The Sound of His Horn - [John William] [Wall] (1910-89) (Peter Davies, 1952)
Dystopia of the success of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and National Socialism one hundred and two years into the Reich. Breeding humans for blood sport.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960, with an “Introduction by Kingsley Amis (5-12); in his The Sound of His Horn and The King of the Lake (Horam, East Sussex, Eng.: Tartarus Press, 1999), 1-102 with a biographical “Introduction” by an unidentified author (vii-xii); and in The Sarban Omnibus (Np: Blackmask, 2008), 117-214, with “Forward” by Kingsley Amis (119-24).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Space Merchants - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Ballantine Books, 1952)
Advertising, overpopulation and corporate dystopia. See also 1984 Pohl.
U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. U.S. ed. rpt. in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-155 with “Biographical Notes” (777-79) “Notes on the text” (783-86) and “Notes” (789-99); and in Venus, Inc. (New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1985), 1-158. [21st Century ed.]. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011, with “Preface The Story of the Space Merchants” (v-xii). A different version, was published as “Gravy Planet.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 4.3 - 5 (June - August 1952): 4-61, 108-59, 104-59. This version has some wording differences, mostly minor, throughout the text and three concluding chapters not found in the book. These three chapters are rpt. in the Library of American edition (791-99).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Star, Bright" - Mark [Irvin] Clifton (1906-63) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Dystopia of a society that won't accept the highly intelligent.
Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton. Ed. Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press/London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simon, 1980), 18-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Station 7 - [John William] [Jennison] (1911-80) (Curtis, Brown Limited, 1952)
Part of the novel concerns a matriarchal dystopia with workers treated as if they were slaves.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Terra Australis" - Douglas [Alexander] Stewart (1913-85) (An Anthology of Australian Verse, 1952)
A poem in which the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1563?-1615) meets the utopian socialist William Lane (1861-1917), Quiros seeking utopia in the West and Lane in the East.
Also in his Sun Orchids and Other Poems (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1952), 37-40. Rpt. in his Collected Poems 1936-1967 (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1967), 168-72.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Things of Distinction" - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) (Startling Stories, 1952)
Satire on advertising.
Rpt. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 94-147.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Veronian Truth - Hollowell, Devero (N.p, 1952)
Racist tract which presents a brief golden age of a pure white society.
Keywords: Male author

We Died in Bond Street - Julian Ward (Hodder & Stoughton, 1952)
An attempt to establish a dictatorship is successfully resisted.
Keywords: Male author

We the Few - John L. Hawkinson (Exposition Press, 1952)
Dystopia of the destruction of much of civilization followed by the gradual creation of a Christian eutopia among those left.
Keywords: Male author

The Age of Longing - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) (The Macmillan Co., 1951)
The novel is set in the mid-1950s when a successful U.S.S.R., now known as the “Commonwealth of Freedomloving People” or “Free Commonwealth,” has taken over most of Western Europe and is waiting for the right moment to take France.
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Hungarian author; Male author

“Appointment for Tomorrow” - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
The story is set in a dystopian U. S. after World War III and focuses on the struggle for power between scientists and charlatans.
Rpt. as “Poor Superman.” In Tomorrow the Stars. Ed. Robert Heinlein (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952); rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1967), 198-224; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 124-52; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 115-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Beyond Bedlam" - Wyman [Woods] Guin (1915-89) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Dystopia. In the future war and conflict has been eliminated through the establishment of a schizophrenic society in which every person has two personalities controlled by drugs and shifts between them on a regular schedule. The Medicorps stringently enforces the drug regimen.
Rpt. in Spectrum II: A Second Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1962), 17-73; in his Living Way Out (New York: Avon, 1967), 155-208; and in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 3-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City in the Sea - [Arthur] Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) (Rinehart, 1951)
Dystopia. One man and women from a country of women cross a U.S that has been devastated by a nuclear war and discover the beginnings of the redevelopment of civilization.
Rpt. with the subtitle A compelling human story of one man and an army of women! New York: Galaxy Publishing Co, [1951]. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 11.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Dark Interlude" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83); Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Brief description of a future eutopia where everyone is a student because all the issues of production and distribution have been solved. All races in the future have blended into one, and a man from the future who said he is one-fourth black is killed because he married a white woman.
Rpt. in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 423-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Disappearance - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) (Rinehart, 1951)
Satire. With no real explanation, the sexes disappear from each other producing two single sex societies. Both societies have problems, and the sexes reappear to each other at the end. Compare to James Patrick Kelly, “Men Are Trouble” (2004) and “The Last Judgment” (2012).
UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004 with an "Introduction" by Robert Silverberg (v-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Escape to Paradise" - [Alan Geoffrey] [Yates] (1923-85) (Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1951)
An authoritarian dystopia following atomic wars. The dystopia is enforced by the Bureau of Collective Freedom. The main characters escape the dystopia to a planet teeming with dinosaurs, which is where the story ends.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Farfetched Fables" - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav, 1951)
Six fables ranging in time from the contemporary to the far future. A number are satires on utopian aspirations, with satires on diet, genetics, and education, among other topics.
Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 377-466. The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950).  See “Preface.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 381-428. Rpt. as “Farfetched Fables (1951).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 494-531.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Great Idea - Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951)
Anti-communist dystopia. Conflict between the dictatorship of Wonworld (capital Moscow; calendar A.M. = After Marx) and Freeworld. Freeworld wins the war, and democracy and free enterprise is established and begins to succeed.
U.K. ed. as Time Will Run Back. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1952. Rev. ed. as Time Will Run Back: A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1966. Rpt. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Historical Note" - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1951)
Satire on the Soviet Union. The Soviet invention of a personal flier, developed and sold in vast numbers by non-Soviet capitalists eliminates borders and undermines political control. As a result, the Soviet dystopia collapses.
Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 141-57; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 115-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Story" - Alexander Samuelson (Startling Stories, 1951)
Dystopia in which an overly rational society destroys fiction.
Keywords: Male author

Late Final - [Joseph Walter] [Cove] (b. 1891) (J.M. Dent, 1951)
Dystopia of a future where the human race has relapsed into barbarianism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Marching Morons" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1951)
Dystopia. High birth rate of the lower classes produces a nation of morons.
Rpt. in his The Mindworm (London: Joseph, 1955), 219-56; in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 23-54; in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 113-38, with an editor’s note on 113 and “Questions” on 138; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 133-63; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 138-72; in The Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 47-82; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A. Ed. Ben Bova (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973), 204-32; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 372-95. Merril, MoU-St, PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mars Child" - [Cyril Michael] [Kornbluth] (1923-58); [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1951)
Dystopia. Large mining corporation on Mars in conflict with a small community of settlers, which could be seen in a eutopian light.
Rpt. as Outpost Mars. By Cyril Judd [pseud.]. New York: Abelard Press, 1952; and in their Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2008), 137-296.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

Murder in Millennium VI - Curme Gray (1910-80) (Shasta Publishers, 1951)
Dystopia. A science fiction detective story set in a matriarchy 6000 years in the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nice Girl With 5 Husbands” - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1951)
Eutopia set in a high-tech future that includes space travel but with the emphasis on the way people live. There is what appears to be a group marriage, everyone has multiple professions and work assignments throughout the world, children raised collectively by the family, and no modesty.
Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands.” Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 178-91; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 95-109. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 95-109.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"No War Tomorrow" - Wallace [George] West (1900-80) (Science Fiction Quarterly, 1951)
Dystopia. Venus is where Earth offloads its misfits, troublemakers, and those who want to live without rules. These people have formed a community called Wildoatia, which implies that the people are there to sow their wild oats before, if they survive, settling down on Earth. The story focuses upon a conflict between the dominant people on Venus and Earth and a means of avoiding war.
Rpt. in Future Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.3 ([1954]): 35-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Null-P" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (Worlds Beyond, 1951)
Dystopia. A post atomic war satire in which the absolute average becomes the goal and the person representing that becomes President of what remains of the United States. The human race degenerates and is replaced by intelligent dogs.
Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 57-71; in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 121-31; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 201-09 with an "Afterword" (210-11).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Other Foot” - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (New-Story Magazine: The Monthly Magazine for the Short Story, 1951)
The story depicts a Mars that is inhabited by all the African Americans who left the United States as a result of the violence that had been inflicted on them. A spaceship with whites on board arrives from an Earth that has been destroyed by their wars.
Rpt. in The Illustrated Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1951), 43-67; and (New York: Bantam Books, 1952), 27-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Coming World - A[lfred] C[harles] Michaud (1876-1975) (World Publication Inc, 1951)
Detailed eutopia located on Mars. Technologically advanced. Extreme emphasis on cleanliness. Intensive agriculture. One nation, one language, and one religion. The elderly are provided support. Chapter IV Old Age Dependents (51-63) is a critique of the current system. Eugenics 130-131.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The Pedestrian" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (The Reporter (New York), 1951)
Dystopia. A pedestrian is arrested and committed to jail by automated police for walking at night rather than staying home watching television. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1963 Leiber.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.1 (February 1952): 89-93; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (British Edition) 2.4 (8) (May 1954): 125-28; in his The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953), 25-30; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 1 [(1954)]: 64-68; in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 39 (July 1955): 32-34; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 253-58; in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 121-25; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 191-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 191-95; in McSweeney’s, no. 45 Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013): 143-48; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 678-682, with a Chronology (919-936), a Note on the Text (947) and Notes (971-972). Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]; and in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 25-29. Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]. A dramatized version was published as The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Restricted Clientele" - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1951)
Monopoly capitalist dystopia and nonviolent revolution led by scientists. There are three classes in the future, the Investors (50 with 75 permitted), who own the wealth of the Galaxy and are the government under a Chairman, the Intellectuals, and the Manuals, who are 97.6% of the population. Social mobility possible in both directions. There are opposition Liberals among the Intellectuals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Richardson Story - [Edward] Francis Williams (1903-70) (William Heinemann, 1951)
Dystopia of the effects of subliminal manipulation of the populace.
U.S. ed. as It Happened Tomorrow. New York: Abelard Press, 1952.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rogue Queen - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) (Doubleday, 1951)
Society structured like a beehive or an ant colony with warriors, drones, and a queen. The novel concerns the arrival of humans who upset the system by introducing a supposedly neuter female to sex.
Rpt. New York: Dell, [1952]; New York: Ace Books, [1965]; New York: New American Library, 1972; and New York: Bluejay Books, 1985. Collector's Edition illus. Jill Bauman with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (3-8). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadows Move Among Them - Edgar [Austin] Mittelhölzer (1909-65) (Peter Nevill, 1951)
The novel is set in a religious community in British Guiana, the Brethren of Christ the Man, which can be considered a flawed utopia. The religion is open and treats Christ as a model rather than in any sense supernatural, but the treatment of the people in the community, particularly the natives, is both liberal and very cruel.
Keywords: Guyanese author; Male author; UK author

"Social Obligation" - Roy L. Clough, Jr. (Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL), 1951)
Anti-science dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"This Way to Mars" - William Campbell Gault (1910-95) (Startling Stories, 1951)
Gender-role reversal.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Tolliver’s Travels” - Frank Fenton; Joseph Petracca (New Tales of Space and Time, 1951)
Flawed utopia in which everyone must be happy or they are eliminated. Everything provided. Marriage only by permission.
U.K. ed. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952), 45-67.  Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1952), 44-66.
Keywords: Male author

Tomorrow Sometimes Comes - F[rancis] G[eorge] Rayer (1921-81) (Home & Van Thal, 1951)
Post atomic war conflict between mutants produced by the radiation and “normal” humans. A central computer becomes the focus of the conflict. The machine was developed in his “The Peacemaker.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 6.17 (September 1952): 51-65; and “Ephemeral This City.” New Worlds Science Fiction (London) 11.33 (March 1955): 94-118.
Parts published earlier as “Deus Ex Machina.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 3.8 (Winter 1950): 30-40.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Tyrann" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Standard authoritarian dystopia focusing on a rebellion based on a rediscovered revolutionary document, the "Constitution of the United States of America".
Rpt. as The Stars, Like Dust. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 and with unauthorized cuts as The Rebellious Stars. New York: Ace Books, 1954. U.K. ed. as The Stars Like Dust. London: Panther, 1958.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Venus is a Man's World" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Satire. Contrasts the frontier world of Venus where men rule with an Earth ruled by women and where men cannot be citizens. Both have problems but Venus is presented more positively.
Rpt. in his The Square Root of Man (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 145-69; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 551-65 with an "Afterword" (565).
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Visit to Mars - Garrett V. Albertson (Moody Press, 1951)
Detailed eutopia on Mars with a focus on religion and technology. Struggle between good and evil. Stress on the nuclear family. There are various worlds even more advanced than Mars.
Keywords: Male author

"The Wrong Side of Paradise" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Amazing Stories, 1951)
A false paradise which appears to fill the wishes of every person.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1975; A New Social System For the World of To-morrow And How Provisions Will be Made For the Aged - O[scar] D[avid] Zieman (Gornall The Publisher, 1950)
Detailed eutopia based on a National Service Scheme for Youth. Epigram--"The Unbelievable Happened; Everything Went Right."
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

2,000 Years On - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) (Scion, 1950)
A man is resurrected in the future, and he is told he owns the world, which is being administered by an elite. The man sides with the non-elite.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bandersnatch - T[homas] E[van] Ryves (1895-1976) (The Grey Walls Press, 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia in which scientists rule. Society is highly structured with “Instigators” the ruling scientists, the “Influencers” directing everyone’s life, and the “Operatives,” or manufactured automata, that do all the work. The independent minded cannot become citizens.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Coming Attraction" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
Dystopia set in a post-atomic war U.S. Vicious, violent society. Women must wear masks because the face is considered too sexual.
Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 173-77; in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 372-88; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 364-76; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 109-23; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 101-14; in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 33-44; and in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 221-33 with an editors’ note on 221-22.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Commonweal of Sitnalta: The Adventures of Phineas Smith in Another Dimension" - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) (Unpub. Ms, 1950)
Socialist eutopia.
Unpub. Ms
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Cybernetic Brains" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Computer dystopia.
Repub. New York: Avalon, 1962.
Keywords: Male author; US author

". . . Divided We Fall" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Dystopia of conflict among different types of humanity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Early Christians of the 21st Century - Chad Walsh (1914-91) (Harper & Bros., 1950)
Nonfiction eutopia. The first part of the book is a discussion of the problems of the present. The second part presents the positive effects of a rejuvenated Christianity.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Enemy Had It Too: A Play in Three Acts - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Viking Press, 1950)
Post-catastrophe dystopian play with elements of farce. A biological agent is loosed and devastates the world. The survivors include those who degenerate into primitive tribal warfare, a few survivors who had been protected from the pandemic/plague, and a group returning from Mars, who bring Martians with them who will rejuvenate the Earth. Mars had once had a great civilization, but Martians now live in tunnels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Faster! Faster! - [David] [Groom] (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
Class based dystopia located on a constantly traveling train.
U.S. ed. New York Viking Press, 1950.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Furious Evangelist: Being the Memoirs of Richard Civet during a Time of Moral Breakdown and now at last set forth and edited by Hugh Hickling - [Reginald] Hugh Hickling, ed. [written by] (1920-2007) (Alvin Redman, 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia stressing party politics and the dangers of a leader with too much power and no scruples about how to use it. Defeated in the end.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"If This Be Utopia" - Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Flawed utopia; perfection not possible.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories (Flushing, NY) 40.6 (June 1966): 61-71. Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), no. 3 (nd): 60-69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Immigrant" - Leslie A. Croutch (1915-69) (Light (Parry Sound, ON, Canada), 1950)
Québec is briefly depicted as an authoritarian dystopia in the future. The story centers around the demand by Québec that a Canadian citizen who left Québec illegally be returned from Ontario.
Rpt. in Years of Light: A Celebration of Leslie A. Croutch. Ed. John Robert Colombo (Toronto, ON, Canada: Hounslow Press, 1982), 5-9.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Land of Forgotten Women - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) (Skeffington and Son, 1950)
Dystopian lost race matriarchy that practices human sacrifice.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Let Freedom Ring" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia that drafts men to almost certain death.
Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). Also rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (New York), no. 23 (February 1972): 4-48. U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), [no. 1] (nd): 90-134.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Little Black Bag" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1950)
A medical bag from an obviously medically eutopian future accidently appears in a contemporary slum and transforms the lives of the doctor who cared for the slum dwellers even though he had been prohibited from practicing and the people of the slum. Then the future takes the bag back.
Rpt. without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 415-21 with an editor’s note on 415.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Martian Chronicles - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Doubleday & Co., 1950)
Martians have a vaguely described eutopian society before the arrival of people from earth but are killed by the chicken pox, for which they have no immunity. The various stories recount the settlement of Mars by people from Earth who bring all Earth’s problems with them. But then there is war on Earth and settlers return. See Bradbury’s article “Where Are the Golden-Eyed Martians?” West (Los Angeles Times) (March 1972): 14-15 for his comments on the exploration of Mars. A related story that was not included in the book is “The Naming of Names.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 34.3 (August 1949): 137-44; rpt. in Great Science Fiction Stories (Flushing, NY), no. 3 (1966): 31-. A later Martian story is “The Love Affair.” In his The Love Affair A Short Story and Two Poems. Illus. Joe Mugnaini (Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982), 1-16; rpt. as “The Love Affair: A Martian Chronicles Story.” In The Planets. Ed. Byron Preiss (New York: Bantam Books, 1985), 104-12; rpt. without the subtitle in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 147-58; and in Mars Probe. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2002), 13-22. A satire on The Martian Chronicles is John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000), “The Real Martian Chronicles.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 118.5 & 6 (689) (May-June 2010): 86-91.
There are later editions with many variants. Among the most important are the U.K. edition, which was published as The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1951. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958 has illustrations by Karel Thole and William F. Nolan’s “Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Ray Bradbury’s Books and Stories” with notes on where the stories were later collected. “The Martian Chronicles.” Ray Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: The Library of America, 2021), 1-230 is based on the 1973 Doubleday edition and includes a chronology of Bradbury’s life (843-861), a note on the text (863-866), textual notes (873-876), and Bradbury’s “A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles” (809-810), rpt. from Rhodomagnetic Digest (May 1950):21. Other significant editions include the following: The Martian Chronicles. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974, with the book designed by Ernst Reichl. an introduction by Martin Gardner, and illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. The Collector’s ed. with an introduction by Damon Knight and an illus. by Joseph Mugnaini. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989. The Martian Chronicles. The Fortieth Anniversary Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. 1990. The stories that were brought together to form the first edition are: “The Million Year Picnic.” Planet Stories (New York) 3.3 (Summer 1946): 95-100; “The Off Season.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 33.2 (March 1948): 99-104; “Mars Is Heaven!” Planet Stories (New York) 3.12 (Fall 1948): 56-66; collected as “The Third Expedition” in The Martian Chronicles; rpt. as “Welcome Brothers!” Authentic Science Fiction (London), no. 29 (January 1953): 31-52; “----And the Moon Be Still as Bright.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.2 (June 1948): 78-91; “The Earth Men.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.3 (August 1948): 69-77; “The Long Years.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 61.18 (September 15, 1948): 18-19, 38, 40, 42; rpt. as “Dwellers in Silence.” Planet Stories (New York) 4.2 (Spring 1949): 51-58; and in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 20 (December 1953): 22-29; “The Silent Towns.” Charm (New York) (March 1949): 111, 170-79; “There will come soft rains.” Colliers (New York) 125.18 (May 6, 1950): 34; rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 321-28, with an editor’s note on 319; “Impossible.” Super Science Stories (Chicago, IL) 6.1 (November 1949): 72-79, 127-29 [Listed in Table of Contents of the version to be sold in Britain and Canada but not included]; rpt. as “September 2005: The Martian” in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 165-72; with an editors’ note on 164; “The Spring Night.” The Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI) (Winter 1949): 32-34, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “The Summer Night;” “I’ll Not Ask for Wine.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 63.1 (January 1, 1950): 20-21, 30-32; rpt. as “Ylla.” Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 14 (1950): 20-29 and collected in The Martian Chronicles under that title; rpt. in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 165-86 with an editor’s note on 163. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet; “Carnival of Madness.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 36.1 (April 1950): 95-104, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “Usher II” [“Usher II was dropped from The Silver Locusts]; “Way in the Middle of the Air.” Other Worlds Science Stories (Evanston, IL) 2.1 (July 1950): 142-53 (Bradbury made a play of this story, which was performed at the Desilu Gower Studios, Hollywood in August 1962); “In This Sign.” Imagination Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Evanston, IL) 2.2 (April 1951): 56-71 and collected as “The Fire Balloons” in The Silver Locusts (117-37). “The Wilderness,” which was first published in Today (April 6, 1952) and rev. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.7 (November 1952): 118-26, was first collected in The Martian Chronicles (London: The Science Fiction Book Club, 1953), 130-39), which otherwise follows The Silver Locusts. The New York: Avon, 1997 ed. replaces “Way in the Middle of the Air” with “The Wilderness.” Fortieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Micro Men - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) (Scion Press, 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia. A scientist invents a ray that can make people very small or very large, and it is used by others to create and control "micro men".
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Morning of the Day They Did It” - E[lwyn] B[rooks] White (1899-1985) (The New Yorker, 1950)
The story is about the complete destruction of Earth, but it includes a paragraph the describes the United States government as providing all an individual’s needs, while taking all but a very small part of their pay. It also notes in passing the disappearance of all but one bird species and other problems.
Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 322-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

My Dear, It's Heaven - Rowland [Denis Guy] Winn (Cassell, 1950)
A group of people are much surprised by a heaven created by an infinitely compassionate God.
Keywords: Male author

The Next 50 Years; A Forecast of the Triumphant Progress Of The Race In The Next Half-Century: 1950-1999 - Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) (Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1950)
Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast and based on the assumption of the end of war and the development of the scientific management of the economy. Religion mostly gone. Stress on education, health and recreation. Sexual freedom virtually complete. Nudity accepted. Emphasis on economic planning for the world as a whole. Frequent positive references to the experience of the Soviet Union.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nutro 29. A Romance - Frank [Callan] Norris (1907-67) (Rinehart & Co, 1950)
Discovery of a cheap food substitute and its consequences, which include competition between countries to control it and capitalists to produce it. The central theme of the novel is that with such a food substitute available, poorly paid and otherwise exploited workers will simply quit and leave, destroying the economy. To force people back to work the food is outlawed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Other Side of the Sun. A Novel - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) (William Heinemann, 1950)
Detailed eutopia based on custom. Advanced technology came slowly, and society had time to adjust. Vegetarian. No killing. First volumer in a trilogy; see also 1952 and 1954 Capon. The author also wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pebble in the Sky - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Doubleday, 1950)
Dystopia in which a radioactive Earth is shunned by the other inhabited planets. There is a galactic empire that connects this book with his Foundation series. Earth is considered to be a backward, inferior planet inhabited by primitives and many Earthlings oppose the empire. Conflict ensues with a balance ultimately achieved.
Rpt. as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel # 14. New York: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1953; and New York: Bantam Books, 1957; and in his Triangle. The Currents of Space Pebble in the Sky The Stars, Like Dust (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1961]), 173-346. Originally written as "Grow Old With Me" but not published as intended. That version was published in his The Alternate Asimovs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). 5-133 with a "Foreword" (1-4) and an "Afterword" (134-36).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Plagiarist" - Peter Phillips (1920-2012) (New Worlds, 1950)
The story is set in a future that has rejects anything that is not quantifiable. A young boy still has an imagination that keeps getting him in trouble. Some undeveloped suggestions of significant social changes.
Rpt. without the illus. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 3-44.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Prison Planet" - [Sydney J.] [Bounds] (1920-2006) (Futuristic Science Stories, 1950)
Dystopia describing various exploitations of prisoners.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Raptured: A Novel of the Second Coming of the Lord - Ernest W. Angley (b. 1922) (Winston Press, 1950)
A novel of the Rapture (see Thessalonians 4:17) and the dystopia that follows it for those not taken.
There are several reprints by various publishers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rural District Council of Utopia - Neville Hobson M.C., J.P. (Ptd. Archibold & Johnsons, 1950)
Eutopia. A short pamphlet fictionally presenting an ideal Rural District Council.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Spectator Sport" - John D[ann] Macdonald (1916-86) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1950)
Dystopia. The first man to travel to the future is ignored by everyone because they have all had lobotomies (been "lobed"). Everything is run down because people have access to what Aldous Huxley called "feelies" in Brave New World (1932). These allow a person the complete, tactile experience of another existence. In this society they are available temporarily until one has earned enough to be permanently attached to the system.
Rpt. in Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. Ed. Groff Conklin (London: Grayson & Grayson, [1954]), 99-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Summer Day's Dream: A Play in Two Acts" - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) (The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III, 1950)
The play is set in midsummer 1975 after an atomic catastrophe which has resulted in England reverting to a simple agrarian life that is presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"U-Turn" - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
Science fiction story with a eutopian background of a society that allows its citizens the freedom to choose death.
Rpt. in his Somewhere a Voice (London: Dennis Dobson, 1965), 63-76. Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1968), 65-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Vistas of Coming Glory: A Defence of the Pre-millenial and Futurist Faith - Pastor Wallace E. Jackel (City Service Press, 1950)
Millennium.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Waker Dreams" - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
Dystopia of people in cities kept dreaming on machines.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"World Without Men" - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1950)
Dystopia of a world dominated by women.
Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Reissue) ([Winter 1950]): 60-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

America Tomorrow - Eugene L[eslie] Howard (b. 1903) (Author, 1949)
Eutopia based on public ownership that, for the first time, guarantee real and complete equality of opportunity and eliminate racism and gender inequality. No taxes. Free medical care. Improved schools. Planned cities. See also 1934 Howard.
Booklet that he says is the first three chapters of his Must America Learn the Hard Way. Muskegon, MI: Author, 1946, which is not recorded in any library.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Atomic Civilization - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) (Author, 1949)
The text is primarily an argument for the combination of Eastern and Western civilizations. Plate four is a plan of Celestion, which in this case is a building that combines Eastern and Western features. Plate five shows the building from the front. Plate six shows the "Courtyard West Gate of 'Celestion'," presumably the city.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Christian World State - Arthur Wood (Independent Press, 1949)
A world state utopia based on a reading of the Bible. Very general with people said to follow Jesus’s example. Includes some brief consideration of earlier utopias.
Keywords: Male author

Earth Abides - George [Rippey] Stewart (1895-1980) (Random House, 1949)
Dystopia of catastrophe in which a pandemic kills all but a few people. The novel traces the life of one survivor who explores the U.S. and then settles in his old home near San Francisco. The novel then follows the slow growth of a small community that initially live off what was left behind but ultimately create the beginnings of a new society with the skills needed to live a simple, primitive life. The title reflects a recurring theme, that the earth will slowly adjust to the absence of human beings. Includes interracial marriage. The novel is at least in part a reworking of Jack London’s 1912 “The Scarlet Plague.”
Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1969; Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1974; and Boston, MA: Mariner Editions/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, with “Introduction to Earth Abides” by Kim Stanley Robinson (xi-xix). Collector's Edition illus. Toni L. Taylor with an "Introduction" by Arthur O. Lewis (ix-xiv). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Humanoids - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Simon & Schuster, 1949)
Dystopia in which robots, which are designed to keep the peace among humans and avoid nuclear war, allow no activity that they perceive to be potentially harmful. See also 1980 Williamson, The Humanoid Touch.
Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. David. G. Klein and with an "Introduction" (v-xiv) by F.M. Busby. Exp. ed. as The Humanoids. The expanded edition with "Me and My Humanoids," "With Folded Hands," and a new introduction by the author. New York: Avon, 1980. Based in part on". . . And Searching Mind." Astounding Science Fiction 41 [50 on cover].1 - 3 (March - May 1948): 7-61, 111-62, 97-147; rpt. in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 199-382. A related story is "With Folded Hands." Astounding Science Fiction 39.5 (July 1947): 6-45. Rpt. in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 110-64; in his The Pandora Effect (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 77-125; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 153-98. Williamson explains the evolution of the book in "Me and My Humanoids" in the expanded ed. (251-59).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Inherit the Night - Robert Christie (Farrar, Straus and Co, 1949)
A lost village in a valley in an unnamed mountain range (probably the Andes) has become a simple eutopia of peace under the direction of a good priest. Evil enters from the outside in the form of a wealthy criminal and the eutopia is disrupted. The criminal dies while trying to leave.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Space Ship - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) (Frederick Fell, 1949)
Authoritarian dystopia. Technology that allows government to punish selected individuals at a distance leads to universal tyranny. Emphasis on a successful revolt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nineteen Eighty-Four - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
Classic repressive totalitarian dystopia. The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. A novel on Orwell writing Nineteen Eighty-Four is Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe. New York: Overlook Press, 2017.
Rpt. as vol. 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davison. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with a "Textual Note (327-41). US ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949. Edition With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1984 with the "Introduction" (1-154), the "Annotations to the Text" (429-49), and an "Index to Orwell's Text" (456-60). Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (iii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Centennial edition. New York: Harcourt Brace, 2003, with a “Foreword” by Thomas Pynchon (vii-xxvi) and an “Afterword” by Erich Fromm (324-37) originally published in 1984 (New York: Signet Classics, 1961) 257-67. A dramatized version was published as George Orwell's 1984. A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, Jr. and William A. Miles, Jr. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing, Inc., 1963. A graphic novel version illustrated by Fido Nesti was published in Brazil as 1984 in 2020, as Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel. London: Penguin, 2020; and as 1984: The Graphic Novel. Boston, MA/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. See also Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Ed. Peter Davison. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich/Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1984.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The NRACP" - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) (The Hudson Review, 1949)
Racist, authoritarian dystopia set in the U.S. in the near future with Colored Persons Reserves that are extermination camps. NRACP = National Relocation Authority: Colored Persons.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.3 (September 1960): 81-110; and in Human and Other Beings. Ed. Allen De Graeff (New York: Collier, 1963), 141-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus - Professor George Adamski (1891-1965) (Leonard-Freefield, 1949)
Travel through the solar system. The planets are inhabited by human beings living a better life than on the earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Portal in the Picture" - Henry Kuttner (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Startling Stories (Springfield, MA), 1949)
Technological authoritarian dystopia set on a parallel world. Mostly adventure.
Rpt. as by Lewis Padgett [pseud.] and C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore as Beyond Earth's Gates. New York: Ace, 1954. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton, Daybreak--2250 A.D., which was originally published as Star Man's Son: 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Prodigy" - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1949)
Eugenic eutopia/dystopia.
Rpt. in his Caviar (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 84-95; and in The Perfect Host. Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1998), 257-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Root of Ampoi" - Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) (Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI), 1949)
A fairly simple gender-role reversal. The women are eight feet tall, and the men are of normal stature.
Rpt. in Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL) 10.8 (August 1961): 31-46; and in his The End of the Story. The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith. Ed. Scott Connors and Ron Hilger (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 213-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow's Yesterday - A[lfred] M[ortimer] Stanley (1888-1966) (Dorrance & Co, 1949)
Satire on a society that has degenerated physically but advanced mentally. Most work is done by machines. Gender-role reversal because the men are too weak. Eugenics with children raised by the state. Socialism.
Keywords: Male author

Watch the North Wind Rise - Robert [Von Ranke] Graves (1895-1985) (Creative Age Press, 1949)
Future medieval eutopia, which is a world of witches and warlocks ruled by the White Goddess.
U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. Rpt. under the U.K. title Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1983. The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by about six months.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Weapon Shops of Isher - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Greenberg Publisher, 1949)
Shops with advanced science and powerful weapons make relative freedom possible.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, © 1951; Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster, Gateway to Elsewhere (1954); and in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 413-527.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Ape and Essence - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) (Harper, 1948)
Post-atomic war dystopia. Barbarianism. Eugenic rules are in place due to mutations, and babies outside certain parameters are killed. Love is not allowed, and there are sexual orgies at specified times. Worship of the Devil. It was adapted for TV by John Finch and directed by David Benedictus, it aired as an episode of the Wednesday Play on BBC on May 18, 1966. Huxley wrote a dramatization that remain unpublished until 2019 when it appeared in the Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, no. 19 (2019): 19-91, accompanied by James Sexton and Bernfried Nugel, “Aldous Huxley’s Unpublished Dramatization of Ape and Essence (1-12); their “Note on the Text” (13), and some pages of the manuscript (14-17).
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1958; and London: Flamingo, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Beyond This Horizon - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Fantasy Press, 1948)
An essentially good society based on eugenic planning and with the idea of a future even better human race. The eutopia is generally libertarian with all men, and some women, always armed, thus ensuring peaceful relations. A group of men of lower quality try to gain control and fail.
Rpt. without the illustrations. New York: New American Library, 1960. Rpt. as vol. 7 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Part originally published as by Anson MacDonald [pseud.] as "Beyond This Horizon." Astounding Science Fiction (New York) 29.2 - 3 (April - May 1942): 9-50, 55-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bowl of Light - Edward [J.] Liston (1900-86) (Coward-McCann, 1948)
Lost race eutopia set in South America with advanced, rational people.
U.K. ed. London: Coward McCann, 1950.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Carnelian Cube; A Humorous Fantasy - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000); [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) (Gnome Press, 1948)
Satire in which the protagonist visits a series of worlds. The first is a purely rational world, followed by a world of individualism, and then a world of science with a medieval touch. All are unsatisfactory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cities Under the Sea - E[dward] V[ivian] Timms (1895-1960) (Angus & Robertson, 1948)
Dystopia. Atlantis under the sea is a highly advanced but cruel society. Identified as a boys' book.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Concluding - [Henry] [Yorke] (1905-73) (Hogarth Press, 1948)
Authoritarian dystopia as background. Little detail on the dystopia, but it appears to be heavily bureaucratic.
Rpt. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970; London: Hogarth Press, 1978; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000; and New York: New Directions, 2017, with “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination” by Eudora Welty (v-xxi), which is rpt. from The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays & Reviews by Eudora Welty (London: Penguin Random House, 1961).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Domesday Village - Ian [Goodhope] Colvin (1912-75) (The Falcon Press, 1948)
Agrarian eutopia existing outside a deeply flawed socialist utopia that is inefficient and bureaucratic, and while it is supposed to be based on merit, it is actually an aristocracy based on heredity. The eutopia is a small town that had been missed in the reorganization and had succeeded very well using traditional methods.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Enterprise Island: "Old Joe's Way" - Hans Christian Sonne (The Business Bourse, 1948)
Fictional development of capitalism presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

A Giant's Strength: Drama in Three Acts - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Author, 1948)
Nuclear war dystopia with a brief eutopian vignette at the end. The play follows a family through the bombing of Hiroshima, the buildup to the war, the planted bombs exploding throughout the country, and the retaliation. They escape to a cave in South Dakota where they begin to learn to live in the new circumstances, but two members leave with very different dreams of building a new life.
Rpt. as A Giant's Strength: A Three Act-Drama of the Atomic Bomb. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1948. U.K. ed. London: T.W. Laurie, [1948].
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Great Judge" - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Fantasy Book, 1948)
Authoritarian dystopia as background.
Rpt. in Authentic Science Fiction, no. 71 (July 1956): 127-32; in his Away and Beyond (New York: Avon, 1952), 69-73; (New York: Berkeley, 1959), 35-39; New ed. (New York: Berkeley, 1963); 40-45; U.K. ed. (London: Panther, 1963), 41-45; 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), 104-09; and in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 329-32.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Hail Bolonia! - [Digby George] [Gerahty] (1898-1981) (Peter Davies, 1948)
Satire on attempts to modernize an agrarian eutopia. The modernization fails, and the eutopia of a happy, simple life continues.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Late Night Final" - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1948)
Libertarian eutopia.
Rpt in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 287-313.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Life and Times of the Shmoo - [Alfred Gerald] [Caplin] (1909-79 (Simon and Schuster, 1948)
Comic strip. The Shmoo is a creature who provides all the food anyone wants, thus producing a classic Cockaigne. The strips recount the eutopia produced, the troubles this gives rise to, and the attempts of government and business to destroy the Shmoo. Other Shmoo material includes Gerald Marks and Al Capp, Shmoo Songs. New York: Bristol Music Corp., 1949 [held by the Los Angeles Public Library]; and a series of Hanna-Barbera films in 1979 (Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo) and 1987-88 (sixteen films). See also Al Capp, The Return of the Shmoo. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Rpt. as “The Shmoo: 1959.” In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 93-143; rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.
U.K. ed. London: Convoy Publications, 1949. Rpt. as "The Shmoo: 1948." In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 1-93. All the strips rpt. in Al Capp's Shmoo: The Complete Newspaper Strips. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2011. See also Al Capp's Shmoo Comics, no. 1 - 5 (July 1949 - April 1950). 5 vols. New York: Toby Press, 1949 - 50 [held by Michigan State University]. Some rpt. in Washable Jones and the Shmoos, no. 1 (June 1953) [all published. Held by Michigan State University]. Rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Penultimate Trump" - R[obert] C[hester] W[ilson] Ettinger (1918-2011) (Startling Stories (Springfield, MA), 1948)
Eutopia that resulted from people choosing to freeze themselves for later resurrection. A key is banishment for selfishness that causes harm to others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pillar of Fire" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Planet Stories (New York), 1948)
Flawed utopia in which there is no crime or violence and a man from the past starts murdering people. Bradbury considers it a precursor to Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 141-69; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 101-38; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 579-616, with a Chronology (919-936, a Note on the Text (947, with a minor correction noted on 949) and Notes (968-969).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution. As Proposed and Signed by Robert M. Hutchins, G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell - [Committee to Frame a World Constitution] (University of Chicago Press, 1948)
A proposal for a constitution for a way of peacefully governing the entire world, including governmental structure and some material on the rights of citizens.
Rpt. in G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese (1882-1952), Foundations of a World Republic (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 305-20.
Keywords: Male author

The Purple Twilight - [Arthur John] [Pelham-Groom] (1906-78) (T. Werner Laurie, 1948)
Dystopia. Mars is inhabited by an advanced but dwindling people due to an anti-marriage ideology that saw marriage as being only to men's advantage. Telepathy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Spurious Sun - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) (T. Werner Laurie, 1948)
A novel in which the world initially appears to have created a eutopia in which nations disarm and those countries with food feed those whose people are underfed, but then war ensues, including nuclear war. The war is ended by the youth of the world cooperating, and after the war they oust the old diplomats who stood in the way of long-term peace, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.
Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author

Walden Two - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) (Macmillan, 1948)
Eutopia brought about through behavioral engineering presented in the form of an intentional community, and a number of communities were established that intended to put Skinner's ideas into practice. While some are still in existence, all but one abandoned most of Skinner's specific ideas; see Hilke Kuhlmann, Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. See also 1985 Skinner.
Reissued with new introduction by the author, "Walden Two Revisited" (New York: Macmillan, 1976), v-xvi. Rpt. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2005. Chapter 14 is rpt. as "Instead of the Cross, the Lollipop" in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 145-56 with an editor's note on 144-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Warning From Mars - Edward Whiteside (Interplanetary Publications, 1948)
Mars, which had been functioning well under free enterprise, becomes a dystopia. The novel is an attack on the U.S. New Deal under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1946. President 1933-45), particularly welfare and big government.
The PSt copy has London: The Mitre Press stamped under the publisher's name on the title page.
Keywords: Male author

Adrift in the Boneyard - Robert Lewis Taylor (1912-98) (Doubleday, 1947)
A humorous post-catastrophe story (storm) in which only a few people survive. The story follows their struggles to find a place to live, and the end up on at a tropical island paradise, where the squabble on whether to develop it for a future tourist trade.
Rpt. New York: Avon, [1963]
Keywords: Male author; US author

Australian Dream. A Journey to Merrion. No. 393 of - D[enys] G[abriel] M[aurice] Jackson (1899-1986) (The Australian Catholic Truth Society Record, 1947)
Eutopia. A future Australia Roman Catholic and agricultural.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Bend Sinister - Vladimir [Vladimirovich] Nabokov (1899-1977) (Henry Holt, 1947)
Novel set in an authoritarian dystopia. In the "Introduction" Nabokov insists that the dystopian setting is incidental to the novel which is concerned with the relationship between a father and son.
Rpt. New York: Time, Inc. 1964 with a new Introduction" by Nabokov. Rpt. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1974 with the "Introduction" (5-11); and in his Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951 (New York: Library of America, 1996), 161-358, with the "Introduction from the 1964 ed. (163-69) and "Notes on the Text" (680-95).
Keywords: Male author; Russian author; US author

Bright Morrow - Derek Neville (1911-76) (John Crowther, 1947)
Future conflict between democratic societies and communists, who are presented in extremely negative terms. A major theme is a man with the power to stop war and the way governments want to use him for their ends rather than for human betterment, which is his goal. He defeats the government and the communists and the novel ends with the projection of a better society.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life - Percival Goodman (1904-89); Paul Goodman (1911-72) (University of Chicago Press, 1947)
Eutopia. Non-fiction presentation of ideal city planning with a number of specific proposals for ideal communities both in the text and in the appendices. Percival Goodman's "Afterword" also includes specific proposals for ideal communities and includes a fourth paradigm taken from his 1977 Goodman.
2nd ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1960. There appear to be two states of this paperback reprint, one of which has 2nd ed. rev. and the subtitle Ways of Livelihood and Means of Life on the cover but not the title page. Rpt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990 with an “Afterword: Communitas Revisited” (225-55) by Percival Goodman and the subtitle Ways of Livelihood and Means of Life on the cover but not the title page.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Consider Her Ways - Frederick Philip Grove (1879?-1948) (Macmillan of Canada, 1947)
The novel compares ant society favorably to human society.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Doppelgangers: An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution 1997 - H[enry] F[itzgerald] Heard (1889-1971) (Vanguard Press, 1947)
Dystopia. A eutopia supposed to be brought about by new advances in psychology turns sour and becomes an authoritarian dystopia based on the same discoveries. The novel focuses on the struggle for control between two dystopias, one on the surface of the planet that used the “bread and circuses” approach to control, and the other underground that used fear as the means of control. In the novel, the underground dystopia tries to overthrow the one on the surface, using, in what may be the first use of the phrase, psychological warfare.
Keywords: Male author; UK author; US author

The End, A Projection, not a Prophecy - [Claude] [Van Zeller] (1905-1984) (Douglas Organ, 1947)
Eutopia set in 2045 at the end of 100 years of peace. Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
US ed. Buffalo, NY: Desmond & Stapledon, 1948.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Equalizer" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1947)
Agrarian, anarchist eutopia of abundant power. In a note in The Pandora Effect, the author says that this story is "a companion piece" to his "With Folded Hands" (see 1949 Williamson), which was "pessimistic about technology and science" (127).
Rpt. in his The Pandora Effect (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 127-89; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 93-152.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flight to Utopia - Carleton Matthews (b. 1906) (Mount Eyre Pub. Co, 1947)
Detailed eutopia presented as Applied Christianity. The first part includes the Incan empire as a eutopia. The second part is set in the U.S. in 1980 and describes the eutopia, “Utopia Incorporated,” that has evolved over twenty-five years, with the primary goal of reducing labor time and increasing leisure time. No money, and labor is the medium of exchange (94). Everything is done through “seven operating subsidiaries—Food Incorporated, Housing Incorporated, Clothing Incorporated, Communications Incorporated, Transportation Incorporated, Recreation Incorporated, and Culture Incorporated” (98). The only role for government is oversight.
Both  PSt copies have Newtown, Pennsylvania blacked out and Trenton, NJ added.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fury" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1947)
Venus in the future with a degenerated human race living in safety and the successful struggle to revitalize the people.  Sequel to 1943 [Kuttner and Moore], “Clash By Night”.
Rpt. as by Kuttner. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1954. Reissued as Destination Infinity. Original title: Fury. New York: Avon, 1956. Rpt. Boston, MA: Garland, 1975.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Jesting Pilot" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1947)
An authoritarian dystopia set in a city that has been isolated from the outside world for 600 years to protect it from the wars of the overpopulated world. The city was designed to be a eutopia precisely fitted to the needs of its citizens, who are all hypnotized. The Controllers of the city are bred and raised to run the world until the Barrier around the city is raised. The citizens know nothing of them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Masterless Swords: Variations on a Theme - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) (T. Werner Laurie, 1947)
Primarily dystopian but suggests the possibility of a eutopia. In the first part, "Portrait of a King" (11-88), is about Alexander the Great (356-23 BCE); the second, "The Lovely Voyage" (89-173), is about Sir Francis Drake (c1540-96). The third section, "Woman In a Red Turban" (174-251) is set in the far future and is about a woman named Cahhna who leads women in a movement for perpetual peace but is opposed by men and ultimately betrayed by women.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Peace in Our Time": A Play in Two Acts and Eight Scenes - Noel [Pierce] Coward (1899-1973) (William Heinemann, 1947)
Dystopia of Britain under Germany occupation.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sealed Entrance. A Novel - C[onrad Lyddon] Voss-Bark (1913-2000) (Chapman & Hall, 1947)
Eutopia of evolved morality set in an isolated religious community in the mountains of Albania.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Smith Unbound; A Conversation Piece - Ernest Nevin Dilworth (b. 1912); Walter Leuba (b. 1902) (Macmillan, 1947)
A eutopian educational system. Gives the general principles and some specifics of an ideal system of education. The first part is a satire on contemporary education. Presented as a discussion.
Keywords: Male author

The Story of My Village - H[enry] de Vere Stacpoole (1865-1951) (Hutchinson, 1947)
Village life as eutopia with the end of cities shown. The setting is Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Teetotalitarian State - Somerset [Streuben] De Chair (1911-95) (Falcon Press, 1947)
Humor in which the coming of British socialism changes nothing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1947)
After a brief, aborted World War II, the GPC or Global Peace Commission rules the world and limits research to approved topics and prohibits space exploration. An underground movement wants to overthrow it in the name of an undescribed utopia.
Rpt. in his Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Fairy Chessman (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 9-108. U.K. ed. London: World Distributors, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow's Child; A Comedy in Three Acts - John Coates (French's Acting Editions, 1947)
Dystopian humor about a dull, uniform society in which everyone should be serious about Social Duty. Each apartment has speakers that cannot be turned off that issue instructions in a revoltingly cheerful voice. Set in 1965.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Twenty-One Balloons - William [Sherman] Pène Du Bois (1916-93) (Viking, 1947)
Children's eutopia. Krakatoa before the volcano erupted is described as having a eutopian civilization with many nonsensical inventions and a social organization based on eating tastes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When Smuts Goes. A History of South Africa from 1952 to 2010, First Published in 2015 - Arthur [Mervyn] Keppel-Jones (b. 1909) (African Bookman, 1947)
Dystopian future history. The first stage is the establishment of a fascist system. After General Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950. Prime Minister 1919-24 and 1939-48) retires, the Nationalist Party, which wants to break with Britain and ensure White dominance, wins the election, which is what actually happened. The Communist Party is outlawed; trade unions are emasculated. Native and Asian political representation are abolished, and the election law is changed to guarantee the future dominance of the Nationalist Party. Education is "reformed" to reduce English-speaking and increase Afrikaans-speaking. Anti-Semitism. Mass emigration ("the Second Great Trek"), but Blacks are prohibited from leaving. Growing racial conflict. South Africa declares war on Britain, assuming neutrality from most nations and support from others, and is defeated by combined British and American forces. The system then collapses.
Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 1947. Includes a "Glossary of Afrikaans, Dutch and Bantu Words" (Gollancz 231-32)
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; South African author

The World The World Wants (A Sociocratic Order) - [Octavio] Felix Pedroso (d. 1944); Elizabeth Pedroso (np, 1947)
Detailed eutopia with one world-wide corporation, a universal language (English), one currency, and one flag. The World Corporation will own the productive resources of the world and will build a new city for its headquarters. Free education and health care.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Female author; Male author

The 21st Century Looks Back - Emanuel R[obert] Posnack (b. 1897) (The William-Frederick Press, 1946)
Reformed capitalist eutopia. The reforms stress improved and open transportation and communications. There is a Global Statistical Service, a free flow of manpower and goods, no monopolies, and a Global Stabilization Fund. There will be some world government, universal health care, and expanded education. Taxation is based on land values, following 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. See also 1942 Posnack and his World Without Barriers--A Perspective View of Our Present and Future in a World of Economic and Ideological Conflict. New York: William Morrow, 1956, which is mostly a critique of Communism but includes a brief summary of his alternative and its positive results.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bomb That Fell on America - Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964) (Pacific Coast Publishing, 1946)
Three part meditation on the effects of the atomic bomb on the future of America. The first two parts rehearse Hiroshima, to some extent justifying it, and the failures of Americans to be true Christians. The third part has the Lord proclaiming that America will lead the world to a eutopia of genuine Christian love.
Keywords: Male author

Death into Life - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1946)
Similar to other works by Stapledon in that it projects humanity into both the relatively near and very far future, to a time beyond humanity. This relatively short (159 pp) version follows "the spirit of man" from death during World War II to a period in which humans inhabit eight planets to the development of a "cosmic consciousness" into which humanity is absorbed. On the copyright page there is an author's note saying, "This fantasy is not a novel."
Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 91-251.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Epilogue - [Patrick] Beresford Egan (1905-84) (The Fortune Press, 1946)
Satire set in post-war Britain. Includes ludicrously detailed government regulation, e.g. permission is required to laugh.
Keywords: English author; Male author

God's Fool! - Frederick Ellsworth Wolf (New Age Publications, 1946)
A mother and son leave the Amana Colony to experience the life of the world. They experience poverty, war, and America's rejection of God and return to Amana, which they now see as better.
Keywords: Male author

The Golden Recovery Revealing A streamlined cooperative Economic System compiled from the best authorities of the World, both ancient and modern - Werter L[ivingston] Gross ([Murray & Gee], 1946)
While much of the novel concerns the life histories of three young men, two rich whites and one poor black, who were raised together, the novel builds to a final focus on an intentional community in Southern California based on the principles of Robert Owen (1771-1858). The hero is the African-American.
Keywords: Male author

"The Little Things" - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1946)
Future society perceived as a dystopia by the hero. In fact, it is a society designed to avoid war, and thus is a eutopia, but secrecy and some authoritarianism are necessary to achieve this end.
Rpt. in his Bypass to Otherness (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 101-14.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Living Lies" - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) (New Worlds: A Science Fiction Magazine of the Future, 1946)
Racial dystopia on Venus where there are many different skin colors.
Rpt. in Other Worlds Science Stories 2.4 (8) (November 1950): 96-130.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Maniac's Dream: A Novel of the Atomic Bomb - F[rederick] Horace Rose (1875-1965) (Duckworth, 1946)
Dystopia including a conspiracy of atheist scientists to use the atomic bomb. Much of it is set in Africa.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Mistress Masham's Repose - T[erence] H[anbury] White (1906-64) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946)
Young adult Gulliveriana. Gulliver brought some Lilliputians back with him, and they have settled on an island in a lake in a neglected estate. They are befriended by a young girl.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Mr. Adam - Pat [Harry Hart] Frank (1908-64) (J.B. Lippincott, 1946)
Dystopian satire with only one fertile man left alive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Summer in Three Thousand. Not a prophecy--A parable - Peter Martin [Leckie] (b. 1890?) (Quality Press, 1946)
Eutopia and dystopia. Half the world is a eutopia and half a dystopia. In the eutopia, the people live underground in a totally artificial world; care for the world above but do not exploit it. Although there are a few natural telepaths, most people have telepathy that is brought about by grafting cells to the brain at birth. Eugenics. The dystopia, Godsowncountry, is authoritarian, religious, and capitalist.
Keywords: Male author

"To-morrow" - Virgil St. C Eldridge (Pertinent: The Monthly Magazine of Foto-Fiction-Fact (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1946)
Brief poem describing a desolated future with nature beginning to reassert itself.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Two Trillion Immortals. Romance? Novel? Prophecy? Reality? Revelation? - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) (Hobson Book Press, 1946)
Sequel to 1940 Cruso. See also 1933 Cruso. The author says that the book is written for the white race, except Jews. Although the author suggests that a third world war is possible, he thinks that a new era is opening that will lead to a world eutopia. Some past and future history.
Keywords: Male author

Visit of the Princess: A Romance of the Nineteen-sixties - R[alph] H[ale] Mottram (1883-1971) (Hutchinson & Co, 1946)
Flawed utopia seen through a romance in what appears to be a dull, egalitarian dystopia but is also a society giving much better life chances to children.
Keywords: English author; Male author

What Farrar Saw - James Hanley (1901-85) (Nicholson & Watson, 1946)
Dystopia as a fantasy of post-war Britain with clogged highways and difficult class relations.
Rpt. in his What Farrar Saw and Other Stories (London: André Deutsch, 1984), 1-204.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Animal Farm; A Fairy Story - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) (Secker & Warburg, 1945)
Classic story of totalitarianism. See also 1964 Bond.
Rpt. as vol. 8 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davision. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with Appendix I “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm” (97-108); Appendix II “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm” (109-14); Appendix III “Orwell’s Radio Adaptation of Animal Farm” (115-95); and “Textual Note” (197-203). U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946. First illustrated edition, with illustrations by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. Rpt. with drawings by Quentin Blake. London: The Folio Society, 1984; and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson (iii-x) and one illus. by Frank Kelly Freas. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. 50th Anniversary Edition with illustrations by Ralph Steadman. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995, which includes “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (159-71) and “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm (173-80). The National Theatre produced a dramatization available as George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Adapted by Peter Hall with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell and music by Richard Peaslee. London: Methuen, 1985. A film was directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas (1955). A theatre version by Ian Wooldridge was adapted by Ivan Heng for Wild Rice (Singapore). As Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel. Illus. by Odyr [Bernardi] (b. 1967). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019. Originally published in Portuguese as A Revolução dos Bichos. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Schwarcz S.A., 2018.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Back to Nature - R[obert] W[illiam] Alexander (Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd, 1945)
Two hundred men and two hundred women leave a future eutopia to establish a more primitive life based on marriage and the family that they believe to be better than the eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Benevolent Despot - David Lynn (Kangaroo Books, 1945)
Humor presenting a benevolent despot as leading to a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Destiny Times Three" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1945)
The future earth is split into three. One is a flawed utopia, which is supposed to be peaceful and joyful, but is stagnant; one is an authoritarian dystopia; and one is a destroyed landscape ruled by intelligent cats.
Rpt. in Five Science Fiction Novels. Comp. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1952), 110-203); as Galaxy Novel 28. New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1952; and in Binary Star # 1 (New York: Dell, 1978), 7-150. The most recent reprint has an "Afterword" by Norman Spinrad (150-55).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Happy Turning - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (William Heinemann, 1945)
Presented as taking place in Dreamland, which is a eutopia. Primarily concerned with religion. Discussions with Jesus who attacks Christianity and Paul in particular. Says he did not die and spent the rest of his life as a carpenter.
Rpt. in The Last Books of H.G. Wells. The Happy Turning and Mind at the End of its Tether. Ed. G.P. Wells ([London]: H.G. Wells Society, 1982), 19-52 with an “Appendix The Writing of the Last Books” by the editor (79-80).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Heir Unapparent" - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1945)
An authoritarian dystopia, which, under a fairly benevolent dictatorship, has generally established peace and prosperity. is facing various individuals who want to replace the dictator.
Rpt. in his Away and Beyond (New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952), 156-86; U.K. ed. (London: Panther, 1963), 100-23.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Lost Government; or, Do You Really Like It? A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups - Jiri Weiss (1913-2004) (Nicholson & Watson, 1945)
Satire. After World War II a government in exile returns, finds that the people have taken over and have no need for them, and leaves.
Keywords: Czech author; English author; Male author

The Man Who Missed the War - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) (Hutchinson, 1945)
Lost race authoritarian dystopia that practices human sacrifice set in a temperate area of Antarctica with a battle rather like Armageddon (See Revelation 16) at the end.
Rpt. in his Worlds Far From Here (London: Hutchinson, [1954]), 334-743; and separately London: Arrow Books, 1959.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Millennium 1 - W[illiam] A[ddison] Dwiggins (1880-1956) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1945)
Dystopian play. Machines that have developed thought and reason revolt against human control. At the beginning humans live hiding in caves, but they struggle to defeat the machines and ultimately win.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mural" - F[rancis] R[eginald] Scott (1889-1985) (Overture, 1945)
A poem depicting an apparently perfect world brought about through science, but the tone is satirical.
Rpt. in his Selected Poems (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1966), 68-69.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

New Thoughts for a New World - Bert[ram Wilson] Huffman (1870-1953) (Author, 1945)
Three poems. “The Poet’s Dream Come True” [2] sees the return of a everyday, workingman Christ and the coming of the millennium. “O, Bells of Freedom” [3] is a plea for people to respond to the “Bells of Freedom” and build a eutopia. “When the Tumult Dies” [4] questions whether at war’s end people will create a “World at Peace” or more “Hatred.” T
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pattern for a Railroad for Tomorrow: 1960 - Edward Hungerford (Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1945)
U.S. rail system of the future with illustrations of trains, stations, and routes for both intercity and urban traffic, and timetables. The author calls it a Utopia.
Keywords: Male author

Prelude to Peace - [Frederick Rand] [Rogers] (b. 1894) (North American Physical Fitness Institute Bulletin 10, 1945)
Eutopia. Unification under one world leader chosen by the best educators, who, with priests, are ineligible. The leader can be removed by the priests. One language, one religion. No competition. Cooperative commonwealth with government restrictions on the choice of occupation and geographic movement. Restrictions on freedom of speech and press.
Keywords: Male author

That Hideous Strength, A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown Ups - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1945)
Final volume of a trilogy about the struggle between the forces of good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16). Traditional marriage with the woman obedient is stressed. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1943 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis.
Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Abr. as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) (Jonathan Cape, 1945)
Classic body-eutopia. According to the “Author’s Note” (6-7) it was written in 1933 in Russia and lost; he rewrote it in 1944. Both versions were “escape[s] from the pressure of reality” (7).
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Hungarian author; Male author

"Utopia 1995" - Alan Dunn (1900-74) (A Bird’s-Eye View of the Postwar World, 1945)
Humor on the problems of the technological future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Waveries" - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1945)
The loss of all electrical power produces a U.S. of small town eutopias.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 7-26; and in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 212-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Anarch" - Malcolm Jameson (1891-1945) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1944)
An authoritarian, conformist dystopia is transformed into a democratic, individualist eutopia. Mostly on the dystopia and the transition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Arctic Bride" - Sterner St. Paul Meek (1894-1972) (American Fiction, 1944)
The eutopia occupies 29 pages of a 36-page pamphlet and is one of peace, plenty, and immortality at the North Pole. The nude woman on the cover of the Utopian Publications ed. appears to have nothing to do with the contents.
Repub. separately London: Utopian Publications, 1944.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Black Dawn - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) (Hutchinson & Co, 1944)
In the dystopia of the post-war world most countries had been destroyed, but a world confederation begins to be formed led by the Anglo-Saxon Confederation.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Common Sense. Is It Wrong To Be Right? Is It Right to Be Wrong? - [Hugo Cyril K.] [Baruch] (b. 1907) (Modern Art Gallery, Ltd, 1944)
Anti-capitalist essay that presents some elements of a eutopia presented through a series of negatives, such as "No nations", No money", and "No state or other authority". There will be only one law, "possession other than for personal need is a crime."
Keywords: Male author

Days after Tomorrow: A Voice from 2000 A.D - Frank R[obinson] Kerr (b. 1889) (Robertson & Mullens, 1944)
Eutopia. World federation with a powerful world Parliament. Religious. Stresses science and education.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Future of Man; A Study in Human Possibilities. Translated from the Original Manuscript by S.L. Salzedo - [Ernst] [Frankenstein] (b. 1881) (Nicholson & Watson, 1944)
An essay that is mostly about the current situation. Part describes a detailed world eutopia based on the author's understanding of ethics. Stresses the rights of individuals. Laws expire unless renewed. Focus on education. A few hours of required work. Birth control and small families.
Keywords: Male author

The Green Isle of the Great Deep - Neil M[iller] Gunn (1891-1973) (Faber and Faber, 1944)
Heaven as an authoritarian dystopia. Takeover by those attempting to achieve social perfection while God is busy meditating. Same characters as his Young Art and Old Hector. London: Faber and Faber,1942.
Rpt. [London]: Souvenir Press, 1975; and Edinburgh, Scot.: Polygon, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Homes or Hovels: The Housing Problem and Its Solution - George Woodcock (1912-95) (Freedom Press, 1944)
An anarchist approach to housing. The author rejects what he says are overly detailed utopias, but then goes on to give a detailed description of housing, which will mostly apartments/flats, an emphasis on neighborhoods, and few large cities.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

John Smith, Emperor - S[erapio] G[onzalez] Gallego (1883-1944) (Guild Press, 1944)
Authoritarian eutopia in which everything considered immoral is illegal. The examples given are "1. Divorce. 2. Indecent prints, books, or magazines. 3. Publications of a blasphemous nature or those that vilify the religious beliefs of others. 4. Moving pictures which violate public decency and tend to wrongly influence the people, together with immoral theatrical and indecent night club performances. 5. Books that glorify crime in any form" (39-40). According to the "Foreword", the eutopia is based on the "Peace Program of Pope Pius XII" (1876-1958. Pope 1939-58).
Keywords: Male author; Spanish author; US author

The Lights Were Going Out - Arthur Guirdham (1905-92) (Quality Press, 1944)
The dystopia that will follow peace without victory with the National Socialists gaining influence over Britain and the U.S.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Old Man in New World - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (George Allen & Unwin, 1944)
Socialist eutopia that encourages diversity and individuality as seen by an old revolutionist who is not entirely comfortable in the world the revolution created. World federation.
Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 253-82; and in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 42-60.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Outward Urge. A Novel - [Alec] Richard Lea (1907-2003) (Rich & Cowan, 1944)
Starts with an authoritarian dystopia with various forms of direct control and London something like a concentration camp. By the end of the novel, the worst of the dystopia is gone and, while not a eutopia, there is a good society in contrast with the recent past.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Peace in Nobody's Time - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) (Hutchinson, 1944)
Satire. Dictatorship with some socialist elements like the abolition of money and the introduction of labor coupons. The stress is on going to extremes to cure social ills. Nudists were required to be nude all the time, which stopped them from being nudists. Marriage was abolished, and the people demanded its reinstatement. Pornography was legalized and disappeared.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author

Phantom Victory; The Fourth Reich 1945-1960 - Erwin [Christian] Lessner (1898-1959) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1944)
Dystopia. German officers form an underground after defeat and conquer the world.
Keywords: Austrian author; Male author; US author

A Proposed World Government - George A. Birdsall (The Shaw Press, 1944)
Proposed new world government including a detailed constitution with many of its structure based on the U.S. Constitution (85-110). National militaries will be disbanded. A world currency will be gradually adopted. “American English” will be the basis of the official world language. “Six Musts” are specified: a World Congress; a World Court; a World Police Force under Congressional control; continuing inspection to ensure disarmament; safeguards against too much power in one nation, group, or person; and the entire world must be included.
Keywords: Male author

"Realities" - Leslie Rubenstein (1902?-78) (Dreams and Realities, 1944)
Eutopia brought about by a planned settlement similar to garden cities. Considerable detail of acreage and layout is given, and there is a map showing part of the planned city. There is information on housing, health care, and other aspects of community life. The author also depicts fictionalized supporters and skeptics. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Renaissance" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1944)
Dystopia. A device that allows people to be transferred to another planet is used by the dominant powers, called the Statists, on Earth to get rid of all the scientists and independent thinkers. But some find their way back and a struggle for control begins with the possibility of a renaissance on Earth.
Repub. as Renaissance: A Science Fiction Novel of Two Human Worlds. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Gnome, 1951. Rpt. as Man of Two Worlds: A Science Fiction Novel. New York: Pyramid Books, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Riddle of the Tower - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947); Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) (Hutchinson, 1944)
A number of past and future societies are presented from an anti-utopian perspective. The focus of the novel is on the horrors of communalism.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

That Would Be Living: A new outlet for Capital and Character - W. J. Keith Hughes (Invitation to Life, 1944)
Eutopia. Describes the establishment in Britain of Delectavale, the Workers' Co-operative Society. Both communal buildings and private homes. Ultimately the author proposes a world government led by the Mundists and suggest many reforms.
Aldham, Essex, Eng. Mundist Press_
Keywords: Male author

Threefold Democracy - Walter Shaw Lang (Wright & Jaques, 1944)
Detailed non-fiction eutopia. Influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy. The threefold division is into a sphere of freedom, a sphere of rights, and a sphere of economics. Stress on economics, including the R-L Plan for a sinking fund. Workers should ultimately be able to own the enterprises in which they work.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Worlds Beginning - Robert Ardrey (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944)
The successful struggle to create a eutopia based on a complex new form of industry that gives workers partial ownership of the company and, it is argued, the incentive to do their best work. Set in the U.S. twenty years after World War II, which had been followed by industrial, class, and racial conflict, leading to a year called "the terror".
U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The 1946 Ms - Robin [Robert Cecil Romer] Maugham [2nd Viscount Maugham] (1916-81) (War Facts Press, 1943)
Describes the origins and development of a military dictatorship in England that becomes a fascist dystopia. On the last page the author says that the dictators do not exist and, "This story was written so that they never will exist and so that Britons never will be slaves".
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of The Better World - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) (Faber and Faber, 1943)
Alice in Wonderland fantasy discussion of plans for and problems of post-war Britain. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements with the plans of the Labour Party presented most positively.
Keywords: English author; Male author

America's Sin Offering; The Budget Balancer - Zori, Henri (Bruce Humphries, 1943)
Satire on politics and bureaucracy. SMAISM = Scions of SMA or Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Proposes an absurd twenty-third amendment to the U.S. Constitution that requires all citizens to sacrifice a boar, specifically a White-Lipped Peccary, on a specific day each year. Contains explanations of the many regulations needed.
Keywords: Male author

Anno Domini 1963 - Finigan, G. Lysaght (Direct Publicity Co, 1943)
Successful democracy with many reforms such as government paying 60% of overseas travel, extensive building of hospitals, and world-wide price stability. Based on Christianity and the family and brought about by women becoming active in politics and unions.
Keywords: Male author

"Captain Marvel Finds Utopia" - Bill [William H.] Parker (author); C[harles] C[larence] Beck (artist) (Whiz Comics (New York), 1943)
Captain Marvel traces a Nazi to Utopia.
Keywords: Male author

Cities of the Plain: A Democratic Melodrama - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) (Grey Walls Press, 1943)
Anti-capitalist dystopia and revolt. A one act play showing a town run for profit with no concern for the workers who, mining radium, will die to provide a profit for the owners. See also 1961, 1980 and 1989 Comfort. While the author is best known for his books on sexual technique like The Joy of Sex (1972), his career ranged through fiction, poetry, anarchist theory, the biology of aging, and geriatric psychology. For an extremely detailed biography, see Eric Laursen, Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort Author of the Joy of Sex. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 740 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Clash By Night" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1943)
Dystopia. Permanent war among mercenaries on Venus.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

From Earth to Mars - J[ohn] W[inton] Heming (1900-1953) (Currawong Publishing, 1943)
Detailed eutopia on Mars based on reason and logic, which leads to complete equality, including gender equality, a credit card system of exchange, limited work hours, and the abolition of elected officials. High technology.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Future Revealed in the Wisdom of Chiska Ru. An Unbiased Stranger Guides the Discussion . . . - Ralph Fuller (Atlas Printers, 1943)
A Martian visits Earth to learn about conditions there, which was, of course, at war at the time. Mars is a cooperative eutopia with a significant focus on education.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Gather, Darkness!" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1943)
Religious dystopia ruled by hereditary priests who work in twos so they can spy on each other. There is a rigid class system of religious and commoners, and the majority are controlled by keeping them ignorant. Something of a response to 1941 Heinlein.
Repub. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950. Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951; New York: Berkley Medallion, [1962]; New York: Pyramid, 1969; New York: Ballantine Books, 1975; and Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Gladiators" - Walt Dennis; Ernest Tucker (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1943)
Dystopia. After wars had devastated the earth, the remaining population inhabited two domes of 25,000 people each with a third dome of forest. Twice a year gladiators provided entertainment by fighting to the death in the third dome as representatives of one of the inhabited domes. Most people led dull, boring lives, and the gladiators and other entertainers provided the only breaks in the monotony. The gladiators and entertainers revolt and are expelled from the domes, only to discover that the earth had recovered.
Keywords: Male author