wilson, F.R.A.I. was published as England in 1980: A Glimpse Forward. London: The Angus Press, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Moon: A Romance of Reconstruction Y1 - 1918 A1 - [George] Oliver Onions (1873-1961) KW - Male author AB -

Postwar England has almost returned to a barbarian state. Stress on romance, but the rebuilding of a better society is also presented.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Northland Y1 - 1915 A1 - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race dystopia. Most of the book is represented on an added title page as Krocker Land: A Romance of Discovery. By Alfred Erickson, Prof. Hlmath Bjornsen, Antoine Goritz, [and] Spruce Hopkins. The Narrative of Alfred Erickson. Edited by Azaziel Link. This is the story of an exploratory trip in the North and the discovery of the luxurious Valley of Rasselas in Krocker Land, with its capitol city of Radiumopolis. Krocker Land has a large population described as Eskimos or Mongolians who are dominated by a population of small, highly intelligent scientists with large heads.

PB - Thomas Benton CY - New York U2 -

With 16 Designs by Albert Operti.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nature City: The Ideal Commonwealth Y1 - 1914 A1 - James W. Bucklin, LL.B. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Democratic and single tax eutopia. 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. Includes brief comments on Plato, More, Bacon, Campanella, Bellamy, and Gronlund.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Gulliver" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Two class-society in which the lower class is bred as slaves to the upper class. The upper class is sexless, long-lived, and lives underground. Stress on moderation and safety. High technology. Live on pills and water.

JF - The New Gulliver and Other Stories PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night Land: A Love Tale Y1 - 1912 A1 - William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Far future dystopia after the death of the sun. Generally classified as a horror novel. The remaining people live inside large, fortified redoubts that are surrounded by various horrors. The novel describes the adventures of a young man who rescues a young woman from a failing redoubt.

PB - Eveleigh Nash CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Order: Social Revolution of Free Groups Y1 - 1911 A1 - W[illiam] Allen Macdonald A1 - Helen Meredith Macdonald KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Outlines of an anarchist eutopia in which everyone respects everyone else’s freedom and individuality. The pamphlet identifies the most fundamental social problem as the dominance of money. The solution is that every individual should produce their own food on one-third of an acre of land, thus implying vegetarianism, and also producing for each other’s needs. Although there is no money, there is a medium of exchange which is said to simply be account books where resources, labor, and exchange of goods are recorded. People keep the resources they hold on entering the group, although this will gradually disappear over time. Each person or family would have their own housing depending on their needs.

PB - Questell Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nut Cracker and Other Human Ape Fables Y1 - 1911 A1 - Charles Elton Blanchard (1868-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book combines a critique of capitalism and the outlines of his eutopia through essays and stories. The expanded edition includes more of the eutopia, which is further developed in 1932 Blanchard.

PB - Broadway Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.

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Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newæra. A Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination Y1 - 1910 A1 - Edward G[eisler] Herbert (1869-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist intentional community founded with careful selection of members fails due to an inefficient bureaucracy and malice on the part of elected leaders toward the founders. Suggests that socialism is impossible, and the chapter on vaccination is an argument that experiments like Newæra (New Era) can vaccinate a country against the sickness that is socialism.

PB - P.S. King & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Columbia or the Re-United States Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George Hamilton] [Phelps] (b. 1854) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Public ownership; no private monopolies. Deport all who won't work. United States and Canada united. Get rid of all current money and use labor checks instead. Land cannot be held for speculative purposes, and no rent can be charged.

PB - New Columbia Publishing Company CY - Findley, OH U3 -

By Patrick Quinn Tangent [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Regime, A.D. 2202 Y1 - 1909 A1 - John Ira Brant (1872-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by ending competition. Basically, uses the model of 1888 Bellamy.

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nutopia; or, Nineteen-Twenty One Y1 - 1908 A1 - Edward Omen [pseud?] AB -

Eutopia. Women rule and improve Britain. All advancement by merit through government exams. Workers get shares in companies until they own them.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Napoleon of Notting Hill Y1 - 1904 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in an odd combination of humor and a return to the medieval ideal of independent villages in London.

PB - John Lane: The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: John Lane, 1909; Beaconsfield, Eng.: Darwen Finlayson, 1964; in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Denis J. Conlon (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1991), 6: 215-379; New York: Dover, 1991; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994; and Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with “Introduction: Dystopias Are Problems Plus Time” (xv-xxiv) by Madeline Ashby.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Epoch As Developed by the Manufacture of Power Y1 - 1903 A1 - George S[hattuck] Morison (1842-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia. Much of the book is prediction, but collectively the predictions amount to a global eutopia where the availability of inexpensive power eliminates ignorance, superstition, poverty, many languages, and many governments, and brings about significant changes in the rest.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age Y1 - 1902 A1 - J[ohn] William Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia which begins with an individual living in tune with nature on a farm called Vale Sunrise. The final chapter moves from individual to a community (who call themselves Simplicists). This community, which has "no codes, no laws, no rigid customs, no officers", can be seen as transitional to 1904 Lloyd. See also 1900 Lloyd.

PB - Benedict Prieth CY - Newark, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic Y1 - 1902 A1 - James Leddy KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Labor strife followed by sporadic riots and then by a convention that drew up a Memorial of Grievances, which was presented to Congress. As a result, Congress passed an amendment to the Constitution that gave Congress the power to abolish trusts and monopolies. This happens and everyone lives happily ever after, with some people still exceptionally rich.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Rates and Taxes; A Romance of Five Worlds Y1 - 1902 A1 - Thomas [Andrew] Pinkerton (1850-1914) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire. Proposes that a city should own the land on which it is built, with rents paid to the city providing support for the poor and other public expenses. All the rich moved to where there were no rates or taxes and took to petty theft. Men have degenerated and women are dominant. Science had made muscles unnecessary. Three year marriage contracts. Live for the present--The ". . . chief aim of female government was jubilation, cheerfulness, joyousness" (82).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Century Girl: A Dream of the Housewife's Guild" Y1 - 1901 A1 - Mary J. Wright KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Housekeeping as a profession, which produces a better life for all women.

JF - New Zealand Illustrated Magazine VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women. Ed. Elizabeth Webby and Lydia Wevers (Np: Allen & Unwin New Zealand/Wellington, New Zealand: Port Nicholson Press, 1987), 88-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Religion. (For Circulation among Adults only) Y1 - 1901 A1 - C[harles] P[ynson] W[ilmot] Longdill (1866-1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The first important, and second overall, of the author's pamphlets that collectively develop a utopia based on an improved banking and currency system, improved land laws, "discipline of the sexual instincts," federation of the world with Jerusalem as its capital, and a new religion and Bible. See also his Thoughts for Thinking People about Strikes, Coin, Poverty, and Fortune-Making. Auckland, New Zealand: D.J. Wright, Printer, [1899?]; The Law of Sexual Activity. By the Author of “A New Religion.” Gisborne, New Zealand: Ptd. for The New Kingdom Society, 1901; Longdill’s Solution of the Social Problem. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, Printers, 1909; A Perfect System of Banking. . (First Principles of) [At head of the title What All the Worlds A’seeking]. Feilding, New Zealand: Feilding Star Print, 1910; 2nd exp. ed. 1910; Model Rules and Regulations for A Perfect Co-Operative People’s Bank, Limited, or State Guaranteed Co-Operative People’s Bank, In which is embodied the first principles of a Perfect Banking System, As taught by the Compiler, C.P.W. Longdill, Author of “A Perfect System of Banking, Etc. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, Printers, 1911; What Is Money? The Primary Problem in Monetary Science Solved At Last. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, 1912; Man and God Are One Or Christ’s Teaching Made Plain Being an Introduction to The Book of Life For the Meaning Thereof Search the Scriptures. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: C.P.W. Longdill, 1912; 2nd ed. as Man and God Are One Or Christ’s Teaching Made Plain (Second Edition) Being an Introduction to The Book of Life For the Meaning Thereof Search the Scriptures. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: C.P.W. Longdill, 1916; The Book of Life. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Author, 1916; The Federation of the World With Which Is Embodied The Secret of Sound Finance. By The Spirit of Truth [pseud.]. The only Government worthy of the name is one which embraces ALL MANKIND. Auckland, New Zealand: United World Publishing Institute, 1919; Taxation & Sound Finance (A New, Equitable and Scientific System of Taxation). Auckland, New Zealand: United World Publishing Institute, 1921; [All ATL]; and Fallacies of the Douglas Social Credit Proposals: Being a Criticism of Mr. Barclay Smith’s (Editor of the New Era) A.B.C. of Social Credits. [Gisborne, New Zealand]: Gisborne Publishing Co., [1933]. On Longdill, see Lyman Tower Sargent, “Sexual Morality, a New Religion, a State Bank, and World Federation: C.P.W. Longdill’s Proposals for New Zealand.” NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies: The Journal of the New Zealand Studies Association. Issue Number 2. Ed. Ian Conrich (2010): 211-28. 

PB - Ptd. by Albert Spencer CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nineteenth Century; A Dialogue in Utopia Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Discussion of the nineteenth century, presented largely in negative terms, from the vantage point of a future eutopia, which is a united world, although nations still maintain their cultures, with one language and one medium of exchange. Communities exist to benefit their members rather than the reverse, which was the nineteenth century norm. The future is concerned with the art of living rather than commerce. Stress on beauty.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London N1 -

US ed. subtitled An Utopian Retrospect. Boston, MA: Small, Maynard, 1900.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nequa or The Problem of the Ages Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Alcanoan O.] [Grigsby] (1837?-1925) A1 - [Mary Prather] [Lowe] (1858-1902) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard communal eutopia. Country called Altruria in the interior of the world near the North Pole. Equitable exchange, democracy, education, communal houses. Gender equality.

PB - Equity Publishing Company CY - Topeka, KS VL - Vol. 1 of The Equity Library. N1 -

Rpt. called 3rd ed. Np.: Green Snake Press, 2015, with an “Epilogue” (313-45) by Mark Esping. Originally serialized in Equity (Topeka, KS) (1899 - September 1901).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Orleans in 1950, Being a Story of the Carnival City, From the Pen of a Descendant of Herodotus, Possessing the Gift of Prescience Y1 - 1899 A1 - J. H. Whyte AB -

Eutopia based on technology and municipal socialism. Mexico, many South and Central American states, and Canada are all part of the U.S. and Spain is applying to join. Great stress on technology, like the phono-typewriter (like email). The Nicaragua canal had been built; air travel is standard both between and within cities. Municipal ownership of utilities results in no taxes.

PB - A.W. Hyatt & Co CY - New Orleans, LA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The No-Din': Romance, History and Science of the Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands With Illustrations Y1 - 1899 A1 - E[rastus] S. Curry (1837-1906) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure set in America in the time of the Biblical patriarchs. The world is dominated by the descendants of Cain. A small group of people establish a vaguely described eutopia that survives innumerable attacks. See also the author’s The Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands as Disclosed through Indian Traditions Comprehending also the Origin of Matter and the Formation of the World the Periodic Changes of the Earth the Glacial Periods and Astronomy Solving the Chronological Problems, Etc., Etc. In Five Volumes. Fully Illustrated. Volume I [only vol. published]. Christy, MO: Published by the Author, 1903. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Gulliver Y1 - 1898 A1 - Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An American linguist is shipwrecked on the island of 1726 Swift's Houyhnhnms. After Gulliver had left, a large number of small, unintelligent animals without speech but shaped like the Houyhnhnms flooded the country and were only driven out with the help of the Yahoos. As a result, the belief in a Supreme Houyhnhnm became common, and this led to controversies and divisions. The Yahoos survive much as before. During a discussion of evolution, which is completely rejected by the religious Houyhnhnm, a disaster strikes and the island sinks.

PB - The Marion Press CY - Jamaica, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Era. Presenting the Plans for the New Era Union To Help Develop and Utilize the Best Resources of this Country. Also to Employ the Best Skill There is Available to Realize the Highest Degree of Prosperity for All Who Will Help To Attain It. Based on Practical and Successful Business Methods Y1 - 1897 A1 - [Charles Willard] [Caryl] (1858-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. The New Era Union will provide capital so that workers can buy their own mines and so forth with the Union making a profit. Includes illustrations and detailed plans of the city.

PB - Author CY - Denver, CO N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. There is also, in the New York Public Library, a typescript by Caryl entitled "THE NEW ERA A PLAY INTRODUCING THE PLANS FOR A GRAND NEW ERA MODEL CITY TO BE THE MOST COMPLETE, WONDERFUL AND GRAND PERMANENT EXPOSITION AND EMPORIUM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD IN ADDITION TO BEING THE GRANDEST AND MOST PERFECT EDUCATIONAL, AMUSEMENT, INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENCE MODEL CITY OF THIS WORLD. ALSO REPRESENTING THE PLANS FOR AN ORGANIZATION TO BE CALLED 'THE NEW ERA UNION' THAT WILL UNITE UNDER THE MOST PERFECT SYSTEM POSSIBLE ALL HUMAN BEINGS IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD IN THE COURSE OF TIME WHO DESIRE THAT THEIR FELLOW MAN AS WELL AS THEMSELVES SHALL ENJOY THE MOST PERFECT PEACE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY That is Possible Here on Earth Under the Laws of JUSTICE AND RECIPROCITY and who are willing TO DO ALL IN THEIR POWER TO ATTAIN THE SAME." © 1896. The "Introduction" to the book purports to reprint a lengthy article from the Rocky Mountain News of September 3, 1897, that discusses the project and the play, but September 3 is said to be Good Friday, which was April 18 in 1897, this is fiction.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Industrial Era of Wealth and Prosperity or Social and Other Problems Solved Y1 - 1897 A1 - Eon [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Eutopia based on cooperatives. An appendix (47-49) includes the structure of a proposed Victorian Association of Rural Industries.

PB - E.W. Cole CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U1 -

At the head of the title Everybody. Everywhere.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Eden Y1 - 1896 A1 - Andrew Acworth KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia and a flawed utopia set in 2096. The human race has degenerated mentally and lost the science and technology of the past. There is a small island established in 1896 that has no government but has laws handed down by custom that everyone obeys. It is presented as dull, and the people are without emotion. Work only from 20-40. Technologically advanced.

PB - Ward and Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 3-79. Editor's notes, 1, 201-02.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Newest Woman: The Destined Monarch of the World Y1 - 1895 A1 - Millie Finkelstein KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Anti-feminist satire set in 1950 showing the dangers of women taking on men's roles.

PB - Pat Finn CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia VL - Special shilling ed. U1 -

Cover subtitle is The New Theatrical, Sporting, and Sensational Australian Story.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neuroomia: A New Continent. A Manuscript delivered by the Deep Y1 - 1894 A1 - G[eorge] McIver (1859-1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set at the South Pole. Much adventure. Private property in all but land. Limit on wealth. A system of arbitration, a state medical system, and state employment for all who need it. Mars is inhabited and in advance of Earth and is described in the chapter "Visions of Another World" (264-80). The eutopia is only about half the novel.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London N1 -

Also published Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson & Co., 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Arcadia: An Australian Story Y1 - 1894 A1 - Horace [Finn] Tucker (1849-1911) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Story of a successful intentional community based on representative democracy that, after many trials and tribulations, produced a good life for its members. Tucker founded village settlements in Australia in the early 1890s. See The Tucker Village Settlements of Victoria. Handbook for the Information of Contributors and Intending Settlers containing--A Brief History of the Movement; An Account of Its Aims, Methods, and Progress; and Particulars As to Settlers. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Walker, May & Co., 1892.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London N1 -

Also published Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson and Co., 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Zealand's Great Want. Organisation of Labour Y1 - 1894 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Part I--The Need (2-24) describes the conditions of labour in New Zealand at the time, including homelessness and poverty. Part II---The Remedy (25-38) includes a proposal for a cooperative farm scheme with state support. There are two parts outlined, one for those who can contribute £100 each and one for those who cannot. The former is essentially independent from the state, while the second is funded and controlled by the state to provide employment for the unemployed and transition to independence. The author says it was written in 1891.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No Mean City” Y1 - 1894 A1 - Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The White City from the World’s Fair Columbian: Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is recreated and in response Chicago eliminated pollution and more generally rebuilt its infrastructure to be compatible with the beauty of the White City. Many people moved out of Chicago and, since they had to return to the city to work, the electricity-based transportation system was radically improved on moved out of sight. Municipally owned utilities. Improved housing for workers. Improved personal relations. More gender equality, including the franchise. No child labor. The remaining problem, a large body of unemployed, was solved by building No Mean City based on the principles of the reformed Chicago. Its great success led to no one living in the old Chicago, which was replaced by a great park full of museums, universities, places of worship, theatres, libraries, and so forth.

JF - In his Mazzini, and Other Essays PB - G. P. Putnam’s Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Critiques of American Capitalism, 1881-1903. Ed. Alun Munslow and Owen R. Ashton (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), 133-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - National Life and Character. A Forecast Y1 - 1893 A1 - Charles H[enry] Pearson (1830-94) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Forecast of a coming dystopia. Anti-socialist and racist. The higher (white) races are limited to the temperate zone. Family declining. General decay in character.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1894. Rpt. London: Macmillan, 1913.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Hundred? A Forecast and a Story Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Mary Ann] [Hearn] (1834-1909 KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Establishment of a successful religious intentional community.

PB - James Clarke CY - London U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Nation That Shall Be” Y1 - 1891 A1 - Rev. Oliver Huckel (1864-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing the eutopia that will be brought about by Nationalism.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nationalism. Or a System of Organic Unity, Individual Equality and Industrial Association, In Place of Our Present State of International [overstamped on cover Industrial] War and Wasting Competition Y1 - 1891 A1 - Sumner F[ranklin] Claflin Esq. (b. 1862) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an essay but includes a few pages of an 1888 Bellamy style eutopia entitled "Looking Backward From 1940" (28-31), and the author says that he was inspired to write by Bellamy's book. Ends with a poem "In the Land of Is-To-Be".

PB - Pub. by the Author CY - Manchester, NH N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Aristocracy Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Alice Elinor] [Bartlett] (1848-1920 KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly on the struggles of a poor family, but regularly refers to the eutopia they hope to achieve. An industrial community and a movement for the alleviation of poverty are created.

PB - Bartlett Publishing Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Utopia" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Jerome K[lapka] Jerome (1859-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Equality achieved by limiting those better than the average.

JF - Treasure Trove VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Diary of a Pilgrimage (And Six Essays). Illus. G. G. Frazar (Bristol, Eng.: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1891]), 261-79. U.S. ed. Illus. G. G. Frazar (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1891), 337-60; and in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 24.1802 (June 10, 1891): 5. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Utopia; or, Progress and Prosperity. An Exposure of the Evils Produced by Unwise Legislation, and A Suggestion of the Means Whereby They May Be Remedied Y1 - 1890 A1 - Alexander W. Johnston, M.A. KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an essay but includes a section describing how the eutopian New South Wales will look after the adoption of his system, which then spreads around the world. No tariffs. Free rail transport. Free post and telegraph. Federated Australia with a State Bank. Single tax on land. 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 - Turner and Henderson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest. Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance" Y1 - 1890 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian socialist eutopia. See also 1884, 1886-87 1887, and 1889 Morris. 

JF - The Commonweal VL - 6.209 - 247 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Bros., 1890. The first U.K. ed. was London: Reeves & Turner, 1891 and was extensively revised. Rpt. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892 1892 with a facsimile ed. of the Kelmscott Press was published by London: Thames & Hudson/V&A, 2017, with an “introduction” by Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury (vi-xi); in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King's Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 1-211; ed. James Redmond. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970; ed. Krishan Kumar. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; ; and ed. David Leopold. Oxford, Eng: Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapters II-III rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 292-302. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Number Five reads the story of her dream.” Y1 - 1890 A1 - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire on egalitarianism.

JF - Atlantic Monthly VL - 65 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nationalism Y1 - 1889 A1 - Crawford S. Griffin KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia based on 1884 Gronlund and 1888 Bellamy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Amazonia; a Foretaste of the Future Y1 - 1889 A1 - Mrs. George [Elizabeth Burgoyne] Corbett (b. 1846) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia in a society of the far future in Ireland. After war and revolution women’s position worsened, and they colonized Ireland, founding New Amazonia. All government posts held by women, and for the most important posts they can never have been married. The story is about a woman and a man who re projected into the future, the woman experiencing the future as eutopia and the man unable to adjust to it. Detailed regulation of the economy, a national dress with no fashion changes. Stress on physical education and diet to ten, and then everyone learned a trade for four years. All earnings from the next five years taken by the state to reimburse it for educating and maintaining the individual. Advanced technology. It turns out to have been the woman’s dream. The “Prologue” (1-8) says that it was inspired by a feature in the Nineteenth Century opposing women’s suffrage. A humorous comment is L[inda] Timmel Duchamp, “Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 184-200. 

PB - Tower Pub. Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2014 with an “Introduction: A Foretaste of the Future, a Caution from the Past” by Alexis Lothian (1-23). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Next Centenary of Australia" Y1 - 1888 AB -

Eutopia. "In 1988 Australia will be a Federal Republic, peopled by fifty millions of English-speaking men" (112) who will have become a separate type, recognizably Australian (112). Assumes that the Aborigines will have died out. Assumes that New Zealand will be part of Australia and that the Philippines and everything between it and the Australian continent will be controlled and cultivated by Australians. Australia will be strong enough to be threatened by no other country. Australians will be lovers of luxury, art, and wine and will need servants because the women will not work. Compares Australians favorably to Americans.

JF - The Spectator (London) VL - 61.3109 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newry Bridge or Ireland in 1887 Y1 - 1886 AB -

Standard anti-home rule dystopia.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. from the St. James Gazette, a daily newspaper. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next 'Ninety-Three or Crown, Commune and Colony. Told in a Citizen's Diary Y1 - 1886 A1 - W. A. Watlock AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from Another World Y1 - 1886 A1 - Lord Granville [Armyne] Gordon (1856-1907) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A loosely connected stories sent back to a living person from one recently deceased and getting used to living in the underworld, which has heavenly and hellish subdivisions. Strongly influenced by Brave fra Helvede/Letters From Hell (1866) by the Danish author Valdemar Adolph Thisted (1815-1887), which was translated into English in 1866 and 1884.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Democracy; A Fragment of Caucusian History Y1 - 1885 AB -

Lost race on an island called Caucusia. Gender equality, which is presented positively. Generally negative commentary on democracy. The Queen is a puppet operated by machinery; the upper house (the nobility) has no power; the lower house is controlled by an authoritarian party.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Moral World, and a New State of Society Y1 - 1885 A1 - James Casey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia founded on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858). Money abolished. Industrial colleges are the basis of the new society.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Utopia, or England in 1985. A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Sunday February 8th, 1885 Y1 - 1885 A1 - Rev. W[illiam] Tuckwell (1829-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Village society with trained farmers and all land owned by the state and rented to farmers based on their qualifications.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Five; or 'When There's a Will, There's a Way'" Y1 - 1885 A1 - Debenham, L AB -

Satire with a woman Prime Minister and women police, barristers, and professors. The men revolt. The story suggests that there should be gender equality except in politics.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic. Founded on the Natural and Inalienable Rights of Man, and Containing the Outlines of Such a Government As the Patriot Fathers Contemplated and Formulated in the Declaration of Independence, When Struggling for Liberty Y1 - 1883 A1 - E. J. Schellhous M.D. KW - US author AB -

Essay including a detailed description of a revised political system that will bring about a better world. Stress on popular government, votes for women, publicly owned utilities, and limitations on corporations.

PB - Bacon and Company CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Also published New York: John W. Lovell & Co., 1883.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The New Inferno” Y1 - 1879 A1 - James Y[oung] Geddes (1850-1913) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on Hell in which the protagonist of Geddes “The New Jerusalem” gets bored with Heaven and decides to visit Hell, which has been greatly modernized and has become business-like.

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Heaven as a eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Pilgrim's Progress Purported to be Given By John Bunyan, Through an Impressional Medium Y1 - 1877 A1 - Alfred Deakin (1856-1919) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Standard religious allegory including a number of eutopian and dystopian regions. After leaving the dystopias brought on by the passions, the pilgrim makes his way along the road of Progress to the City of Reason, which could be positive or negative, depending on the person. As the city grew and spread it had slowly eliminated the negative aspects and the dystopian areas faded.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House Y1 - 1877 A1 - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conservative eutopia constructed over a country weekend. Much discussion, but little detail. The people involved have been identified as Matthew Arnold (1822-88), John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-94), Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Herbert Spencer (1820-1902), John Tyndall (1820-93), William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79), Mary Montgomerie Singleton, later Lady Currie, who wrote as Violet Fane (1843-1905), and Mallock.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. New [4th] ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Rpt. ed. J. Max Patrick. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1950, with an "introduction" by the editor (xi-xxxvi); and Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1975, with "Introduction" by James Lucas (7-37). Parts originally published in Belgravia 29 - 31 (June - December 1876), 514-43; 48-73, 133-51, 343-60, 434-49; 46-65; 189-209.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Utopia" Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Augusta Theodosia] [Drane (Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D.)] (1823-94). KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia created on an estate, a eutopian monastery built, and labor reform. The emphasis is on religion, temperance, and hard work. Some Australian content.

JF - Irish Monthly VL - 5 N1 -

Rpt. in the New Zealand Tablet 5.238 - 257 (November 23, 1877 - April 5, 1878): 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 11, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 5. Repub. in book form under the author's name. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1898. Also rpt. with no author given as The Australian Duke; or, The New Utopia. Np: np., nd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Benjamin F.] [Field] (1806-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A variety of societies are depicted. These include one religious eutopia and a number of physically ideal eutopias. The religious eutopia is based on the idea that our next life will be based on our actions in this life, and all actions in this life will be known in the next one. Therefore, everyone behaves well and the result is a eutopia.

PB - Rand, Avery CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Paul Aermont [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-two" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Jean Ingelow (1820-97) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's technological eutopia.

JF - The Little Wonder Horn PB - Henry S. King CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 4.221 (April 25, 1872): 9. Repub. in Vol. 4, The Snowflake and the Water-lily and 1972 of her The Fourth Wonder of The Little Wonder Box. 6 vols. (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, & Welsh, 1887), 222-52. Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Children’s Short Stories. Ed. Jan Mark (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993), 134-45.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Generation Y1 - 1871 A1 - John Francis Maguire, M.P. (1815-72) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire largely on women in politics set 1891 and 1892 with women serving in Parliament. London reformed London and presented as middle class.

PB - Hurst and Blackett CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Night at the Club: or, Christchurch in 1963" Y1 - 1864 A1 - [Sarah] [Raven] ED - [Rev.] [George] [Cotterill] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on evolution, technology (mechanical waiters and the like), marriage, sport, and government (there is only one man in Christchurch who is not a government officer).

JF - Literary Foundlings: Verse and Prose, Collected in Canterbury, N.Z. PB - Printed at the "Times" Office CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Koran of the Pacifican Friendhood: Text-book of Turkish Reformers, In the Teaching and Example of Their Esteemed Master Jaido Morata Y1 - 1861 A1 - [John] [Vickers] (b. 1836) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed conservative religious eutopia in the form of a holy book that includes "The Book of Labours," "The Book of Questions," "The Book of Counsels," and "The Book of Duties". Stress on the unity of all peoples. See also his The Book of Bander: A Scripture-Form Story of Past and Present Times, by The Author of “The New Koran” [pseud.]. London: Williams & Norgate, 1891.

PB - George Manwaring CY - London N1 -

Later ed. entitled The New Koran; or, Federan Monitor In the Teaching and Example of Our Esteemed Master, Jaido Morata [pseud.]. London: E.T. Whitefield, 1874.

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Later ed. entitled The New Koran; or, Federan Monitor In the Teaching and Example of Our Esteemed Master, Jaido Morata [pseud.]. London: E.T. Whitefield, 1874.

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Master Jaido Morata [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Age of Gold or the Life and Adventures of Robert Dexter Romaine. Written By Himself Y1 - 1856 A1 - [George] [Payson] KW - Male author AB -

A couple are shipwrecked on an isolated island. They lead an idyllic life, but they are concerned about the education of their children and decide they need to leave. The discovery of gold also brings dissatisfaction. They return to the U.S. where the woman and their children die and the man sets off to re-discover the island.

PB - Phillips, Sampson and Co CY - Boston, MA U1 -

The title on the spine is Life and Adventures of Robert Romaine

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - National Evils and Practical Remedies, with the Plan of a Model Town. Illustrated by Two Engravings. Accompanied by an Examination of Some Important Moral and Political Problems Y1 - 1849 A1 - James S[ilk] Buckingham (1786-1855) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia proposes a communal experiment and gives detailed plans for it, including, at the front, a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it.

PB - Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son and Co CY - London U2 -

There is a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Narrative of a Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life Y1 - 1846 A1 - Herman Melville (1819-1891) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on an island in the South Pacific where Melville was held captive. It depicts the happy, seemingly innocent natives, who are also cannibals, and thus resonates with both Michel Montaigne's (1533-92) "De Cannibales" (1580) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-78) argument against civilized behavior. Melville's Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) was presented as a sequel, but it has little that can be called utopian. See also his 1849 Melville.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas With Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet. 2 vols. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; The Revised Edition, With a Sequel. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee; or, A Narrative of a Four Month’s Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1847; Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver and Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; Typee: A Peep at Polynesan Life During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. [Luke, MD]: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., 1962; Typee, a Peep at Polynesian Life. Ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Vol. 1 of The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968; and Typee: Complete Text with Introduction Historical Contexts Critical Essays. Ed. Geoffrey Sanborn. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New State of Society: A Diologue [sic.] between Theophilus and Amida Y1 - 1844 AB -

Eutopia in a dialogue presenting new communities as the solution to social problems.

PB - Rational Tract Society CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Society" Y1 - 1841 A1 - [Betsey Guppy] [Chamberlain] (1797-1886) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

A short dream of proposals for a future egalitarian society presented through resolutions from the “Annual Meeting of the Society for the promotion of Industry, Virtue and Knowledge” of 1860. .

JF - The Lowell Offering; A Repository of Original Articles, Written Exclusively By Females Employed in the Mills (Lowell, MA) VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). Ed. Benita Eisler (Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1977), 208-10.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Covenant Between God and His People; or, The Hebrew Constitution and Charter, with the Statutes and Ordinances, the Laws and Regulations, and Commands and Covenants Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Very detailed constitution. See also 1801 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798. 

PB - Ptd. by A. Snell for Mr. Finleyson CY - London U1 -

By the late Mr. Brothers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New society, called the Self-Examining Society Y1 - 1830 AB -

Satire on intentional communities and social reform including a constitution of twelve articles. In the proposed society, each person will examine their own faults rather than the faults of others.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Political Economy, of the Honey-Bee Y1 - 1828 A1 - [Harriet?] [Grover] KW - Female author AB -

Satire on capitalist bees and an argument for the need work workers to unite.

PB - Ptd. and Pub. for the Author by W.C. Featherstone CY - Exeter, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Theory of Moral and Social Reform; Founded on the Principal and Most General Facts of Human Nature. Or Essays, To Establish a Universal Criterion of Moral Truth, That Shall Be Intelligible and Practicable Alike To Every Individual, and to Found Thereon a Plan of Voluntary Association and Order, Calculated to Secure Equal Benefits, As Well As "Equal Rights," To Every Member of Society, Without the Aid of Either Priestly or Political Government Y1 - 1828 A1 - Friend of the Utmost Reform, in the Mean Time, To the Representative System of Government [pseud.] AB -

The main text outlines the principles on which reform should be based. The appended text proposes a specific form of community based on equality, but the details are vague. Those interested are directed to contact the author through the publisher.

PB - Ptd. for Effingham Wilson CY - London U3 -

Friend of the Utmost Reform, in the Mean Time, To the Representative System of Government [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Britain. A Narrative of a Journey, by Mr. Ellis, To a Country So Called By Its Inhabitants, Discovered in the Vast Plain of the Missouri, in North America, and Inhabited by a People of British Origin, Who Live Under an Equitable System of Society, Productive of Peculiar Independence and Happiness. Also, Some Account of Their Constitution, Laws, Institutions, Customs and Philosophical Opinions: Together With a Brief Sketch of Their History from the Time of Their Departure from Great Britain Y1 - 1820 A1 - [G.A.] [Ellis] AB -

Detailed eutopia emphasizing small town democracy.

PB - Ptd. for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 149-307.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice Y1 - 1813 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Not strictly a utopia but basic to the development of British and American utopianism. Owen was a prolific and repetitive author who wrote many proposals for communities with detailed constitutions and rules and regulations. He also founded or inspired communities in both the U.K. and the U.S. This book outlines his basic, and generally unchanged, principles. See also 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen for more explicitly utopian works.

PB - Ptd. for Cadell and Davies, by Richard Taylor and Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. 4 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: William Pickering, 1993), 1: 23-100. See Claeys (25) for the early publishing history.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Year's Poem" Y1 - 1799 A1 - David Everett A.M. (1770-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

America as a eutopia stressing agriculture.

JF - Common Sense in dishabille, or The Farmer's Monitor. Containing a Variety of Familiar Essays, on Subjects Moral & Economical. To Which is Added a Perpetual Calendar, or Economical Almanack PB - Ptd. by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. for Isaiah Thomas CY - Worcester, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel, A Smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, For a Course of seventy years. Containing, The melancholy Occasion of his Travels. His Shipwreck with one Companion on a desolate Island. Their way of Life. His accidental discovery of a Woman for his Companion. Their peopling the Island. Also, A Description of a most surprising Engine, invented by his Son Jacob, on which he flew to the Moon, with some Account of its Inhabitants. His return, and accidental Fall into the Habitation of a Sea Monster, with whom he lived two Years. His further Excursions in Search of England. His Residence in Lapland, and Travels to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough, and further Transactions till his death, in 1711. Aged 97. Illustrated with several Copper Plates, Engraved by Mr. BOITARD. Taken from his own Mouth, By Mr. RALPH MORRIS Y1 - 1751 A1 - Ralph Morris AB -

The novel begins with a Robinsonade in which a man and a woman are shipwrecked, marry, have children, who they marry to each other and settle on various parts of the island. They live there forty years before a son invents a flying machine which takes him and his father to the moon. No real detail on the moon. On returning to the earth, they meet a small group of monsters (part human and part sea creature) before returning to civilization. They do not revisit the island.

PB - Ptd. for M. Cooper CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974. Excerpt rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 126-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Description of Merryland. Containing A Topographical, Geographical, and Natural History of That Country Y1 - 1741 A1 - [Thomas] [Stretser] [pseud?] AB -

A real problem. It certainly uses the utopian form, but pronouncing the surname of the pseudonym will reveal its true character, early pornography. Merryland is a woman's body, but the presentation is as a country. The author wrote a critique of his own work--[Thomas Stretser], Merryland Displayed: or, Plagiarism, Ignorance, and Imprudence, Detected. Being Observations upon a Pamphlet Intitled A New Description of Merryland. 2nd ed. [probably 1st ed.]. Bath, Eng.: Ptd. by the Author [Actually London: Edmund Curll], 1741. Two other Merryland works, probably by the same author are The Potent Alley: or, Succours from Merryland. With Three Essays in Praise of the Cloathing of That Country; and the Story of Pandora's Box. To Which is added, [Erotopolis]. The Present State of Bettyland. By Philo-Britanniae [pseud.]. 2nd ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. Paris: Ptd. by Direction of the Author [Actually London: Edmund Curll], 1741; and A Short Description of the Roads Which Lead to that Delightful country Called Merryland. To Which are subjoined, An History of the Gallantries of Bettyland. With some Carnal Recreations in Prose and Verse. London: Ptd. for E[dmund] Curll, 1743. An additional Merryland item is The History of Apprius, King of Merryland. Extracted from the Chronicle of the World, From Its Creation, Translated from a Persian Manuscript Found in the Library of Schah-Hussain, Sophi of Persia, dethroned by Mamut in 1722. By a Gentleman who served in the Persian Armies [pseud.]. 3rd ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. To Which is added, A Compleat Key .London: Ptd. by T. Hinton, 1741 (PSt). The Key translates the names given in the text, with many of them being sexual in nature. For example, Apprius equals Priapus.

PB - Ptd. for W. Jones [Actually Edmund Curll] CY - Bath, Eng. [Actually London] VL - 5th ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. N1 -

Rpt. as Thomas Stretzer. Merryland. Privately Issued. New York: Robin Hood House, 1932.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Adventure of Telemachus Y1 - 1731 A1 - [George] [Stubbes] (b. 1682/3) KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of François Fénélon's (1651-1715) Les Aventures de Télèmaque (1699) arguing against established churches and for freedom of inquiry.

PB - Ptd. for W. Wilkins CY - London N1 -

Parts were originally published in London Journal, nos. 254 - 55, 257 - 59 (June 6 - 13, June 27 - July 11, 1724): 1-2; 1-2; 1-2; 1-2; 1-2.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the Dead: or, The Monthly Packet Of True Intelligence from the Other World Y1 - 1714 A1 - [Thomas] [Berington] KW - Male author AB -

The novel is made up of weekly reports from Hell as a satiric comment on contemporary Britain.

PB - Ptd. for W. Needham CY - London VL - 3rd. ed. N1 -

There are two earlier eds. on line. First ed. is 1714-15 originally published under the same title in eight monthly parts. Then eds. of 1719 and 1756.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Voyage to the Island of Fools, Representing the Policy, Government, and Present State of the Stultitians. By A Noble Venetian. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable, The Lord Ferdinando. Translated from the Italian Y1 - 1713 A1 - [Edmund] [Stacy] (fl 1710-15) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on England and English life with a number of descriptions of foolish behavior. Much concern with the divisions in religion and politics and with gambling, the cheating that went on, and the way it mixed classes.

PB - Ptd. for John Morphew CY - London U1 -

[Written in English].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Discoverie of an Old Traveller Lately Arrived from Port-Dul, Shewing the Manner of the Country, Fashions of the People, and their Laws. And withal giving an account of the Shifts and Tricks he was Forced to use for the time of his Continuance there Y1 - 1676 AB -

Dystopia describing a barren but peaceful country living off the bounty of its neighbors.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Atlantis. Begun by the Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans: and Continued by R.H. Esquire. Wherein is set forth a Platform of Monarchical Government. With A Pleasant intermixture of divers rare Inventions, and wholsom customs, fit to be introduced into all Kingdoms, States, and Common-Wealths Y1 - 1660 A1 - R. H. Esquire [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia of the Restoration. Monarchy with laws that are ". . . easy, plain, and all writ in our native language. . ." (18). Religion and education are emphasized. Ten percent of all children are chosen for the church. No poor because all parents must teach their children a trade, and also how to read, shoot and swim.

PB - Ptd. for John Crooke CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, 1985; and in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 3-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newes from the New Exchange Y1 - 1650 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the behavior of women with specific references to individuals. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Novae solymae. Libri Sex Y1 - 1648 A1 - [Samuel] [Gott] (1613-71) ED - Rev. Walter Begley KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with emphases on the family and education for developing good citizens. Jews have been converted. Annual elections. Class distinctions are very strong.

PB - Typis Johannis Legati CY - Londini N1 -

Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum. London: Typis Johannis Legati, 1649. Trans. as Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton. 2nd ed. Ed. and trans. Rev. Walter Begley. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1902. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. Begley includes extensive notes defending his attribution.

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Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum.

Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newes, True Newes, Laudable Newes, Cities Newes, Court Newes, Country Newes. The World is Mad, or It is a Mad World My Masters, Especially Now When in the Antipodes These Things Are Come to Pass Y1 - 1642 AB -

Satire of reversal, particularly of gender roles, set in a country called the Antipodes.

PB - Ptd. for F. Cowles, T. Bates, and T. Banks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Ptd. for R.G., 1679.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New English Canaan or New Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes. The first Booke setting forth the originall of the Natives, their Manners and Customes, together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the English. The second Booke setting forth naturall Indowments of the Country, and what staple Commodities it yealdeth. The third Booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their Tenets and practise of their Church Y1 - 1637 A1 - Thomas Morton (c. 1579-1647) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Morton founded the colony of Merrymount, located in the area that is now Quincy, Massachusetts, where he developed good relations with the Indians, which drew the ire of the Puritans in Plymouth, who banished Morton, ostensibly for blasphemy and selling weapons to the Indians. Morton then sued the Massachusetts Bay Company and won. This book was a critique of the Puritans and lauded the Indians, presenting them in eutopian terms.

PB - Jacob Frederick CY - Amsterdam, The Netherlands VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in 1 vol. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Atlantis, A Worke unfinished Written by the Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Added to Sylva sylvarium or a Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam. Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors death, By William Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships Chaplaine Y1 - 1627 A1 - [Francis] [Bacon] (1561-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christian eutopia with the emphasis on a traditional paternal family system and science. Continuations include 1660 H., R.; 1936 Samuels-Bacon; and 1942 Samuel. John Heydon (b. 1629) is reported to have republished New Atlantis under his own name with minor changes and with the subtitle or The Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians (1660). No copy appears to exist.

PB - J[ohn] H[aviland] for W. Lee CY - London N1 -

In Latin with variant text in a translation that may be by Bacon as Nova Atlantis Fragmentorum alterum. Per Franciscum Baconum, Baronem de Verulamio, Vice-Comitem S. Albani. Londoni: Typis Ioh. Haviland, 1638 in Francisci Baconi, Baronis De Vervlamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Opervm Moralivm Et Civilivm Tomus: Qui continet: Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliæ. Sermones Fideles, sive Interiora Rerum. Tractatum de Sapientiâ Veterum. Dialogum de Bello Sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso Honoratissimo Auctore, præterquam in paucis, Latinate donatus. Ed. Guilielmi Rawley (Londin: Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini, 1638), 351-86. There are many reprints of the English original. Among the most important are in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Vol. 5 Philosophical Works. Coll. and ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Robert Denon Heath (New York: Hurst and Houghton, 1864), 355-413 with a “Preface” by Spedding (347-57); New ed. Vol. 3 Philosophical Works (London: Longmans; Simpkin, Marshall; Hamilton; Whittaker; J. Bain; E.H. Hodgson; Richardson; Houston; Bickers; H. Sotheran; J. Cornish & Sons; J. Snow; A. Hall; and Virtue, 1887), 125-66, with “Preface” by Spedding (119-24); in his Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis. Ed. Arthur Johnston (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1974), 213-47, with “Notes” 289-91; in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. [Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 149-86 with “Explanatory Notes” 231-39. Critical ed. in Francis Bacon. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802). Rev. as Francis Bacon: The Major Works including “New Atlantis” and the “Essays”. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802).

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