"Shadow of a Snowstorm" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1977)
Dystopia in which there are so few jobs that humans replace mannequins in department stores.
Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 66-90, with an author's note on 65-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sneak Previews" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Penthouse, 1977)
The story is set in a future, presented as dystopian, in which marriage is required with a time limit on remaining single.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 77-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Strayed Sheep of Charun - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) (Doubleday, 1977)
Dystopia of a corrupt Roman planet. A combat trained Jesuit priest and a Franciscan friar are sent from Earth, which is now ruled by the Church of Rome, to try to convert the planet. If they fail, it will be destroyed.
Rev. ed. as Cestus Dei. New York: Tor, 1983.
Keywords: Male author; US author

That Good Between Us - Howard Barker (b. 1946) (Gambit: International Theatre Review, 1977)
Authoritarian dystopia created in the U.K. by a Labour government.
Rpt. in That Good Between Us. Credentials of a Sympathizer (London: John Calder, 1980), 1-59.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Time of Achamoth - M[ichael] K[ennedy] Joseph (1914-81) (Collins, 1977)
A time travel novel mostly set in the past. Includes travel to a series of future dystopias and eutopias including one based on class violence, a puritanical one based on the rejection of the values of the Sixties, one based on biotechnology in which all the people of the world are adequately fed, and one depicting a religious revival in space, among others.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Time-Swept City - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) (Popular Library, 1977)
Dystopia. The connected stories are about the city of Chicago over huge reaches of time into the future. The city becomes more and more automated and the inhabitants less and less necessary until the city becomes an automatic self-repairing system with no inhabitants. Outside the city humanity has regressed to a primitive level.
Parts published originally as "Chicago." Future City. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Trident Press, 1973), 219-35. Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 203-20; "Good and Faithful Servant." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 49.5 (March 1976): 110-18; "Breath's A Ware That Will Not Keep." Dystopian Visions. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1975), 2-19; and "Far From Eve and Morning." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 51.1 (October 1977): 20-29, 91.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Timewaves" - John Bartelt (Janus, 1977)
The story is set in a dystopian, bureaucratic future where no dissent is permitted, with those who do are assigned to menial jobs, and church attendance is required. Two men try to change the past in the hopes of eliminating the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Town Planning for Christian Community" - John [Edward] Morton (Dialogue on Religion: New Zealand Viewpoints 1977, 1977)
An essay proposing a form of cooperative Christian community for within an Auckland neighborhood. Stress on family units. People will save money by owning much in common that is now purchased separately by each unit.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Ulster and Its Future After the Troubles - Michael [Steven] Sheane (b. 1946) (Highfield Press, 1977)
Non-fiction that ends with a chapter "Postscript Ulster: Its Future After the Troubles" (153-72) that projects the situation in 2000 after Britain has withdrawn from Northern Ireland and a federal Ireland is established. Quite modest in its ideas.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

[“Utopian Construction”] - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) (Nature and Civilization: Some Implications for Politics, 1977)
Non-fictional description of a culturally diverse world eutopia. Universal language plus regional and sub-regional languages. Any family form accepted. Neighborhoods are the most important focus socially and politically. Complete free speech. Vegetarian, as was the author.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Work Song 2. A Vision" - Wendell Berry (b. 1934) (Clearing, 1977)
Poem describing an environmental eutopia of the future when the land has recovered.
Rpt. in his The Collected Poems 1957-1982 (San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1985), 187-88; and as “A Vision” in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998), 102.
Keywords: Male author; US author

YV88; An Eco-Fiction of Tomorrow - Christopher Swan; Chet Roaman (b. 1939) (Sierra Club Books, 1977)
Ecological eutopia set in 1988 focusing on Yosemite National Park beginning with a ride on a new train into the park that replaces the road and runs on a combination of the roadbed and the right of way of an earlier train. Most of the facilities in the park have been removed to return the park to a wilderness. Wildlife is returning. Extensive use of improved solar power. De-damming. There is a chronology showing the changes between 1978 and 1988 (104-05). Presented in a wide variety of ways including letters, postcards, reminiscences, architectural plans, an argument between two people, a TV transcript, detailed plans for the train engine, stations, and rail cars. stories, and stories. The policies that were developed for reversing environmental damage, such as removing asphalt, are slowly being adopted elsewhere in the country.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Age of Libra” - Scott Edelstein (b. 1954) (Science Fiction Discoveries, 1976)
United States Retirement Services is an answer to overpopulation. It has established 1645 retirement villages, each holding 2900 people for one year. Retirement is mandatory at a specified age, which is lowered within the story but can be chosen earlier.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Alteration - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) (Jonathan Cape, 1976)
Religious dystopia. Alternative history set in 1976 in which a Pope rules England from his seat in Yorkshire. No Reformation. No science.
Collector’s Edition illus. Debbie Hughes with an “Introduction” by Brian W. Aldiss (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Rpt. New York: New York Review of Books, 2013 with an “Introduction” by William Gibson (vii-x).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Anarchy Pedlars - [Christopher John] [Portway] (1923-2009) (Robert Hale, 1976)
Dystopia created by the future revival of a cult of assassins.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Another Eden - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) (Robert Hale, 1976)
The novel begins in the overpopulation dystopia of Earth, and then moves to a planet being settled to offload population. The people have been told that it is Edenic, but it is in fact extremely dangerous, and then the aliens attack.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Aqua Declaration - [Lyman Spicer] Vincent Judson (Apex University Press, 1976)
Sequel to 1973 Judson. Detailed eutopia in which all water-covered acres are taken over by the QNC (Quasi-Nation Corporation) or PNC (Pseudo-Nation Corporation).
Keywords: Male author

Beasts - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1976)
Dystopia resulting from genetic experimentation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Framework of Modern Thought - Lessans, Seymour (New World Publishers, 1976)
Detailed eutopia in essay form based on the proposition that there is no free will “because his nature also compels him to prefer of available alternatives the one that offers greater satisfaction. . . (22). As a result, “THOU SHALL NOT BLAME” (23). The first result is that hurting others, even by accident, can no longer be justified. This is applied first to sexual relations, which will never happen unless both people want to get married, and marriage, which will last for life. In the economic sphere, everyone must benefit from transactions. No war. Guaranteed standard of living. Better child-rearing and education. Much greater freedom for all people.
Keywords: Male author

The Black Roads - J[oe] [Louis] Hensley (1926-2007) (Laser Books, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia following World Wars III and IV. Survivors rediscover some of the technology of the past and use it to consolidate their power. Violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Broken October: New Zealand 1985 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) (A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia. The New Zealand government in 1985 is a military dictatorship, which violently puts down a revolt. New Zealand, in cooperation with the South African authorities, institutes a pass system for Maori. The U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the U.S. government are involved to ensure access to New Zealand's mineral wealth and the use of New Zealand troops as needed. See also his plays Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and "Whites of Their Eyes" (1975), both of which came from this novel as it developed but before it was published.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Chauvinisto - Sam[uel Kimball] Merwin Jr. (1910-96) (Major Books, 1976)
Dystopia. Future with women dominating and men inferior socially and politically. Stress on the struggle for power.
Keywords: Male author

Cinnabar - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) (Macmillan, 1976)
Dystopia. Cinnabar is a city run by a failed computer that provides false images within which both people and simulcra live. Each story is about one individual, and, in the last story, they cooperate to destroy the computer.
Stories originally published as follows: "The Road to Cinnabar." Infinity Two. Ed. Robert Hoskins (New York: Lancer Books, 1971), 73-84 (1-12 here); "Jade Blue." Universe 1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 53-69; U.K. ed (London: Dennis Dobson, 1975), 53-69 (13-28 here); "Gray Matters" as "Their Thousandth Season." Clarion II: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism. Ed Robin Scott Wilson (New York: Signet, 1972), 127-39; and in his Among the Dead and Other Events Leading Up to the Apocalypse (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 164-79 (29-44 here); "The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis." Universe 3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Random House, 1973), 135-50 (45-61 here); "Hayes and the Heterogyne." Vertex 2.2 (June 1974): 16-20, 88-97 (62-103 here); "Sharking Down." Vertex 2.6 (February 1975): 16-20, 34-37 in slightly different form (115-56 here); and "Brain Terminal." Vertex 3.4 (August 1975): 2-6, 28 in slightly different form (157-86 here).
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of Darkness - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976)
Young adult dystopia with a division between poor city-dwellers and the elite who live outside the cities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Concrete Horizon - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) (Millington Books, 1976)
Dystopia--future over-organized urban monads are failing. Pressure grows from agricultural complexes. Disaster.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Contentment, Satisfaction, Cheer, Well-Being, Gladness, Joy, Comfort, and Not having To Get Up Early Any More" - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Dystopia in which the world has been entirely homogenized and is ruled by six men, with one of them arranging the retirement of the other five one at a time. He then retires and the computer that has been effectively running the world takes over.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crack in the Sky - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) (Dell Books, 1976)
Standard post-pollution dystopia. All live under domes, but there is further disaster.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Day After Tomorrow - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1976)
Conformist corporate dystopia and the revolt against it, which fails.
A shorter version was published earlier as "Status Quo." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 67.6 (August 1961): 4-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Day of the Big Test" - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Testing of children in their seventh year determines family status, income, leisure, etc. Presented generally positively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Decibels." - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) (Prompt Three: Five short modern plays, 1976)
Overpopulation dystopia where noise is a constant. To have a child, someone must die with voluntary euthanasia encouraged, and there are regulations on how much space a person can occupy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Deus Irae - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82); Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) (Doubleday, 1976)
Post-catastrophe religious dystopia. Deus Irae is God of Wrath and is the head of a religion sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980; New York: DAW Books, 1983; and New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Divers of Arakam - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) ([Bert Fisher], 1976)
Dystopia of an imaginary country that is obviously New Zealand with an authoritarian government. See also 1977 and 1978 Fisher.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Double Time - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) (Robert Hale, 1976)
Dystopia. Overpopulation and conflict over agricultural property.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Florians - Brian M[ichael] Stableford (1948-2024) (DAW Books, 1976)
First of the six volume Daedalus Mission series in which the purpose of the Daedalus is to contact colony planets to find out what has happened and help if needed. The first planet contact, Floria, appears idyllic society, but the Planners have created an unequal society by limiting knowledge. The second volume is Critical Threshold. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 160 pp. In it, a colony that should have thrived has collapsed. The third volume is Wildeblood's Empire. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 192 pp. This colony, originally called Poseidon, has become an apparently thriving empire named after leader. Of course, the reality is different, and it is actually an authoritarian dystopia. The fourth volume, set on the planet Arcadia is The City of the Sun. New York: DAW Books, 1978. 189 pp. U.K. ed. London: Hamlyn 1980 had modelled its system on Tommaso Campanella’s (1568-1639) La Città del Sole (1611) but with changes that made it more dystopian than eutopian.  The fifth book is set on the planet Attica Balance of Power. New York DAW Books, 1979. 173 pp. and concerns a failing human colony, and its interactions with an alien colony also on the planet. The final volume, Paradox of the Sets. New York: DAW Books, 1979. 176 pp. is set on the Planet Geb where humans have enslaved what appears to be a semi-intelligent native population. All volumes are concerned with both the ecology of the planets and the forms of society established.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Future Sanctuary - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) (Laser Books, 1976)
Eutopia and dystopia. Fleeing from an authoritarian dystopia, the protagonist visits a number of simple eutopias that provide sanctuary.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Getting Away" - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1976)
Dystopia of environmental collapse as background to a time travel story.
Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 45-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Glutt" - Gladden Schrock (Guthrie New Theater, 1976)
Dystopia in which a man is executed for his lack of community feeling and involvement.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Good Society: A Primer of Its Social Practice - John Friedmann (b. 1926) ([School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA], 1976)
Eutopia. Small, person-centered, focusing on dialogue. It appears to be the first version of 1979 Friedmann, The Good Society A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice. See also 1979 Friedmann, Communalist Society.
Keywords: Austrian author; Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Governor-General - Christopher [John Douglass] Forsyth (b. 1939) (Widescope International Publishers, 1976)
Dystopia. Authoritarian dictatorship in Australia in the form of a political novel describing conflicts within the Labour Party, the seizure of power by the Governor-General, and interference by the United States government.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Gulliver's Visit to Walden III; A Report on Values in Education - William Clark Trow (1894-1982) (Kappa Delta Pi Press, 1976)
Detailed eutopia stressing education. A descendant of Lemuel Gulliver visits Walden III, which is described as "a laboratory, not only to introduce intuitive innovations, but to test hypotheses about the nature of a (not the) good society and how it might be built" (x). The book proposes a model of education based on what the author calls "The Seven Worlds" that include the mental, physical, aesthetic, social, political, economic, and ethical aspects of life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Healer - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) (Doubleday & Co, 1976)
The central volume of the author’s series the LaNague Chronicles. Mostly science fiction adventure, but it includes a “neo-anarchist” eutopia, more accurately a libertarian eutopia with “a bare minimum of public institutions: police, judiciary, penal, and administration” (79). In the author’s introduction to The LaNague Chronicles. Ed. and sequenced by the author. New York: Baen Books, 1992, he says that his ideas were inspired by Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973), the Austrian economist who lived and worked in the U. S. from 1940 and Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), a U. S. member of the Austrian School of economics and one of the founders of the von Mises Institute, or, as Wilson puts it, “a rational anarchist, an advocate of laissez fire, a radical capitalist” (viii). In the introduction, he characterizes the LaNague Federation as encouraging “any type of society, no matter how bizarre or crazy the philosophy at its core. . . . With a single proviso: free egress must exist at all times. Anyone who wants to opt out of that society must be allowed to do so” (viii-ix). Other volumes in the series include: “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971)]: 149-64; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307) [originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-145]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. See also is 1989 Dydeetown World, which is connected to the series. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material. The LaNague Chronicles sequences the series as An Enemy of the State, Healer I: Heal Thyself, Healer II: Heal Thy Neighbor, Healer III: Hide Thyself, Wheels Within Wheels, Healer IV: Find They Progeny, Healer V: Heal They Nation, and the text in the book is in this order. “The Complete LaNague Chronology” is provided on page xi. Wheels Within Wheels won the first Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society. Both Healer and An Enemy of the State were elected by the Libertarian Futurist Society to the Promethean Hall of Fame.
Rpt. Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, 2001; and Akron, OH: Infrapress, 2005. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977. Part was published as “Pard” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 90.4 (December 1972): 137-67. Rpt. in his The Tery (New York: Baen Books, 1990), 191-246.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Hostage for Hinterland - Arsen [Julius] Darnay (b. 1936) (Ballantine Books, 1976)
Post-catastrophe urban versus rural conflict. The urban areas were floating structures that needed helium, that only the rural areas could provide, to stay aloft. The rural people are religious and ecologically oriented. They believe, based on their reading of the Bible, that there is a prophecy that they must destroy the urban areas.
Different version serialized as "Helium." Galaxy Science Fiction 36.4 - 6 (April - July 1975): 18-74, 52-107, 87-145.
Keywords: Hungarian author; Male author; US author

"I See You" - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1976)
Total surveillance presented positively.
Rpt. in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 91-101.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"It's a Sunny Day" - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1976)
Dystopia and eutopia contrasting two planets, an overpopulated urban society where efficiency is the norm and an agricultural society where enjoying life is the norm.
Rpt. in Axiom 3.6 (November/December 1977): 42-45, 49-51, 57-58; and in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 193-202 with an editor's note on 192.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Last Man" - Jon Inouye (A Night Tide, 1976)
Future eutopia of homosexual men with one brutish earlier man left. Clearly a utopia, but the homosexual men are presented as generally negative stereotypes.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Thing You'd Want To Know - Eric Koch (b. 1919) (Tundra Books, 1976)
A witch becomes President of the U.S. Struggle between reason and unreason. Presented by an advocate of reason (an ex-Nazi) who sells out at the end.
Keywords: Canadian author; German author; Male author

Lifeline - [Jerome] [Gardner] (b. 1932) (Robert Hale, 1976)
Dystopia of a Soviet occupied U.K. in 1998.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Little Book of All Colors" - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) (Papers in Honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham: A Festschrift for His Seventy-fifth Birthday, 1976)
Eutopia describing the country of Seeklaria, a small country located in the European Alps. Constitutional monarchy. Influenced by Christianity and China. Racially mixed and culturally well integrated. A modern society with the charms of the past. Based on interviews with the King. Much comment on current affairs, particularly Vietnam.
Keywords: Male author

The Lost Traveller; A Motorcycle Grail Quest Epic and Science Fiction Western - Steve Wilson (b. 1943) (Macmillan, 1976)
Post-catastrophe dystopia centered on biker gangs.
U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man With Two Memories - J[ohn] B[urdon] S[anderson] Haldane (1892-1964) (Merlin Press, 1976)
Detailed eutopia with a stress on psychoanalysis and drugs to control both the mind and body. Two-thirds of the children are clones who are chosen by the society for desirable characteristics with the other third being normal births.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

Millennium: A Novel About People and Politics in the Year 1999 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Random House, 1976)
Dystopia. In caverns in the moon Russian and American colonies cooperate to try to save the Earth from mass destruction.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1976. U.K. ed. rpt. without the subtitle London: Methuen, 1988. Rpt. with the non-utopian Kinsman (1979) in The Kinsman Saga (New York: Tor, 1987), 271-566.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Miracle: A Romance - Vincent [Gerard] O'Sullivan (b. 1937) (John McIndoe, 1976)
A political satire that includes a potentially authoritarian government that starts a war at the request of the U.S. The Head of Security believes that everyone is a security risk. A girl who becomes a virgin again after each of many rapes becomes the center of national worship. Ends with a spontaneously arising eutopia that may presage a better future in which all share with each other. Much farce.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Missa Privata" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Worlds, 1976)
Dystopia of a Communist dominated Britain. Poor, dull, drab, and with a dominant military. White party members are fairly free.
Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 173-98.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Navigator - Morris [Langlo] West (1916-99) (Collins, 1976)
The novel describes the search for a possibly mythical paradise island and the attempt to create a community on the island discovered.
U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1976.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx - Colin Amery (Regency Press, 1976)
Treatment of the Atlantis legend by a believer. The hope of a eutopia is held out after the coming Armageddon (See Revelation 16), which will be followed by the re-emergence of occult masters and the return of people from space. Presented as non-fiction.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Peter the Second - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) (Constable, 1976)
Last volume of a series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. In this volume a citizen of the Soviet Union is elected pope and the Soviet Union controls much of the world, but conflict continues. See also 1970, 1973, and 1975 Marshall for other volumes in the series.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Planetary Saga Almega: The Multi-coloured Sphere Within the Timeless Vortex - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) (Author/L.C.M., 1976)
Spiritualist eutopia.  Poem received "inspirationally" that traces the past, present, and future of earth. This volume introduces the Brotherhood of the Beings of the Great Galactic-Order, also known as the White Brotherhood, and suggests future turmoil on earth but also the salvation of those who have treated others well. See also [1976?], [1978?], and 1983 Howard.
The copy at ATL has only the New Zealand publication information.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Predators" - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) (The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror, 1976)
Dystopia of violence as background to a time travel story.
Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 55-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Return of Alizantil: A Continuation of a Planetary Saga - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) ([Alpine Printers], 1976)
Spiritualist eutopia. 39 double-columned page poem sequel to [1976] Howard. Separation of higher and lower orders on different planets. See also [1978?] and 1983 Howard.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Rolltown - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1976)
Large mobile homes, collectively creating towns, trying to deal with a damaged environment and attempting to escape an authoritarian meritocracy.
Originally published in a shorter version as "The Towns Must Roll." If Worlds of Science Fiction 19.6 - 7 (139 - 40) (July - September 1969): 7-46, 114-48. The copyright page in the book says that the earlier version was in Galaxy; that is wrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Section G: United Planets - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1976)
Part of Reynolds's loosely connected United Planets series. In this novel, secret agents of the United Planets battle against oppressive governments modeled after Earth dictatorships. Other Section G novels include “Beehive.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 76.4 - 76.6 (December 1965 - January 1966): 8-53, 90-142. Rpt. as Dawnman Planet. New York: Ace Books, 1966. An Ace Double bound with Claude Nunes, Inherit the Earth. New York: Ace Books, 1966); Code Duello. New York: Ace Books, 1968. Ace Double bound with John M. Faucette, [Jr.]. The Age of Ruin. New York: Ace Books, 1968); and Brain World. New York: Leisure Books, 1978.
Parts published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as "Fiesta Brava." 80.1 (September 1967): 74-132; and "Psi Assassin." 80.4 (December 1967): 142-159.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Separation - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) (McClelland and Stewart, 1976)
Sequel to 1975 Rohmer in which Québec narrowly votes not to secede. His Separation Two. Markham, ON: Paperjacks, 1981 is a revision with more elaborate subplots.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Shadow of Alpha - C[harles] L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) (Berkley Books, 1976)
The background to a catastrophe (plague) thriller is a standard authoritarian dystopia set in 2189. Sequels that follow the same family are 1977 and 1979 Grant. A related story is his "Seven Is a Burning." Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 96.1 (January 1976): 124-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadrach in the Furnace - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with a leader compulsively concerned with immortality. Most of the novel is concerned with the leader's doctor, Mordecai Shadrach, and the decisions he has to make.
Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 96.8 - 10 (August - October 1976): 97-162; 88-162; 88-127; 10-74, 76-91, 129-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Steppe - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Millington, 1976)
Dystopia of a future oriented around a complex game run by the Game Machine, which has the power to bring people from the past to fill essential roles in the game.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1985.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Survivors - Terry Nation (1930-1997) (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976)
The novel is based on a BBC TV program created by the author that ran in three series from 1975 to 1977 for a total of thirty-eight episodes. It concerned the responses of a small group of survivors of a pandemic. In 2008 BBC produced a new program by Adrian Hodges (b. 1957) based loosely on the 1976 novel. This program ran in two series, the first in 2008 and the second in 2010, when it was cancelled due to low viewership.
Rpt. London: Orion Books, 2008. U.S. ed. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Termination. A One-Act Play - Samuel Birnkrant (Pioneer Drama Service, 1976)
Satirical on the bureaucratic Termination Bureau in an overpopulated world.
Keywords: Male author

Then Beggars Could Ride - R[adell] F[araday] Nelson (1931-2022) (Laser Books, 1976)
The protagonist searches throughout history for his own utopia finding only disillusionment until the end where he finds a low tech community. The author's "Introduction" (5-7) calls the book a utopia and says that it is possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Travels in Oudamovia - John Austin Baker (The Faith Press, 1976)
Detailed Christian eutopia describing a lost group of early Christians who survived into the 20th century living a truly Christian way of life.
Keywords: Male author

"Triage" - William [Herbert] Walling (b. 1926) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1976)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in International Relations Through Science Fiction. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: New Viewpoints, 1978), 142-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tricentennial" - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1976)
Dystopia set in 2075 in which guilds have come to dominate the political system; only about two percent of the population vote.
Rpt. in his Infinite Dreams (New York: Avon, 1978), 200-19; in Galaxy’s Edge, no. 36 (January 2019): 61-71; and in Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers. Ed. Edward Willett (Regina, SK, Canada: Shadowpaw Press, 2020), 317-53.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tricentennial" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (The Exploded Heart, 1976)
Extremely violent, poverty stricken, overpopulated urban dystopia.
Originally published in the Portland Scribe.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Triton - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Bantam Books, 1976)
Detailed eutopia and dystopia. All things are easily possible, including sex changes, and everyone is free to do almost anything. Much conflict and political intrigue but on balance more eutopian than dystopian.
Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1977; in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Venus Development - David Bergamini (1928-83) (Popular Library, 1976)
Corporate controlled authoritarian dystopia intent on establishing a colony on Mars and the successful revolt of the first colonists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Vision 1-6" - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) (Undercurrents. Radical Technology, 1976)
Anarchist utopia described in six illustrations with brief notes and some with captions. The visions are of a collectivised garden, a basement workshop, an autonomous village, an autonomous terrace, a community workshop, and a community media centre. Strikingly, the only people shown working are women, and Colin Ward comments on this saying, “Note that the last male chauvinist is sulking in the corner. The women have taken over the shop” (133/Why Work 153).
U.S. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1976), 48-49, 94-85, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29. Rpt. in a different order as foldout plates in Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. Ed. Vernon Richards (London: Freedom Press, 1983), 149-54, with commentary by Colin Ward  rather than the original description.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Way Out - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) (Dramatic Publishing Co, 1976)
Humorous play. To escape the overpopulated dystopia of Earth a family rents a planet they think is uninhabited, as has an alien family, with another different alien showing up later.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians” - Vine Deloria Jr. (b. 1933) (The Christian Century, 1976)
Alternative history in which, for reasons given in the essay, the Eastern Indian tribes sold land and invested in industry, which meant that there were no wars against the Indians. There were wars by the Eastern Indians against the Western Indians as the former built railroads across the lands of the latter.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Young Tom" - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) (New Writings in SF, 1976)
Overpopulation dystopia in which one can get a "life credit" permitting the birth of a child on the death of a relative.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Your Cruel Face” - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 (Computer Decisions, 1976)
Dystopia in which six misdemeanors merit instant execution.
Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 115-19. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii)]; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 187-89.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Ability Quotient - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1975)
Pills are given people to increase intelligence and their ability to absorb knowledge. They are then encouraged to marry others who have taken the pills with their abilities passed on to their children. This will lead to a better society. Reynolds uses the idea of an "ability quotient" in other works.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Adventures of Chet Blake--Plastic Man - Richard Weekley (Crescent Publications, 1975)
Social and political satire set in the future in which a rock group's songs influence the behavior of politicians.
Keywords: Male author

All the Curious Traveler Would Want to Know About the Only Remaining Utopia for the Average Man--New Zealand - Seymour [O.] Kopf ([Ptd. by South China Morning Post], 1975)
New Zealand as eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

Birdbrain - [Jerome] [Gardner] (b. 1932) (Robert Hale, 1975)
Dystopia. Soviet of a occupied U.K. in 1991.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Book of Rewi: A Utopian Tale - David P[atrick] O'Neill (b. 1946) (Seabury Press, 1975)
A group of young people of different races, classes, and languages are marooned on a South Pacific island. They develop a social order with a system of conflict resolution, ceremonies, and rites of passage. The Library of Congress catalogs as a book for young adults.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Breath’s a Ware That Will Not Keep” - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia in which a computer is programmed to produce people for the city of Chicago from a breeder tank.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Brother Gib - [Albert] [King] (1924-94) (Robert Hale, 1975)
Revolt in a robot dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Building Entopia - C[onstantinos] A[postolou] Doxiadis (1913-75) (W. W. Norton, 1975)
Detailed description of his vision of a global eutopian city with plans for its realization. Entopia means a city that is both desirable and realistic. Details of the furniture (72-82), room (86-95), and house (100-10) of the future, all depending on advanced technology, and all designed to be very flexible. In addition, he explains the “housegroup” of about fifty families (116-25), the neighborhood (136-47), and other larger groups, such as the polis, the metropolis, the megalopolis, the Eperopolis, and the Ecumenopolis, or the global city. In each case, he begins with the current situation and ends with steps toward the better future. All groupings are designed for flexibility and freedom of choice within rules set by the group. The author provides something of a summary in “The real Entopia 2121 A.D.” (301-07). The author develops his arguments in a series of related books, all of which add substance to his eutopia, with Building Entopia described as the third volume in the series. The first volume is Anthropopolis: City for Human Development. Athens: Athens Publishing Center, 1974 by Doxiadis (1-206), with a symposium with Doxiadis, Rene Dubos, Erik H. Erikson, Dennis Gabor, Reginald S. Lourie, Margaret Mead, C. H. Waddington, Thomas A. Doxiadis, and Spyros A. Doxiadis (207-357). The second volume is Ecumenopolis: The Inevitable City of the Future. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974 by Doxiadis and J. G. Papaioannou. The fourth volume is Doxiadis, Action for Human Settlements. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. See also his Between Dystopia and Utopia. Hartford, CT: The Trinity College Press, 1966.
Keywords: Greek author; Male author

"Civis Lapvtvs Svm" - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia describing a community that is isolated on a flying island and the tensions that develop between the dominant groups.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Civis Obit" - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia of old people being kept technically alive but warehoused.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Counter Ecology" - Norman Kagan (b. 1943) (Tomorrow Today, 1975)
Authoritarian, violent dystopia of a destroyed ecology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crucifixion of Brotherman (The Man Behind the Laughing Shadow). A Play (from the Notes of Brotherman) - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1975)
The dystopia of being a Black man, particularly a Black scientist, in the U.S. The play focuses on the mistreatment of an up-and-coming Black graduate student. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, I Am Ishmael, and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Curse of the Ring - Melvin [Ezell] Gorham (1910-94) (Sovereign Press, 1975)
Richard Wagner's (1813-83) opera set in the 21st century. See also 1970 and 1979 Gorham. For other works from the same general perspective, see 1984 von Konen and the note there, 1984 Valoric Fire, and 1987 Pedersen.
Rev. and exp. as Melvin Gorham's Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold [Cover adds side by side with Wagner's Libretto]. Rochester, WA: Sovereign Press, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Death in Coventry" - Joseph [Lee] Green (b. 1931) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia of human alien relations on a developing planet, with the humans entirely at fault.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dhalgren - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Bantam Books, 1975)
Complex dystopia set in a city called Bellona in what appears to be a post-catastrophe America where reality is constantly shifting. Much violence, including sexual violence. Includes a commune in a park.
Rev. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Drumble" - [Charles Dodd] [Naylor] (1941-2005) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Flawed utopia in which an English village is encapsulated and kept forever unchanged as a tourist attraction. Everyone inside, who live forever, is provided with all material needs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dybbuk Dolls" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (New Dimensions Number 5, 1975)
Dystopia of poverty and anti-Semitism. Most groups live in high-rise ghettos. The dybbuk dolls are alien artifacts that reinforce a person's worst characteristics.
Rpt. in Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time. Ed. Michael Bishop (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 78-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ecotopia. The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) (Banyan Tree Books, 1975)
Ecological eutopia. See also 1981 Callenbach, Ecotopia Emerging; his “Chocco.” Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias. Ed. Kim Stanley Robinson (New York: Tor, 1994), 189-213; his Living Poor With Style. Illus. Judith Clancy Johns. New York: Bantam Books, 1972; A later version which is said to “evolved” from this book and The Ecotopian Encyclopedia (1980) is Living Cheaply With Style. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1993; and Callenbach and Michael Phillips, A Citizen Legislature. Berkeley/Bodega, CA: Banyan Tree Books/Clear Glass, 1985
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1977. 181 pp.; 30th anniversary edition, Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books in Association with Heyday Books, 2004, with a “Foreword” by Malcolm Margolin (); and the 40th anniversary edition as Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books in Association with Heyday Books, 2014, with a “Foreword” by Malcolm Margolin (iii-ix) and Callenbach’s “Epistle to the Ecotopians” (173-81) that was found on his computer after his death in 2012. Part first published as “First Days in Ecotopia.” American Review 19 (January 1974): 79-102. Part later published as “Ecotopia.” Oregon Times (October - November 1975): 32-36, 22-23; and as “Journey to Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston.” Harper’s Weekly 65 (May 17, 1976): 11-18.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Electronic Lullaby Meat Market - John [Barry] Spencer (1944-2002) (Quartet Books, 1975)
Humor. Authoritarian dystopia with brainwashing through musak.
Keywords: English author; Male author

End Product - Barry [Leslie] Norman (1933-2017) (Quartet Books, 1975)
A grim satire on race relations in which a black, African hominid becomes an edible herd animal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Exodus/UK - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) (McClelland and Stewart, 1975)
Arab countries pull all money from the U.K. causing the collapse of the British economy. Canada accepts unlimited immigration from Britain, which causes Québec to threaten to withdraw from the Confederation. Alberta and British Columbia threaten to withdraw if the immigration does not go ahead. U.S. also accepts unlimited immigration from the U.K. under provisions which make the U.K. dependent on the U.S., even excluding U.K. workers from participating in the development of North Sea oil. See also 1976 and 1981 Rohmer.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Faces Forward" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945); George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
A series of brief and quite varied dystopian vignettes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Freeway: A Play in Two Acts - Peter Nichols (b. 1927) (Faber and Faber, 1975)
Dystopia which the author says should not be compared to the classic dystopias, involving a massive traffic jam where people have to live for an extended period in their cars and motor homes. Set in a violent future where roads other than the freeways are not safe.
Rev. in his Plays: One (London: Methuen Drama, 1991), 407-510, with an introduction by the author (409-11); and London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Future's Advocate - E[dwin] G[eorge] Carr (Herald Publishing House, 1975)
The eutopia of life after the Second Coming of Christ but before all have been saved with those not saved still resisting.
Keywords: Male author

"The Gift" - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
A future where all lifestyles are acceptable. The focus is on homosexuality. Parts can be read as dystopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Girl Who Owned a City - O. T. Nelson (Lerner Publications, 1975)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which all adults die, and the children struggle to survive. The novel focuses on a girl who takes over a high school building to provide security for her group.
Adapted by Dan Jolley. Illus. Joëlle Jones. Colored by Jenn Manley Lee. Letters by Grace Lu. Minneapolis, MN: Graphics Universe™, 2012. There are quite a few other editions and reprints.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Going - Sumner Locke Elliott (1917-1991) (Harper & Row, 1975)
Future dystopia of love and patriotism Set in the U.S. People are euthanized at an age not specified in the novel The protagonist is an elderly woman on the day she will be euthanized remembering her life and her family, particularly her husband who committed suicide, her rebellious daughter who had been lobotomized, and her powerful, hated son-in-law who had created the dystopia, and kept her other daughter sedated.
Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan Company of Australia, 1975.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

"Going Down" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia of sexual gratification in which an Institute ensures that all fantasies and fetishes are fulfilled with no concern for the other people involved.
Rpt. in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 99-119.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Grimus - [Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) (Victor Gollancz, 1975)
Something of a metaphysical adventure novel with science fiction elements. The main society described is labeled "utopian" (186) because it functions on a basis of rough equality and with no money.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

"Growing Up in Edge City" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Epoch, 1975)
Dystopia describing a totally enclosed city where every person is constantly monitored. One boy discovers a way outside and people living there. Punished, he ultimately arranges for the destruction of those outside to advance his career.
Rpt. in his Pohlstars (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 126-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Growing Up in Tier 3000 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) (Ace Books, 1975)
Grotesque dystopia in which children kill parents as part of the rites of passage because constraint on energy resources necessitates a limit on population. People have implants that greatly expand physical powers, and instruments are available to measure all bodily functions. Rule by clones of past leaders.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Heavens Below: Fifteen Utopias" - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Series of short utopias gone wrong. Some are jokes rather than serious comment.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Hero as Werwolf - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Dystopia in which the rebel against the dystopian order is a werewolf.
Keywords: Male author; US author

High-Rise - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
Dystopia of violence within an apartment block.
Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2006 with an added, separately paged section at the end entitled "P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . ." (1-18), which includes 1977 Ballard (2-10).
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Horse of a Different Technicolor” - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1975)
Something of a surveillance dystopia in which some of the means of surveillance are embedded in a person’s body and used to implant thoughts. The story is told from the point-of-view of someone who, as a result, is no longer sure who they are.
Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 44-53. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii].
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

I Am Ishmael, Son of the Blackamoor. A Play - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1975)
The play is about a charismatic African American who, because he is so popular, becomes Vice President of the U. S., marries a white woman, and then, on the death of the President, becomes President. Although his progressive policies are both popular and successful, because he married the white woman, a white man who wanted her vows to kill him and so do black women, who feel betrayed by him. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, The Crucifixion of Brotherman, and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye of the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan - Robert [Joseph] Shea (1933-94); Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) (Dell, 1975)
Dystopia that revels in conspiracy theories and secret societies. The novels have significant libertarian themes, and in 1986 the book won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society. Adapted as a series of five plays, The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock, and Leviathan, with each play consisting of five twenty-three-minute acts and first performed in Liverpool in 1976. It was also adapted as a comic book with three issues formally published and a fourth issue distributed at comic book conventions. Wilson was more identified with the novels than Shea, and he published three autobiographical novels that continued to considered themes of the trilogy, Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati. Grand Junction, CO: Hilaritas Press, 1977; Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1991; and Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1995. He also published The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, comprised of The Earth Will Shake. A Novel. Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, 1982; The Widow’s Son. New York: Bluejay Books, 1985; and Nature’s God. New York: Roc, 1991; and Masks of the Illuminati. New York Dell, 1981. See also 2017 [Drummond and Cauty].
Originally published as Illuminatus, Part I The Eye of the Pyramid. New York: Dell, 1975. 304 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (1-305); Illuminatus Part II The Golden Apple New York: Dell, 1975. 272 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (305-562); and Illuminatus Part III Leviathan. New York: Dell, 1975. 253 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (563-805).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (DAW Books, 1975)
Dystopia. Society where personal slavery has replaced imprisonment for certain crimes.
U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

The Karma Machine - [Michael] [Zeik] (Popular Library, 1975)
Dystopia in which ancient Eastern wisdom is wedded with a modern computer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King Creature Come - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) (Oxford University Press, 1975)
Borderline young adult novel in which society is divided into Persons, who rule and are indulged, and Creatures, who revolt with the assistance of two young people from the colony of Persons.
U.S. ed. as The Creatures. New York: J.B. Lippincott. 1980.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Letter from London, 1985" - Robert Moss (b. 1946) (The Collapse of Democracy, 1975)
Socialist dystopia. Buckingham Palace is now the Ministry of Equality. Northern Ireland and Scotland have declared independence. The U.S. has been expelled from what is now the Socialist United Nations. Rationing. While the dystopia is presented as economically unsuccessful, it uses its majority in Parliament to push through all the changes it wants to make.
U.S. ed. (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976), 21-35. Updated ed. (London: Abacus, 1977), 23-34.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Life and Times of Multivac" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (The New York Times Magazine, 1975)
Flawed utopia in which everyone lives well, but all important decisions are made by a large computer, which, for example, decides who can have children and when. Also, people are only allowed to do unimportant work and that only with permission.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Log of a Superfluous Son. A Novel - Michael Henderson (b. 1942) (John McIndoe, 1975)
The novel focuses on the experiences and thoughts of a successful lawyer who chooses to quit his well-paying job and work on a cattle boat between Auckland, New Zealand and Guam, but in the background is the contemporary dystopia of the Vietnam War and a growing authoritarianism and militarism in New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada: A Prophetic Novel - R. J. Chick Childerhose (b. 1928) (Hoot Publications, 1975)
Canada has become a capitalist dystopia that, for the good of the capitalists that are ruining the country, wants to merge with the U.S. The protagonist tries and fails to alert Canadians to the situation and proposes various reforms.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Marx the First - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) (Constable, 1975)
Volume in a linked series on a future of a Soviet controlled Vatican. In this volume Pope Marx I, having not been killed, returns and institutes his reforms, including married clergy and free sexuality for novices. Conflict erupts inside and outside the Church, with Spain and Britain going to war and with Britain losing. See 1970, 1973, and 1976 Marshall for other volumes in the series.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Ministry of Children" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Worlds, 1975)
Dystopia. The negative effects of the establishment of large, general schools in Britain. Violence, illiteracy. The setting is an overpopulated future but that is not a focus.
Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 86-126. SFF,
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Modest Utopia" - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). (The Futurist, 1975)
Essay presenting an environmentally sound world society. A steady-state society based on world-wide negative population growth would be able to provide food, shelter, education, and health care for all. World energy authority. World police/military in charge of all weapons of war. World administrative body. Not the same as 1928 Chase. See also 1968 Chase.
Rpt. as "Toward a Steady-State Society." Current 179 (January 1976): 3-8.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Morrow's Ants - Edward [Solomon] Hyams (1910-75) (Allen Lane, 1975)
Dystopia. An industrialist applies his knowledge of ant colonies to human workers and develops a new community on the same principles. Set in Wales.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Multiface. Science Fiction - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975)
Picture of a controlled society of the future that is presented as a eutopia, albeit with problems. See also 1971 and 1972 Adlard.
Keywords: English author; Male author

No Man's Land - Simon Watson (Victor Gollancz, 1975)
Young adult dystopia describing a future in which the past is being destroyed in the name of progress.
U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1976.
Keywords: Male author

"Or Little Ducks Each Day" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Odd dystopia in which some people are able to foretell individual futures except that there are areas of the city where the future can be changed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Parable: The Isle of Erg" - Peter Chapman (Fuel's Paradise; Energy Options for Britain, 1975)
Short sketch of an energy efficient eutopia with a guaranteed annual income.
Keywords: Male author

The Pawn - Arthur Mather (b. 1925) (Wren, 1975)
Authoritarian, overpopulation dystopia which hopes to solve its problems by creating artificial satellites that can absorb 500,000 people each. Military government on Earth controlled by a small elite and the secret service. The novel is about the first experimental satellite, which is destroyed at the end.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Peddler's Apprentice" - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024); Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1975)
Dystopia--a small section of the story describes a world government that through drugs and manipulation has kept the world unchanging.
Rpt. in Vernor Vinge, True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 146-97; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 55-89. This ed. has notes by Vernor Vinge.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Pessimist Utopia - Theo Crosby (1925-94) (Pentagram Papers 2, 1975)
A plea for small is beautiful, individuality.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

The Peter Plan; A Proposal for Survival - Laurence J[ohnston] Peter (1919-90) (William Morrow, 1975)
A future eutopia based on political participation. An emphasis on ecology.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Premar Experiments - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (Crown, 1975)
A sequel to 1966 Rimmer. Premar = premarital. In this novel, Harrad College expands its experiment as described in 1966 Rimmer to include an ethnically, financially, and racially diverse population living communally. In the earlier novel all the people were white, extremely intelligent, and of similar ethnicity. Here the sexual relations cross all those borders. A part of the plan is to rejuvenate the generally poor areas within which the communes are established. See 1966, 1968, 1978, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.
Rpt. New York: Signet, 1976
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Prologue to Utopia: The Six Days of its Creation (out of the conditions of the now-existing world)" - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93); Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (Northern New England Review, 1975)
Short description of the beginnings of a eutopia based on "a psychological revolution" which allows human beings to see themselves as one world-wide society. See also 1962 and 1991 Golffing and Gibbs.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Return to the Gate - William Corlett (1938-2005) (Hamish Hamilton, 1975)
A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.
1975 Corlett, William [Harold] (1938-2005). Return to the Gate. London: Hamish Hamilton. U.S. ed. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1977. NZ A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Satellite City - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1975)
Dystopia of a satellite free from government control that serves as a pleasure ground for the rich and powerful where anything goes. It is actually mostly run by the Mafia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Scenario for a New Medicine” - Rick J. Carlson (b. 1940) (The End of Medicine, 1975)
This section brings together the argument of the book describing medicine in the year 2000 saying that the medical care system “will be smaller than at present and will consume far fewer resources” (238). There will be neighborhood hospitals and learning centers with emergency services, regional health centers, and residential complexes for the elderly that “will stress self-care and responsibility but will provide all necessary medical care on site” (239). Hospital based medical teams will replace independent office practices. Overseeing the system will be a Department of Health Affairs with the mission of ensuring that the environment is “as conducive to health as possible” (239).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Scenario: Religion 2101: The Monkey Rite or Whatever Happened to the Pewsitters and Sunday-Dress-Up People” - Hiley H. Ward (d. 2009) (Religion 2101 A.D., 1975)
Dystopia of a future authoritarian system using religion as one of its control mechanisms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Scraping at the Bones" - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) (Blood and Burning, 1975)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Second Coming - Antony Lopez (New English Library, 1975)
Religious dystopia that converts people with force. Restrictions on sex.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Seeds of Change - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) (Laser Books, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia set in Denver 200 years in the future. The society is technologically far advanced, and computers are used to identify possible deviations from the genetic norm. Escapees have established an underground complex outside the city, and they ultimately defeat and destroy the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Settling the World" - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
An odd utopia in which god has been found behind the moon and brought back to Earth, where what appears to be a eutopia of peace, plenty, and security develops. But god is an immense beetle, which no one notices, and beetles are replacing humans in positions of authority.
Rpt. in Best SF: 75. The Ninth Annual. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), 126-53; and in his The Ice Monkey and other stories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 59-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

She Would Have Been a Taxi Dancer, but He Couldn’t Hail a Cab. A Novel - David Manning (Loom Press, 1975)
A dystopian novel that follows a couple called the Typewriter and the Road Map in their constantly frustrated attempts to leave New York City.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shockwave Rider - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Harper & Row, 1975)
A complex dystopia that has an embedded eutopia opposed to the dystopia. The focus of the dystopia is on a program to identify geniuses, particularly among orphans and other children who can be taken without being noticed. They are then educated and trained (brainwashed and conditioned) to develop their particular bent so as to be most useful to the system. One man uses his talent with computer systems to escape, although much of the novel follows him as his memories are searched after he is captured. The eutopia, called Precipice, is a small town with advanced, ecologically sensitive architecture, a radically decentralized political system, and an egalitarian population. The man, who again escapes, uses his talents to save Precipice from attack by the government.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Showboat World - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Pyramid, 1975)
Set in same world as 1952 Vance but presenting a different aspect of the planet focusing on the eccentrics inhabiting Big Planet and the showboats that provide entertainment.
U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1977. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1990. Rpt. as The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River Lune XXIII South, Big Planet. San Francisco, CA:/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983; and as vol. 19 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2005.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sierra Maestra" - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1975)
The revolutionaries of the New Left abandon revolution and infiltrate the economic and political system until they can take over and institute their policies. The story ends just as they succeed. The policies mentioned include 100 per cent tax on profits, forgiveness of all government debt, and prohibition of private ownership of all cars.
Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 293-305 with an "Introduction to Sierra Maestra" (291-92).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Starcrossed - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Chilton, 1975)
Background of a future polluted dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Jove/HBJ, 1979.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Stork Factor - [Hugh] [Zachary] (1928-2016) (Berkley Books, 1975)
Religious dystopia with advancement only within the religious hierarchy and medical care reserved for the powerful.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tomorrow File - Lawrence [A.] Sanders (1920-98) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia in the form of a mystery novel set in a complex future U.S. Drugs, biological advances. Power has moved to the bureaucracy, which is primarily concerned with itself rather than the country. The Department of Bliss replaces the Department of Health and Human Services and other, similar changes have taken place in U.S. government. The U.S. has added states from throughout the world. Language has changed: Love means money, Objects means people, Obso. means old referring to both people and artifacts, Profit means benefit or enjoying, Service means work, and Using means sex.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Corgi, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow Might Be Different - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1975)
Dystopias of a future in which the world is dominated by a Soviet Union that is successful, hedonistic, and consumer-oriented.
Shorter version as "Russkies Go Home!" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.5 (November 1960): 94-130.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) (A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1975)
Dystopia. The military takes over New Zealand after a revolt by young Māori against both pākehā and their elders who have accommodated to a system based on prejudice and discrimination. The politicians dither and conspire against each other, and the U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) offers “its usual support” to the military dictator, who will shortly be replaced in a coup by younger officers. See also his 1975 “The Whites of Their Eyes” and his Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1976).
Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1981.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The Towers of Utopia - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Bantam Books, 1975)
Eutopia based on the Negative Income Tax but with reflections on possible problems. Life in a huge, almost self-contained apartment complex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Uncoupling" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Overpopulation dystopia with regulated access to sexual fulfillment of all one's desires.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Walls Within Walls - Arthur [Reginald] Tofte (1908-80) (Laser Books, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia concerned with controlling mutants. The mutant society is also described.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Warriors of Dawn - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) (DAW Books, 1975)
The novel is mostly adventure and romance, but it includes some description of an apparently eutopian society of advanced aliens that had been created by humans on an overpopulated Earth trying to speed up human evolution. The aliens, called Ler, have a long adolescence (until about thirty), a short period of fertility (about 30 to 40), and a low birthrate. Families (braids) include an original couple, added mates for each, the children produced, their mates, and their children, at which point the original couple leaves singly or together and are free to do as they like. Each braid has a defined occupational role. Related novels are The Gameplayers of Zan. New York: DAW Books, 1977, which is set before The Warriors of Dawn, and The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 1979, which is a sequel, are mostly adventure. The three volumes are rpt. in his The Book of Ler: The Gameplayers of Zan The Warriors of Dawn The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 2006, with The Gameplayers on 1-432, The Warriors on 433-692, and The Day on 693-923.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Weapons" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948); George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia that violently enforces racial and class discrimination.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"What You Get For Your Dollar" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Whites of Their Eyes" - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) (Act, 1975)
Dystopia. Future violent conflict between Māori  and Pākehā. See also his Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1985).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Wooden Centauri: A Science Fiction Novel - Paul [Raymond] Drennan (1949-2003) (Elmfield, 1975)
A far future authoritarian dystopia in which many planets are under one government with a law that prohibits any knowledge of the past. Two people from the past arrive and change begins to take place.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Xenofreak/Xenophobe" - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia brought on by contact with aliens far in advance of humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Year of the Spiatnik - Robert Betchov (1919-96) (CPRI Press, 1975)
Overwhelmingly about war and the preparations for war, but it ends with world peace and the establishment of a World Authority. The Pact for the World Authority is provided in an appendix.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"You Get Lots of Yesterdays, Lots of Tomorrows, and Only One Today" - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) (New Writings in SF, 1975)
Dystopia where all everyone sleeps except for one supposedly perfect day.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Zen Archer" - Jonathan Greenblatt (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
A Zen Buddhist monastery presented as an ideal way of life is undermined by contact with the outside world and its temptations.
Keywords: Male author

"Zone" - Peter Linnett (New Writings in SF, 1975)
Dystopia of a dreary future world divided up into "sectors" including a failed Hippie enclave.
Keywords: Male author

"2005 . . . A Mind Bending Experience" - [Claudio] Frank Baron Kreffl (Man (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1974)
Eutopia. A future earth where all problems, except the occasional murder, have been solved. Emphasis is on sexual relations.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Albion! Albion! - [Reginald Charles] [Hill] (1936-2012) (Faber & Faber, 1974)
Dystopia of violence. England without a Parliament and with football/soccer hooligans in control. The country has been broken up into four districts representing four football/soccer clubs.
Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 1986. Rpt. under the author's name as Singleton's Law. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

All Times Possible - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) (DAW Books, 1974)
Alternative futures centering on authoritarian dystopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Robert Nozick (1938-2002) (Basic Books, 1974)
A treatise in political theory, but Part III "Utopia" (297-334 with footnotes on 351-53) describes in detail an anarcho-capitalist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Android Armageddon - [Sandor] Robert Tralins (1926-2010) (Pinnacle Books, 1974)
Authoritarian dystopia in which a machine, called Justivac, creates a "perfect" society where humans no longer need to make decisions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Battle of Disneyland - Thom[as Francis] Keyes (1943?-95?) (W. H. Allen, 1974)
Future destruction of the U.S. with California an island floating toward Hawaii.
Keywords: Male author; UK author; US author

Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1974)
Details the rise to power of a Black general that resulted from the dystopia created by government in eliminating individual freedom and favoring the wealthy. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Bitter Pill - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) (Wren, 1974)
Dystopia of generational conflict in which individuals are classified as a "Senior Citizen" at 45 and given the "choice" of voluntary euthanasia or working in an Australian forced labour camp or a Martian penal colony. Mars is being developed to take Earth's excess population. A revolt on Mars frees the people to build a new life there with no compulsory retirement, but the ending suggests that Mars faces an uncertain future of conflicts over power.
Developed from his "The Bitter Pill." Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.9 (June 1970): 52-63.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Bladerunner - Alan E[dward] Nourse (1928-92) (David McKay, 1974)
Medical dystopia. Bladerunners are those who secure black market medical supplies for the underground medical system. See also 1979 Burroughs, Blade Runner.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Blood Sport: A Journey Up the Hassayampa - Robert F[rancis] Jones (1934-2002) (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
Dystopia of a overpopulated, polluted future compared to a dystopia/eutopia of violent but integrated outlaw community.
Rpt. New York: Lyons & Burford, [1997]. U.K. ed. as Ratnose: A Journey Up the Hassayampa. London: London Magazine Editions, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brown Pelican - George Sklar (1908-88) (Dramatists Play Service, 1974)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Catman" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology, 1974)
A dystopia of corrupt capitalism is the background to the story.
The author's original version was published in the U.K. ed. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975), 134-70. "Afterword" (170-75). Rpt. in Ellison, Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow. Eleven Uncollected Stories (New York: Walker & Co., 1974), 141-77; and in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 126-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Centauri Device - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) (Doubleday, 1974)
Dystopia. The world is divided between the Israeli World Government and the Union of Arab Socialist Republics, with the Earth destroyed at the end. A contrasting anarchist planet is presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: English author; Male author

CenterForce - T[homas] A[llen] Waters (1938-98) (Dell Books, 1974)
Authoritarian dystopia in which a group called CenterForce rules the U.S. through violent suppression of all opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Chocolate War. A Novel - Robert [Edmund] Cormier (1925-2000) (Pantheon Books, 1974)
Young adult dystopia set in a Catholic boys’ school with the temporary head trying to be appointed permanently by encouraging the usual bullying and competition. Among the books most banned in schools. A film written and directed by Keith Gordon (b. 1961) was released in 1988. A sequel, Beyond the Chocolate War. A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, is set a few months later with the temporary head now Headmaster and the corruption and conflicts continuing.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Churchill Play, As it will be performed in the winter of 1984 by the internees of Churchill Camp somewhere in England - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) (Eyre & Methuen, 1974)
England as an authoritarian dystopia in 1984 with a concentration camp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

City in the Sky - Curt Siodmak (1902-2000) (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974)
Mostly adventure but depicts both a dystopian prison in a satellite in space and a large space satellite community that is described positively.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Class War Comik Number 1 New Times - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) (Epic Publications, 1974)
Intended to be the first of six issues, but no more were published. In this issue, the people in a rural anarchist intentional community are completely disengaged from politics and only interested in themselves as individuals so that little work gets done, and the work that gets done is not necessarily what is needed.
New ed. as Class War Comix No. 1.  Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Enterprises, 1979.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Commune 2000 A.D - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Bantam Books, 1974)
Flawed utopia with a Universal Guaranteed Income and sexual freedom but with people growing bored and disaffected and establishing many different intentional communities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Victor Gollancz, 1974)
Media dystopia in which a reporter has his eyes replaced with TV cameras which transmits everything he sees. His first assignment is to film Katherine Mortenhoe’s death in a world where disease no longer exists, and the title of the TV series is “The Unsleeping Eye”. A film entitled Death Watch directed by Bernard Tavernier (b. 1941) was produced in 1980.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an "Introduction" by Susan Wood (v-xix); as Death Watch. London: Magnum Books, 1981. U.S. ed. as The Unsleeping Eye. New York: DAW Books, 1974. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1980; and under the original title New York: New York Review Books, 2016 with an “Introduction” by Jeff Vandermeer (vii-xii). .
Keywords: English author; Male author

Depression or Bust - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1974)
Satire on economic cycles. One man decides he can't afford the new freezer he bought and sends it back; the seller of the freezer cancels the new car he had ordered; the car dealer cancels the house he was to have built; and so forth. The economic downswing becomes a full-blown depression until the government gives money to the first man to start buying and the cycle is reversed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The EM Discoveries: An Account of the Three Technological Wonders That Opened the EM Age - Robert Gibbons (Exposition Press, 1974)
A technological eutopia brought about through weather and climate control, what he calls "elemental separators" that allow for the separation and recombination of basic elements, and "projected magnetic image propulsion that allows for space travel. All were developed in 1985, and the book is presented as being written a thousand years later.
Keywords: Male author

Exxoneration - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) (McClelland and Stewart, 1974)
Second of two volumes on conflict between Canada and the United States. In this volume Canada wins a war with the U.S. and develops a strong industrial base. See also 1973 Rohmer
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Fall of Colossus - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974)
Dystopia. Sequel to 1966 Jones. See also 1977 Jones. In this volume the computer Colossus has ended war but uses its power to control all human activity. A successful conspiracy disables Colossus with help from Mars.
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons_
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Fat Man in History" - Peter Carey (b. 1943) (Stand (U.K.), 1974)
Dystopia. After a revolution, fat people are seen negatively as symbols of the previous regime because under it only Americans and stooges of the dictatorship could get enough food to be fat. Told from the point of view of a fat revolutionary.
Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (St. Lucia. QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 114-41; in a collection with the same title (London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 9-33; and in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia. QLD. Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 182-205. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 182-205.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Flow my tears, the policeman said - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1974)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. following a "Second Civil War". A police state is established under the National Guard and a U.S. police force with forced labor camps. Communities of former university students exist underground where they are barely surviving. Over the course of the novel the situation gradually improves.
Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1975; and in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s. Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; A Scanner Darkly. Ed. Jonathan Lethem (New York: The Library of America, 2008), 669-858, 1125-26.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Forever War - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (St. Martin's Press, 1974)
Most of the novel is a war novel set in space, but there are sections that show the effects of the war on Earth. Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. Poverty and unemployment. Homosexuality encouraged as a means of birth control. People are highly educated. Most crime down. Strict limits on private property. Huge cities. Seas are farmed so that everyone is fed. At 70 people are rated for medical coverage; zero rating means no coverage. Sequels include “A Separate War.” Far Horizons. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Avon Eos, 1999), 55-87 with an author’s note on 53-54; and Forever Free. New York: Ace Books, 1999; U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1997; rpt. from the U.K. ed. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 232-427. A graphic novel edition was published London: Titan Comics, 2018. His Forever Peace. New York: Ace Books, 1997; U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1999; rpt. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 428-697 is considered a companion piece.
U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. U.S. ed. rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976; London: Gollancz, 2001; and London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Peter F. Hamilton (ix-xi). An “Author’s Note” (unpaged in 2001 and vii-viii in 2006) says this is “the definitive edition” and explains the history of the various versions. Rpt. from the U.K. ed. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 1-231. Parts originally published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as follows: “Here” 89.4 (June 1972): 8-59; “We Are Very Happy Here” 92.3 (November 1973): 104-147; “A Mind of His Own.” 92.6 (February 1974): 80-96; “The Mazel Tov.” 94.1 (September 1974): 77-92; “Truth To Tell” 94.2 (October 1974): 12-24; and “The Best of All Possible Worlds” 94.3 (November 1974): 137-49. “You Can Never Go Back” was originally intended to be the middle part of the series but was rejected. It was published in Amazing Science Fiction 49.3 (November 1975): 6-61 and included in later versions of the book.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Future Sex - Saul Kent (Warner Books, 1974)
Intended to be eutopian. A fictional description of future sexual activities that the author says are simply extensions of current knowledge. Includes robots designed for sexual pleasure; lovers grown to specifications, and so forth.
Keywords: Male author

The Godwhale - [Thomas J.] [Bassler] [M.D.] (1932-2011) (Ballantine Books, 1974)
The novel includes societies that are very advanced in biology, societies that are degenerating, and authoritarian dystopias. On the whole, the human race and its societies are presented as first improving and then degenerating.
U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1975. Part originally published as "Rorqual Maru." Illus. Galaxy Science Fiction 32.4 (January-February 1972): 58-86, 88-91.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gomorrah - Marvin Karlins (b. 1941); Lewis M. Andrews (b. 1946) (Doubleday, 1974)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Hot Ice" - Charles [Braun] Ludlam (1943-97) (The Drama Review, 1974)
Dystopian satire in which all illness, deformity, and obesity is illegal and the Euthanasia Police control population by arresting such people and putting them to death and encouraging suicide. The play is primarily concerned with those trying to prolong life through freezing themselves to be resuscitated later.
Keywords: Male author; US author

House of Stairs - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) (E. P. Dutton, 1974)
Young adult dystopia in which a doctor tries to condition five orphans to become perfect tools of the state. He succeeds with three of them. A group of talented children are run through a maze ("This book is dedicated to all the rats and pigeons who have already been here.") in an attempt to create an elite. Authoritarian dystopia in the background.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“I Bought a Little City” - Donald Barthelme [Jr.] (1931-1989) (The New Yorker, 1974)
The story of a man who bought Galveston, Texas and set out to change it into the city he wanted.
Rpt. in his Amateurs (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 50-58; in his Sixty Stories (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981), 295-301;  and in Collected Stories. (New York: Library of America, 2021), 474-79, with a Chronology (929-935). a Note on the Text (940), and Notes (964).
Keywords: Male author; US author