The Symbolic Island - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) (The Damian Press, 1924)
Eutopia. A group is temporarily marooned on an isolated island. After an over-organized beginning, many of the people manage to create a relaxed society. Much satire.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Temple of the Forgotten Dead" - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) (Undream'd of Shores, 1924)
This story is said to be the basis for his 1930 Pantopia. In the story, a storyteller tells two stories. The eutopian one, which gives the story its title, describes an isolated island which has developed a religion with gods representing each virtue and bases its society on self-development and duty to others. It is also technologically advanced.
The manuscript is at Princeton University.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The Valley of the Eyes Unseen - Gilbert [Henry] Collins (b. 1890) (Robert M. McBride and Co, 1924)
Lost race eutopia with a classical Greek culture.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A World I’d Have” - J[onathan] E. Hoag (1831-1927) (The Troy Times, 1924)
Something of an Arcadia, a paean to nature. And near the end he writes, “Let sturdy yeomen man their ploughs/Till not a mouth for bread need crave.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The World’s May Day: A Celebration - J[ohn] H[enry] Bingham (The Co-operative Union Ltd., 1924)
Children’s play with an ambassador from Mars, which only sends “children as ambassadors because they tell the truth to each other” (3). In the play the ambassador begins to understand that Earth’s problem is primarily the division among countries and brings everyone together.
Keywords: Male author

The Battle of London - [Harry Collinson] [Owen] (1881-1956) (Herbert Jenkins, 1923)
Anti-Communist dystopia. Mostly on the revolution and the fight to defeat it. The Liberty League of England, which the author compares to the Fascist Party in Italy, which meets his approval, saves the day.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Bride of Christ. A Message from Jerusalem to the True and Faithful Subjects of Jesus Christ throughout the World - Emry Davis (The Palestine Press, 1923)
Religious eutopia (primarily for Baptists) in which Jerusalem is restored to its former state but is now for Christians. Detailed reforms, including abolishing interest, dividends, rent, and high salaries and fees. Uniform wage of five dollars a day. Provides a constitution consisting of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and new rules and regulations. Racist. See his Introductory Edition to The Bride of Christ and a Message from Jerusalem. Jerusalem, (Palestine) and New York: The Palestine Press, nd. (CtY), where he argues that Anglo-Saxons, and Baptists in particular, are the ten lost tribes and blood descendants of Israel but specifically rejects the argument that the British Empire is the new Israel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Collapse of Homo Sapiens - P[eter] Anderson Graham (1856-1925) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923)
Dystopia. A man is projected two centuries into the future and discovers a world without any trace of human civilization, with humans, now much smaller, living isolated lives in forests hunting each other for food. On a second visit he discovers a remnant of a primitive civilization and learns the history of the collapse.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Day of Judgment and the Celestial Missionaries of Life - Louis Pauer (Author, 1923)
Socialist eutopia introduced to Earth by visitors from space. People from Earth then carry the message to other planets.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 23. What Hackensaw Found on the Moon" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1923)
Advanced beings on the moon who change shapes and sexes at will. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dream" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine, 1923)
The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a eutopia 2000 years in the future. Although there is little of the eutopia, it is presented as having overcome the economic and social problems of Wells's time and is reminiscent of his 1923 Men Like Gods. The dystopia reads like one of Wells's novels describing the problems of the poor prior to World War I. One emphasis is on the ignorance of sexual relations in the past contrasted to the free and open sexual relations of the future.
Repub. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Rpt. London: The Hogarth Press, 1987, with an "Introduction" by Brian Aldiss [3-7]. US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 329-654. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Eurekanian Paternalism. For an economic expedition to explore and exploit Eurekania, the New State in the Realm of Utopia. With Aims and Plans of Providence, final and immediate, for the Development of the Latent Qualities and Resources inherent in Society under Advanced Organization, Production and Distribution through the Administration, eventually, of a Non-Politic, Quasi-Public Economic Institution, which shall be promoted, in the early stages of its development, by a Foundation Society and other Subsidiary Organizations - Louis Pauer (Np, 1923)
Odd version of a cooperative eutopia that combines considerable public control and privately owned corporations with limits on profit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Age or The Depth of Time - Fred M. Clough (The Roxburgh Pub. Co, 1923)
Eutopia 1000 years in the future. Science. Reason. Easy travel in the solar system; other planets being inhabited by people from Earth. Rural life with 2-10 acres per home to grow food, which is then liquefied because food is only consumed in liquid form.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Golgotha & Co." - Robert [Malise Bowyer] Nichols (1893-1944) (Fantastica; Being the Smile of the Sphinx and Other Tales of Imagination, 1923)
Dystopia in which plutocrats try to use Christianity to help them control the proletariat. It backfires when people take Christianity seriously.
U.S. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 129-375 with a brief "Foreword" by John Masefield (xi-xii) and without Romances of Idea.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Gopher Prairie--A.D. 2000" - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) (School and Society (New York), 1923)
Educational eutopia with a stress on culture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Harilek: A Romance of Modern Central Asia - [Martin Louis Alan] [Gompertz] (1886-1951) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1923)
Lost Nordic race influenced by Classical Greece in Central Asia. Mostly adventure and romance, but the society is morally better than contemporary society.  The continuation, Wrexham’s Romance being a continuation of “Harilek”. By Ganpat [pseud.].  London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1935, has more on the society.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1923. Rpt. in Adventures in Sakaeland Comprising Harilek and Wrexham's Romance (New York: Arno Press, 1978), separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Millionaire; A Tale of the Old World and the New - Duncan Campbell (Heath Cranton, 1923)
Nationalization of land and a limit on income brings a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Lavender Dragon - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) (Grant Richards, 1923)
A delightful satire with a rational, vegetarian dragon and a rather dull knight. The dragon creates a eutopia by picking up unhappy people and children from the area and bringing them to an isolated area where they create a eutopia of equality without money. Includes a reflection, by the dragon, on the positive and negative aspects of human hope and dreaming.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Medical Utopia” - Dr. J. Walter Carr (b. 1862) (The Hospital and Health Review, 1923)
Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Memories of the Future; Being Memoirs of the years 1915-1972. Written in the year of Grace, 1988, by Opal, Lady Porstock - Ronald A[rbuthnott] Knox (ed.) [written by] (1888-1957) (Methuen, 1923)
Utopian satire on Britain from 1915 to the end of the Great War of 1972. Significant technological improvements like moving sidewalks.
An extract appeared in The Book of the Queen's Doll House. Ed. E.V. Lucas. 2 vols. (London: Methuen, [1924]), 2: 202-09.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mr. Podd - Freeman Tilden (1883-1980) (Macmillan, 1923)
An intentional community founded on an island is a failure. Satire on the Peace Ship, which Henry Ford (1863-1947) sponsored to sail to Stockholm, Sweden during World War I in a failed attempt to negotiate an Armistice.
Keywords: Male author; US author

My Wondrous Dream - Frank P. Ball (Frank P. Ball, 1923)
Rigid control of blacks by whites presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Capitalism - S[imon] A[lexander Baldus (The O'Donnell Co, 1923)
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.
Keywords: Male author

Seraph Wings - Colonel Arthur [Alfred] Lynch (1861-1934) (John Long, Ltd, 1923)
Mostly adventure but includes a eutopia of devolution.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence. An Interesting Scientific Forecast of the Important Progressive Changes That Will Likely Take Place On Our Earth During the Next Thousand Years - Professor Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Olerich Pub. Co, 1923)
Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast. A third version of 1893 Olerich. In this volume he stresses the improved status of women that will be brought about if his ideas are adopted. Initial education through play and everyone is both a student and teacher for life; for his educational theories, see his Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar. Chicago, IL: Laird and Lee, 1900. Marriage and divorce are entirely up to the couple, who are educated about both sex and eugenics. On these issues, see 1927 Olerich, The New Life and Future Mating. Racial and national prejudice will die out.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Desert Stars - Frank Koester (1876-1927) (Washington Square, 1923)
Chapter 10 describes a eutopian Mars that is scientifically advanced, particularly in radio technology. Radio had replaced the entire written language; schools, churches, and all other meetings had been superseded. Used waterpower. Each person is responsible for some work. On returning to Earth the protagonists discover that thousands of years have passed and that much of the world is primitive. Africa and Asia dominate. All a dream.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"Utopian Conversation" - Richard Marsden (Germinal Monthly Illustrated (London), 1923)
Short eutopia modeled on 1890 Morris.
Keywords: Male author

Utopian Essays. 1. The Flowers of Democracy. 2. For "Sports" Only. 3. The Powers That Be - Veiby, John (John Veiby, 1923)
Series of essays on aspects of a eutopian society. Anti-press; anti-religious. Proposes establishing social experiments. See also 1917 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Voice from Mars; Adventure and Romance - Reginald Broomhead (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1923)
Mostly adventure and romance but includes a vaguely described eutopia on Mars. Mars is physically like Earth with many of the same plants and animals.
Keywords: Male author

The Welcome Island Story and Laws - Wilhelm [C.] Griesser (Tucker-Kenworthy, 1923)
Detailed eutopia of reformed capitalism. The first part is the story of the conflict between two societies, one fun-loving, the other Puritanical, up to the establishment of a new society on an island. The reforms include prohibiting combinations of capital, labor, dealers, producers, or manufacturers. There is a minimum wage, which is lower for women, and there is a limit to the workday of twelve hours. Traditional gender roles. Radicals will be deported.
Keywords: Male author

When Gubbins Ruled - Joscelyne, Cyril (Fortune & Merriman, 1923)
Anti-labor humor. A workman becomes Prime Minister and does poorly.
Keywords: Male author

Against the Red Sky. Silhouettes of Revolution - H[erbert] R. Barbor (C.W. Daniel, 1922)
Story of a future successful revolution bringing about a better society. Almost nothing specific about the eutopia except that it is Communist but with much private enterprise.
2nd ed. London: Noel Douglass, 1925.
Keywords: Male author

The Bladed Barrier - Joseph Bushnell Ames (1878-1928) (The Century Co., 1922)
Typical lost race dystopia, in this case led by an evil Chinaman.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Originally published by Street & Smith (1922-1923).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Captain Youth: A Romantic Comedy for All Socialist Children - Ralph [Winston] Fox (1900-1936) (C. W. Daniel, 1922)
A play in three short acts describing the horrors of the capitalists system from the point-of-view of two children who are desperate to escape the system, their escape with the help of Captain Youth, and their return to lead a successful revolution, with the ending suggesting the eutopia to come.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dalleszona and the Seventh Treasure - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) (The Roxburgh Pub. Co., 1922)
Eutopia. Pure democracy. Compulsory education. Each person receives a living wage but must work for it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 11. Journey to the Year 2025" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1922)
Technological eutopia. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Girl in the Golden Atom - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) (Methuen, 1922)
Gulliveriana with the world in an atom. Monarchy with advisers (half men and half women). No money. See also 1924 and 1958 Cummings.
Textual differences in U.S. ed. New York: Harper, 1923. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Part originally published as “The Girl in the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 95.1 (March 15, 1919): 1-29. This was rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.1 (September-October 1939): 75-99; Super Science and Fantastic Stories 1.20 (October 1945): 4-29; Fantastic Novels Magazine 5.1 (June 1951): 40-69; and Famous Science Fiction 1.1 (Winter 1966/67): 11-60. Part was also originally published as “The People of the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 106.2 - 107.3 (January 24 - February 28, 1920): 161-81, 173-89, 583-602; 127-41, 296-316, 373-89, 445-60. This was rpt. in Fantastic Novels (New York) 1.2 (September 1940): 6-117; and in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of “The Scientific Romance” in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 175-219.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Ideal World - Nobuya Hamada M.C. (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1922)
Essay presenting a eutopia. Free trade, no crime, controlled population, international language, international constitution, international banking corporation, and harmony between capital and labor. Disease prevention and environmental protection. Stress on dedication and the leadership of the few best.
There is no indication in the book that this is a translation, but, although no German or Japanese version has been found, it probably is.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author

The Interpreters - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) (Macmillan, 1922)
Dystopian setting but with little detail. Discussion among those who have been arrested during an attempted revolution against a dictatorship. The revolution is still in process during the discussion but fails. The discussion focuses on the spiritual basis of various political theories and, in particular, whether capitalism or socialism, the individual or the collective, provides the best basis for the good society.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1923.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Lost Chord: A Description of the Future Society - Carl M. Ofsthun (b. 1885?) (np, 1922)
Eutopia. Cooperative commonwealth and workers' control.
Keywords: Male author

"Men Like Gods: An Original Romance" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The Westminster Gazette, 1922)
A world composed entirely of the Samurai of 1905 Wells.
U.S. serialization illus. George W. Bellows. Hearst's International 42.5 - 43.6 (November 1922 - June 1023): 9-15, 136-39; 42-48, 128-31; 32-38, 124-25, 110; 42-48, 151-53;38-43, 149-53; 56-61, 154-55; 89-92, 130, 132-34; 83-84, 146-48. Repub. without the subtitle. London: Cassell, 1923. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 1-328. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"New New Zealand" - A[lfred] Ernest Mander (b. 1892) (Clarté, 1922)
Eutopia of Guild Socialism specifically adapted to the conditions of New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. A Psychic Revelation. Being a Comprehensive Outline of the Planet's Physical Features, Which Includes Its Geographic, Topographic and Meterologic Aspects; a History of Its People and the Plan of Their Utopian, Industrial and Economic System; of their Knowledge concerning our Theories of Relativity, Constitution of Matter, Interatomic and Cosmic Energy, Electricity, Hyperspace, Neutralization of Gravity; including a History of the Spiritual Progress of the People of Mars and Christ's Visit to their Planet Ten Thousand Years Ago - [James Scott] [Marshall] (N.p, 1922)
Detailed communal eutopia on Mars. No government. No profit. Cooperation. Homeschooling for basic education. Scientific determination of vocation. No divorce because each person finds their true mate. Spiritualism. Some on life on other planets.
Rpt. as The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. By Eros Urides (A Martian) [pseud.]. N.p.: N.p., 1956.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; US author

The Superman - Frank Willoughby (Authors & Publishers, 1922)
Eutopia. Begins in what is the dystopia of contemporary life and most of the novel is concerned with the struggles against the dystopia. Ends with the Second Coming of Christ and the establishment of a eutopia of peace and plenty under the rule of Christ and the Apostles.
Keywords: Male author

Towards a New Social Order - Johan August Schvan (George Allen and Unwin, 1922)
Eutopia. Single tax. Absolute freedom of exchange. No monopolies. Many reforms. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For his 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.
Keywords: Male author

"Worlds Within Worlds" - Philip M[elancthon] Fisher Jr. (1891-1973) (Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York), 1922)
Dystopia of assigned marriage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Yezad; A Romance of the Unknown - George [Henry] Babcock (1863-1942) (Cooperative Pub. Co., 1922)
A few pages of a scientific Martian eutopia, which had been settled from a planet highly advanced in science. Martians can renew body parts. No central government: local self-rule through bodies based on education. No printed laws but custom sets standards. Citizenship depends on passing exams.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (Brentano's, 1921)
Satire. Traces the history of humankind from prior to Adam to the distant future. Some people become long-lived, initially living for 300 years. In 3000 this divides the world into the long-lived, who live in the British Isles, and the short-lived, who inhabit the rest of the world. In 31920, there are no more short-lived, and the long-lived live hundreds of years.
U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1921. The U.S. ed. is marginally the first ed. Rev. and rpt. for the Standard Edition. London: Constable, 1931. Rpt. further rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, which includes “Postscript After Twenty Years” (257-71); rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 685-703; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 251-713, which also includes “A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (632-84), which was first published in the Collected Edition: Volume 6 Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (London: Constable, 1932), 141-85; “Birmingham as a Home of Dramatic Art (Curtain speech after first performance of Birmingham Repertory Theatre production on 12 October, Birmingham Gazette 13 October 1923)” (703-04); “The Serial Play (Interview drafted by Shaw, The Observer, London, 21 October 1923)” (704-07); “Bernard Shaw Piqued (Written statement, presented as interview, Daily Express, London, 22 February 1924” (707-09); and “Letters to the Editor of The Times” (709-13). See Shaw’s “Preface: The Infidel Half Century” (London: Constable, 1931), vii-lxxxvi; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 255-339. Rpt. rev. in his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 2: 1914-1929. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1995), 373-430.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"The Blind Spot" - Austin [Javen] Hall (1880-1933); Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-Allstory Weekly (New York), 1921)
A greatly advanced race both spiritually and technically. A non-utopian sequel was published as “The Spot of Life.” Argosy Weekly (New York) 231.6 - 232.4 (August 13 - September 10, 1932) : 3-22; 55-75, 108-23, 123-41, 122-41. Rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1965]. Both with Hall listed as the sole author.
Rpt. in Fantastic Novels 1.1 (July 1940): 3-141; Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1951; and London: Greenhill Books, 1987. A six part serial reprint was announced but only three parts were published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.6 - 2.2 (March - May/June 1940): 6-40; 34-63; 46-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Canadian Money and Progress - W[illiam] C[harles] Paynter (1866-1934) (Np, 1921)
Proposal for a new monetary system that would have no interest or credit and no debt. Says that the medium of exchange should be “As elastic and plentiful as the goods and services to be exchanged.” Based on the Harmony Co-operative Industrial Association” founded in Saskatchewan in 1895 that issued script within the community and lasted for five years. Proposes the same for Canada as legal tender. This would be a “scientific money, owned and controlled by the Sovereign People as plentiful as the commodities or services to be exchanged, we would lay the foundation for uniform and permanent commercial progress that would grow and expand without any setback, to the limit of the labour power to be obtained” (11). Would be issued by a central bank. Stresses its compatibility with Christianity. Most of the changes among additions are added quotations from other people.
2nd ed. [Tantallon, SK, Canada]: Np., 1924. 27 pp. Rpt. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. 3rd ed. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1931. 61 pp. 4th ed. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. Illus. covers. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1932. 71 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Council of Seven - J[ohn] C[ollis] Snaith (1876-1936) (D. Appleton, 1921)
An authoritarian dystopia in which a group of newspaper editors bias and falsify the news in order to enrich themselves and control the world. Against them is the "Council of Seven" or the "Society of the Friends of Peace" who use murder to fight them. Mostly intrigue.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Day of Faith - Arthur Somers Roche (1883-1935) (Little, Brown, 1921)
Anti-utopian novel. A eutopia where everyone is honest, and there are no police or jails proves weak and collapses.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Devolutionist" - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York), 1921)
Earth scientists visit other planets using a form of telepathy and an argument emerges on the advantages of power in the hands of an elite or in the hands of the people. A loose sequel is “The Emancipatrix.” Argosy-All Story Weekly 136.5 (September 3, 1921): 631-80; rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 96-191 in which the same argument takes place on another planet.
Rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 5-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fly-By-Nights - Major-General Charles Ross (1864-1930) (John Murray, 1921)
Anti-Communist, anti-alien dystopia, but at the end hope is held out that people the eutopia can reemerge.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Image - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) (Odhams Press, 1921)
Conflict between capitalists and socialists set one hundred years in the future. The world is decimated but gradually rebuilds.
Keywords: English author; Male author

How the King Reigned in Ariel. "Behold, a King shall reign in Righteousness" - Richard Hayes McCartney (The Book Stall, 1921)
A detailed eutopia depicting the world with Christ returned. No enmity among animals, no child labor, pleasant work, no class conflict, and a restored Temple.
Keywords: Male author

The Industrial Public. A Plan of Social Reconstruction in Line with Evolution - Horace N. Fowler (b. 1848); Samuel T. Fowler (b. 1821) (H.N. Fowler Co, 1921)
Eutopia. Common ownership of property frees women from the marriage bond and dependence on men. Vegetarian. There is a "Constitution" with comments on pp. 210-24. This is followed by the "Covenant" that members would sign on pp. 224-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Island of Eugenia; The Phantasy of a Foolish Philosopher" - William McDougall (1871-1938) (Scribner's Magazine (New York), 1921)
Presented as a dialogue between a practical man and a scientist. Eugenics. Children will be brought up to be devoted to saving the world. The island would be closed regarding marriage and education, but otherwise open to outsiders. After the initial establishment, it would recruit new members mostly from their own children. Early marriage encouraged. The state will be politically independent but economically dependent on the outside world; uses the analogy of a university. Appeals to a millionaire to help establish it. T
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"A Message from Space" - George Goodchild (1888-1969) (The Children's Newspaper, 1921)
Young adult adventure tale that includes two eutopias. The first is a lost race in the middle South America; the second is on Mars. The South American eutopia is a society like ancient Greece whose highest value is happiness. The Martian eutopia is based on reason.
Rpt. London: Jarrolds, [1931].
Keywords: English author; Male author

A New Constitution for a New America - William Macdonald (1863-1938) (B.W. Huebsch, 1921)
Precisely what the title says. Includes explanations for the changes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Race Awakened - Edmund H. Burke (np, 1921)
An egalitarian socialist eutopia with world peace set in 1968. It was achieved by educated blacks and women getting the vote.
Keywords: Male author

Revolution: A Novel - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) (W. Collins & Sons, 1921)
Dystopia depicting a revolution as it effects one parish as seen primarily through the eyes of a man who tries to see both sides. A labour dictatorship emerges that plans to establish a socialist system, but the people reject equality and common property. The counter-revolution succeeds but simply replaces one dictatorship with another. At the end the protagonist is at the beginning of a campaign to bring the country back together.
U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) (Hutchinson, 1921)
Lost race novel that describes two societies. The first is a warrior society (authoritarian but fair); the second is socialist eutopia shown to be based on drug-taking and deeply flawed and parts of the novel reads like an anti-socialist tract.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Rpt. as a volume of The Definitive Edition of Gilbert Frankau's Novels and Short Stories. London: Macdonald, [1945].
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Starting Point - Hiram W[allace] Hayes (b. 1858) (The Harmony Shop, 1921)
Most of the novel is about labor and other conflicts, but the ending suggests that Christianity will bring about a eutopia of human harmony.
Keywords: Male author

“The Tax-Wise Men of Aristopia: A Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer” - Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) (The World’s Work, 1921)
Satire on current education. The Aristopians tax the use of abstract words such as “equality” and “liberty” that the user cannot precisely define.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) (Williams and Norgate, 1921)
A collection of essays presenting a eutopia of regionalism and decentralization. The two page "What To Do" summarizes the eutopia. See also 1917 Branford and Geddes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World in 1931 - Stewart E. Bruce (F.L. Searl & Co, 1921)
Eutopia of a cooperative, profit-sharing commonwealth. Interest is illegal. Labor certificates replace money. Uniform cars to emphasize equality. Stresses that there is no unemployment, and there are no drones.
Keywords: Male author

Anona of the Moundbuilders: A Story of Many Thousand of Years Ago - J[ames] Clarence Marple; Albert Nelson Dennis (Progressive Publishers, 1920)
Simple, primitive, agrarian eutopia. The Moundbuilders are “tall, symmetrical, fair-skinned.” Attacked by “black savages” from south of the Gulf of Mexico. The Princess Anona builds a less primitive social order as part of the process of defeating the enemy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Beyond" - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) (1920)
An unpublished sequel to 1901 and 1903 Brown. 185 pages. Set after World War I. One of the protagonists of Limanora discovers records of the Limanoran's researches into extraterrestrial life. Similar to Riallaro in that it is structured as a visit to many different societies. Includes many eutopias and dystopias. Emphasis on religion. Those beings who have managed to eliminate religion, particularly organized religion, are more likely to have achieved a eutopia.
Ms. John Macmillan Brown Papers 118 B2, John Macmillan Brown Library, Canterbury University.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Scottish author

A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - Sidney Webb (1859-1947); Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) (Longmans, 1920)
Just what the title says. Most of the book focuses on the political organization of a socialist state, but there are chapters on voluntary associations concerning the Co-operative Movement, other consumers’ associations, adult education, and the press, among other issues, and work, which is primarily about the nature and organization of vocations, with both obligatory and voluntary associations based on vocation, and the development of professional ethics, among other issues. The final chapter is on the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Rpt. London: London School of Economics and Political Science/Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

The Cow Pasture Road - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) (Art in Australia, 1920)
An ideal city called Celestium. Includes plates showing the location of Celestium and its layout.
There were versions of 25 copies that specified that 20 were for sale in Australia and 600 copies with 500 for sale in Australia with the same publishing details.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920)
cken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volume of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story “The Comet” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem “A Hymn to the Peoples” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears.
“The Comet” (253-73) is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax - [John W.] [Hultberg] (1872-1951) (Dent Publishing Co, 1920)
Collection of stories/essays reflecting various reforms. "Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax. The Pro and Con Of It" (11-104) is concerned with the way that inheritance continues the power and influence of "dead men". "Putting a Meter on Your Windpipe" (105-12) and "Old Man Noah's Shoes" (113-26) are attacks on monopolies. The first concerns the control of breathable air; in the second Noah claims ownership of the world after the flood. "Happy Days in the Moon" (127-42) and "Old Satan Turns a Trick" (143-61) describe capitalist dystopias. "Democracy Come True" (162-245) is a cooperative eutopia set in Chicago in 2000.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

Democracy--False or True? A Prologue and Dream - Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) (Cecil Palmer, 1920)
Detailed eutopia entitled "A Dream of England" (72-172). Democratic socialism. Decentralization (home rule for each county). Science. There are still classes, and there is continuing stress on the working class needing the right leaders and avoiding agitators.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day - Robert [James Campbell] Stead (1880-1959) (The Musson Book Co, 1920)
Mostly family history and romance, but it includes a land settlement scheme that will bring about a better society.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Doomed. A Startling Message to the People of Our Day, interwoven in an Antediluvian Romance of Two Old Worlds and Two Young Lovers, by Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe. By the Atlon Calendar, the Year 14,909; by Our Calendar the Year 1920 - [Frank] [Rosewater] (1856-1934) (Frank Rosewater, Publisher, 1920)
Atlism, in which everyone must spend their entire income to promote production, brings eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Fall of Atlantis" - G[ranville] Stanley Hall (1844-1924) (Recreations of a Psychologist, 1920)
Begins with a brief description of the year 2000 in which there is high technology, but a loss of religious belief has produced something like a dystopia. This is followed by the description of the end of the eutopia of Atlantis through the failure of the people, particularly professional people. Satire on medicine, law, education, religion, and women.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Book of Springfield. Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (Macmillan, 1920)
Eutopia set in 2081 in Springfield, Illinois with a world-renowned University of Springfield at its core. Much on mysticism but some on the social system. Racial intermarriage. Drugs. A world government that is not presented entirely positively. Refers to 1919 Cram. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1999 with an "Introduction" by Ron Sakolsky (xi-cxvii). See "The Golden Book of Springfield Containing a Brief Prospectus of a Book With Wings That Will Appear in Various Forms in Springfield, November, A.D. 2018." The Little Magazine 2nd imprint (1920) and 3rd imprint (1925): Both 109-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gullible's Travels in Little-Brit - William Hodgson Burnett (Westall & Co, 1920)
Satire on British politics and manners.
Keywords: Male author

"The Hermit of Chimaso Island" - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) (The Earthomotor and Other Stories, 1920)
Sketchy technological eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Robinson Crusoe. A New Version of His Life and Adventures With an Explanatory Note - [Henry] Gilson Gardner (1869-1935) (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920)
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.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Secret of Life: A Story of the Heavens - [Walter] [Richards] (b. 1864) (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1920)
Spiritualism. The solar system is in various stages of development, and there are other emerging planets in other solar systems. The eutopia is found on the tenth planet of the solar system and a detailed description of Heaven. There is a collection of manuscripts held privately that includes a substantial number of additional unpublished titles in a similar vein.
Keywords: Male author

“The Termitodoxa, or Biology and Society” - William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937) (Scientific Monthly, 1920)
While the purpose of the essay is the illumination of the way a termite colony functions, it is done so through a letter from “Wee-Wee 43rd Neotenic King of the 8429th Dynasty of the Bellicose Termites” who describes the eutopia that is the colony with some disparaging comments on human society.
Rpt. in his Foibles of Insects and Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), 207-17; and Essays in Philosophical Biology. Selected by Professor G. W. Parker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939), 71-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Three Weeks Inside the Earth" - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) (The Earthomotor and Other Stories, 1920)
Sketchy eutopia inside the earth with telepathy and advanced technology. No sin.
Keywords: Male author; US author

West Wind Drift - George Barr [Greaves Richard] McCutcheon (1866-1928) (Dodd Mead, 1920)
Eutopia that evolves from a shipwreck on an isolated island. Many problems and internal conflicts, but eventually harmony is achieved, and the people are able to lead a comfortable life.
Rpt. New York: A.L. Burt, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The White Pope, Called "The Light Out of the East" - S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett (1860-1914) (Books Limited, 1920)
A new Pope, rejected by his own church for his radical ideas, transforms Jerusalem and then the entire world into a eutopia. Peace and prosperity reign.
U.S. ed. as The Light Out of the East. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Anymoon. With a Foreword by Harold Cox - Horace [William] Bleackley (1868-1931) (John Lane, The Bodley Head/The John Lane Co., 1919)
Anti-socialist, anti-egalitarian, anti-feminist dystopia
Keywords: English author; Male author

Aristokia - A[lphonso] Washington Pezet (b. 1889) (The Century Co., 1919)
Humor set in an imaginary country. Contrasts an over-technological society (motorized shoes, food tablets) with a better, less mechanized society, which is then overthrown.
Keywords: Male author

Cause and Cure of the High Cost of Living. Reconstruction Program for Political, Social and Industrial Democracy - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Author, 1919)
A pamphlet describing a system of cooperative industrialism. See also 1893, 1915, 1923, and 1927 Olerich.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Christmas 1969; The Kind of World in Which I Should Like It to Dawn" - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) (Pear's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Eutopia. World community of nations; all nations republics. Nationalized industries. Technology. Rights of children. Education. No fashion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Christmas House-Party in 1969 (Being extracts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys the Second)" - [John] Twells Brex (1874-1920) (Pears' Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Satire on women in political and economic control.
Keywords: English author; Male author

City of Endless Night - Milo [Milton] Hastings (1884-1957) (Dodd, Mead, 1919)
Dystopia. A remarkably accurate picture of a future fascist society in Berlin. The society is completely authoritarian, completely racist, and completely sexist. There is a tremendous emphasis on eugenics with marriages arranged by the state. Berlin is completely underground, and there is a constant war with free democracies outside. One emphasis in the work is the status of women, who are primarily used for breeding. In the end Berlin is defeated.
Rpt. with an introduction “Milo Hastings: Prophet of Totalitarianism” by Sam Moskowitz (unpaged). Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Originally published as "Children of 'Kultur'." True Story Magazine 1.1 - 7 (May - November 1919): 21-[26,] 83; 33-38, 88, 90, 92-94; 33-39, 90-92; 33-39, 80, 82-83; [September - October not seen;] 39-44, 81-82, 84-85, 97-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A City Without a Church - John Colwyn (A.H. Stockwell, 1919)
The revolution of 1938 leads, after a period without religion, to a realization of the need for religion.
Keywords: Male author

Crucible Island; A Romance, An Adventure and an Experiment - Condé B[enoist] Pallen (1858-1929) (Manhattanville Press, 1919)
Anti-socialist dystopia showing weaknesses of a seemingly good society. The society had been established as an island prison for subversives but allowed to rule themselves and the initial depiction of the society implies that it is an entirely successfully socialist eutopia, but this is a centralized, state socialist system and those holding power use their position for their own advantage.
U.K. ed. London: Harding & More, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"England in 1919; Being an Extract From a School History of the Period published in 1969" - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Pear's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
1919 seen as a dystopia called the period of the Plutocracy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fall: Being a True Account of What Happened in Paradise, for the Benefit of All Scandal-Mongers, With a New Interpretation of Sacred History, Vindicating Snakes and Apples - George Seibel (1872-1958) (The Lessing Co., 1919)
Eutopia brought about by conquering the physical universe, such as controlling gravity and changing anything into gold. Men and women separated. Scientific control of procreation. No private property. No gods. Entire planet moved from Earth to Venus to assist the younger Venusians to civilization. Two malcontents, Adam and Eve, are left behind.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fifty Years of Peace 1919-1969" - [Henry] Powell Spring (1891-1950) (Trinity Review (University of Toronto, ON, Canada), 1919)
Eutopia resulting from a nine-year peace conference. Christian, rational, and scientific. Disarmament in favor of the United Nations. World union and international democracy. Esperanto.
Repub. as "Utopia or Common Sense." In his The Peace Aims of Humanity (Winter Park, FL: The Orange Press, 1943), 177-91. Published as a pamphlet Winter Park, FL: Cultural World Center Assoc., 1945.
Keywords: Male author

"Further East Than Asia." A Romantic Adventure - Ward Muir (1878-1927) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1919)
Oriental tale of romance and adventure in which an apparently eutopian island of long life, produced by radium, is discovered. But the apparent eutopia is deeply flawed. Racist.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"If Germany had won" - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) (The Hohenzollerns in America and other impossibilities, 1919)
Humor. The farcical dystopia created in the U.S. after Germany won World War I.
U.S. ed. as The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities (New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919), 127-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Land of Whereisit - Henry E[rnest] Boote (1868-1949). (Judd Publishing Co, 1919)
Eutopian allegory in which God teaches lessons to the leaders of a country who are only concerned with maintaining their power and benefiting themselves.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" - John Cournos (1881-1966). (The Nineteenth Century and After, 1919)
Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.
Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author; US author

"The Mind Machine" - Michael Williams (All-Story Weekly, 1919)
Generally considered the first work to describe the dystopia brought about by a rogue artificial intelligence.
Rpt. in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 75-113, with an editor’s note on 73.
Keywords: Male author

A New Heaven - G[eorge] Warren Russell (1854/5-1937) (Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1919)
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.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

New Town, A Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Reconstruction - W[illiam] R[avenscroft] Hughes, M.A. (b. 1880), ed. for The New Town Council (Pub. for The New Town Council by J.M. Dent, 1919)
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.
Keywords: English author; Male author

New Zealand in 1980: A Glimpse Forward - Cha[rle]s August Wilson (1883-1962) (Walsh Print, 1919)
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.
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.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Our Temporary Civilization" - James Edmond (1859-1933) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1919)
Satire. The first section is a fairly straightforward description of the depletion of resources. The second part begins with the age of "Coal, Iron and Hurry" and projects that depletion into the very far future (the last date is 2744 followed by periods where dates are not knowable. The gradual degeneration of humanity.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author; Scottish author

"Out of the Silence: A Romance" - Erle [Harold] Cox (1873-1950) (The Argus (Melbourne, Vic, Australia), 1919)
Flawed utopia. A past society had a highly developed, but authoritarian civilization with exceptional art and science . Explicitly racist and with a focus on eugenics, although the author of the Postscript in the Capricorn edition argues that the book is a warning against such thinking rather than supporting it. The argument is, essentially, that Cox is presenting the Eugenic Utopia as it would develop, which later became the goal of Nazi Germany, but that Cox intended it to be read as a dystopia. No direct evidence is presented, but it is a plausible interpretation. Survivors who had been put in suspended animation are discovered, which is initially perceived positively, but they are found to have no concern at all for humans, who they consider to be the lower beings.
Rpt. Melbourne, VIC: Edward A. Vidler, [1925]; Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1981; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Van Ikin (ii-iv). U.K. edition London: John Hamilton, [1927]. U.S. edition New York: Rae D. Henkle, 1928. 4th edition Melbourne, VIC: Robertson & Mullens, 1932. 1947 edition by the same publisher, labeled a reprint, is, in fact, substantially revised, cut by 15% and with an added Prologue (vii-xxii). This edition reprinted Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. The edition published [Appleton, WI]: Capricorn Publishing, 2006 restores cuts and includes the “Prologue” from the 1947 edition (228-236), which makes this the first complete edition. It also includes “A Note on the Text” ([iii] and “Book Wrangler’s Postscript” The Intellectual Sources of Erle Cox’s Out of the Silence” by John Costello (237-[248]) A daily comic strip version by Hix [Reginald E. Hicks] was published in The Argus (August 4 - December 21, 1934), generally on page 2. Radio serial version on 2CH Sydney March 11 - June 10, 1940, and 3BD Melbourne April 7 - September 2, 1943.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The People of the Ruins; A Story of the Future" - Edward [Richard Buxton] Shanks (1892-1953) (The County Gentleman & Land and Water (London), 1919)
A general strike followed by a revolution, fifty years of world war, and one hundred years of famine and disease produce a loss of technology and arts and craft and a resurgence of religion. Return to a more primitive life.
Repub. with the subtitle A Story of the English Revolution and After. London: W. Collins Sons, 1920. U.S. ed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Plus Ultra" - Edward Lucas White (1866-1934) (1919)
Detailed eutopia stratified upon the basis of intelligence and contributions to society. Highly technological.
Hand written manuscript at The Johns Hopkins University. Typescript at the Maryland Historical Society Library. Summary in A. Langley Searles, "'Plus Ultra': An Unknown Science-Fiction Utopia." Fantasy Commentator 4.2 - 5.2 (Winter 1979-80 - Winter 1984): 51-59; 162-69, 176-77; 240-42; 44-49; 100-05.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Prophecy; The Human Community or The True Social Order - L[ouis] H[erman] Koepsel (Human Community, 1919)
Detailed theocratic eutopia. An entire community meets to discuss world problems and establishes a committee to propose solutions to the problems. A new constitution is written. The entire community meets every seven days. Each person can have as much land as can be worked but must work six days a week. There are strict laws regarding morality, such as outlawing too tight clothes.
Keywords: Male author

The Psychic Trio or Nations Reconciled - Charles Edmund DeLand (1854-1935) (Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press, 1919)
The end of the book tells of the development of a reformed world order that will bring peace and prosperity to the entire world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Queen of Life" - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York), 1919)
Flawed utopia. An apparently eutopian Venus continues conflict between men and women.
Rpt. in his The Lord of Death and The Queen of Life (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 78-143.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Story of the City of Works; A Community of Peace and Plenty Where Every Man is His Own Policeman. A New Order of Government. Anti-Socialistic. Free Street Cars and Telephones. No Middleman. No Capitalist Class. All Profit Accrues to Labor. Farm and City Life Conjoined - Fairfield, Frederick Pease ([Author], 1919)
A company town as eutopia. Every person is constantly under the surveillance of specially appointed people to ensure good behavior.
Keywords: Male author

The Story of the Lost Planet or the Wonderful Submarine - Dominic[k] Healy (1896-1954?) (The Worker Trade Union Print, 1919)
There is a very brief description of a socialist eutopian society on a planet near Canopus, but the bulk of the 41 pages is concerned with the stupidities of the human race destroying itself and the Earth. Set in the future, there are a number of war-mongering dystopian societies briefly described.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Universal Panacea in a Nick of Time. Intellectual Determination of Unity and Perfection The Only Complete Explanation of the Golden Rule First Proclamation of the Goldless Rule Ennobling Free-Will-Less Truth Enthroning Health and Justice. At the head of the title The True, The Beautiful, The Good "Man Know Thyself" and Final Era Science of Government - Nelson Dwight Sickels (b. 1859) (Sickels & Lindquist/Ptd. Rogers & Hall, 1919)
Extremely detailed description of how to live and organize society but rambling and repetitive. Millennial.
All copies examined have Lindquist and Los Angeles crossed out and Chicago written in as location of the publisher.
Keywords: Male author

"Utopia" - Henry C[ottrell] Rowland (1874-1933) (The Popular Magazine (New York), 1919)
Playground for dull, prohibition-ridden US. Assumes that post-war America will continue prohibition and will become very pure and dull. Therefore, the author proposes ". . . to provide a gorgeous and well-ordered playground [in Haiti] where practically no form of physical or mental delight would be tabooed, but, on the contrary, furnished by the management on a magnificent scale. . . ." The only prohibition is violence.
Keywords: Male author

Walled Towns - Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) (Marshall Jones Co, 1919)
Medieval eutopia--Although the author said he was not intending to write a eutopia, this essay presents a eutopia that is rural, with a guild system, crafts, a limit on profit, and a maximum of thirty hours work per week in mills. Closeness of church and state. Anti-democratic. Emphasis on the human scale and small communities. The author sees it as a prediction based on an interpretation of the past.
Rpt. Seattle, WA: Entropy Conservationists, [1987].
Keywords: Male author

Beyond the Horizon - Fred B[rown] Morrill (1858-1949) (Neale Publ. Co, 1918)
Eutopia. System of voluntary cooperatives with no government and no weapons of destruction. Animals are no longer afraid of humans. No private property.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Calno, The Super-Man. A Fictional Study of the Antichrist - Lewis Erwin Finney (Ozark Pub. Co, 1918)
Authoritarian dystopia stressing the antichrist.
Keywords: Male author

The City of the Second Life - Edwin H. Byington (The Pilgrim Press, 1918)
When a person dies on Earth, they appear on a distant planet where each person must re-live each year of their previous life in a house that reflects their moral character during that year. Details on the way the houses reflect the person during that year and the position of children and those killed in war.
Keywords: Male author

"The Coöperative Commonwealth." - William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) (The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, 1918)
A critique of intentional communities and cooperation in the form of a future newspaper.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Democracy Made Safe - Paul Harris Drake (b. 1889) (LeRoy Phillips, 1918)
Eutopia will be brought about by abolishing money and capitalism.
Rpt. Boston, MA: The Four Seas Co., 1920
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Earthians: From Cave Man in One Thousand to the Cave Man in Ten Thousand - [Simon] [Wardwell] (np, 1918)
Poem with a brief introduction. Recounts the history of the human race comparing it, unfavorably, with that of Mars, which has a limited population. See also his 1918 "Worms of The Earth".
Keywords: Male author

Excerpts from the Crater of Gold; A Mysterious Manuscript - J. Calvin Mitchell (Crater of Gold Publishing Co, 1918)
Includes a description of the future United States where the people vote on a completely new Constitution on a regular basis. If no party wins a majority, the old Constitution remains in effect. A second volume was planned but apparently not published.
Keywords: Male author

Fair Inez: A Romance of Australia - Douglas [Brooke Wheelton] Sladen (1856-1947) (Hutchinson & Co, 1918)
Conservative eutopia set in 2000 A.D. Technological changes have produced few social changes. Argues that colonies produce better people. The novel ends with a new king, who had lived and worked in Australia and his Australian wife planning to change the monarchy into a more open and democratic institution.
2nd ed. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1918].
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Kingdom of Content - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) (Mills & Boon, 1918)
Rule by trusts followed by revolution and war. A small group survive and create an Eden.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The New Moon: A Romance of Reconstruction - [George] Oliver Onions (1873-1961) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1918)
Postwar England has almost returned to a barbarian state. Stress on romance, but the rebuilding of a better society is also presented.
Keywords: Male author

“The Planeteer” - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (All-Story Weekly, 1918)
Earth is moved to near Jupiter to use Jupiter’s resources to replace Earth’s Depleted resources with, in the longer term, but only suggested, the creation of a eutopia. A sequel is “The King of Conserve Island.” All-Story Weekly 89.3 (October 12, 1918): 411-69 in which a group of people have chosen to isolate themselves on Earth with no contact with the changes brought about in the first story. It is suggested that they create a generally good society but, in the future, choose to contact the others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tower - [Warwick Herbert] [Draper] (b. 1873) (Headley Bros, 1918)
Eutopia brought about by a religious revival. Reform of the church followed by a return to a simpler life and craftsmanship, but also technologically advanced for the time period. Heavily influenced by William Morris (1834-96).
2nd ed. entitled The New Britain. London: Headley Bros. Publishers, 1919.
Keywords: Male author

Women and the New Social State - John de Kay (1874-1938) (C.-A. Junger, 1918)
Non-fiction. Socialist eutopia with traditional roles for women. Stress on the importance of a strong League of Nations.
Keywords: Male author; Swiss author

"Worms of the Earth"Publisht on Mars by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 7654321 Publisht on Earth by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 1 - [Simon] [Wardwell] (np, 1918)
Poem describing the reality of the backward, dystopian Earth from the point of view of a vaguely described technologically and morally advanced Mars.
Keywords: Male author

20,000 Trails Under the Universe with the Cerebroscope. A Tale of Wonderful Adventures. A Protest Against the Principle of Death in Nature. The Gods, Nature and Man on Trial in God's Country - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) (Privately Ptd, 1917)
Humanity in touch with Heaven. Most of the book is taken up with criticisms of contemporary life. There is some fairly standard "domestic heaven" and a few pages (134-37) describing the eutopia produced on Earth. Nationalism has ended; the Universal Truth Church has replaced all denominations; and most enterprises are publicly owned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Australia A.D. 2000 or the Great Referendum - Sydney Glanville Fielding (1856-1930) (Wm. Andrews Ptg. Co, 1917)
Dystopia in which Australia rejects Christianity.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"By the World Forgot": A Double Romance of the East and the West - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) (A.C. McClurg, 1917)
Primarily romance but includes a lost race on an island in the South Pacific. There are eutopian aspects to the society on the island, like abundance without much labor, but the race is degenerating (except for one beautiful girl).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Polity: A Study in Reconstruction - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930); Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) (Williams and Norgate, 1917)
First volume of a series concerned with post-war reconstruction. Most of the book is concerned with history, showing how the world has reached its current situation. The last chapter, “Summary and Conclusion--Regional Eutopias”, makes a distinction between Utopia and Dystopia and briefly develops a eutopia based on regionalism. That chapter and other material is dropped in the 2nd ed. This material is replaced with a section called “Practice,” which has three chapters, “The Renewing of Christendom,” “The Post-Germanic University,” and “From the Old State to the New,” with the last chapter proposing ideas similar to the “Summary” in the 1st ed. See also 1921 Branford.
New & enl. ed. London: Williams & Norgate, 1919.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Eldorado of Socialism, Communism and Anarchism; or a Trip to the Planet Jupiter - Rev. John Hugh Reynaert ([Reporter-Star Pub. Co.], 1917)
Eutopia of Christian socialism.
Keywords: Male author

Federation of the World - Charles Conroy (Author, 1917)
Short essay that includes some utopian sections on the advantages of world federalism.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Katharist Book of Perfection - George Bessonet (Katharist Publishing Society, 1917)
Eutopia in the form of a religious book that says that perfection is possible, but that perfection differs for adult and child, for men and women, and for “for each race and sub-race,” from which it follows that race mixing is to be avoided. Twelve “Laws of Perfection” are listed and most of the book elaborates on them.
Keywords: Male author

"The Limit" - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) (Red Magazine (London), 1917)
Satire. Gender-role reversal set in 2676. Having returned to a set of villages, London is presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Messiah of the Cylinder" - [Avigdor Rousseau] [Emanuel] (1879-1960) (Everybody's Magazine, 1917)
Scientific dystopia. A leader uses science and religion to take control of the world. A successful revolt frees people, and the ending suggests that a better world is being created.
Rpt. illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Chicago, IL: A .C. McClurg & Co., 1917; and illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974, with an unpaged introduction, “A Neglected Masterpiece,” by Lester Del Rey, who characterizes it as an “anti-utopia (or dystopia,” written in opposition to H. G. Wells. U.K. ed. without the illus. as The Apostle of the Cylinder. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]. A few libraries catalog the U.K. ed. as [1919?].
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pleiades Club: Telegraphers’ Paradise on Planet Mars - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) (Multnomah Printing Co., 1917)
The spirits of past telegraphers meet on Mars on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Lincoln presiding, the Fourth of July, when the discuss the future of the telegraph, which includes radically improved conditions for the workers (a five hour workday twenty days a month, three free meals a day, retirement at thirty with a pension for five years, and generally being treated decently by management), followed by a number of chapters which are devoted to telegraphers’ tall tales and comments on current affairs on Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Pretty Pass. A 30th Century Idyl" - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) (The Red Magazine (London), 1917)
Satire of gender-role reversal. Weak men are given a harsh physical regime so that they can be good mates. Men who fail are workers.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Social Problem Solved, Without Either Socialism or Capitalism. The Coming Golden Age. An Outgrowth of Remedying Rather Than Abandoning Our Industrial System - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Author, 1917)
Eutopia will be achieved by following the author's monetary principles, which here he calls Proprietarism, which is a system in which everyone is their own proprietor and that requires that money be circulated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Unprecedented Invasion of Altruria - Don C[arlos] Seitz (1862-1935) (Rustic Press, 1917)
Laissez faire eutopia.
Supposed to have been reprinted from the New York Evening Post (April 7, 1917) but not found there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Utopian Way - Veiby, John (Author, 1917)
Eutopia based on religion and decentralization, with the county the basic unit of government. See also 1923 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

And It Came to Pass - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) (Jarrold & Sons, 1916)
Essentially a religious novel, but a brief section (234-42) describes the conservative post-World War I eutopia brought about by the development of a "United Council of Empire" that brought the countries of the British Empire together. This eliminated liberal education, which was replaced by vocational education and common sense. Trade unionism eliminated. Piece-work and short contracts replaced union contracts; this produced prosperity for all. Feudalism reinstated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Beyond Thirty” - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (All Around Magazine, 1916)
The work is set two hundred years in the future in which the U.S. stayed out of World War 1 and European had destroyed itself and returned to a barbarian state while the Americas had developed into a technological eutopia. Although no one from the Americas had passed the 30th meridian East of the 175th meridian West until a group of Americans did accidentally. After fighting the barbarians and being rescued by the Chinese, the world will in future be open again.
Rpt. Fantasy Press, 1955; in Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957), Lincoln, NB: Bison Books, 2001; and as The Lost Continent. Original title Beyond Thirty. New York: Ace Books, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dawn of White Australasia (Being the Remarkable Adventures of Peter Ecoores Van Bu)" - George Forbes (Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1916)
Includes a section (172-83 in the book) on two islands, one of men and one of women. Both islands follow the rules set down by the "wise ones" (men) who live of a mountain on the female island, sleep naked on the ground, and eat no meat, fish, or live vegetables. The men spend three months each year with the women on the women's island and the men provide their wives with all the necessities of life. Unmarried women did all the work on the women's island.
Rpt. as Adventures in Southern Seas, a Tale of the Sixteenth Century. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Australasian Pub. Co., 1920. U.K. ed. London: Harrap, 1920.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes - Grantly Standerson (Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1916)
The Society of Progress works throughout human history to build a religious eutopia that does not contradict science. It is particularly opposed to Mormonism, and Salt Lake City is destroyed in an earthquake. The first of the “Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes” is “to arouse spiritually thousands of devout, honest, followers of a false religion [Mormonism] to the real degradation of their religion, and the other as high a purpose as ever can move a human being” [the search for Truth] (5).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"June 6, 2016" - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Colliers (New York), 1916)
A love story set in a technological eutopia that has greater gender equality but with many of the same issues remaining.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 72-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Meleager; A Fantasy - H[erbert] M[illingchamp] Vaughan (1870-1948) (Martin Secker, 1916)
Dystopia. Eugenics--defective children are killed. Hygiene. Class system (King, The Hierarchy, The Nobility, The Mercantile Class, The Populace, and Indentured servants or slaves). Women have no political rights.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

State Socialism After the War; An Exposition of Complete State Socialism. What It Is: How It Would Work - Thomas J. Hughes (b. 1865) (George W. Jacobs and Company, 1916)
Eutopia. Detailed exposition of how a system of complete governmental ownership of property, except personal effects, would work.
Later ed. subtitled A Retrospect of Reconstruction After the War. Rev. ed. Dayton, OH: New Era Pub. Co., 1919. 2nd rev. ed. adds Embracing a Greater Democracy, and Founded on the Teaching of Christ to 1919 subtitle. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1924.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Vision of the Future - Richard Marvin Chapman (The Cosmopolitan Press, 1916)
Eutopia of a future society based on science and eugenics.
Keywords: Male author

"1925": The Story of a Fatal Peace - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) (George Newnes, 1915)
Description of the dystopia that will come about if Germany is not completely subjugated after the war. Since Germany was not disarmed at the end of the war, it increased the armaments of its navy and plans to attack England and then America. The novel ends with the beginning of the invasion.
Rpt. as separately paged four-page supplements to The War of the Nations (London) 7.78 - 86 (February 19 - April 15, 1916) (AR, L). The War of the Nations was the author’s history of World War I, which was issued weekly. At the head of all installments is the following: “One of the most successful books of the War is Mr. Edgar Wallace’s ‘“1925’”: the Story of a Fatal Peace.’ The purpose Mr. Wallace, who is the author of ‘The War of the Nations,’ had in view in writing ‘1925’ was to bring home to readers the inevitable consequence of ending the war in any other way than by the complete defeat of Germany and the destruction of Prussian militarism. There are many people who are not alive to the certain terrible sequel of an unfortunate peace. The story is one of the most powerful and enthralling that Mr. Wallace has ever written. It will be continued in ‘The War of the Nations’ from week to week.”
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Air Trust - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Phil Wagner, 1915)
Dystopia. A trust gains control of the air and enslaves humankind, but it is overthrown. For a work using a similar idea, see 1897 Mills, “The Aerial Brickyard.”
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. Originally published in The National Rip-Saw (January - October 1915) as “The Story of the Air Trust.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Drop in Infinity - Gerald Grogan (1884-1918) (John Lane The Bodley Head/John Lane Co./Bell & Cockburn, 1915)
Colonization of a new world with the novel all on the early stages of development, but it ends with something like a eutopia of a simple, fairly primitive life.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Fall of a Nation. A Sequel to the Birth of a Nation - Thomas [Frederick] Dixon [Jr.] (1864-1946) (D. Appleton and Co., 1915)
Dystopia in which the United States is defeated by Germany and internal subversion. The purpose the novel is to argue for military preparedness.
Originally published in The National Sunday Magazine (1915 - 1916), which was published with Sunday newspapers throughout the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"John Jones's Dollar" - Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) (The Black Cat (Boston, MA), 1915)
Scientific eutopia. Democratic Socialist. Some humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King of Kulturia - W[illiam] Hugh Higginbottom (1881-1937) (The Walter Scott Company, 1915)
An anti-German satire describing an attempt to control artistic production. The Greek gods are awakened, wreak havoc, and are put back to sleep.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mania of the Nations on the Planet Mars and Its Terrific Consequences. A Combination of Fun and Wisdom - [James Howard] [Calisch] (1863-1926) (The Denker Publishers, 1915)
Satire on human foibles using Mars. Religion. Focus on religion and nationalism.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

"The Mark of the Beast" - Sydney Watson (W. Nicholson, 1915)
The rise of Antichrist and the dystopia produced, ending in Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the return of Christ. See also his In the Twinkling of an Eye. London: William Nicholson & Sons, [1916]. Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: B. McCall Barbour, 1971, which shows the advent of the Antichrist.
U.S. ed. Los Angeles, CA: The Biola Book Room, Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1918. Rpt. New York: Fleming H. Revell, [1933].
Keywords: Male author

The Millionaire Socialist or the Cure for Poverty - [Joseph R.] [Renner] (Watkins, Tyler & Tolan, 1915)
Short didactic novel describing a successful socialist colony. Its success forces Britain and then the rest of the world to adopt socialism.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"A Modern Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Babyland" - John R[ussell] Corydell (1848-1924) (Physical Culture (New York), 1915)
A crusty, puritanical descendent of Gulliver visits a eutopia where children are taught about their bodies from an early age.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Modern Paradise. An Outline or Story of how Some of the Cultured People will probably live, work and Organize in the Near Future - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Equality Pub. Co, 1915)
Another version of 1893 Olerich which has a considerable amount on the technology, the factory that the community will run, and the labor checks and how they are used. Heavily illustrated. The short version is mostly on the generation by wind and water, storage, and use of electricity.
Rpt. [Charleston, SC]: NABU Press, 2010. A short version (28 pp) was published as Modern Paradise: The Model Home.--Solutions of the Social Problem. Future Greatness of Electricity.--Proposed Experiment in Social Science.--An Earthly Eden and How to Attain It.--A Unique Power Plant. Wonderful System of Education. Elegantly Illustrated [Subtitle on the cover--Grandest Dwelling Place on Earth. Elegantly Illustrated]. Omaha, NB: Author, [1915].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Northland - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) (Thomas Benton, 1915)
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.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise Found or The Superman Found Out in Three Acts - Allen Upward (1863-1926) (Houghton Mifflin, 1915)
Dystopian satire in which two hundred years in the future, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) awakes in a world based on a misreading of his ideas. The British Empire has collapsed, and England is under a corrupt Indian Empire. Canada is part of the U.S. Australia is controlled by Aborigines. South African natives are cannibals. In England, doctors are in power, and the entire system is corrupt.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Reign of the Prince of Peace - Richard Hayes McCartney (Charles C. Cook, 1915)
160 page poem describing the eutopia brought about by the millennium and the Second Coming. See also 1921 McCartney.
Keywords: Male author

Uncle Sam Banker 1910-1940. Published by the Author - James A[rthur] Fulton (Hutchinson & Broadbent, 1915)
Eutopia in which a new public banking system brings general prosperity. Includes a "Summary of Legislative and Administrative Policies Outlined" (285-86) keyed to the text.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Upsidonia - [Arthur Hammond] [Marshall] (1866-1934) (Stanley Paul, 1915)
Satire of reversal in the tradition of 1872 Butler. In this case the reversal concerns wealth, which is considered undesirable. Those of high status life poorly and those of low status live in luxury.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The White Man's Burden, A Satirical Forecast - [Roger Sherman] [Tracy] (1841-1926) (Gorham Press, 1915)
Set in 5027 with Africa a completely Black and Christian eutopia. All the races have advanced except the Caucasian, which continues its old, dystopian ways and initiates a race war, which it loses.
Rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Windmills: A Book of Fables - Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955) (Martin Secker, 1915)
Two utopias--the first starts as a Robinsonade in "Samways Island" but concludes as a eutopia stressing world peace as "Ultimus." The second, "Gynecologia," is a typical gender-role reversal story. Much heavy-handed satire in both.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2010 - [Frederic] [Carrel] (1869-1945) (T. Werner Laurie, 1914)
Mechanical improvement of brains leads to eutopia. Stress is on the struggle to get the brains accepted.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"An Argument" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (The Congo and Other Poems, 1914)
The argument is between "The Voice of the Man Impatient with Visions and Utopias" and "The Rhymer's Reply: Incense and Splendor" and is presented as two poems under those titles. The former takes an anti-utopian position, and the latter replies with the hope for a coming eutopia. See also 1909, 1913, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 194-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Darkness and Dawn - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Small, Maynard, 1914)
Much of the novel is a post-catastrophe dystopia with a young couple apparently alone struggling to survive, then in conflict with other survivors, but the novel ends depicting the beginnings of a new egalitarian, peaceful eutopian society.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with unpaged “The Fantastic in Fiction” by the author, originally published as “Facts About Fantasy.” The Story World (July 1923). Originally serialized as “Darkness and Dawn.” The Cavalier 10. 4 (January 1912): 621-34; The Cavalier and the Scrap Book 11.1 - 3 (January 6 - 20, 1912): 169-85, 321-39, 521-33; “Beyond the Great Oblivion.” The Cavalier 24.1 - 25.2 (January 4 - February 8, 1913): 1-34, 215-32, 434-52, 645-65; 115-34, 272-92; and “The Afterglow.” Cavalier 29.4 - 30.3 (June 14 - July 5, 1913): 577-607; 71-100, 250-78, 495-519. All three were rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 2.3 (August 1940: 6-78; 3.2 (June 1941): 6-105; 3.5 (December 1941): 6-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Elixir of Life or 2905 A.D. A Novel of the Far Future - Herbert Gubbins (1887-1950) (Henry J. Drane, 1914)
Contemplative, technological eutopia set a thousand years in the future. Described as an ". . . age of calm reflection and freedom from every form of physical exertion. . ." (73). Telepathy. Tablet food. Life-long clothes. Emphasis on electricity and solar energy (manufactured in concentrated form). International law. Accurate news. Trusts and syndicates control all the technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Equitania; or, The Land of Equity - Dr. W[alter] O. Henry (b. 1858) (Ptd. by Klopp & Bartlett, 1914)
Detailed eutopia. Equitania was founded by groups of Buddhists from India, Christians from the U.S., Muslims from Turkey, and Jews from England. Democracy. Freedom of religion. Traditional sex roles, but there is sex education. All natural resources and utilities owned by the government. Men earn enough to be able to comfortably support a family. Includes a constitution. The eutopia includes a lot on appropriate gender relations, the reasons for and dangers of prostitution, venereal disease, etc., mostly from the male viewpoint, and much on medical care.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Felicians - Isaac Carlson (np, 1914)
Eutopia. Advanced society on Mars. Scientifically far ahead of Earth. No nationalism; one language. Birth in laboratories. All children raised by the state. All food made in laboratories. Music and dance are important.
Keywords: Male author

The Flying Inn - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Methuen, 1914)
Humor--Europe is part of the Moslem Empire, as it is spelled in the book. Effect of the closing of the pubs on the British.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Iain T. Benson (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 2004), 7: 421-665. The songs found throughout the text were originally published in The New Witness as follows: “A Song Against Grocers.” 1.2 (November 14, 1912): 47; “The Song of the English.” 1.4 (November 28, 1912): 111; “A Song of Songs.” 1.7 (December 19, 1912): 207; “The Song of the Good Rich Man.” 1.9 (January 2, 1913): 271; “A Song of Strange Drinks.” 1.12 (January 23, 1913): 367; “Song of the Happy Vegetarians.” 1.13 (January 30, 1913): 398; “Song of the Temperance Hotel.” 1.14 (February 6, 1913): 436; “The Song of the Strange Ascetic.” 1.16 (February 20, 1913): 495; “The Song of the Second Deluge.” 1.17 (February 27, 1913): 527; “A Song of Dietetic Logic.” 2.45 (September 11, 1913): 591; “A Song of Temperance Reform.” 2.47 (September 25, 1913): 658; “The Song of the Alternative Explanations of the Curvature of the English Country Road.” 2.51 (October 23, 1913): 785; and “Song of the Dog named Quoodle.” 3.56 (November 27, 1913): 111.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Food": A Tragedy of the Future - William C[hurchill] de Mille (1878-1955) (Samuel French, 1914)
Farce. Food trust has so run up the price of food that there is a death penalty for killing a hen and even the rich eat little.
Keywords: Male author

The Forest Maiden - [Robert Ames] [Bennet] (1870-1954) (Browne & Howell, 1914)
A hunter discovers a Garden of Eden in British Columbia set up by a madman.
Keywords: Male author

On Heaven - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) (Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1914)
Poem ascribed "To V[iolet] H[unt] who asked for a working Heaven." Heaven for lovers.
Rpt in Ford Madox Ford, On Heaven and Poems Written on Active Service (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head/New York: John Lane, 1918), 79-110. Rpt. in The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford. 5 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1962), 1: 359-72.
Keywords: Male author

Humanity and the Mysterious Knight - Mack Stauffer (Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1914)
Political novel set in a future of extremes of poverty and wealth. Battle between labor and capital. Capital does better in the battle.
Keywords: Male author

"In 1999"; A Problem Play of the Future - William C[hurchill] de Mille (1878-1955) (Samuel French, 1914)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Keywords: Male author

"The Man Who Rocked the Earth" - Arthur [Cheney] Train (1875-1945) (Saturday Evening Post, 1914)
Mostly war and political intrigue, but at the beginning of the novel war has produced a world-wide dystopia with nations collapsing and significant sections of the world destroyed. The inventor of a new power threatens world destruction if peace does not come. After much adventure, the final chapter describes a world at peace under a Law of Humanity with an international police force. All weapons abolished.
Repub. as by Train and Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955). Illus. Walter L. Greene and Woods. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924, 1914)
Eleven survivors of a catastrophe that kills everyone else in the world initially replicate the capitalist dystopia that is the U.S. in 2000, but most of the people come to reject that and by the end a socialist eutopia is suggested but not developed.
UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. Rpt. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000 with an introduction by Carl Jensen (vii-xxvi). Originally published in The Appeal to Reason (1914).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nature City: The Ideal Commonwealth - James W. Bucklin, LL.B. (Author, 1914)
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.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Once in a Blue Moon" - [Eimar Ultan] [O'Duffy] (1893-1935) (The National Student. A Magazine of Student Life. Conducted by the Students of University College, Dublin, 1914)
A slight satire on the relations between Britain (Buljohn) and Ireland (Iernia) in which the former oppresses the later until cajoled into changing his ways.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Perhaps: A Tale of Tomorrow - [Henry] Norman Davey (1888-1949) (Methuen, 1914)
A humorous novel describing the secession of the Isle of Wight from the U.K.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Practical Socialism! Demonstrated by Domestic Cooperation. A Sequel to Eureka! - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb (Excelsior Press, 1914)
Sequel to 1913 Ridgway. Community now to be founded in Palmyra, New Jersey. Later will move to a tropical island. Suggests running a summer hotel and, later, a winter hotel. In this book, Lamb identifies himself as living in Palmyra, NJ. Part 5 is called "A Model Community for Practical People."
Keywords: Male author

Social Harmonism: Human Rights Under Functional Government - Holmes W[hittier] Merton (Author/L.N. Fowler, 1914)
Detailed eutopia in essay form. Gender equality. Equality of opportunity. System of functional or vocational political representation. There are Departments of Science, Industry, Wealth, Arts, Letters, Culture, Marriage, Familism, Home, Commerce, Rulership, and Religion.
Keywords: Male author

"Votes for Men" - Percy Atkinson (All Story Cavalier Weekly, 1914)
Gender-role reversal satire in which any single man asked by a woman to marry her must do so or go to jail.
Keywords: Male author

The War of the Worlds: A Tale of the Year 2,000 A.D. - Frederick Robinson ([Author], 1914)
Eutopia and dystopia. This short novel focuses on the antics of one man who becomes fabulously wealthy, is rejected by the woman he wants, and in vengeance brings about a war with the U.S. attacked by the nations of the Earth and Mars. While the US, which has grown to include all of North and Central America, wins, New York City is destroyed. Early in the book, the world is depicted in eutopian terms both politically and technologically with New York City free of crime as a result of eugenic advances. All other nations are depicted as advanced and the only reason for their cooperation against the U.S. is that it is even more advanced. In a note To the Reader the author says that the book originated as a scenario he wrote in connection with a stage spectacle he was preparing.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Work for All. A Co-operative Commonwealth based on Ruskin's Teaching - Albert Ernest Taber (Arthur Wigley, 1914)
Cottage industry. Single tax. Little government. The first part is organized as a Platonic dialogue among past social reformers. Then the eutopia is shown by John Ruskin (1819-1900) to visitors from the past. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author

Allanforth Commune: The Triumph of Socialism - Findlay Watt (National Labour Press, 1913)
A successful socialist intentional community in Scotland established by a rich man.
Keywords: Male author

The American Emperor. A Novel - William Salisbury (b. 1875) (The Tabard Inn Press, 1913)
An ambitious American financier creates a dystopia with himself as sole ruler.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Announcement. “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” and “A Fantasy. Abstract of One Chapter from Part I of Utopia” - Oscar Morrill Heath (Composts of Tradition: A Book of Short Stories dealing with Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations, 1913)
An announcement that a book entitled “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” in the near future together with a synopsis of its three sections, “Utopia,” “Neutralia,” and “Atlantis” together with an excerpt from “Utopia” (302-303). “The most striking features of Utopia are its school system and its unique eugenic process of courtship and marriage. The most interesting feature of Neutralia is that the inhabitants are all sex-less. The climax of interest is in Atlantis, where the women hold two-thirds of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers and the men one-third” (300). The author says that the first part was published “about four years ago,” but I have been unable to find it. Most of the book, which is dedicated to “Hygienic Motherhood,” is composed of stories that comment on sex relations through the ages and on Neptune. In the Preface “The Apology of an Iconoclast” he proposes that the wealthy buy the land and build “model tenement houses. Throughout he contends that motherhood is women’s sole purpose and men’s sole purpose is to support them, which is what they do in Atlantis.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy. A Cycle of Conversations and Discourses with Occasional Side-Lights upon the Speakers - Albion W[oodbury] Small (1854-1926) (Inter-collegiate Press, 1913)
A fictional discussion people centering on a strike. Includes attacks on and defenses of capitalism with arguments about how to produce a better society. See George Mariz, “Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of the Clerical-Utopian Novel.” Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 65-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brain City. A Fantasy - Marmaduke A. Prickett (Museum Arts & Letters Assoc, 1913)
Allegory on reason and science using an ideal rational city.
Keywords: Male author

The Coming Day: A Story of Inevitable Social and Industrial Progress - William T. Burkitt (Drane's, 1913)
Emphasis on the evolution to eutopia through the union movement with one union, reform, and control of the product of labor the means.
Keywords: Male author

Eureka! The Embryo of An Ideal Society - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb (Excelsior Press, 1913)
Proposes a cooperative colony to be founded by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the southern Philippines to be called Palmyra. Spiritualism.
Keywords: Male author