The Keepers of the People - Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1898)
The novel focuses on the way an Englishman establishes a dynasty in an Asia country by first defeating its enemies and then establishing Western agriculture and ways of life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand." A Text Book of the Better Civilization Within Reach, Which Is Identical with the Kingdom of Heaven as it Was Proclaimed by Jesus of Nazareth - C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge M.D. (1847-1908) (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Detailed utopia. Religious version of the cooperative commonwealth. Working four hours a day between 21 and 50 means that most of a person's life is under their own control, and the social system is designed to assist in the best use of that time. Direct democracy through the initiative, referendum, and recall. Municipal ownership of utilities. See also 1902 Wooldridge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last War or The Triumph of the English Tongue. A Story of the Twenty-Sixth Century, Compiled from the Official Notes of Newman, Reporter to the President of the United America - S[amuel] W. Odell (1864-1948) (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Eutopia of a united Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the English-speaking world dominated by white Anglo-Saxons that have followed the lead of the U.S., which, after the voluntary, supported migration of blacks to Africa, has established a reformed capitalism. Limit on wealth; corporations replaced by large cooperative industries; and everyone is a property-holder with a homestead. Temperance. Eugenic laws and the examination of morals make marriage more difficult, but divorce is easier. The causes of crime have been eliminated. The text, though, is mostly on the preparations for war with a new Holy Empire led by the Czar-pope of the Russian Empire, which the Anglo Saxons win.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Legal Revolution of 1902 - [Bert J.] [Wellman] (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Populist eutopia. The revolution takes place through calling a constitutional convention to amend the U. S. Constitution, with details given on the amendments. Direct election of the President, Vice-President, and Senate. Graduated income tax. Future amendments possible by a direct vote of the people. Proportional representation. All property held by an individual over $500,000 to revert to the government. Concern to create uniform laws across the country. Nationalization of agriculture with huge irrigated, technologically sophisticated farms.
Rpt. incorrectly attributed to William Stanley Child. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Mission of Machinery” - Henry Matthews Williams (The Arena, 1898)
An essay that argues that machinery as used by capitalism is producing a dystopia, but that under public ownership will produce the standard socialist eutopia, which is briefly described.
Keywords: Male author

"A Modern Cooperative Colony (A Whimsey)" - J[ames] W[illiam] Sullivan (b. 1848) (So The World Goes, 1898)
Detailed description of an intentional community outside New York City with an easy commute by train to jobs in the city. No fences or telegraph poles. Separate houses built by individuals, so no uniformity. The people formed different cooperatives to undertake different activities, including building a town hall and running the school. No government; no police. Some satire on journalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mr. Jonnemacher's Machine. The Port to which we drifted - [Walter Doty] [Reynolds] (b. 1860) (Knickerbocker Book Company, 1898)
Dystopia in which machines put people out of work and only benefit the wealthy. Corrupt political system. Revolution. The book is written as if from a future eutopia, which is only alluded to in the preface and in the last chapter. In the eutopia machinery is used for the benefit of all under an honest political system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The [My on cover] Sovereign Guide; A Tale of Eden - William Amos Miller (Geo. Rice & Sons, 1898)
Short description of a eutopia inside the Earth called Eden, which is related to the Biblical Eden but is not identical to it. Perpetual summer with one rainy season. Language of thirty-six sounds. Hereditary monarchies, each with twelve counselors. National disputes settled by arbitration. Few laws. No capital punishment. Vegetarian. Christianity the only religion. No denominational differences. No fasting or penance but feast and enjoy.” Radical separation of church and state with no state law affecting the church and no church law affecting the state. Labor is compulsory for men between twenty and seventy-five; married woman cannot work outside the home if their husband is able to work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Gulliver - Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907) (The Marion Press, 1898)
An American linguist is shipwrecked on the island of 1726 Swift's Houyhnhnms. After Gulliver had left, a large number of small, unintelligent animals without speech but shaped like the Houyhnhnms flooded the country and were only driven out with the help of the Yahoos. As a result, the belief in a Supreme Houyhnhnm became common, and this led to controversies and divisions. The Yahoos survive much as before. During a discussion of evolution, which is completely rejected by the religious Houyhnhnm, a disaster strikes and the island sinks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"One Afternoon: A Department Store Romance" - Isaac Anderson (The Yellow Book, 1898)
Satire on department stores set in the future. Everything, including marriages and divorces, is available.
Rpt. in The Railroad Trainmens’ Journal 15.2 (February 1898): 157-58.
Keywords: Male author

The Practical City. A Future City Romance; or A Study in Environment - [Warren S.] [Rehm] (Lancaster County Magazine, 1898)
Detailed authoritarian eutopia is presented in a small, 810-acre city in a square bordered on three sides with farmlands and a stream on the fourth. Land bought and sold by the city rather than individuals. Citizens vote on many issues with a two-thirds majority required for most decisions. Both men and women vote, although a certificate of education is required to be able to vote and to marry.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rev. Annabel Lee. A Tale of To-morrow - Robert [Williams] Buchanan (1841-1901) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1898)
A scientific eutopia set in the middle of the twenty-first century without religion needs a religious revival to overcome too great a dependence on reason. Eugenics policy, which prohibited marriage between those deemed unfit, is referred to favorably and quoted in Harry Campbell, “An Essay on the Marriage of the Unfit.” The Lancet 2.3915 (September 10, 1898):680. Euthanasia is practiced, mostly for the old but can also be applied to the disabled.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Rev. Josiah Hilton. The Apostle of the New Age - Farnell, George (Journal of Commerce Company, Printers and Publishers, 1898)
A novel about the needed transition between the present and the future of 1888 and 1897 Bellamy through an economy based on labor notes. Most of the novel concerns the conversion of the title character from supporting capitalism to opposing it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revolt of the Horses - Walter Copland Perry (1814-1911) (Grant Richards, 1898)
Novel based on 1726 Swift. The Houyhnhnms lead a revolt of the horses in Great Britain and establish a Houyhnhnm state. The Yahoos are only adept at killing each other.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Sketches of the Future" - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) (Sketches of the Future, 1898)
Satire on women in power, including "The Foreign Secretary's Baby", where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); "The Lord Chancellor's Husband" (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; "The New Childhood", which describes the power of the "Children's Union" (31-42); and "The Pole of Heredity" (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst.
Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Socialist Parable” - Herbert N. Casson (The New Time. A Magazine of Social Progress, 1898)
A happy, agricultural, cooperative socialist village is briefly convinced by a warped man that capitalism is best.
Keywords: Male author

Society of the Future - Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) (J.A. Wayland, 1898)
Essay that, while mostly concerned with and critical of contemporary conditions, also describes a socialist utopia that has eliminated poverty and child labor and radically reduced the hours of work.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform - E[benezer] Howard (1850-1928) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1898)
Essay describing a suburban eutopia combining town and country. Basis for the Garden City Movement. On the movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Rpt. of this edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, and Colin Ward. London: Routledge, 2003. Better known as Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"). London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.  As Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Ed., with a Preface (9-28) by F[rederic] J. Osborn [and] With an Introductory Essay [“The Garden City Idea and Modern Planning”] (29-40) by Lewis Mumford. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. With the exception of the 2003 edition, later editions are all under the title of the 2nd edition.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Travels of Chan Ching Chong: An Autobiography” (The Straits Chinese Magazine (Singapore), 1898)
The story traces the travels from an early age of a child who was swept away on a river and rescued by seamen. At each island that he visited, one focus was on the position of women. On one island, they dominated and mistreated the men. On others, there was considerable equality. The journal (1897-1907), a quarterly, was noted for its opposition to patriarchy and its support for women’s equality. Almost certainly a Singaporean male author, likely the journal’s editor Lim Boon Keng (1869-1957).
Keywords: Male author; Singaporean author

The Treasure of the Ice: A Romance - Eugene Shade Bisbee (1864-1933) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898)
A lost race novel depicting a classical Greek civilization near Antarctica as a eutopia. Mostly the type of adventure usual to lost race novels where conflict within the discovered society puts the discoverers at risk, and they must escape.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vicious Virtuoso - Louis Lombard (1861-1927) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898)
A romance and adventure novel that includes a story of an ancient Egyptian race that was greatly advanced both spiritually and scientifically and produced a society in which all lived well. Everyone had equal food and clothing. No money. No religion, no political factions, and no patriotism. Higher education only for the elite and women excluded because it made them "less fit to bear and nourish children" (111). Euthanasia encouraged. Eugenics. Divorce easy with remarriage within a year required. The eutopia is destroyed by organized religion.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Dana Estes, 1909
Keywords: French author; Male author; US author

Waiting for the Signal. A Novel - Henry O. Morris (The Schulte Publishing Company, 1898)
Mostly the story of a successful peaceful revolution in the U.S. against the "arrogant and vicious plutocracy" (v), but Chapter XL, "The Dawn of a New Day," presents a brief picture of the eutopia created. A constitutional convention is convened, which includes many of the well-known reformers of the time. The convention first drafts and adopts a new "Declaration of Independence" (335-36) and then a new Constitution (337-53). The constitution, which follows the basic structural outlines of the previous one, includes the Bill of Rights and previous amendments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944); E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) (J.W. Arrowsmith, 1898)
Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Warstock: A Tale of To-morrow - [William Oliver] [Greener] (1862-1935) (W.W. Greener, 1898)
Mostly adventure and future war but is concerned with patent rights and shows how inventions can both improve life and give power for good to inventors. Argument that improved patent rights will inspire inventors to greater efforts. The first invention is wireless telegraphy, which allows instant communication. A "white" republic called Cristalla is established in Africa in which inventors will be the only aristocrats. A new weapon makes Cristalla invincible, and it defeats Europe and brings world peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author

When All Men Starve: Showing Home England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply - Charles [Henry Alfred] Gleig (1862-1945) (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1898)
As a result of the government’s poor policies, England loses its influence in Africa, is blockaded by European governments, the government falls, and a rebellion ensues followed by looting and killing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

With Gyves of Gold. A Novel - Henry Athey; A. Herbert Bowers (G.W. Dillingham, 1898)
Eutopia. Much discussion of what the eutopia will look like and ends with a description of the Christian eutopia in operation. Believe in the nearness of the millennium. Spiritualism. Anti-egalitarian. Cooperation. With trusts/monopolies gone, business flourishes, wages rise, slums are cleared, and education improved. All other nations followed the lead of the U.S. Women's proper sphere is the home.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aerial Brickfield” - John Mills (Windsor Magazine, 1897)
The dystopia created when a capitalist begins to sell air. For a work using a similar idea, see 1915 England, The Air Trust. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.
Keywords: Male author

Colonizing in a Great City - [G. B] [De Bernardi] (Labor Exchange Publications, 1897)
Mutual aid checks improve society. The book is fiction describing the beginning of the system. . See also 1890 De Bernardi and his The Equitable Industrial Association of America. A Beneficent Co-operative Association for the Employment of Idle Labor Through Mutual Exchange. Sedalia, MO: J.C. Parmerlee, 1888 (NN).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dawn of Civilisation; or, England in the Nineteenth Century - J[ames] C[armichael] Spence (Watts & Co, 1897)
Future eutopia where all arbitrary laws and taxes have been abolished. See also his non-utopian Freedom--Our Birthright: A Protest Against Taxes. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. by Lambert & Co., 1887.
The cover says that the chapter on marriage had been issued as an official publication of the Legitimation League.
Keywords: Male author

Equality - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (D. Appleton, 1897)
Expansion and modification of the ideas found in his 1888 Looking Backward. The most significant changes are in women’s position, which is now clearly equal to men, and in the political system, which is international and much more democratic, including, in many circumstances direct votes by the people. Considerably more on the nineteenth century and on the revolution. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968; New York: Greenwood Press, 1969; and New York: AMS Press, 1970. Chapter 23 was often reprinted as The Parable of the Water Tank.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Faithful City. A Romance - Herbert Morrah (Methuen, 1897)
Adventure story with utopian elements. The faithful city was created and led by one man.
Keywords: Male author

The Great Seven--The Greater Nine; A Story for the People - Jno. [John] H[eber] Flood, Jr. (W.B. Conkey, 1897)
Struggle against monopolies is successful, and this brings about a better society with much of the novel on the dystopia created by the monopolies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Henry Cadavere: A Study of Life and Work - H[enry] W[entworth] Bellsmith (1849-1926) (Commonwealth Company, 1897)
Eutopia presented through the story of a successful socialist intentional community. Emphasis on the period before the actual establishment of the community but includes statements about it after a year and after five years. Includes the "Constitution of the National Union of Co-operative Labor" (92-100). Separate households. A "matrons' guild" will be assigned "education of the young, the conduct of the supply and provision store, health medicine and amusement" (93).
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Brighter Climes, Or Life in Socioland. A Realistic Novel - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) (Chavannes and Company, 1897)
Continuation of 1892 Chavannes. This novel traces the experience of a young couple from the U.S. fleeing unemployment, settling in Socioland, and gradually becoming integrated into its society. There are no rich and poor and all must work; there are few laws and both men and women vote directly on legislation; much land and most manufacturing owned in common; and local townships mostly control their own affairs within the general egalitarian structure. See also his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. He wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health.
Keywords: Male author; Swiss author; US author

"In the Deep of Time" - George Parsons Lathrop (1851-98) (English Illustrated Magazine, 1897)
A man is put to sleep for three hundred years and awakens in a technological eutopia in communication with Mars, which is in advance of earth. World federalism without democracy. No one lived in cities except by government draft. If a person is exceptional, the government chooses who they will marry. "Degenerates," on the other hand, were kept in asylums and not allowed to marry. The author's note says that the story is based on conversations with the inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), and Edison provided notes to Lathrop, who wrote the story. Thirty-three pages of Edison’s notes for the story can be found in the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University (http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm).
Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket, 1972), 47-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the New Capital - John Galbraith (1846-1914) (Toronto News, 1897)
A future eutopia in Ottawa. Canada is independent but with close ties to Britain. Christian. Social equality. Cooperation. Single tax on land. 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.
Rpt. ed. R. Douglas Francis with the subtitle A Nineteenth-century View of Ottawa in the Twenty-first Century. [Manotick, ON, Canada]: Penumbra Press, 2000.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Ivory Queen: A Story of Strange Adventure - John Pendleton (1848-1926?) (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1897)
Lost race novel. Mostly adventure but ends with a eutopia in Africa which is a successful agricultural society in an isolated valley under a white king descended from early Egyptian settlers. Odd novel for the period in that it includes successful cross-dressing and, together with some fairly standard racism, a successful interracial marriage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

John Harvey. A Tale of the Twentieth Century - [James M.] [Galloway] (Charles H. Kerr, 1897)
Socialist eutopia created within the United States by a wealthy man. Includes a diagram of the proposed city. People are required to work, and the community is required to provide work. Becomes national.
2nd ed. as Lock and Key. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Loma; A Citizen of Venus - William Windsor (b. 1857?) (Windsor and Lewis, 1897)
Eutopia set on Venus and based on phrenology. Women and men are more nearly equal than they were at the time. Free love with the emphasis on love rather than sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Tribes And The Land of Nod. An Original Natural Gas Story - Artemus P. Kerr (1851-1901) (Press of the Indiana Newspaper Union, 1897)
Lost race eutopia in which people rarely ate anything but fruits and vegetables, and men and women wear similar clothing. Simple furniture. Ten large households. Little work needed; men fished, and women did spun and wove. Gold common. The visitor from the outside (brought by a tornado) establishes a school to teach English and then various technologies that introduce complexity and conflict.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Marooned On Australia: Being the Narrative of Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits "In Terra Australis Incognita" About the Year 1630 - Ernest Favenc (1846?-1908) (Blackie and Sons, 1897)
Lost race novel that includes a short eutopian section describing an arcadia in a valley in the Australian desert (31-52). Simple religion. Racist.
New ed. London: Blackie and Sons, 1905.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

New Era. Presenting the Plans for the New Era Union To Help Develop and Utilize the Best Resources of this Country. Also to Employ the Best Skill There is Available to Realize the Highest Degree of Prosperity for All Who Will Help To Attain It. Based on Practical and Successful Business Methods - [Charles Willard] [Caryl] (1858-1926) (Author, 1897)
Detailed eutopia. The New Era Union will provide capital so that workers can buy their own mines and so forth with the Union making a profit. Includes illustrations and detailed plans of the city.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. There is also, in the New York Public Library, a typescript by Caryl entitled "THE NEW ERA A PLAY INTRODUCING THE PLANS FOR A GRAND NEW ERA MODEL CITY TO BE THE MOST COMPLETE, WONDERFUL AND GRAND PERMANENT EXPOSITION AND EMPORIUM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD IN ADDITION TO BEING THE GRANDEST AND MOST PERFECT EDUCATIONAL, AMUSEMENT, INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENCE MODEL CITY OF THIS WORLD. ALSO REPRESENTING THE PLANS FOR AN ORGANIZATION TO BE CALLED 'THE NEW ERA UNION' THAT WILL UNITE UNDER THE MOST PERFECT SYSTEM POSSIBLE ALL HUMAN BEINGS IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD IN THE COURSE OF TIME WHO DESIRE THAT THEIR FELLOW MAN AS WELL AS THEMSELVES SHALL ENJOY THE MOST PERFECT PEACE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY That is Possible Here on Earth Under the Laws of JUSTICE AND RECIPROCITY and who are willing TO DO ALL IN THEIR POWER TO ATTAIN THE SAME." © 1896. The "Introduction" to the book purports to reprint a lengthy article from the Rocky Mountain News of September 3, 1897, that discusses the project and the play, but September 3 is said to be Good Friday, which was April 18 in 1897, this is fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Posterity; Its Verdicts and Its Methods or Democracy A.D. 2100 - [Alex] [Newton] (Williams and Norgate, 1897)
Authoritarian eutopia based on eugenics--"We assist with evolution, which consists partly in the selection and rejection of the unfit" (13). Citizenship is restricted to the mentally, morally, and physically best. Education stresses vocational training.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“Prehistoric Music. A Lecture Delivered by Professor Boremall Before the Members of the Society of Antediluvian Art, July, 2897” - Edward A[lgernon] Baughan (1865-1938) (Monthly Musical Record (London), 1897)
Satire presenting the music of the Victorian era from the perspective of a future eutopia. There is little about the future, but it is stated that peace prevails because disputes are settled by arbitration. Music in the future is a central part of moral teaching.
Keywords: English author; Male author

President John Smith; The Story of a Peaceful Revolution - Frederick Upham Adams (1859-1921) (Charles H. Kerr, 1897)
Socialist eutopia including direct democracy with a new constitution for the U.S. (237-46), which specifies that the legislative power rests with the people and that the people directly elect the Cabinet rather than have it appointed by the President. The cover of the Library of Progress edition has "The right of a citizen of the United States to demand and obtain work at wages sufficient to support himself and his family shall never be abridged. It shall be the duty of the government to guarantee employment to all who demand it" (on 147 of the Unity Library edition).  See also his non-utopian economic novel. The Kidnapped Millionaires; A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics. Boston, MA: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1901.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. adds (Written in 1920) to the title. No. 24 of the Library of Progress (August 1897). Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1897
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Raid of the "Detrimental": Being the True History of the Great Disappearance of 1862; Related By Several of Those Implicated And Others; And Now First Set Forth - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897)
Mostly adventure and satire set on a South Seas island with particular satire on gender relations.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rapara or the Rights of the Individual in the State - Archibald Forsyth (1826-1908) (T. Fisher Unwin, 1897)
Extremely detailed eutopia based on what the author calls "Equalistic Individualism" in which natural resources belong to the community and produced wealth belongs to those producing it. Land nationalization. History of a country generally accepted as New Zealand, with changes.
Australian ed. lists the publisher as Sydney, NSW, Australia: William Dymock/London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. The cover of the Australia ed. has Right rather than Rights, but with Rights on the title page.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Scottish author

That Tree of Eden: A Study in the Real Decadence - Nicholas Christian (Hutchinson, 1897)
Satire on a utopian experiment.
Keywords: Male author

A Trip to Venus - John Munro (1849-1930) (Jarrold and Sons, 1897)
Arcadian, small-town eutopia on Venus. Abundance.
The first chapter is entitled “A Message from Mars” and was originally published under that title as by J[ohn] Munro, C.E. in Cassell's Family Magazine 21 (March 1895): 292-98.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Vision Out West" - Barcroft [Henry Thomas] Boake (1866-92) (Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems, 1897)
Poem describing a eutopia of a future tamed Australia.
2nd ed. (London: Angus and Robertson, 1913), 19-25. Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 40-44; Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 40-44; and in W[illiam] F. Refshauge, Barcroft Boake. Collected Works, Edited, with a Life (North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), 227-30 with an editor's note on 287.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Visit to Topos, and How the Science of Heredity is Practised There - William Little (1839-1916) (Berry, Anderson & Co, 1897)
Eugenic eutopia. Pre-natal teaching. Presentation from a newspaper from Topos, including a father's lengthy speech at his daughter's wedding. See also 1904 Little.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

What Christ Saw. . .: Sequel to If Christ Came to Congress - Congressman Milford W[riarson] Howard (1862-1937) (Author, 1897)
Most of the book is about the dystopia of contemporary conditions. It ends with the battle of Armageddon and one page of the eutopia that followed. See his If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: [Howard Publishing Co.], 1894 which includes a one paragraph vision of the better society that would follow if Congress followed Christ’s teachings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Without Bloodshed; A Probability of the Twentieth Century - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) (The Roxburghe Press, 1897)
Satire on English manners. Rich Americans take over all English property through political maneuvering. Intentional community in England. Gorst published a review of his own book in The Quilldriver, no. 1 (October 1897). The journal was the inhouse journal of the publisher and does not appear to be available. See also 1898 Gorst.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Zelma, The Mystic: or, White Magic, Versus Black - Alwyn M. Thurber (Author's Publishing Co, 1897)
The novel includes an Ideal city and has a letter supposedly from 1907 describing the first steps to it.
3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897. © by C.M. Loomis.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1900; or, The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) (The American News Company, 1896)
Dystopia in which the election of William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) as President causes the collapse of the American system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A.D. 2345" - Geo[rge] E[edes] Boxall (Weekly Times & Echo (London), 1896)
Eutopia modeled on 1888 Bellamy and set in Australia. Socialism. Stresses education and hygiene. Marriage considered a part of hygiene, and girls are given education regarding sex and birth. People still smoke. Guild system. Municipalization.
Keywords: Male author

The Angel Isafrel: A Story of Prohibition in New Zealand - G[eorge] M[cCullagh] Reed (1831/32?-1898) (Upton & Co, 1896)
Mostly a tale of the struggle for prohibition, which is achieved through a referendum. The last chapter (93-100) describes the eutopia that was produced. Violent crime virtually disappeared, as did most other crimes. Family life improved radically, earnings previously spent on drink provided better conditions for families and was also invested in cooperatives. Businesses encouraged investment of the extra money in exchange for part of the profits and guaranteed employment. Men became more economically independent. Mental and physical health improved significantly.
2nd ed. without the subtitle London: Gordon and Gotch, 1905.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Irish author; Male author

Artabanzanus: The Demon of the Great Lake. An Allegorical Romance of Tasmania. Arranged from the Diary of the late Oliver Ubertus - William M[oore] Ferrar (Elliot Stock, 1896)
Allegory presenting both a eutopia and a dystopia. The eutopia is the city of Eternity. The dystopia is Hell and the bulk of the book concerns Hell.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Banker Hypnotized: A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream.” An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) (Progressive Book Publishing, 1896)
The protagonist from 1895 Proctor is hypnotized and experiences the eutopia that is possible if power is taken from the capitalists and their bought politicians and restored to the people. Public utilities owned by the government. Labor well paid. Government replaces banks and is the source of all loans and the recipient of all interest.
Keywords: Male author

Beyond the Ether - W. Cairns Johnston (Author, 1896)
Balloon journey to a eutopian Mars (all jewels and luxury for departed spirits from earth) and to Jupiter which is heaven. Side trip to a Hell-like asteroid.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Verge. Home of Ten Lost Tribes of Israel - De Witt C[harles] Chipman (1824-1910) (James H. Earle, 1896)
The ten lost tribes of Israel reside in a paradise in the center of the earth. Technologically advanced using knowledge of science and, particularly, of electricity. All live over 400 years. Chemists create most foods not grown; no animal food used.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Christmas Mystery - Charles O[scar] Boring (1846-1922) (The Forward Movement Publishing Co, 1896)
Short eutopia in which a reformed and revived religion based on The Forward Movement (which was part of the Social Gospel Movement) has brought about the eutopia. Set in 1949. No denominations (5-6). Church provides free food and lodging for all who need it (23-24) as well as a library and reading rooms and space for art, education, and physical culture (25). No saloons (9).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City of Gold; A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent - Edward Markwick (1851-1925) (Tower Publishing Company, 1896)
Lost race eutopia. Matriarchy. Both men and women work at a variety of jobs. Community cares for children from age one. Telepathy.
2nd ed. London: W. Thacker, 1898.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"City of Refuge" - Walter Besant (1836-1901) (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1896)
Much of the setting of the novel is an intentional community in the United States where a man from England is hiding from his past and the authorities. The community is, as the title suggests, presented, not entirely favorably, as a refuge from the world. The people wear unattractive clothing, work, eat, and meditate. No books allowed.
Rpt. in 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896
Keywords: English author; Male author

Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World - James Cowan (1870-1943) (George H. Richmond, 1896)
Christian, egalitarian, anarchist, suburban eutopia set on Mars, which had gone through a history directly parallel to that of Earth. Garden-like cities. Science. No private property. Gender equality. Christ had revealed himself on Mars, and the Martians took him seriously. Much adventure. Improved nature and even horses are born tame.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 2nd ed. New York: George H. Richmond, 1896.
Keywords: Male author; US author

From World to World. A Novel - D[avid] L[eroy] Stump (World to World Publishing Company, 1896)
Detailed eutopia. Cooperative system. No money. Farming, manufacturing and distribution, and childcare discussed in detail. A sequel, A Romance of Two Planets. A Sequel to From World to World was scheduled to have been published in May 1897 by World to World Publishing. It either was not published or no copies survive. See also 1913 Stump.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heaven on Earth - Gerald Thorne (Lovell Brothers, 1896)
Intentional community based on Christian socialism.
Keywords: Male author

"In His Steps. 'What Would Jesus Do?'" - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) (Advance, 1896)
World changed by each person asking the question in the title before acting. See also 1913-14 Sheldon. Non-utopian sequels by Sheldon are In His Steps To-day: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO In Solving the Problems of Present Political, Economic and Social Life? New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1921; and In His Steps Today. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, [1928].
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Advance Publishing Company, [1897]; and New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. An ed. that reproduced most of the Advance series was published ed. John W. Ripley. Topeka, KS: Shawnee County Historical Society, 1967. A comic book version is Al Hartley, In His Steps. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1977. Spire Christian Comics. A graphic novel version is Martin Powell. In His Steps. Based on the Novel by Charles M. Sheldon. New York: Marvel Comics, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Industrial Army - Fayette Stratton Giles (1842-97) (Baker and Taylor, 1896)
Detailed exposition of 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army.
Keywords: Male author; US author

It Might Be: A Story of the Future Progress of the Sciences, The Wonderful Advancement in the Methods of Government and the Happy State of the People - H[erbert] E. Swan (H.E. Swan, 1896)
Technological eutopia. Machine-governed eutopia. Government buys and sells goods and guarantees quality. Restricted immigration.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Killboylan Bank; or, Every Man His Own Banker. Being an Account of How Killboylan Characters Concerned Themselves About Co-operative Credit - E[dward] M[elville] Lynch (Kegan Paul, 1896)
A fictional account of the establishment of an agricultural bank set in an Irish village. There is a brief section at the end describing the positive results of the reform.
Keywords: Male author

The Light of Eden or A Historical Narrative of the Barbarian Age. A Scientific Discovery - [Swan] [Burg] (S. Burg, 1896)
Detailed single tax eutopia called Eden. Government guarantees full employment. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author

A New Eden - Andrew Acworth (Ward and Lock, 1896)
Dystopia and a flawed utopia set in 2096. The human race has degenerated mentally and lost the science and technology of the past. There is a small island established in 1896 that has no government but has laws handed down by custom that everyone obeys. It is presented as dull, and the people are without emotion. Work only from 20-40. Technologically advanced.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 3-79. Editor's notes, 1, 201-02.
Keywords: Male author

An Outland Journey - Walter Leon Sawyer (1862-1915) (Copeland and Day, 1896)
Children’s book that tells the story of a boy who visits a fairyland that is a satire on capitalism. All the fairies must work constantly.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Prophetic Romance; Mars to Earth - [John] [McCoy] (1857-1924) (Arena Publishing Company, 1896)
Eutopia brought about by votes for women. Rule by those especially trained for job but elected. All laws must be approved by the people (102-103). Essentially socialist. Paternalistic. Technologically advanced. Eugenics. Stress of health, and children are taught correct “eating, sleeping, drinking, exercising, and in toil, mental and physical, constant regard is had to getting the most and best out of life” (212).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Real History of Money Island - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) (Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1896)
Monetary reform brings eutopia. Written in response to Ten Men of Money Island (1884) by Seymour F. Norton. See also 1899 Flürsheim (3).
[2nd ed.] London: "Clarion" Office/Manchester: Labour Press/Glasgow: "Labour Leader", 1897. The second ed. responds to criticisms and includes a "Preface to Second Edition" (xi-xii) explaining the additions and noting that he has taken practical steps to implement his ideas. It also includes "Appendix. Invitation to Become Members of a Co-operative Exchange Bank. A Fresh Outlet for Trade" (75-80).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; German author; Male author

The Sixteenth Amendment - [Stephen Henry] [Emmens] (G. W. Dillingham, 1896)
Founding of the Legion of Labor which is similar to 1888 Bellamy’s Industrial Army. Under this system everyone will be able to exchange their “labor for a sufficiency of food, clothing, shelter and enjoyment” (83). There will still be private property. Plans to clear slums by moving the people to rural areas. The entire amendment is given on 221-29.
Keywords: Male author; UK author; US author

The Time Is Coming - W[illiam] B[revoort] Bolmer (1845-97) (G.W. Dillingham, 1896)
The novel focuses on the struggle for a reformed Christianity that is mostly a critique of the Christianity as it existed at the time. A religious revival led by the returned prophet Elijah aims at the fusion of Judaism and Christianity and a Jewish state in Palestine. There have been technological advances, but these are incidental to the novel. Within the novel, reform is defeated but hope is held out for the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Utopia in a Nutshell” - [William Dwight Porter] [Bliss] (1856-1926) (American Fabian, 1896)
Brief Christian socialist eutopia set in Boston in 1946. Municipalization of most services, which are all free and paid for from the profits of the city-owned electric company. Six-hour workday five days a week. No work on Sunday with clergy working regular jobs. The author was a well-known Christian socialist minister, initially Congregational, then Episcopalian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Abolition of Money" - I[srael] Zangwill (1864-1926) (The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly, 1895)
Satire on the topic of the title. While workers do well through a system of barter, artists, writers, preachers, and the like do badly so eutopian for one group and dystopian for another, with the latter the focus of the story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Altruria - Titus K[eiper] Smith (b 1859) (Altruria Publishing Company, 1895)
A Christian intentional community based on cooperation spreads around United States, creating a eutopia. Federal system. Annual elections. Referenda on all important issues. Technologically advanced. Those doing lighter work receive lower pay. See also 1932 Smith.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World - Castello N[ewton] Holford (1845-1905) (Arena Publishing Company, 1895)
Eutopia describing an alternative settlement of the Americas. The author says that it is based on More’s Utopia (88-92), but there are few similarities. The eutopia is based on Ralph Morton, one of the settlers of Jamestown, discovering a large gold deposit. Hiding his discovery from other settlers, he purchased land around the deposit and establishes a new colony that he names Mortonia (later changed to Aristopia) and appoints himself Governor for Life. He is presented as a benevolent dictator. Concerned to keep people from enriching themselves at the expense of others. Therefore, except for Morton, there is no private ownership of land, but land could be leased for a period of time determined by Morton. All buying and selling through public bodies and stores. Abolished primogeniture; limited inheritance. All roads and bridges public property. Laws proposed by an elected Congress but had to be approved by Morton. Widows over 30 could vote; women over 20 could vote for school officials. Reforming of criminals. Compulsory public education. Ultimately Aristopia comes to incorporate the rest of the U.S. and Canada.
Available as an audiobook at https://librivox.org/search?title=Aristopia%3A+A+Romance-History+of+the+New+World&author=HOLFORD&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) (Progressive Book Publishing Co., 1895)
Capitalist dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author

"A Brief History of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1895)
An incomplete history of a eutopia introduced in 1895 Walker.  Most of the story is concerned with the dystopian capitalist system that preceded the eutopia, which is led by intelligent, moral men who are dedicated to the interest of the society as a whole. Industry efficiently organized for use rather than profit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Christmas in the Year 2000" - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Ladies Home Journal, 1895)
Picture of a future Christmas as an addition to 1888 Bellamy Looking Backward, the book for which he is best known. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City of Endeavor: A Religious Novel devoted to the interests of Good Citizenship in the City of Brooklyn - Harold McGill Davis (Collins & Day, 1895)
Christian Endeavorists, a movement in which people strive to be good Christians, takes hold in Brooklyn, and transforms the city. Stress on prohibition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Revolution - Henry L[aurens] Call (1867-1917) (Arena Publishing Co., 1895)
The book is primarily a critique of the existing system with one chapter presenting “The New Republic” (206-19) in which there will be no extremely rich or inheritance, which will result in the establishment of an equality of opportunity, no monopoly in land, government banking, publicly owned transportation and utilities, no speculation or trusts, and democratic government
Rpt. New York: Lovell Brothers, 1896.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Discovery of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1895)
Isolated eutopia established in 1641 in central Africa and called Virland. This story serves as the introduction to 1895-1896 Walker, which elaborates on the eutopia. Here there is mention of a rich country with many villages and two cities, advanced technology, and moral leaders.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Dream of the Future; or Home Rule for Ladies. A Comic Opera in One Act and Four Scenes - J. R[edfearn] Williamson; Fred Walters (Green & Sons, 1895)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Keywords: Male author

The Equalities of Para-Para, Written from the Dictation of George Rambler, M.D., F.R.G.S - Paul Haedicke (1852-1903) (The Schuldt-Gathmann Company, 1895)
Anti-union satire describing a country in which everyone is made equal in all things by disfiguring the favored. For example, everyone is bald. Exactly the same amount of food and water to everyone at the same time each day. No personal possessions or private life. Life led publicly at all times, including having sex in public.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Etidorhpa or The End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey as Communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury Who Promised to Print the Same, But Finally Evaded the Responsibility Which was Assumed by John Uri Lloyd - John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) (Pub. by John Uri Lloyd, 1895)
Occult novel of a trip through the underworld. Etidorhpa is Aphrodite spelled backwards. Borderline but included by both Arthur O. Lewis, Utopian Literature in The Pennsylvania State University Libraries: A Selected Bibliography (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984) 113; and Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 85-86. According to Negley some editions have Etidorpha.
2nd ed. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke Co., 1896. 11th ed. rev. and enl. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901. Rpt. as part of the series Inspired Novels, no. A-3 (Summer 1962) Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1962, and Albuquerque, NM: Sun Publishing Co., 1976. This ed. rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth - Charles Aikin ([Regan Printing House], 1895)
A eutopia inside the Earth discovered by a man and a woman escaping from slavery. In the eutopia, which had been established by Christ, everyone helps everyone else, but “It is a law of nature and the will of God that the black man serve the white; yet with us it is no servitude, neither is required of us if no one cares not to do it, there is no compulsion” (110). No politics, no commerce, and no death. There is, though, in addition, a brief depiction of Death, Sin, and the damned on their way to the Inferno.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Garden of Eden, U.S.A.: A Very Possible Story - W[illiam] H[enry] Bishop (Charles H. Kerr, 1895)
Eutopia with an emphasis on equality, particularly between men and women in North Carolina built by a wealthy man. Everyone one must work, but much work is mechanized. The author believes his Eden is possible, and there is an Appendix entitled "Why Not an Eden?" (357-69). A love story runs throughout the novel. No tobacco, no alcohol.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Government by the People - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914); [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) (Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895)
Non-fiction presentation of a detailed scheme for a new political system stressing administration over politics and how to bring it about. Includes chapters on the civil service; the national assembly, which has no speaker or prime minister, and its committees; "The Chamber of Experts", which has educational qualifications for membership; local government; the constitution; rights of minorities; and social ethics.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

The Great Secret. A Tale of To-morrow - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) (F.V. White, 1895)
Begins as a novel of adventure with a conflict between anarchists set on destruction and the passengers and crew of a ship. The anarchists kill all the others and most of the anarchists come to a bad end. Three of the dead pass through the River Styx to a spirit world of almost static perfection where all the perfected spirits of the past together with a few immortals live in their own civilizations, which have been stripped of their imperfections. Two of the anarchists are reformed and become the center of a good society on an isolated island, which is only briefly described.  See also 1893, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

Hedged With Divinities - Edward Tregear (1846-1931) (R. Coupland Harding, 1895)
All men die but one, who has been put into a trance by Maori elders. The women generally make a mess of things. When the man awakes, he is made king, whereupon he organizes the women, who only needed a man to direct them, and the road to recovery begins. But he is required to marry one hundred women and runs away for true love with a woman who won't share him with others.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

An Ideal Republic or Way Out of the Fog - Corwin Phelps (W.L. Reynolds, 1895)
Eutopia. Reformed capitalism with a limit on wealth.
Keywords: Male author

The Inhabitants of Mars. Their Manners and Advancement in Civilization and Their Opinion of Us - Professor W[illis] Mitchell (C.E. Spofford & Co, 1895)
Eutopia of physical perfection, telepathy, and advanced technology. All food is manufactured, predigested, and delivered to homes in electric wagons. Can choose the gender of their children.  The author was a revivalist and a member of New England Evangelical Association, and much of the novel expresses his religious views through the Martian interpretation of Christianity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Marmaduke, Emperor of Europe. Being a Record of Some Strange Adventures in the Remarkable Career of a Political and Social Reformer Who Was Famous at the Commencement of the Twentieth Century - [Frank Attfield] [Fawkes] (Edmund Durrant/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1895)
In Chapter II there is a vision of a future eutopia in which capitalists help each other and cooperate with labor, prisons are industries, and agricultural workers are not oppressed. The only negative is a war with "Orientals". By the end of the book the vision has been realized.
Keywords: Male author

The Marshall Duke of Denver or The Labor Revolution of 1920. A Novel - [Ernest Hugh] [Fitzpatrick] (1863-1933) (Donohue and Henneberry Company, 1895)
Eutopia includes some reforms but mostly on the revolution to achieve the better society. Graduated income tax; tax on imported luxury items; free trade; government ownership of railroads and telegraph; municipal ownership of street railroads (201). All money replaced by script based on real estate (190-91). Standing army and a large navy. Capital punishment for murder a federal law.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Memorable Voyages of Rebel and Victory - Rev. A[lbert] B[arnes] King (1828-1914) (James H. Earle, 1895)
Bunyanesque Christian allegory with ships battling and visiting various countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Milltillionaire - [Albert Waldo] [Howard] (np, 1895)
Rational, scientific, statist eutopia established by a wealthy man. From 24 to 40 everyone must provide a minimum amount of labor.
Another ed. has subtitle or, Age of Bardization. Boston, MA: Author, 1898. Rpt. American Utopias. Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Monomaniacs. A Fable in Finance - Henry [Albert] Seymour (1861-1938) (Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London), 1895)
Satire on capitalism set in Lunarland.
Rpt. London: William Reeves, 1895. 8 pp.
Keywords: Male author

"The Opening of the Chamber" - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (The King in Yellow, 1895)
After a series of conflicts and war with Germany, the United States has created a eutopian life, but the government begins to encourage suicide. No explanation is given.
Rpt. in The World's Shortest Stories: An Anthology. Ed. Richard G. Hubler (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961), 71-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens - David Hilton Wheeler (1829-1902) (A.C. McClurg and Company, 1895)
Essay arguing that the United States is currently a eutopia although more free competition would make things even better.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The People of the Moon. A Novel - [Edward] Tremlett Carter (1866-1903) ("The Electrician” Printing and Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., 1895)
A complex multi-genre novel set in a hollow moon combining adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, which is the emphasis of the novel. Some on the lives of the people.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Repairer of Reputations” - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (The King in Yellow, 1895)
The story begins with a detailed description of a eutopia set in 1920. The eutopia was brought about following the almost successful invasion of the U.S. by Germany. The country is prosperous, the cities are being systematically improved, as are the fine arts and the national park system. Religious toleration has been established. Voluntary euthanasia has been instituted. Elements of racism in that racial and ethnic problems have been solved by limiting immigration, expelling all foreign-born Jews, establishing a separate Negro state, and recruiting Indians into separate squadrons in the military. The story then shifts to the protagonist’s belief that he is the descendent of American royalty and that he is fated to rule.
Also, in Neely’s Prismatic Library (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895), 9-54. Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 1-44; and in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 78-98.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Root of the Matter: Being a Series of Dialogues on Social Questions - H[enry] H[yde] Champion (1859-1928) (E.W. Cole, 1895)
Fiction in which one person describes socialism.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Secret of Mankind With Some Singular Hints Gathered in the Elsewheres or After-Life, From Certain Eminent Personages As Also Some Brief Account of the Planet Mercury and Of Its Institutions - [Willis] [Brewer] (1844-1912) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895)
The eutopia is on Mercury. Life is centered on the parish and in the parish on the communal hall, which is always open. Each hall has a library, museum, etc., and education takes place there through contact with educated people. Disputes are adjudicated there, contracts and marriages announced, plays performed, etc. Everyone works at a variety jobs. There are no taxes, no holidays, and estates vest in the parish on death. Only about 50% of the people marry. Marriage is seen as a partnership of equals and divorce is easy and frequent.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The State of Medicine in the Year 1945" - Albert Abrams (1863-1924) (Transactions of the Antiseptic Club Reported by Albert Abrams, A Member of the San Francisco Medical Profession, 1895)
Satire. Capsule food has eliminated most disease. The number of physicians limited by law. Prevention of illness was the responsibility of one group of doctors; another group consulted in cases of severe illness; another castrated those guilty of crimes (no capital punishment); and another practiced euthanasia when the illness was incurable. Novels included ads.
Rpt. (New York: E.B. Treat, 1902), 179-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Time Machine: An Invention - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (William Heinemann, 1895)
Gradual development of two classes, the Eloi and the Morlocks, who are the final stages of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, respectively. An authorized sequel is 1995 Barnes. There are many unauthorized sequels.
Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume I The Time Machine The Wonderful Visit and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924), 1-118. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 2.2 (May 1927): 148-78; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 11.6 (August 1950): 10-53; in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books 1.4 (Winter 1951): 2-44; in Three Prophetic Novels of H.G. Wells. Ed. E.F. Bleiler (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 263-335 [Follows the 1895 Heinemann ed. except for including an episode from the National Review serial left out of book versions (325-27); as The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition of H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romance With Introduction and Notes by Harry M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987; Ed. Michael Moorcock. London: Everyman, 1993; Rev. Centennial ed. ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1995; as The Time Machine: An Invention. A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996; Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2001; Ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by Marina Warner (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxiv), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (97-104); and in London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (vii-xi). Illustrated by Ale + Ale [Alessandro Lecis and Alessandra Panzeri]. Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers/Quarto Group, 2019. See also, “The Missing Pages from the Immortal Science Fiction Novel by H.G. Wells. The Time Machine XIII. The Further Vision.” Satellite Science Fiction 2.6 (August 1958): 98-109]; Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1964 illus. Joe Mugnaini and with an “Introduction” (v-xi) by George Zebrowski; the title page says that the introduction is by Brian W. Aldiss, but it is signed by Zebrowski. Differing text in New York: Henry Holt, 1895 [by three weeks, this is technically the first edition]. The Time Machine began life as “The Chronic Argonauts.” Science Schools Journal 2.11 - 13 (April - June 1888): 312-20, 336-41, 367-71. Serialized versions that differed from each other and from the first book version appeared as a series without a common title in the National Observer as follows: “Time Travelling: Possibility or Paradox?” 11.278 (March 17, 1894): 446-47; “The Time Machine.” 11.279 (March 24, 1894): 472-73; “A.D. 12,203: A Glimpse of the Future.” 11.280 (March 31, 1894): 499-500; “The Refinement of Humanity.” 11.283 (April 21, 1894): 581-82; “The Sunset of Mankind.” 11.284 (April 28, 1894): 606-08; “In the Underworld.” 12.287 (May 19, 1894): 14-15; and “The Time Traveller Returns.” 12.292 (June 23, 1894): 145-47; and as “The Time Machine.” New Review 12.68 - 72 (January - May 1895): 98-112, 207, 221, 329-43, 453-72, 577-88. Much of The National Observer version and some of the New Review version can be found in H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction. Ed. Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), 57-104.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Uncle Sam's" Cabins. A Story of American Life Looking Forward a Century - Benjamin Rush Davenport (The Mascot Publishing Company, 1895)
The novel begins in 1994 in a dystopia in which the military is used to control the poor and the poor are then enslaved. The U.S. produces very little that can be exported; an import tax supports the government and makes imported goods expensive. The U.S. has adopted primogeniture, and estates go to the eldest son. The solution, in about 2014, is to abolish serfdom, re-establish the original U.S. Constitution, and become a free trade nation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia"; The Story of a Strange Experience - Frederic Condé Williams (ed.) [written by] (1844-1917) (Metcalfe and Company, 1895)
An isolated island Arcadia. Nudity, no formal marriage. Children are raised by the community.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia - James Alexander Kenneth Mackay (1859-1935) (Richard Bentley, 1895)
Anti-Chinese dystopia. Satire on contemporary Australia.
Rpt. in an “Australian” edition. London: Richard Bentley, 1897; rpt. with an “Introduction” (xi-xxxiv, 312-17). Ed. Andrew Enstice and Janeen Webb. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with textual notes (317-45).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

'2894'; or, The Fossil Man (A Mid-Winter Night's Dream) - Walter Browne (G.W. Dillingham, 1894)
Gender-role reversal. Technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

'96; A Romance of Utopia, Presenting a Solution to the Labor Problem, A New God and A New Religion - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (The Utopia Company, 1894)
Dystopia and eutopia. Three imaginary countries are presented: Lukka, a capitalist dystopia in which commerce is worshipped; Utopia, a communal system based on the labor theory of value; and a transformed United States of the period 1896-1930 also based on the labor theory of value and the success of the Free Labor Party. See also 1908 (2), 1917, 1920, and 1925 Rosewater.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Also entitled Utopia; A Romance of Today Presenting a Solution to the Labor Problem, A New God and A New Religion. New York: F.T. Neely, 1897.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A.D. 1900--Application for Leave to Give a Dinner" - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Pall Mall Gazette, 1894)
Satire on contemporary manners projected slightly into the future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Beyond the Ice: Being a Story of the Newly Discovered Region Round the North Pole. Edited from Dr. Frank Farleigh's Diary - G[eorge] Read Murphy (ed.) [written by] (1856-1925) (Sampson Low, Marston & Co. and M.L. Hutchinson, 1894)
Detailed Christian, socialist, technological, eugenic eutopia at the North Pole. Egalitarian with systems in place to encourage high quality work. A description of a model prison farm is included (115/Claeys 114-15) and a model farm (174-81/Claeys 165-72). About half the novel deals with conflict with another country and war.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 5: 3-300. Editor's notes, 1, 301-02.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“The City at the End of Things” - Archibald Lampman (1861-99) (The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1894)
Dystopian poem about a city that was once vibrant but is now mostly a machine without humans.
Rpt. in A Victorian Anthology 1837-1895. Selections Illustrating the Editor’s Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria. Ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1895), 2: 661-62; in his Alcyone (Ottawa, ON, Canada: James Ogilvy, 1899), 5-8 (12 copy edition); and as The City at the End of Things. Ottawa, ON, Canada: The Golden Dog, 1973. Mss. with various titles dated 1892 are held by Public Archives of Canada and the University of Toronto Library. A note in the Golden Dog edition says that the reprints included errors.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Coming Terror; or, The Australian Revolution. A Romance of the Twentieth Century - S[amuel] A[lbert] Rosa (1866-1940) (Author, 1894)
Socialist eutopia. Nationalization. Cheap money, free land, no interest, no lawyers, universal suffrage. Four hour workday; pension at 45. About half the text concerns the problems of the transition to socialism.
Rpt. as Oliver Spence, The Australian Caesar, or The Coming Terror. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Author, 1895. Except for a one page "To the Reader" in the first edition calling for peaceful rather than violent change, the texts are identical.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Curse and Its Cure in Two Volumes - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) (J.H. Reynolds, 1894)
A religious dystopia followed by a religious eutopia. Volume I, set in 2000, describes a Brisbane that has essentially disappeared and ends with a description of Hell. Volume II, set in 2200, describes a Brisbane revived and ends with a description of Heaven. Land and mineral wealth nationalized, and “rational” dress adopted, but the key change is the return to religion. Eight-hour workday. See also 1889 Lucas.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

Dashed Against the Rocks: A Romance of the Coming Age - William [Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) (Colby & Rich, 1894)
Spiritualism including a briefly described eutopia on Mars. The chief representatives of the twelve districts of Mars are twelve married couples who legislated with no strife. Martians cooperate for the good of all. Mars is scientifically advanced, and it is also religious in that they have knowledge of God.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century; A Prospective History - Henry Lazarus, ed. [written by] (1855-1922) (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894)
Mostly criticism of contemporary society from the perspective of a future eutopia. The Salvation Army, while remaining a religious body, is remodeled into a real army and leads the essentially peaceful revolution. But after the revolution, slum landlords and others who had preyed upon the poor were turned over to those they had preyed upon, who killed them. Government replaced, although the king is kept. Slum clearance. Much on the period of transition and details of reforms in the economy, politics, education, law, and social relations.
Keywords: English author; Male author

From Earth's Center. A Polar Gateway Message - S. Byron Welcome (1861-1948) (Charles H. Kerr, 1894)
Decentralized capitalist eutopia with a tax of land values. The President is chosen by Congress.
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1895.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Human Drift - King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) (New Era Publishing Company, 1894)
Eutopia brought about by founding a gigantic corporation which gradually absorbs the whole world economy. The book includes a number of plates showing the city and buildings. See also 1910 and 1924 Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf. The author invented the safety razor.
A second issue with minor revisions (see page xxi in Roemer’s introduction to the Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints edition). Twentieth Century Library (January 1895). New York: The Humboldt Publishing Co., 1895. Rpt. as The Human Drift (1894). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976, with an Introduction by Kenneth M. Roemer (iii-xxiii).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Hygenic Country” - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Lika Joko, 1894)
Satire on reforms in hygiene and diet through an island called Hygeia where anything that might cause disease has been destroyed and the water purified. The people eat only brown bread, stewed fruit, and new milk.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ideal City - Rev. Canon [Samuel Augustus] Barnett (1844-1913) (Arrowsmith, 1894)
Eutopia that the author argues is possible. Stress on variety but no very rich or poor. Religion, education, health. Outlines how England could become such a eutopia, with Bristol the specific city being considered. See also Samuel [Augustus] Barnett and Henrietta Barnett, Practicable Socialism: Essays on Social Reform. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Rpt. in 1894 and 1915.
Rpt. in The Ideal City. Ed. Helen E. Meller (Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1979), 55-66 with a "Note to The Ideal City (47-53).
Keywords: English author; Male author

If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) (Review of Reviews, 1894)
Religious, cooperative eutopia in one chapter entitled "In the Twentieth Century." For a response, see 1894 Hale, “If Jesus Came to Boston.” For non-utopian works using the same trope, see M[ilford] W[riarson] Howard. If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to "If Christ Came to Congress". [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh, A Second Coming. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1900.
New ed. as If Christ Came to Chicago! What Would Jesues Do with The Precursor of “In His Steps.” at the head of the title. London: “Review of Reviews” Office, 1899. U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, 1894.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"If Jesus Came to Boston" - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) (New England Magazine, 1894)
A response to 1894 Stead, If Christ Came to Chicago! in which Hale presents a Boston so much better than the reality in supporting immigrants and the poor, that it can only be called a eutopia based on charity and welfare. See also M.W. Howard's If Christ Came to Congress.  Washington ,  DC : Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to “If Christ Came to Congress”. [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh's A Second Coming. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, which present contemporary reactions to a supposed Second Coming.
Also published as a book. Boston, MA: J. Stilman Smith & Co., 1894. Rpt. Boston, MA: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the China Sea - Seward W[ashington] Hopkins (1864-1919) (Robert Bonner's Sons, 1894)
Eutopia and dystopia. Island of Talmooch in the China Sea. In the past it had been a eutopia with an elected monarch, peace and prosperity with no great differences of income, and low taxes. Naturally moral. The Chinese take over and create a dystopia. The Chinese are then overthrown.
Rpt. as A Chase for Love; or, In the China Sea. New York: Street & Smith, 1894.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Island of Opera” - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Lika Joko, 1894)
Satire on opera in which sailors come across the Island of Opera in the Archipelago of Music.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ivanda or the Pilgrim's Quest: A Tale - [Sir] Captain Claude [Arthur] Bray (b. 1858) (Frederick Warne, 1894)
Dystopia or flawed utopia. A lost community in Tibet that was intended to be a utopian religious community is more dystopian as a result of some evil men with power in the community. Mostly adventure and romance.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future - John Jacob Astor [IV] (1864-1912) (D. Appleton, 1894)
Eutopia. Set in 2000 AD. The novel is mostly concerned with a journey to Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter is essentially a prehistoric planet inhabited by dinosaurs. Saturn is inhabited by the spirits of the Earth's dead, who are waiting for the Second Coming. The eutopia on earth is one in which electricity does all the work. Canada and South America have joined the U.S.
Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey to Mars. The Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom - Gustavus W[illiam] Pope M.D. (1828-1902) (G.W. Dillingham, 1894)
Eutopia but much of the novel is an adventure story. There is a linear city that is 2,000 miles long and 20 miles wide with a population of twenty-five million and eleven other slightly smaller linear cities. Universal language. One religion. Highly advanced technically and artistically. Monarchy with some living in luxury. There is differential wealth but no poverty. Three peoples with red, yellow, or blue skin color who are all equal. Pluto was once inhabited, and a few Plutonians survive on Mars.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Labor As Money: A Story With a Purpose. Presenting a Practical, Automatic Currency of Stationary Value, Contracting and Relaxing According to the Demands of the Country for Exchange - John O[tho] Yeiser (1866-1928) (Arena Publishing Co, 1894)
Economic novel that includes a proposal for Labor Certificates replacing U.S. currency that is expected to lead to a eutopia. The Appendix (202-12) includes the proposed legislation.
Versions of the same argument were made in Automated Elastic Currency. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1915; Exp. as My Country! My Congress! Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1917. 69 pp.; and Debts of Today and Hell To Pay. Illus. Maps. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1918. 88 pp. An extract had been published in Successful Farming (Des Moines, IA) (February - March 1915).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Land of the Changing Sun - Will[iam] N[athaniel Harben (1858-1919) (Merriam Company, 1894)
Lost race novel set inside the Earth. On the whole the society is presented positively and can be considered a technological utopia. The exception to the positive presentation is that dissidents are banished to a barren waste and almost certain death. At the end a natural disaster threatens to destroy the society, and the people choose to become Christians, divide their wealth equally, and return to the surface.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lords of Misrule; A Tale of Gods and of Men - William C[urtis] Pomeroy (Laird and Lee, 1894)
A series of future dystopias. The excesses of capitalism are replaced by the excesses of state socialism, which collapses into simple rule by violence. Suggests that the United States in the 1890s was a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Man and His Soul: An Occult Romance of Washington Life - T[heron] C[lark] Crawford, K.C. (Charles B. Reed, 1894)
Detailed eutopia. Stress on training for public life. On the Island of Nolos it is possible to see the ideal organization of life. Chapter XVII (166-71), “Picturing Ideal Possibilities of Our Future National Life,” describes the city of Washington. Chapter XVIII (172-83), “The Life of the Nation After Ideal Conditions Are Reached,” describes the noble profession of politics and the education provided for those planning on entering this profession, which includes travel to other countries, free mass education, including physical training, that is compulsory for the poor, with the children fed at need, every public building open 24 hours and usable as shelter by the poor, and the technological advances that provides free light and heat and food in liquid form but with exquisite taste at cost. Municipalities like companies with only property-owners having a say. Chapter XXII (213-22), “Showing the Future Government of Affairs in the United States,” describes, among other things, a Cabinet in which the highest post is that of Secretary of the Public Welfare, followed by the Secretary of the Liberal Arts. Other cabinet officers are the secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and Spiritual Development. In Chapter XXVIII (223-34) “The ideal President holds a conversation with the real President of the United States.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Neuroomia: A New Continent. A Manuscript delivered by the Deep - G[eorge] McIver (1859-1948) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1894)
Eutopia set at the South Pole. Much adventure. Private property in all but land. Limit on wealth. A system of arbitration, a state medical system, and state employment for all who need it. Mars is inhabited and in advance of Earth and is described in the chapter "Visions of Another World" (264-80). The eutopia is only about half the novel.
Also published Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson & Co., 1894.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The New Arcadia: An Australian Story - Horace [Finn] Tucker (1849-1911) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1894)
Story of a successful intentional community based on representative democracy that, after many trials and tribulations, produced a good life for its members. Tucker founded village settlements in Australia in the early 1890s. See The Tucker Village Settlements of Victoria. Handbook for the Information of Contributors and Intending Settlers containing--A Brief History of the Movement; An Account of Its Aims, Methods, and Progress; and Particulars As to Settlers. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Walker, May & Co., 1892.
Also published Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson and Co., 1894.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“No Mean City” - Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) (In his Mazzini, and Other Essays, 1894)
The White City from the World’s Fair Columbian: Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is recreated and in response Chicago eliminated pollution and more generally rebuilt its infrastructure to be compatible with the beauty of the White City. Many people moved out of Chicago and, since they had to return to the city to work, the electricity-based transportation system was radically improved on moved out of sight. Municipally owned utilities. Improved housing for workers. Improved personal relations. More gender equality, including the franchise. No child labor. The remaining problem, a large body of unemployed, was solved by building No Mean City based on the principles of the reformed Chicago. Its great success led to no one living in the old Chicago, which was replaced by a great park full of museums, universities, places of worship, theatres, libraries, and so forth.
Rpt. in Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Critiques of American Capitalism, 1881-1903. Ed. Alun Munslow and Owen R. Ashton (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), 133-46.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Off the Face of the Earth: A Story of Possibilities - Lester Bodine ([Festner Printing Co.], 1894)
A short visit to Hell is followed by a longer visit to the outskirts of Heaven, where souls are judged.
Keywords: Male author

"The Outlaws of the Air" - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Short Stories (London), 1894)
Mostly adventure and future war, but two chapters describe eutopias that stress personal freedom in an explicitly capitalist setting. The first is a simple, escapist, South Seas Island eutopia without the usual implication of sexual freedom. The second includes all the islands of the South Seas and is a new, independent company set up by the good capitalists who have wrested control of the air from the bad anarchists.
Rpt. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: Tower Publishing Company, 1895.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Preparing for the Twentieth Century. Being the Fifth Edition (Revised) of "Towards Fraternal Organisation" - J. Bruce Wallace (Brotherhood Trust, 1894)
Non-fiction cooperative eutopia. See also, The Exchange Circle of the Co-operative Brotherhood Trust Limited. By-Laws and Forms Passed by the Committee of the C.B.T. and a Practical Explanation of Them by J. Bruce Wallace. London: Brotherhood Trust, [1894].
Rpt. as Preparing for the Twentieth Century. 2nd. ed. London: Brotherhood Press, 1897; 2nd ed. London: The Co-operative Brotherhood Trust, Ltd.; and “Clarion” Office, 1897. Also, Preparing for the Twentieth Century. 2nd ed. May 1897. London: The Co-operative Brotherhood Trust, 1897. Rpt. Serially in Tocsin (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), nos. 27 - 33 (March 31 - May 12, 1898): 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3 (M). The only editions of Towards Fraternal Organisation that I have found (Towards Fraternal Organisation: An Explanation of the Brotherhood Trust. 2nd ed. rev. and 3rd ed. rev. London: Brotherhood Trust, [1894]) are not as explicitly utopian.
Keywords: Male author

A Prospectus of Socialism; or, A Glimpse of the Millenium, Showing Its Plan and Working Arrangements and How It May Be Brought About - William Thomson (Ptd. by W. Reeves, 1894)
Detailed description of a socialist eutopia including chapters on housing, the distribution of goods, the organization of trade and commerce, the organization of agriculture, training, religious freedom, government, law and order, and amusements and recreation.
Keywords: Male author

Rest - William W. Wheeler (Arena Publishing Co, 1894)
Eutopia based on 1888 Bellamy. Adam and Eve appear in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bellamy's hometown, having paid their full penalty. Mental control of the physical world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Revolt of the----: A Page from the domestic history of the Twentieth Century" - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 1894)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 62-71.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

Sophos or Kidnapping the Kings. A Fin de Siecle Vision - Albert Alberg (Bow-Knot Publishing, 1894)
Socialists kidnap most of the worlds monarchs and isolate them on an island, called New Atlantica with its harbor Altruria, where they are required to live and work like normal human beings. On the whole, the young ones see the situation in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author

The Splendid Paupers. A Tale of the Coming Plutocracy - [William Thomas] [Stead] (1849-1912) (Review of Reviews, 1894)
Dystopia. A future Britain in which wealthy Chinese now dominate and the formerly wealthy have had to give up their estates.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Toddle Island. Being the Diary of Lord Bottsford - [James Dennis] [Hird] (1850-1920) (Richard Bentley and Son, 1894)
Satire on British life, politics, and society that presents them as both remarkably inconsistent and extremely silly. The one positive feature of Toddle Island is a cooperative laundry, and, at the end of the novel, a larger cooperative system is being established.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Traveler from Altruria - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) (Harper and Bros., 1894)
This and its sequel (see 1907 Howells) depict first the troubles of the contemporary United States and then an arcadia. Simpler life. Cities gradually disappear. Home and family central to Altrurian life. No money. Christian. Altruria equals altruism.
Rpt. ed. David W. Levy. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Parts, in a different version, were first published as “A Traveller from Altruria.” The Cosmopolitan: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine 14 - 15 (November 1892 - October 1893): 52-58, 251-56, 341-47, 495-500, 633-40, 697-705; 39-46, 249-56, 305-10, 449-56, 635-40, 738-49. This version rpt. in Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1961. Critical ed. as The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 5-179. An extract from the first story was published in Edward Bellamy’s The New Nation (Boston, MA) 2.48 (November 26, 1892): 701-02.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Trouble of Living Alone - F[rederick] B. Hofman (Arena Publishing Co, 1894)
Lost race eutopia. The novel begins with the hero spending five years in a Robinson Crusoe situation before being discovered by a community of fifty English-speaking people who are the descendants of three couples who had survived another shipwreck. They live a simple, Christian life that combines individuality (separate homes and gardens) and community of goods administered by people who have been popularly elected. They then visit another eutopia with a simple government, with all government business conducted in public, and modest and moral people. This system ultimately becomes world-wide assisted by means of rapid communication.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia" - S[amuel] C[ooper] C[ope], Probable author (1865?-1928) (Otago Witness, 1894)
Poem. Satire on reform, specifically aimed at Parliamentary action on farming, unemployment, banking, and women's rights.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Why Not? or Lawyer Truman’s Story - Dr. W[illiam] W. Totheroh (W. Ward & Co., 1894)
The novel depicts the transformation of a small town into a small city following the arrival of people displaced by the Chicago fire of 1871 and the emergence of one of its churches into an engine for social reform. Some members and others connected to the church create a “Settlement” in a working-class area that provides housing, classes for children through adults, recreation, entertainment, and so forth. The Settlement is connected to a university and students living in it. Unusual in that denominations are rejected, taxing church property is proposed, and missionaries to the cities in the area are preferred over sending people on foreign missions.
Keywords: Male author

The Women's Conquest of New-York. Being an account of The Rise and Progress of the Women's Rights Movement; of the Grant of Female Suffrage; of the Formation of the Area League; of the Capture by the Women Voters of the Government of New York by the Election as Mayoress of Bridget O'Dowd; and the Season of Female Despotism which thereafter ensued, and which was ended by an appeal to Primitive Natural Law - [Thomas Allibone] [Janvier] (1849-1913) (Harper & Brothers, 1894)
Satire. Anti-women's rights. Anti-suffrage, Anti-Irish.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Young West; A Sequel to Edward Bellamy's Celebrated Novel, "Looking Backward" - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) (Arena Publishing Company, 1894)
Education in Bellamy's world but including considerable detail in addition to that on education.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After the Revolution" - William Wallace (1843-1921) (After the Revolution and other Holiday Fantasies, 1893)
Satire on socialist revolution.
Originally published in the Glasgow Herald (a daily newspaper).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Angel of the Revolution" - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson's Weekly, 1893)
Mostly on war but includes a detailed depiction of a world with complete disarmament. See also 1893-94 Jones.
A synopsis preview was published no. 130 (January 14, 1893): 413. Rev. for book published London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894; and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Part of the original serial but not included in the book was “The Fall of Berlin”; rpt. in The Raid of “Le Vengeur” and Other Stories (London: Ferret Fantasy, 1974), 59-63.
Keywords: English author; Male author

An Apocalypse of Life - W[alter] T[homas] Cheney (b. 1859) (Arena Publishing Co, 1893)
Spiritual eutopia that will come after death experienced by a spirit who returns to Earth to teach Christ’s message, which is spelled out in a long chapter (165-231) with detailed references to the Bible and other notes. Little detail on the life after death, but there is a stress on intelligence and spirituality. There is no material eating or drinking, and there is a universal language of thought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Building of the City Beautiful - [Cincinnatus Hiner] [Miller] (1837-1913) (Stone and Kimball, 1893)
Christian rural or small town eutopia.
3rd ed. Chicago, IL: Stone and Kimball, 1894. Rev. Trenton, NJ: Albert Brandt, 1905. A note in the 1905 ed. says that three small, partial eds. were published in 1894 and the plates melted. The first ed. was actually published December 10, 1893.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Cityless and Countryless World: An Outline of Practical Co-operative Individualism - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Gilmore and Olerich, 1893)
Eutopia. Detailed description of a complete society without traditional city-country divisions or families. Everyone lives in large apartment blocks holding about a thousand people where everyone has their own unit and with a common kitchen, nurseries, and other cooperative amenities. While these buildings cover the landscape and are connected by an elaborate system of roads and railroads, there is enough land between them that everyone has immediate access to green space. Each building is a productive unit and trade among the buildings ensures that each building has all it needs. The book includes a number of charts laying out the organization of the communities. See also 1915, 1923 and 1927 Olerich.
Rpt. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Conversations Between the Rabbi of the Boarding House and a Company of Intelligent Ladies and Gentlemen. Being a Series of Conversational Discussions, Pro and Con of the Labor Problem, Monopolies and Trusts, Mission of Machinery, Tariff, Fads in Schools, Official Incompetency, Posthumous Benefices, Newspapers, Patent Laws, the Coming Millennium, Sabbath Observance, the Silver Question, Single Tax, Paternalism, Etc. Etc. - Hon. H[arry] H. Young (D. Ramaley & Son, 1893)
In the discussion, which is mostly critical, a picture of a better society emerges.The idea of a single tax on land, which is opposed here, originated with Henry George (1839-97). ). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earth Revisited - Byron A[lden] Brooks (1845-1911) (Arena Publishing Company, 1893)
Eutopia set in 1992. Technology, cooperation, and no idleness. Four-hour workday. Moral training. Air travel. Cooperative bank. Cooperative housekeeping with groups of homes employing housekeepers together. The New York area now called Columbia and Manhattan is all offices with the people living in Westchester County.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Either, Or - Rudolph Leonhart (b. 1832) (Roller Printing Company, 1893)
Satire on the US with a cooperative eutopia at the end. Considerable emphasis on the evil of trusts. Politically Congress only proposes laws that must be approved by the people. Economically interest is held to three per cent, only high-quality goods are produced, people mostly buy local production, and everyone has good, well-paid jobs. Education required until eighteen, and after that people must pass exams to continue and be admitted to the professions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Fear of It" - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 1893)
Story describing a religious community that believes so deeply in heaven that it welcomes death. Simple, austere life.
Rpt. in his The Face and the Mask (London: Hutchinson, 1894), 30-40. U.S. ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1895), 25-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Great Revolution of 1905; or, The Story of the Phalanx, With an Introductory Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century - Frederick W[illiam] Hayes (1848-1918) (Robert Forder, 1893)
Detailed socialist eutopia describing the development to eutopia with considerable material on the political steps involved. The "Introduction" (Forder v-lxviii/Claeys 169-200/State Industrialism v-lxviii) is a critique of contemporary capitalism or individualism, which is then compared to the preferred collectivism or state industrialism.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 4: 165-420. Editor’s notes, 163, 422-30. Rpt. London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1894. Also published as State Industrialism: The Story of the Phalanx. With an Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. London: William Reeves, 1901. Bellamy Library No. 34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"I Love To Dream of an Ideal City" - Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916) (The New City (New York), 1893)
Dream of the Topolobampo community (founded 1886) in Mexico written near the end of the struggle to keep it going. Owen, who was the founder of the community, left it in 1893 and never returned. For more detail, see his Integral Co-operation: Its Practical Application. New York: John W. Lovell, 1885. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an introduction entitled "Cooperation and New City Planning" (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty and including a number of charts showing the layout of the proposed city.
Rev. ed. as A Dream of an Ideal City. London: Murdoch, [1897].
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In Those Days--or, Life in the Twentieth Century" - [William Edward] [Graham] (1867-1941); [Austin Douglas] [Graham] (1869-1941) (The Voice, 1893)
Eutopia set in 1995 based on cooperation and the single tax. Their The Land and the People: Two Chapters from an Unpublished Social Novel. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Co-operative Printing Co., 1891 [Rpt. in Utopian Brisbane, and all other known Writings of 'Austin South'. Comp. and ed. Bill [William James] Metcalf and Daryll Bellingham (Nathan, Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University, 2003), unpaged] includes some of the same material as the novel but focuses particularly on the theories of Henry George and his single tax. 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.
Rpt. in Utopian Brisbane, and all other known Writings of 'Austin South'. Comp. and ed. Bill [William James] Metcalf and Daryll Bellingham (Nathan, Brisbane, QLD.: Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University, 2003), unpaged. After publication, Metcalf discovered that Austin South was two brothers, Austin Douglas Graham and William Edward Graham.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Ireland a Nation! The Diary of an Irish Cabinet Minister: Being the History of the First (and Only) Irish National Administration, 1894. Printed from the Ms. Of the Right Hon. Phineas O'Flannagan, Late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs - [Francis (Frank) Frankfort] [Moore] (1855-1931) (Olley & Co, 1893)
Anti-Irish satire
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

Ireland a Nation! The Viceroy Muldoon: His Court and Courtship. Including the True Record of His Excellency’s Encounter With the Right Honourable Timothy Moriarty, Prime Minister, in the Lower Castle Yard, Dublin, A.D. 1895. By Bernard O’Hea, Late Yeoman Usher of the Green Rod and Registrar of the Most Emeral Order of the Shamrock and Sunburst (Now Extinct) - [Francis (Frank) Frankfort] [Moore] (1855-1931) (Olley & Co., 1893)
Anti-Home Rule satire.
Some copies indicate London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Irish Rebellion of 1898. A Chapter in Future History, from The Supplement to the Imperial History of England, A.D. 1900 - Rev. Alexander Donovan (Hodges Figgis/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893)
Standard anti-Home Rule satire.
Keywords: Male author

The Isle of Feminine - Charles E[lliot] Niswonger (Press of Brown Printing Co., 1893)
Gender-role reversal. Anti-feminist imaginary voyage.
Later ed. under the author's full name New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1894.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"John Smith" - [Ambrose Gwinett] [Bierce] (1842-1914?) (Fun, 1893)
Utopian satire. The future has a very inaccurate version of the past. Refers to the current Smithocratic form of government, but it is never clarified beyond being a monarchy. Democracy is considered an odd aspect of the past together with women being free.
Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 215-22. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 215-22; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 88-90.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"June, 1993" - Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) (The Cosmopolitan: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1893)
Satire and eutopia. The satire focuses on the "sleeper awakes" form that was so popular at the time. The eutopia is based on advanced technology that allows people to live at a distance from their work. This results in everyone living on a plot of land of about ten acres, with the disappearance of most cities. Both industry and cultural institutions are grouped into eight locations, four and four, throughout the country.
Rpt. in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 187-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ke Whonkus People: A Story of the North Pole Country - John O. Greene (Vincent Publishing Co., 1893)
Mostly an adventure novel but includes a lost race eutopia at the North Pole. Religious freedom. Criminals cured. Need approval for marriage; must be mentally and physically fit, of good character, and have adequate financial resources. Phonetic language.  Free, compulsory education with free textbooks. Says that mass education will eliminate superstition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A League of Justice or Is It Right To Rob Robbers? - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) (The Commonwealth Society, 1893)
Eutopia. A league of men who take from the rich and give to the poor gradually transform society. Start a free newspaper (first monthly, then weekly, then daily) in all the major languages of the world. Attack lawyers, abolish political parties, improve education, and bring about a revolution. See also 1903 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Leeward Land. An Account of a Visit to the United States of America in 1992" - Felix L[eopold] Oswald (1845-1906) (San Francisco Chronicle, 1893)
Technological eutopia with lots of inventions. Cable station in the middle of the Atlantic. Little pollution. Sewage no longer dumped. Balloons for rapid transportation and deliveries. Animal breeding, including fish. Physical exercise, including for women. Prohibition. All buildings absolutely fireproof. Race mixing considered bad. Abolishing study of dead languages has radically improved education. Electric ads. Poor sent to the country farm after the fifth request for support.
There appears to be no chapter 13, which should have been in the December 16, 1893 issue. While the December 30 issue says to be continued, it does not continue in 1894.
Keywords: Male author

Looking Within. The Misleading Tendencies of "Looking Backward" Made Manifest - J[ohn] W. Roberts (1824-1900) (A.S. Barnes, 1893)
Anti-utopia written against 1888 Bellamy. Life in Bellamy's Boston shown in an unfavorable light, with inequality, alcoholism, and violence common. People shirk work whenever possible.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Man of the Year Million. A Scientific Forecast" - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Pall Mall Gazette 57.8931, 1893)
Satire on far future forecasting; people will have larger brains and larger hands and use their hands for locomotion. The rest of the body has shriveled. Punch took it seriously and spoofed it in "1,000,000 A.D." Punch 105 (November 25, 1893): 250.
Rpt. in the Pall Mall Budget, no. 1312 (November 16, 1893): 1796-97; in "Of a Book Unwritten." In his Certain Personal Matters. A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1898), 161-71; and in English Illustrated Magazine 26 (January 1902): 381-84.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mary Anne Carew: Wife, Mother, Spirit, Angel - Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903) (Colby and Rich, 1893)
Domestic heaven. Spiritualism. Reflects the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772).
U.K. ed. London: James Burns, Progressive Library, 1893.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Message from the Stars" - Fred H[arvey] Brown (One Dollar's Worth, 1893)
Religious, technological eutopia. Stress on intelligence; after death the spirit joins only those of the same level of intelligence. Women will soon rule earth due to their superiority.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Monarch of Utopia - [Fred W.] Jones; H. B. Bridge (Book & Co, 1893)
Satire on manners.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

National Life and Character. A Forecast - Charles H[enry] Pearson (1830-94) (Macmillan, 1893)
Forecast of a coming dystopia. Anti-socialist and racist. The higher (white) races are limited to the temperate zone. Family declining. General decay in character.
2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1894. Rpt. London: Macmillan, 1913.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; UK author

An Original Comic Opera in Two Acts Entitled Utopia (Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911); Arthur [Seymour] Sullivan (1842-1900) (Chappell & Co, 1893)
Satire on utopia.  See David Eden, ed. Utopia Limited. A Centenary Review of the Year 1893. Ed. for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. Coventry, Eng.: The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, 1993. O
Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. For additional textual material, see John Wolfson, Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas Including the unpublished rehearsal librettos and twenty unpublished Gilbert lyrics. London: Chappell & Company in Association with André Deutsch, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Prophet of the People - John Christie (b. 1847) (City Printing Co. & N.Z. Field, 1893)
Economic novel in which the basic ideas of socialism are presented. The final paragraph says it came about, but the eutopia is not presented.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Reveries of World-History; From Earth's Nebulous Origin to Its Final Ruin or The Romance of a Star - T[homas] Mullett Ellis (1850-1919) (Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1893)
Technological eutopia (131-40) in the last chapter, "The Future" (131-56) plus a universal language and a world government.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Revolt of the Brutes. A Fantasy of the Chicago Fair - Hyland C[lare] Kirk (1846-1917) (Charles T. Dillingham, 1893)
The "brutes" [animals] meet in Chicago at the time of the Columbian Exposition to decide whether or not to destroy humankind in retaliation for its treatment of animals. It decides to and appear to be succeeding, but it turns out to be a dream.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadows Before or a Century Onward - Fayette Stratton Giles (1842-97) (No. 57 of The Twentieth Century Library, 1893)
Eutopia presented as a prediction. Capitalist with free trade among all “civilized nations, all of which are republics. Servants. No religion. Doctors paid to prevent disease, and they are not paid when their patients are sick. Technologically advanced.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Story of My Dictatorship" - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914); [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) (Weekly Times & Echo (London), 1893)
Single Tax eutopia set in London. See also 1895 Berens and Singer. 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.
The first version appeared serially in Our Commonwealth (Adelaide, SA, Australia), a newspaper edited by Singer to publicize land nationalization and the single tax, in 1887 and 1888, but the most complete holdings are missing two issues in the middle of the serial. The first part of the series is entitled "When I Was Governor of This Country" and appeared in 2.2 (December 1887): 428-29. A later part appeared as "When I Was Governor of South Australia" in 2.5 (March 1888): 452. This part refers to a previous part and indicates that it is to be continued, but the newspaper appears to have ended with that issue. Rpt. with a "Preface" by William Lloyd Garrison. New York: Sterling Pub. Co. Sterling Library No. 4, May 1, 1894; with the subtitle Dedicated (Without Permission) to the National Association. Auckland, New Zealand: Ptd. by F.W. Harradence, 1894; London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1894 with 2nd ed. on the cover; and Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade, 1894, also described as 2nd ed. There is a Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade edition of 1895 described as the 3rd ed., and there are copies of the 3rd ed. that gives the publication information as Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade/London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1895; Rev. ed. Glasgow/Bradford/London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1907], with “Introductory by William Lloyd Garrison from the Preface to the American Edition” (5); New and unabr. ed. London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1910] has the subtitle The Taxation of Land Values Clearly Explained. Rpt. Cincinnati, OH: Joseph Fels Fund of America, 1913 and again in 1931. An edition with the subtitle An Account of an Eventful Experience Abridged From the Record Made by L.H. Berens and I. Singer. London: Henry George Foundation, 1934. Another edition is entitled Dictator--Democrat. Abridged and adapted from The Story of My Dictatorship By Lewis H. Berens and Ignatius Singer. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Henry George Foundation, Australia, 1945. As can be seen, the publishing history of this book is complex and not yet settled.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

The Strike at Shane's. A Prize Story of Indiana - [James S.] [Shelton] (American Humane Education Society, 1893)
Children's story. The animals on a farm go on strike to get better treatment and in winning produce a eutopian farm.
Rpt. as “The Strike at Shane’s; or, The Animals on Strike.” [Table of Contents reads “The Animals on Strike. Written for The American Humane Education Society”]. In The Animals on Strike and Other Tales. Ed. Edith Carrington. No. 4 of Animal Life Readers (London: George Bell and Sons, 1895), 1-83.
Keywords: Male author

Sub-Coelum: A Sky-Built Human World - A[ddison] P[eale] Russell (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1893)
Eutopia. Emphasis on self-control and moderation to the extent that the people don't even snore. "To gain the mastery over themselves, by studying and practicing moderation, self-control, and humanity, was the prime of all personal and organized effort" (10).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Syren of the Skies" - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson's Weekly, 1893)
Sequel to 1893 Jones, set a hundred years after the conclusion of that novel. Peace has existed throughout the period and social and technological changes have brought about a world-wide eutopia. The bulk of the novel is concerned with the re-start of conflict and its defeat, followed by a catastrophe that wipes out human civilization.
An introduction was published as “A Flight into the Future. An Introduction to the Sequel to ‘The Angel of the Revolution”, no. 179 (December 23, 1893): 361-62. Revised for book publication as Olga Romanoff or The Syren of the Skies: A Sequel to “The Angel of the Revolution”. London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Two and Two Make Four. Being the Review of Review Annual, 1893 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) (“Review of Reviews” Office, 1893)
Most of the novel is made up of reflections on current conditions with strong spiritualist elements plus adventure and romance. At the end a wealthy “modern woman” has used her wealth to create an ideal society on and around her estate, although, of course, without changing the class structure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Valdmer the Viking: A Romance of the Eleventh Century by Sea and Land - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) (Hutchinson & Co, 1893)
Vikings discover a lost race with a social system in which positions are assigned by lot at birth. The eutopia is a small part of an adventure story. See also 1895, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

["A Vision"] - B[enjamin] O[range] Flower (1858-1918) (Civilization's Inferno, or, Studies in the Social Cellar, 1893)
Short sketch which contrasts the horrors of present poverty, which is the focus of the book, with a brief vision of a eutopian future with a much-improved Boston with large apartment blocks that have many social amenities and large halls with a gymnasium, restaurants with “plain food at reasonable prices” (220), free reading rooms and lecture halls, a free night school, beautiful homes for orphans set in parks with excellent education, including learning a trade. All special privileges and laws favoring the upper classes have been abolished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

What's the World Coming To? A Novel of the Twenty-First Century, Founded on the Fads, Facts, and Fiction of the Nineteenth - W[illiam] Graham Moffat (1866-1951); John White (Elliot Stock, 1893)
Society within the world of 1888 Bellamy with all the fads of the late nineteenth century practiced; considerable satire. The technology of Bellamy's novel has been improved. News is reported by telephone (essentially radio).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Witch of the Nineteenth Century - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) (The Hermetic Publishing Co., 1893)
Mostly spiritualism, but the novel contains a brief description of an underground eutopia that will be created by those advanced spiritually. It is also technologically advanced.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Advancing Kingdom or The Wonders of Foretold History - Rev. F[rances] E[mory] Tower A.M. (1836-1916) (American Publishing Co., 1892)
A large volume with eighteen illustrations, all but one in color, tracing the history of the human race from its creation to the millennium. In discussing conditions leading up to the millennium, both socialism and the Nationalism of Looking Backward (1888) are presented positively. All but the last five chapters were initially presented as a series of Sunday evening lectures.
Keywords: Male author

Ai. A Social Vision - Charles [S.] Daniel (Miller Publication Company, 1892)
The beginnings of a eutopia set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which the better society is brought about through cooperation, Christianity, and brotherhood with a stress on the need to recognize interdependence. The hero is a layman who becomes a Roman Catholic Bishop and leads a community to reform itself with the assistance of a number of wealthy people and people of other faiths. The need to stop the worst people from having children is mentioned. Chapter XVI is labelled "Suppressed" and consists entirely of an *, and Chapter XXIII is a page of nonsense words.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1893; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Alien Thread" - Charles H. Palmer (Munsey's Magazine, 1892)
Future tale in which a Marriage Bureau arranges marriages. Potential for problems described even though there is the required happy ending.
Rpt. as "Citizen 504." Argosy 23.3 (December 1896): 443-48.
Keywords: Male author