The Jagged Orbit - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ace Books, 1969)
Dystopia of violence in which it is necessary to be armed on the street.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Jamboree" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1969)
Dystopia in which machines rule violently. Only robots can have books; boys and girls kept separate.
Rpt. in A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), 40-49; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 25-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kark - [James] [Pattinson] (1915-2009) (Robert Hale, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 21st century London. The powerful Ministry of Internal Security and the police are more concerned with political opposition than crime and, as a result, criminals rule the streets.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Continent - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Dell, 1969)
Advanced blacks from Mars return to Earth and find primitive whites in a tropical Antarctica. Interracial conflict and interracial love.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. Rpt. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Light a Last Candle - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) (Rapp & Whiting, 1969)
Dystopia of alien invaders who have created mutated humans. The few normal people are outlaws. The focus of the novel is on the struggle.
Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971
Keywords: English author; Male author

Looking Forward - Kenneth S. Keyes Jr. (1921-95); Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (A.S.Barnes\Thomas Yoseloff, 1969)
Technological eutopia. "Part II A Projection of Our Future" (87-195) is a computer-based eutopia using atomic power. Government replaced by computers. Extensive genetic engineering. Production and distribution computer controlled, and no industrial work for people. Human work is administrative and creative. People sleep little. Extremely healthy with constant automated health checks at home. No Money. The third part, "Looking Forward," is a single chapter, "Education for Change". See also 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lovely - David Meltzer (1937-2016) (Essex House, 1969)
A dystopian pornographic series depicting a future bureaucratic, militaristic dystopia in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Message Ends - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) (Jonathan Cape, 1969)
Mostly adventure focusing on a dystopian future Ministry of Information. Related to 1968 and 1970 Tucker.
Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World by Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships. Wherein the Author returns and finds a New State of Liberal Horses and Revolting Yahoos - Matthew [John Caldwell] Hodgart ed. [written by] (1916-96) (Duckworth, 1969)
Satire on the Sixties using 1726 Swift.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

No Time Like Tomorrow - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) (Crown, 1969)
Corporate, authoritarian dystopia in the future. Classified as Young Adult.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Ordinary Man - Mel[vin Angelo] Arrighi (1933-86) (Dramatists Play Service, 1969)
Authoritarian, bureaucratic, racist dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Peter H. Wyden, 1970. U.K. ed. London: Allan Wingate, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Paradise Man: A Black and White Farce - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) (Rapp and Whiting, 1969)
Dystopia of racial turmoil. Constant conventional war by international agreement to keep economies going.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Perspective Process - Cyril Donson (1919-86) (Robert Hale, 1969)
Eutopia with women in power in The Harmony of World States. Population controlled, long life, no disease, and safety.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Practical Utopia for the Region. Seminar Two Resource Paper for Conference 2020 Building the Future Environment--an Atlantic Region Perspective to the year 2020, January 30 and 31 at the Waldorf Astoria, New York - David A. Wallace (Np, 1969)
A speculative essay on positive changes possible for the middle Atlantic region of the U.S.
Keywords: Male author

The Prisoner - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Ace Books, 1969)
Novel depicting the dystopia of the famous television series. See also 1969 McDaniel and 1970 Stine. For the series see Matthew White and Jeffer Ali, The Official Prisoner Companion. New York: Warner Books, 1988; and Dave Rogers, "The Prisoner." In his Danger Man & The Prisoner (London: Boxtree, 1989), 129-254.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1979. Rpt. London: NEL, 1980; in The Prisoner Omnibus (London: Carlton Books, 2002), 4-177; and London: Penguin Books, 2009. While the 2009 edition says that it was first published in the U.S. by Carlton International Media, the book copyright is 1969 and the television series copyright is 1967 by Independent Television Ltd (ITV), and, although one source says it was first published in hardcover in 1967, I have been unable to identify a copy of the 1967 publication. A second, shorter series was produced in 2009 by the U.S. cable network AMC and ITV.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rakehells of Heaven - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright & Talley, 1969)
Satire--promiscuity, anarchy, nudity, and a return to nature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Roach - Gil Lamont (b. 1947) (Essex House, 1969)
Dystopian background to fairly mild pornography. The dystopia includes a book factory where people are programmed to constantly produce what is essentially the same plots.
Keywords: Male author

Sexmax - [George H.] [Leonard] (1921-94) (Paperback Library, 1969)
Computer dystopia with sexual relations chosen by computer. Emphasis on pleasure but with the usual rebels.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shades of Time; A Science-Fiction Novella - William A Darity Jr. (b. 1953) (The William-Frederick Press, 1969)
Future with a series of eutopias and dystopias, all very technologically advanced. Begins with a near eutopia of reason combined with the recognition of the need for passion and exercise. A dystopia of humanity controlled by superior intellects becomes a flawed utopia. It all turns out to be an induced dream.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (Little, Brown, 1969)
Near future racial conflict in the U.S. when African Americans begin to fight back. Presented as a positive development.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1973,
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Spook Who Sat By the Door - Sam[uel Eldred] Greenlee [Jr.] (1930-2014) (P.W. Baron, 1969)
Black revolution in the U.S. in which the gangs of Chicago are organized into a disciplined fighting unit.
U.K. ed. London: Allison & Busby, 1969. An excerpt was published in The Observer Magazine (March 9, 1969): 46-51.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Strangers in Paradise - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) (Tower Publications, 1969)
Mostly adventure but includes a dystopian city that is a large slum.
U.K. ed. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Teenocracy - Robert Shirley (Ace Books, 1969)
Dystopia of teenagers ruling.
Keywords: Male author

Teg's 1994; An Anticipation of the Near Future - Robert Theobald (1929-99); J[ean] M. Scott ([Theobald and Scott], 1969)
Detailed eutopia based on ecology, personal growth, and interpersonal communication. Problems remain, and the author's say, "In our opinion, Teg's world would make a very poor Utopia for anybody" (x, 1972 ed.). See also 1968 Theobald and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
New ed. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Terminus - Michael Perkins (b. 1942) (Essex House, 1969)
Overpopulation dystopia as the vehicle for mild pornography. Mostly sex but some racial and personal violence. Authoritarian state.
Keywords: Male author

"Therapy 2000" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Writings in S-F, 1969)
Dystopia. Overpopulated but the focus is on constant TV and constant noise. One man chooses to be deaf.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Transplant - Weatherhead, John (George G. Harrap, 1969)
Transplant dystopia focusing on doctors with too much power.
Keywords: Male author

The Ulcer Culture - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) (Macdonald Science Fiction, 1969)
Dystopia that is divided between the Uppers and the workers with the workers controlled through the distribution of Joy Juice (hallucinogenic drugs), but someone has been tampering with the drugs.
Rpt. as Stained Glass World. London: New English Library, 1976
Keywords: English author; Male author

A View of Century 21 - Walter Orr Roberts (1915-90) (The Claremont Colleges, 1969)
Mostly prediction but includes a technological eutopia. In “A View of The Future--A Fictional Preview” (20-27) Los Angeles has banned the internal combustion engine, highways are automated. Large buildings house both companies and their workers with 300,000 people living in a single building. Free underground public transportation. The distinction between weekdays and weekends has been abolished and everyone works four days out of the seven. Schools are largely computerized with access twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and students work at their own pace. Medical care and finances will also be mostly computerized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"We All Die Naked" - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Three for Tomorrow, 1969)
Pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Weisman Experiment - [Douglas Rankine] [Mason] (1918-2013) (Dennis Dobson, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia ruled by "The Meritocracy" trying to suppress an early experiment that suggested the importance of liberty and equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

“The Wind in the Snottygobble Tree” - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) (New Worlds, 1969)
Satire on a police state.
Keywords: Male author

"The Year of the Sex Olympics" - [Thomas] Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) (The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other TV Plays, 1969)
Dystopian satire focusing on the power of television, which is used to encourage apathy and keep people from producing more children in the overpopulated world by broadcasting sexual athletics to suggest to people that since they cannot perform that well, they should give up sex.
Keywords: English author; Male author

1993: The World of Tomorrow - Paul Orr; Violet Orr (1918-76) (Pacific Progress Publishers, 1968)
Detailed socialist eutopia stressing decentralization set in the Los Angeles area. Some technological advances. Some technological advances. Sleeper wakes motif with a died-in-the-wool capitalist waking in a socialist future.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Agency - David Meltzer (1937-2016) (Essex House, 1968)
A dystopian pornographic trilogy presenting a powerful sexual underground and its political and personal connections. Followed by his The Agent. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 107-210; and his How Many Blocks in a Pile. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 211-322.
Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 3-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Alias Man - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) (Jonathan Cape, 1968)
Britain is a satellite of Moscow, the U.S. is isolationist, and a Soviet-Bonn bloc forms and comes to control Europe. See also 1969 and 1970 Tucker.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) (The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968)
Poem. A computer Cockaigne but with an element of irony.
Rpt. (New York: Delta, 1968): 1.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Alternative Future for America. Essays and Speeches - Robert Theobald (1929-99) (Swallow, 1968)
Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 Theobald and Scott and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
2nd ed. as An Alternative Future for America II. Essays and Speeches. Ed. Noel McInnis. Chicago, IL: Swallow, 1970. Parts that had been previously published were rpt. in the 1st ed. as follows: “The Problem” (17-21) originally published as “The Revolution of the ‘Powerless’.” The Los Angeles Times (September 8, 1967), Part 2, p. 5; “The Guaranteed Income” (93-131) was originally published in the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Guaranteed Income, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, December 9, 1966; “The Communications City” (132-44) was originally published in The Christian Century (March 27, 1968): 385-88; “Green Force” (145-50) was originally published as “Green Force: A Mechanism to Speed Urban Peace.” The Los Angeles Times (March 12, 1968), Part 2, p. 5; and “Education for a New Time” (151-63) was originally published in Journal (Division of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) 5.6 (March 1967): 3-7. Parts that had been previously published but not included in the 1st ed. were rpt. in the 2nd ed. as follows: “Incredible man and His Credible Future.” Reflection. A Journal of Opinion at (Yale Divinity School (November 1967): 1-5; “Women” (85-96) originally published in Dialogue on Women (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1967), 11-17 [In the original, the piece is described as being by unidentified editors, but there is no mention of anyone else in the reprint]; “Ecology: A Dangerous Crusade” (151-56) was originally published "War on Pollution Could Backfire." The Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1970). Part G, p. 7; and “Freedom in Education” (157-81) was originally published in Journal (Council of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) (April 1969): 10-16. Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Among the Bad Baboons" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Dystopia of violence in depopulated cities and an “Ultra-welfare state” where everyone gets an “Inalienable Basic” income outside the cities. Reynolds uses this trope in a number of novels and stories. This story focuses on a couple trying to survive in New York City.
Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 135-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anthropol - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) (Ace Books, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia of gender-role reversal with women ruling men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) (Heinemann, 1968)
Dystopia of the contemporary Congo.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

The Call of the Planets - James Ernest William Patterson (A. J. Chapple, 1968)
Jupiter as a eutopia. No racial prejudice. Women remain beautiful throughout life. Calm, serene inner life. Equality.
Keywords: Male author

"Camp Concentration" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a prison. A war is ongoing, and the protagonist is a conscientious objector.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1971; and New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Carder's Paradise - Malcolm Levene (1937-1973) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
The novel includes two dystopias. In one, a computer dominated world, there is no work because it might upset the economy. As a result, people have too much leisure and degenerate. The second, which is the focus of the novel, is an island prison, and the two main characters are a prisoner, Carder, who wants to take over the prison, and the mentally ill prison governor.
U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1969.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Catharsis Central - [Anthony Allert] [Thompson] (b. 1939) (Dennis Dobson, 1968)
Computer dystopia. A computer has a unit that records dreams and sends back soothing messages to each individual. Everyone must eat what is best for their current state of health. Struggle for control of the machine, and its destruction frees humanity to start over.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Conquest by Default" - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1968)
Libertarian eutopia that presents a violent society as positive because no group can get large enough to hold formal power.
Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Vol. 2 Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry Pournelle with John F. Carr (New York: Baen, 1987), 252-89; in Vinge, Threats . . . and Other Promises (New York: Baen, 1988), 30-71; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 159-86 with notes by the author.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Curious Culture of the Planet Loretta - William J. Palmer (Vantage Press, 1968)
Capitalist eutopia with an area set aside for social experimentation, which experiments, generally being socialist, fail. Stress on responsibility.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day of the Coastwatch - Philip McCutchan (1920-96) (Harrap, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia of the New Socialist State. Leaving is illegal, thus the coastwatch.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Day of the Republic - Geoff[rey] Taylor (b. 1920) (Peter Davies, 1968)
Dystopia depicting Australia on the day it became a republic under what is essentially a fascist dictatorship. The novel is presented from the point of view of those preparing the last issue of the last independent newspaper as all opposition is being suppressed. Ends with nuclear war.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Dead to the World" - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) (New Writings in S-F, 1968)
Dystopian satire. Computer and robot controlled world and the effect on a man whose identity card is accidentally marked deceased.
Rpt. in New Writings in S-F 8. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 125-42; and in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 3-15.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Divided House" - [John Thomas] [Phillifent] (1916-76) (New Writings in S-F, 1968)
Dystopia. A world of dreamers versus doers. The doers are in power and logic controls. The dreamers are serfs.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1968)
Post-catastrophe dystopia.  Basis of the 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott (b. 1937) with a screenplay by Hampton Fancher (b. 1938) and David Peoples (b. 1940). The screenplay by Fancher was published Hollywood: Script City, 1981. Unrelated to 1974 Nourse. See 1995 Jeter.
Rpt. in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan [Allen] Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 431-608. “Notes” 828-29. Rpt. as Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. During his lifetime Dick refused to allow the title change. Graphic Novel version as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6 vols. Art Tony Parker, Colors Blond, Letters Richard Starkings of Comicraft, Cover Bill Sienkiewicz, Ed. Ian Brill [vol. 1 only] and Bryce Carlson, Design Stephanie Gonzaga. Los Angeles, CA: Boom Studios, 2009-11.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dome - [Thomas Frederick] Gonnar Jones (Faber & Faber, 1968)
Dystopia of a machine that can project feelings into the brain.
Keywords: Male author

The Doomsday Men - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) (Doubleday, 1968)
Dystopia in a future U.S. where fear of nuclear war has led to the collapse of most cities and people live spread across the landscape served by machines. One city remains as a center of pleasure, but seemingly mindless violence erupts.
Rpt. New York: Curtis Books/Modern Literary Editions, nd. U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Shorter version in If 15.11 (November 1965): 102-59
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Earth is Mine - Luther Cox (Exposition Press, 1968)
UFO story. Technologically advanced eutopia that had evolved from a former earth people. No money; take what you need. Everyone works for two months and then goes to school for a month, with everyone trying to keep up in all fields. Synthetic food. Eugenics; artificial insemination. Religious.
Keywords: Male author

"Epilogue: Not Quite Utopia" - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). (The Most Probable World, 1968)
Brief but detailed eutopia set in 2001. One focus is that the world is completely free of new pollution and almost all the badly polluted areas of the past have been cleaned up. Use of petroleum products radically reduced and replaced with nuclear fusion power. No advertising in newspapers or on TV. No private cars in Manhattan, radical reduction in city population, and half of New York City is open space. Electric vehicles standard. Strong United Nations, which has relocated to an island in the Indian Ocean. World language as well as local languages. See also 1928 and 1975 Chase.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Father of the Nation - Laurence Walter Clark (Veracity Ventures, 1968)
England failing due to party influence and socialist policy, but it is saved by a revival of a Parliament that rids the country of big government.
Keywords: Male author

"The Feasibility Plan" - Earl Conrad (1912-86) (The Da Vinci Machine; Tales of the Population Explosion, 1968)
Humor on job creation during a time of automation. Pencil sharpeners, wastebasket emptiers, and clock watchers are among the jobs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fistful of Digits - Christopher [Glazebrook] Hodder-Williams (1926-95) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968)
Computer-dominated authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Five to Twelve - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1968)
Sex-role reversal dystopia brought about by the popularity of birth control. The novel focuses on a man who is constantly in conflict with the system.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Gift from Earth - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
Transplant dystopia showing the power of doctors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The God Machine. A Novel - Martin Caidin (1927-97) (E. P. Dutton, 1968)
Computer dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Baen, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Leap Backward - Robert Green (b. 1935?) (McClelland & Stewart, 1968)
Contrast between a dystopia of automated cities and a naturalist countryside.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Guide to Survival - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) (Tyndale House/Coverdale House/Salem Kirban, Inc., 1968)
The dystopia that will follow the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) and surviving it. Antichrist and Armageddon (See Revelation 16). His Your Last Goodbye. Huntingdon Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969 is similar. See also 1970, 1974 Kirban; and Kirban’s Book of Charts on Prophecy. Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969. Kirban published around fifty books on these and related subjects.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Helmet of Hades" - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) (New Writings in S-F, 1968)
Dystopia on a planet where a drink that makes everyone blind is distilled from a plant. One man follows the old adage that in the land of the bind the one eyed man is king and blind everyone except a few acolytes and enslaves the blind. The protagonist is a man sent to the planet that had not been heard from recently and is blinded but rebels and violently overthrows the regime and frees the one man who had previously rebelled. The result is the opposite of what he expected.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

I, The Machine - Paul W[arren) Fairman (1916-77) (Lancer Books, 1968)
Machine dystopia with a single rebel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) (Writing 21, 1968)
Eutopia on the Cockaigne model.
Rpt. New York: Delta, 1968. UK. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Invasion - John [Warwick] [Dalrymple-]Hay (b. 1928) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968)
Dystopia created by the invasion of Australia by the South East Asian Republic. At the end of the novel, following the destruction of Australia, a racially mixed group (Aboriginal, Chinese, and white Australian) are living a simple existence trying to start over.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) (Faber and Faber, 1968)
Book written for children in which a giant made of iron defeats a space monster, who then circles the Earth singing. The experience unifies the world and brings peace. See also 1993 Hughes.
Rpt. without the subtitle illus. by George Adamson. London: Faber and Faber, 1971; and illus. by Andrew Davidson. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Rpt. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Another U.S. ed. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. Illus. Dirk Zimmer (1943-2008). New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War - [Bruce Allen] [Powe] (b. 1925) (Peter Martin Associates, 1968)
See the subtitle.
Rpt. with a "Foreword." Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1972; and with a brief "a Word from the Author." Markham, ON, Canada: Paperjacks, 1977.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Ladies' Day - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Belmont Books, 1968)
Gender-role reversal dystopia. Woman had taken over after another war. A revolt of men is put down, but a movement toward equality is beginning.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Land of the Moobs - Seymour O. Kopf (Ptd. by the South China Morning Post, 1968)
Satire in which the inhabitants of the Moon, called Moobs, are divided into Royalists and Rebels. The Rebel society is run by a Chief Bureaucrat, who is corrupt and power-hungry. War between Rebels and Royalists. "Spoilers" is a dystopia in which Communists control most of the world and many religious groups were forced to migrate to the moon.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Starship from Earth - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright and Talley, 1968)
Eugenic dystopia and the struggle against it. Science rules. Everyone is classified according to their talents and can only marry within their caste.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lines of Power: We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1968)
Conflict between two visions of a better life, one technologically based and one off the grid. The law requires that every community above a certain very small size must be provided with electrical power whether it is wanted or not.
Rpt. as “We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line.” In his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352. Rpt. (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 139-90. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-84. Rpt. Illus. Michael Sorkin. in his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352; rpt. illus. Michael Sorkin (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-83; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 155-222; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 122-81.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Little Big Mouth: The Story of a Little Girl Who Became Prime Minister - Neil Rowe (1941-2003) (Cockerel Print, 1968)
A little girl who talks constantly and becomes known as "Little Big Mouth" but no one listened. When the Prime Minister couldn't talk, she was made PM because she was the only person who could talk constantly and only by talking constantly could politicians ensure that no one listened. She chose to say nothing, which kept the politicians from doing their usual stupid things. When the PM recovered his voice and tried to throw her out, the people rose up and demanded that she become PM; she agreed.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

The Lucifer Cell - [Ian Campbell] [McDougal (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia with a background of Britain as occupied by China.
U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Mercenary from Tomorrow - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1968)
Future dystopia of boredom, drugs, and television wars.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1969 as an Ace Double with his Five Way Secret Agent (1969); and New York: Ace Books, 1975. Expanded as by Reynolds with [Alan Gould (b. 1951) as Joe Mauser: Mercenary From Tomorrow. By Reynolds and  Michael [A.] Banks [pseud.]. New York: Baen Books, 1986. Earlier, shorter version as “Mercenary.” Analog Fact--Science Fiction 69.2 (April 1962): 6-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ministry of Procreation - [Nevil Tronchin] [James] (Robert Hale, 1968)
Satire on bureaucracy.
Keywords: Male author

Neocracy; A Plan for Social Order and Co-operative Capitalism - Frank Herman Young (b. 1895) (Exposition Press, 1968)
Eutopia. "Neocracy is co-operative capitalism utilizing representative rule of the people, by the people, for the people, in both business and government" (119). Guaranteed employment through United American Enterprises.
Keywords: Male author

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

Of Men and Monsters - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
In the far future, after earth has been successfully invaded by huge aliens, human beings live like mice in the walls of the alien’s houses. The social system is complex, tribal based, and focuses on survival and striking back at the aliens. The status system was dual in male and female lines although there were variations between tribes. Large numbers of children always gave status. Women kept alive what little knowledge there was largely through ritual and taboo.
Rpt. in Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume II Ed. James A. Mann and Mary C. Tabasko (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 389-534 with an “Afterword” on 535-37. Part originally appeared as “The Men in the Wall.” Galaxy 22.1 (October 1963): 8-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Omnivore - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
Science fiction novel set on both an over-regulated Earth and a planet being explored. The dystopian parts are mostly background.
U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Past Master - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Ace Books, 1968)
A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40).  U. K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pavane - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (Doubleday, 1968)
Alternative history. Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the 20th century.
Rpt. New York Ace Books, 1968; rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1984. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Abr. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Rpt. London: Panther, 1970. First published as a series of stories--“Pavane.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 127-60; “Pavane: The Lady Anne.” Impulse 1.2 (April 1966): 4-47; rev. as “The Lady Margaret” in the rev. ed. and rpt. under that title in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 637-43; with an editor’s note on 637; “Brother John.” Impulse 1.3 (May 1966): 47-81; “Pavane: Lords and Ladies.” Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 70-101; “Pavane: Corfe Gate.” Impulse 1.5 (July 1966): 7-68; and “Pavane: The White Boat.” New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 169 ([December 1966]): 73-95.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pendulum - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Simon and Schuster, 1968)
An authoritarian religious dystopia develops out of a collapsing British economy and dysfunctional government.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The People Trap" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance (New York: Dell, 1968), 7-26. and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 347-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Proposition 31 - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (New American Library, 1968)
A version of Rimmer's sexual eutopia. Proposition 31, found on page 255, would legalize group marriage and the novel is about one such foursome. The novel includes the design for a house that reflects the new way of living. See also 1966, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ring - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934); Robert E[rvien] Margroff (1930-2015) (Ace Books, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia. Technologically enforced conformity to too rigid moral standards.
UK ed. London: Macdonald, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ring of Violence - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) (Robert Hale, 1968)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

Rite of Passage - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) (Ace Books, 1968)
The novel is concerned with the society that develops on a spaceship and particularly with the rite of passage to adulthood in which young people are put on a colony world to survive or perish. Can be classified as eutopian, dystopian, or a flawed utopia depending on the reader's perspective. Related stories are "What Size Are Giants." Worlds of Tomorrow 3.1 (13) (May 1965): 8-47; and "The Sons of Prometheus." Analog Science Fiction Science-Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 50-71.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with "Introduction: The Story of Rite of Passage" (v-xiv) by the author; and as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Debbie Hughes and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Edward Bryant; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 22 (1986): 3-24. To be continued but the journal stopped publication. Part was originally published as "Door to the Worlds of Men." Worlds of If Science Fiction 13.3 (July 1963): 89-112.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Santaroga Barrier - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) (Berkley Books, 1968)
Flawed utopia. An additive to food gives people an expanded awareness that allows them to create an inward looking, small town eutopia, but they are ready to kill to keep the community as it is.
U.K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1970. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. A shorter version was published in Amazing Stories 41.4 - 6 (October 1967 - February 1968): 6-51, 119-33, 147-54, 156, 158, 160; 129-40, 144; 67-123.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shellbreak - John William Groves (1910-70) (Robert Hale, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 2505. An enclosed world cut off from the outside.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Six Gates from Limbo - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) (Michael Joseph, 1968)
Various societies connected by gateways. The first, Limbo, is the only somewhat positive one and provides a refuge for a man as he visits the other societies, all dystopias in different ways.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Spartan Planet" - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) (Fantastic Science Fiction--Fantasy, 1968)
Militaristic dystopia on New Sparta that is all male. Children born in a Birth Machine. Same sex relations are the norm. See also 1984 Chandler.
Rpt. as False Fatherland. London: Horwitz Publications, 1968. U.S. ed. as Spartan Planet. New York: Dell, 1969.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"A Specter Is Haunting Texas" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Dystopia. Texas has taken over most of the Americas from Canada to Nicaragua. Racial, ethnic, financial, and political discrimination. ". . . a man can't feel really free unless he's got a lot of underfolk to boss around" (15). African American republics exist in California and Florida. Circumluna is a satellite of scientists, hippies, and others.
Repub. New York: Walker & Co. U.K. ed. as A Spectre Is Haunting Texas. London: Gollancz, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Stand on Zanzibar - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Doubleday, 1968)
A complex novel that takes place in a future overpopulation and corporate dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Orb, 2011 with a new “Foreword The Happening World” (vii-xiv) by Bruce Sterling; as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Vincent DiFate and with an “Introduction” (unpaged) by David Brin; as 300 copy ed. illus. Jacob McMurray and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson” (9-13 misnumbered 7 in the Table of Contents) and “Viewpoint. Childless Couples and Delinquent Children” (549-56 misnumbered 543 in the Table of Contents) by Brunner rpt. from Science and Public Policy 12.3 (June 1985): 149-52. Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009; and as New York: Tor Essentials, 2021, with the foreword “The Happening World” by Bruce Sterling from the Orb 2011 ed. (v-xii). Extracts were published in New Worlds Science Fiction 51.177 (November 1967): 34-49.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Story of Operation Atlantis - [Werner K.] [Stiefel] (1921-2006) (Atlantis Publishing Co, 1968)
Outlines a libertarian eutopia. Gives credit to Ayn Rand (1905-82). For an article on Operation Atlantis, see http://shimajournal.org/issues/v10n2/e.-Simpson-Shima-v10n2.pdf
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia. Includes an automated city with a mother complex.
Rpt. in The Liberated Future. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 139-58; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 62-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Time Machine That Never Got Past First Base: A Laugh--at the Future? - [March] [Laumer] (1923-2000) (Opium Books, 1968)
Humor of boring people visiting boring futures.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Total Environment" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia. An experiment called the Ultra High Density Research Establishment (UHRDE) or the Total Environment is set up by the UN and the Indian government to test whether or not extreme crowding produces telepathy. The conditions inside the experiment, which is completely cut off from the outside world except for the anonymous provision of food and electronic monitoring, become horrifying but also produce the desired results.
Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1969. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 287-331; and in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 109-51.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tunc. A Novel - Lawrence [George] Durrell (1912-1990) (Faber and Faber, 1968)
The background to the novel is a dystopia where one company is gaining control of the world. Tunc in Latin means “then,” “next,” or “next in succession”. Continued with somewhat less of the dystopia in Nunquam. A Novel. London: Faber and Faber. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged. Nunquam means “never” in Latin.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1969. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Very Private Life - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) (Collins, 1968)
Technology brings isolation of people from each other. The rich live inside and have connection with each other only through television, telephone systems. There are a few who have to do some work outside, which is badly polluted.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Welcome to the Monkey House" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Playboy, 1968)
Birth control through deadening sensation below the waist and reducing the population by voluntary euthanasia. A few people fight back.
Rpt. in his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 27-45. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 28-47. U.K. ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 27-45. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1972), 38-55; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 737-55 with a Note on the Text (834-35) and "Notes" on 850; in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 863-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

West of the Moon - Howard Simpson (Vantage Press, 1968)
Satire. Voyage to a number of planets. Various eutopias and dystopias, including a world of Amazons and Pluto, which is the Greek Hell.
Keywords: Male author

Wild in the Streets - Robert Thom (1929-79) (Pyramid, 1968)
Dystopia of a teenage takeover.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Will It End This Way? - Vance A[cton] Geigley (1907-96) (Vantage Press, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia from a conservative perspective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Without Apology: The Autobiography of Sir George Maudesley, Bart. Edited with Notes and a Postscript - Ewan Butler (Cassell, 1968)
Britain under the Nazis. It is liberated in 1952.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Affluence of Edwin Lollard" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Writings in S-F, 1967)
Future dystopia in which it is a crime to be poor and illiteracy is normal.
Rpt. in his White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 138-51.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Agent of Chaos - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Belmont, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia set in the twenty-fourth century with all of the solar system inhabited. Small rebel group and another violent group that ultimately destroys the dictatorship.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Alpaca Revisited - H[aroldson] L[afayette] Hunt [Jr.] (1889-1974) (H.L.H. Products, 1967)
Sequel to 1960 Hunt that includes a new constitution (153-95) detailing his proposal for ensuring that the wealthy will have the most power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anarchaos - [Donald Edwin Edmond [Westlake] (1933-2008) (Ace Books, 1967)
A dystopia of anarchism as popularly understood as a situation where the strong will kill the weak.
U.K. ed. under the author's name London: Severn House, 2004. Ace ed. rpt. under the author's name in his Tomorrow's Crimes (New York: Mysterious Press, 1989), 115-263.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Aye, and Gomorrah" - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
The story is set in a future in which spacers must be neutered and focuses on how this affects both the spacers and the population, some of whom are sexually attracted to them.
Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 111-20. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 101-11; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 143-50, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 142; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 118-30; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Beyond - Jean Sutton (1915-2003); Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967)
A dystopia describing a prison planet for telepaths and others with unusual psychic capacities, but the society that exiles its paranormals is vaguely described in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Black Commandos. A Novel - [Rev. Dr.] [Joseph Denis] [Jackson] (1929-2008) (The Cultural Institute Press, 1967)
The novel begins with the dystopia of the Black experience in the American South and then turns to the formation of a large group of Black Commandos who, with a new weapon, defeat the U.S. government. The novel ends with the statement that there will be thirty years of Black dominance before real equality will be possible.
Rpt. under the authors name as The Black Commandos: Warriors Forged in Blood. 2nd ed. Np: Julian Jackson and Commando Publishing Group, 2013, with an Introduction by Julian Jackson, the author’s son.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Bright New Universe - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Ace Books, 1967)
A combination of adventure novel regarding the successful search for extraterrestrial life, Sixties protest novel in the description of contemporary conditions, and suggestions of the utopia possible made possible by the educational technology discovered through contact.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brothers of Uterica - Benjamin Capps (b. 1922) (Meredith Press, 1967)
Founding and failure of an intentional community based on the La Réunion community founded in Texas by Victor Considerant (1808-93).
Rpt. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1988, with a "Preface" (vii-ix) by the author and an "Afterword" (311-14) by C.L. Sonnichsen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bull on the Bench - Lowell B[lake] Mason (1893-1983) (Arcturus Pub, 1967)
Satire. After a nuclear war cattle gain the ability to speak and come to rule the world, with, for example, the U.S. becoming the United States of Moovalia, while the remaining humans lose all sense of their abilities. The world produced largely replicates the previous world except with cattle replacing humans. At the end, humans are regaining confidence and control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Chthon - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Ballantine, 1967)
Dystopia describing a prison world. A sequel is Phthor. New York: Berkeley Medallion, 1975, which continues into the next generation of the family that is central to Chthon.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Computer Takes All - [Leonard Owen] [John] (1918-95) (Cassell, 1967)
Computer dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Confessions of a People Lover - Paul Ritchie (b. 1923) (Calder and Boyars, 1967)
Dystopia. Stress on health and youth leads to older people being attacked and ultimately killed. Wigs, false teeth, and all other attempts to disguise age are outlawed. Prostitution is a recognized, state-supported profession.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Counter-Clock World - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Berkley Medallion, 1967)
The world runs backward with the dead being reborn and then getting younger until the sperm and ovary are reabsorbed into their parents' bodies. A number of subthemes are developed regarding a variety of subjects ranging from religion to black power.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979, with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-x); and New York: Vintage Books, 2002. Expanded from his "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday." Amazing Stories 40.7 (August 1966): 6-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Criminal Act" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1967)
A future dystopia in which no couple is allowed to have more than two children.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 350-62.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The Crimson Capsule - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Avalon Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia ruled by mutants.
Rev. as The Animal People. New York: Belmont Books, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Day Before Forever" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia focusing on transplants.
Rpt. in his The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 7-112; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 283-370.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Death Is a Dream - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967)
Dystopia. A future world with the knowledge of previous reincarnations. Extreme laissez-faire capitalism. Selfishness.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ersatz" - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (396-413 with an “Introduction” (396-99) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (402-03) by the Slesar, 1967)
A brief future war dystopia in which most civilians have been killed and most things, such as food, are now made from fake materials.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eskimo Invasion - [John] Hayden Howard (1925-2014) (Ballantine Books, 1967)
Complex future novel a number of different  with dystopias.
Keywords: Male author

"Eutopia" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Flawed utopia modeled on classical Athens complete with accepted homosexuality. But the utopia has become so planned and ordered as to become dull. The story only reveals this at the end and is concerned with a member of Eutopia visiting another country where he is liable to being killed for his homosexuality.
Rpt. in his Past Times (New York: Tor, 1996), 112-39, with the "Afterword" (139-41); in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 251-68; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 334-47 with the "Afterword" entitled "Eutopia Afterword" (348-49).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Farewell to the Bomb - A[ugustus] C[aesar] Webb (1894-1985) (Vantage Press, 1967)
Dystopia established on Earth by demons. The emphasis is on the successful attempt to overcome them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Five Against Arlane - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) (Ace Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia under the control of one man, who has gained psychological control of almost the entire population. The novel emphasizes the successful revolt against it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flesh or Fantasy - Ken Hall (Pad Library, 1967)
Lost race pornography that set in Vietnam that includes a sexual free society presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author

Garbage World - Charles Platt (b. 1945) (Berkley Books, 1967)
Pleasure worlds as dystopias with one asteroid used as a garbage dump for the pleasure worlds.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Gogglers: A Political Satire - Edward Raiden (Saturn Books, 1967)
Satire set in an imaginary country with comments on politics, race relations, and relations between the sexes.
Keywords: Male author

"The Happy Breed" - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Dystopia of a world without pain. The Therapeutic Environment Machines initially provide therapy, thus putting all therapists out of work, but gradually they come to control all aspects of life. They provided complete medical care, thus putting all doctors out of work. The only jobs were “Happiness Jobs--make-work invented by the Machines.” The Machines then regress everybody back to childhood. U.S. author who lived in the U.K. for about twenty years from 1966.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Hole in the Zero - M[ichael] K[ennedy] Joseph (1914-81) (Gollancz, 1967)
Bizarre dystopia of probability gone haywire in which the author traces out a number of scenarios, mostly dystopian or fantastic, although there are also some brief utopian vignettes. "We've got utopia here . . . and in utopia, time stops, inevitably. The end of an evolutionary chain, perfect adaptation, perfect stability (83)."
New Zealand ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1967. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Eutopia based on incest, which is the one thing that people on other planets find unacceptable. See the note at 1949 Sturgeon.
Rpt. in his Case and the Dreamer (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 52-102; and in The Nail and the Oracle. Volume XI. The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007), 137-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Implosion - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967)
A fall in the birthrate produces dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Journal of David Q. Little - R. Daniel McMichael (d. 2013) (Arlington House, 1967)
Dystopia of a Communist takeover of the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Logan's Run - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021); George Clayton Johnson (1929-2015) (Dial, 1967)
Dystopia in which everyone is killed at 21 but those who manage to win a race get to live. See also 1977 and 1980 Nolan, which focus on, Logan, the protagonist.
Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 21-137. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lord of Light - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) (Doubleday, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia based on control of technology by a group ruling as the Hindu pantheon.
UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2006 with an "Introduction" by George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (vii-xii). Chapter 2 was previously published as "Dawn" and Chapter 3 as "Death and the Executioner." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 32.4, 6 (April, June 1967): 4-36; 4-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lords of the Starship - Mark S[ymington] Geston (b. 1946) (Ace Books, 1967)
Dystopia of militarism in a post-catastrophe world.
UK ed. London: Sphere, 1971. Rpt. in his The Books of the Wars (New York: Baen, 2009), 15-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Cried I Am - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (Little, Brown and Co., 1967)
Commentary on the racial situation in the U.S. in the form of a fictionalized biography of the writer Richard Wright (1908-60) plus the fictional Central Intelligence Agency plan called the King Alfred Plan for future control of African Americans by cordoning them off from the rest of the country. Many African Americans came to believe in the reality of the plan, which mirrored some actual proposals.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Men in the Jungle - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Doubleday, 1967)
Dystopia of militarism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Night Walk - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) (Banner, 1967)
Novel set on the Planet Emm Luther, a strict Lutheran dystopia. Mostly adventure and intrigue.
UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Corgi, 1977; and London: VGSF, 1987.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Nightmare" - George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-67) (White Power, 1967)
Dystopia. A takeover of the U.S. by Communists, Jews, and Blacks set in 1971. Pages 339-57 is his commentary on his fiction.
2nd ed. (Dallas, TX: Ragnarock Press, 1967), 327-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

One Magpie for Sorrow - Norman [Bruce] Harvey (b. 1931) (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967)
Chinese invasion dystopia. Most of the novel is concerned with the guerrilla war against the occupation.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1967.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

One Million Centuries - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) (Lancer Books, 1967)
Three future societies, one of which is a primitive eutopia of sorts, one of which is a threatened innocent society, and one of which is developing science.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Phoenix. A Novel - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) (Ballantine Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia followed by its collapse and the descent into a primitive society.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Polity and Custom of the Camiroi" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1967)
Eutopia that is essentially anarchist based on exceptional people with many skills. Anyone can make a law, and anyone can repeal it, but some laws become sacrosanct due to their survival. President chosen by lot for one week. Everyone must participate in running the society. Severe punishment for causing problems. See also 1966 Lafferty.
Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 37-50; in Election Day 2084; A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 233-43; and in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 51-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Quicksand - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Doubleday, 1967)
Flawed utopia. Dictatorship of immortals. Sex as a drug. Neutered women act as sexual experts.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace - [Leonard Case] [Lewin] (1916-99) (Dell Publishing Co., 1967)
Satire on the problems that will arise if permanent peace should occur and some possible solutions.
Rpt. under the author's name. New York: Free Press, 1996 with an "Introduction" by Victor Navasky (v-xvi), an "Afterword by the Author (119-21), and "Appendixes. The Iron Mountain Affair" (123-52) of reviews and comments on the first edition and the issue of authorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Riders of the Purple Wage or the Great Gavage" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Background includes a future authoritarian and corrupt dystopia. Most people are apparently well off but without much focus or depth.
Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty & Associates 1982), 29-143; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 30-103; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 363-437.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Riot '71 - [Peter] [Brent] (1931-84) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967)
An economic depression leads to blaming colored immigrants and a fascist, racist dystopia called the Nordic Union.
U.S. ed. New York: Walker and Co., 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author

'Sippi - John Oliver Killens (1916-87) (Trident Press, 1967)
Dystopia of contemporary race relations in the U.S. and the state of Mississippi in particular. The novel ends with the murder of one of the Black protagonists leading to a world-wide uprising of Black peoples.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Star-Pit” - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1967)
A very complex dystopia. Set in a future where, as the human race expanded into space, it came up against a psychological barrier that caused insanity in those who went further, except for a few who found to have psychological abnormalities that allow them to pass through. The story focuses of a man who feels excluded because he cannot pass through the barrier and deeply resents that fact. The story makes an explicit connection between white supremacy and those who can pass through the barrier, but at the end, such people are being created by manipulating them so as to develop the needed abnormality for the benefit of those in power. For a radio play first broadcast on WBAI (New York) in November 1967 and re-broadcast regularly for years, see Delany’s “Notes on The Star Pit.” https://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/TheStarPit/SamuelRDelany-NotesOnTheStarPit.html
Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 13-71. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 1-61; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 17-93; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“Station HR972” - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1967)
The dystopia brought about the car, with a 32-lane highway with minimum speeds of 125 to 150 miles an hour.
Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 91-103; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 62-75.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Stranger from the Depths - Gerry Turner (1921-82) (Doubleday & Co, 1967)
A young adult novel about the discovery of an undersea technological eutopia with gender equality that predates humanity and disappeared because of a plague. This is contrasted with a dystopian community from the same time that survived. The dystopia has gender inequality, drugged citizens, and violence.
An abridged paperback version as published by New York: Scholastic, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Sun Push” - Graham M. Hall (New Worlds SF, 1967)
Dystopia. Story of a war in Britain in which British troops supported by the U.S. are fighting British troops supported by Russia.
Rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 282-98, with additional material on 299-301.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Superstoe - William [Vickers] Borden (b. 1938) (Victor Gollancz, 1967)
Humor in which a group of brilliant men take over the U.S. and the control of the world. They bring world peace, plenty, raised intelligence, and boredom.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“There is a Crooked Man” - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 1967)
Satire on crime in the future with criminals confounding the legal system with new crimes.
Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 115-65.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Third Policeman - [Brian] [Ó Nualláin] (1911-66) (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967)
Has been called a dystopia. The author calls it a description of hell.
Rpt. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Flamingo, 1993; and London: HarperCollins/Flamingo, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1967.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"The Throwaway Age" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1967)
In a future where there is a détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which are described as having different forms of state capitalism, a small group of U.S. people want to move in the direction of a better socio-economic system. The protagonist is the same as in the works in his series about the Soviet Union; see also 1973 Reynolds, “The Cold War . . . Continued” and 1975 Reynolds, Tomorrow Might Be Different.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Time-Hoppers - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To Open the Sky - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Ballantine Books, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia. Mass hysteria, cults, and fads in the third millennium.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Originally published in Galaxy Magazine as "Blue Fire." 23.5 (June 1965): 105-30; "The Warriors of Light." 24.2 (December 1965): 99-134; "Where the Changed Ones Go." [Journal title changed back to] Galaxy Science Fiction 24.3 (February 1966): 83-121; "Lazarus Comes Forth." 24.4 (April 1966): 82-113; and "Open the Sky." 24.5 (June 1966): 165-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow's Harvest Or Death Takes A Holiday - Albert Root (Vantage Press, 1967)
Detailed religious eutopia on Saturn of immortal human beings who are clearly a separate creation with their own revelation. Technically advanced. No money. No government.
Keywords: Male author

A Torrent of Faces - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75); Norman L[ouis] Knight (1895-1972) (Doubleday, 1967)
Earth has a very large and growing population following what they call the “Age of Waste”. This does not produce the usual dystopia because the Earth can support its population if well organized. The political system is a corporate state (the authors call it Fascism), and at the beginning of the novel it is working well, but the plot is driven by a forthcoming disaster, a meteor strike, and the system struggles to deal with it. Still, at the end the system survives. Said to be “a sequel of sorts” to Knight’s “Frontier of the Unknown.” Illus. [William Elliott] Dold (1889-1957). Astounding Stories 19.5 - 6 (July - August 1937): 8-33; 122-54; and his “Crisis in Utopia.” Astounding Science-Fiction 25.5 - 6 (July - August 1940), 9-38; 126-54.
Novelization of “The Shipwrecked Hotel.” Galaxy Magazine 23.6 (August 1965): 151-85; “The Piper of Dis.” Galaxy Science Fiction 24.6 (August 1966): 56-87; and “To Love Another.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 79.2 (April 1967): 8-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Trap" - Howard [Melvin] Fast (1914-2003) (The Hunter and the Trap, 1967)
Eutopia. A project to find and develop the next stage of humans creates an enclave where the project leaders create a community based on love, freedom, and freedom from guilt. Mostly nude, open sexuality, and mentally far beyond current humans. Develop telepathy. At the end the U.S. government decides they must all but killed, but it is not clear that that will be possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utonia: Social-Economic Survey of a Fictitious Country - J[ozef] G[ijsbertus] M[aria] Hilhorst ed. [written by] (Mouton, 1967)
Description of a fictional country, complete with maps. Designed for teaching development planning.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

Vigilante--21st Century - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Lancer, 1967)
Future dystopia in which criminals use science to control, but the good guys fight back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The White Mountains - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Macmillan, 1967)
First volume of a young adult trilogy, followed by The City of Gold and Lead. New York: Macmillan and The Pool of Fire. New York: Macmillan, 1968. The trilogy is concerned with the dystopia created by alien invaders and the successful fight against them, and the dystopia of mental and physical control occurs throughout the trilogy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Whosaw Whatsa” - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 1967)
Satire on sex changes.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Why Call Them Back from Heaven? - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) (Doubleday, 1967)
The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money..
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A World Beyond - George E[rnest] Shirley (1898-2002) (Vantage Press, 1967)
Simple life eutopia taken over by Communists from the U.S.S.R., which produces a dystopia. In the eutopia there is no money, and the economy is based on barter. Rape results in jail for life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Adventures in Selfhood Architecture - Leopold Solomon Moscowitz B.Arch. (Selfhood Architecture Press, 1966)
Detailed architectural eutopia with descriptions of buildings and their uses.
Keywords: Male author

"Amazon Planet" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1966)
The novel is set in Reynolds's United Planets Federation with the planet Amazonia presenting itself as ruled by a caste of women warriors with men in inferior positions. This was, in fact, the premise on which Amazonia was established, and it has been maintained as a cover for the fact that it has no army, not even a police force. While enclaves of the original vision remain, gender equality and monogamy are the norm.
Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"And Madly Teach" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1966)
Extrapolation of the dystopian effect of technology on teaching and the response of one excellent teacher who manages to overcome the negative impact of the technology.
Rpt. in The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sixteenth Series. Ed. Edward L. Ferman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 25-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Blue World - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1966)
Floating islands of vegetation support a highly developed society with a caste system based on occupation, which over time has become completely rigid changing a eutopia into a dystopia. The ocean contains dangerous predators. A rebel saves the society from itself and the predators.
Rpt. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979; and as vol. 16 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: The Vance Integral Edition, 2005. First appeared in a shorter form as "The Kragen." Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.7 (July 1964): 7-69. Rpt. in The Great SF Stories: 1964. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2001), 47-102; in Wild Thyme and Violets. Other Unpublished Works and Addenda. Vol. 44 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 115-202; and as The Kragen. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Colossus - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966)
Computer dystopia set in the United States of North America in which large computer called Colossus is given complete control over the USNA's nuclear weapons and the U.S.S.R. does the same with their great computer called Guardian and their nuclear weapons. The two computers are linked with predictable results. See also 1974 and 1977 Jones.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Crack In Space - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1966)
Overpopulation dystopia.
UK ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. The first half was originally published as "Cantata 140." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.1 (158) (July 1964): 5-61; and rpt. as Cantata-140. London: Gollancz, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Danger: Religion!" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths, 1966)
Parallel history presenting a religious dystopia.
Rpt. (London: Sphere, 1968), 89-131; and in Mervyn Peake, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss. Inner Landscape (London: Allison & Busby, 1969), 101-51. Earlier version as “Matrix.” Science Fantasy 19.55 ([October] 1962): 2-39.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Day of Absence: A Satirical Fantasy” - Douglas Turner Ward (b. 1939) (Happy Ending and Day of Absence. Two Plays, 1966)
The play takes place in one typical dystopian small Southern town in which all the Negroes disappear for one day and shows how completely the whites are dependent on them. The play was first performed November 15, 1965, at the St. Mark’s Playhouse, New York.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Devil and Democracy” - Brian [Brendon Talbot] Cleeve (1921-2003) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1966)
Satire on the unionization of Hell.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Enlightened Ones Beyond the Icebergs - Reuben Sam Shodall (b. 1889) (Exposition Press, 1966)
Those who left when Atlantis, which is depicted as an earthly paradise where nature provided, became corrupt and relocated in the Far North. The novel includes histories of Atlantis, the first settlement in the north, and a description of the eutopian society established there, including a brief period of internal disagreement. Men appear to hold all the political positions, but women are engineers and appear to be equally educated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of the Towers - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Ace Books, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a free, communal eutopia.
Contains revised versions of Captives of the Flame. New York: Ace Books, 1963; rev. as Out of the Dead City which was Delany’s original title. New York: Ace Books, 1966. U.K. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; Towers of Toron. New York: Ace Books, 1964. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; and City of a Thousand Suns. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1969.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Farewell, Earth's Bliss - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia with Mars as a penal colony.
Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Flame - Jim Hunter (b. 1939) (Faber and Faber, 1966)
Right wing dystopia brought about by a charismatic religious leader and his Christian New Vigour Movement.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Founder's Day" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1966)
The story begins in an overpopulation dystopia and ends with the founding of a new colony.
Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 188-212.
Keywords: Male author; US author

From Carthage Then I Came - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) (Doubleday, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia brought about by a new ice age with everyone living in domes. At the end a new colony is about to be founded as technology provides a way to defeat the ice in defined areas.
UK ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Also entitled Eight Against Utopia. New York: Paperbook Library, 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

Giles Goat-Boy or, The Revised New Syllabus - John [Simmons] Barth (1930-2024) (Doubleday, 1966)
Complex comic novel that includes a dystopia set in a university and ruled by a computer. Giles is a boy raised as an animal who becomes a spiritual leader at New Tammany College (the U.S.).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Harrad Experiment - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (Sherburne Press, 1966)
The good life through sex, but while the emphasis is on the sex, there is a section (225-37) giving the details of a plan for reforming society and the means and stages of doing so, primarily by revamping education with some material on economics and the laws regarding marriage and divorce. Harrad is a college in which men and women are assigned as roommates with the expectation of sexual relations. The men are taught the system of birth control used in the Oneida Community under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes (1811-86). See also 1968, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1967. 25th anniversary ed. with Exciting New Material. New York: Prometheus Books, 1990. The additions include "The Harrad/Premar Solution" (252-75), an expanded "Annotated Bibliography" (277-90), and "Loving, Learning, Laughter & Ludamus: The Autobiography of Robert H. Rimmer" (291-324).
Keywords: Male author; US author

.... in the stars--The Great Society! - I. M. Pernow [pseud.] (Vantage Press, 1966)
Detailed eutopia described by a man from space who shows how it should be applied on Earth, led by the U.S. The book is dedicated to President Lyndon B[aines] Johnson (1908-73. President 1963-69), and the eutopia, although it goes much further, is loosely based on Johnson's program for the Great Society. No war, poverty, crime, or disease. Stress on education. Overpopulation defeated by rigorous birth control and eugenic policies. Deformed children and mentally retarded children not allowed to live. Limit on the number of children.
Keywords: Canadian author; German author; Male author

Inner Circle - Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1916-2007) (Macmillan, 1966)
A weird ritualized, overpopulation dystopia set in the far future.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Polish author

"Invaded by Love" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1966)
An alien creates a religion of universal love based on pills that make everyone love each other which brings civilization to a collapse.
Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 152-75. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 119-43. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 82-102. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 173-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Refuge - John Petty (1919-73) (Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia. The countryside has been paved over, and private homes have been replaced with huge apartment blocks.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mad Metropolis - Philip E[mpson] High (1914-2006) (Ace Books, 1966)
Computer eutopia that is actually a dystopia.
UK ed. as Double Illusion. London: Dennis Dobson, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Make Room! Make Room!" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Impulse, 1966)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. with a brief "Afterword" (232-33). London: Penguin Books, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Monitors - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Berkley Books, 1966)
An authoritarian dystopia is imposed on Earth by superior extraterrestrials. While they provide peace, they make mistakes that lead to a planet-wide revolt. But rather than forcing the aliens out, they are hired to do for Earth some of what they had imposed.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1984. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966)
Libertarian eutopia emerges on the Moon after a struggle with an authoritarian government. Free market. New social forms, such as a wide range of forms of marriage, have developed. Slogan is TANSTAAFL--There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1996. Rpt. as vol. 33 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010. A shorter version was originally published in If 15.12 - 16.4 (December 1965 - April 1966): 8-57; 42-98, 103-47, 93-159, 111-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"No Other Gods But Me" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (No Other Gods But Me, 1966)
Religious dystopia in which adepts keep people at the level of earl agriculture with no technology.
Rpt. in his Entry to Elsewhen (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 91-172; rpt. with a different cover in October 1972. Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Of Godlike Power - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Belmont Books, 1966)
A prophet, preaching a perfect society, disrupts the current one.
Also entitled Earth Unaware. New York: Belmont, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author