"They Cope" - Dave [David John] Skal (1952-2024) (Orbit, 1972)
Dystopia of sensory overload.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"To the Chicago Abyss" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (The Wonderful Ice Cream and Other Plays, 1972)
Post-catastrophe dystopia where the minor artifacts of the past are remembered by an old man, who is arrested for reminding people of the little things, Bradbury calls them "mediocrities", they used to have.
Can ed. (Toronto, ON, Canada: Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972), 127-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Triage - Leonard C[ase] Lewin (1916-99) (Dial Press, 1972)
Dystopia. Presents a picture of a near future where the "unfit," and many others, are being eliminated by a planned campaign of murder, accident, and genocide.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Unseen Hand" - [Samuel Shepard] [Rogers] III (b. 1943) (The Unseen Hand and Other Plays, 1972)
A baboon/man from a future authoritarian dystopia in which brain implants control people travels into the past to find three brothers (two dead) to help overthrow the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Volteface. Science Fiction - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972)
Sequel to 1971 Adlard describing an authoritarian overpopulation dystopia in which the population is manipulated by a small group of executives. In this novel the executives decide to reintroduce work and intentionally appoint incompetent people to management positions because this will reproduce twentieth century business. See also 1975 Adlard.
Keywords: English author; Male author

We Can Build You - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (DAW Books, 1972)
Attempt to build a eutopia on the moon. Android neighbors provided to make it easier to adjust.
Early version as "A. Lincoln, Simulacrum." Amazing Stories 43.4 - 5 (November 1969 - January 1970): 6-67, 140; 30-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Weihnachtabend" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Worlds, 1972)
Alternative history dystopia with Nazi Germany in control of Britain.
Rpt. in Best SF: 1972, Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), 55-94
Keywords: English author; Male author

Who Needs Men? - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1972)
Dystopia of a future where men are no longer biologically required because of cloning and parthenogenesis. The few remaining men are being exterminated. Love and desire enters and complicates the situation.
U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide. New York: Ace Books, 1973.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Windmill in the West” - Peter Carey (b. 1943) (Meanjin, 1972)
The setting for the story is an Australia that is divided between Australia and the United States and focuses on a soldier who is stationed alone at the border with the single instruction of not letting anyone cross it.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Dystopia with Earth's past racial conflict now taking place in space.
Rev. in his Space War Blues. New York: Dell, 1978. Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1980 with an "Introduction" by James R. Frenkel (v-xi). The volume also includes an "Introduction: Sailing the Dark With the Bentfin Bappa Zappa Kid" by Ellison (9-26), a "Preface: And I Awoke--Was This Some Kind of Joke" by Lupoff (27-33) and revised versions of his related stories "Our Own little Mardi Grass." Heavy Metal (August 1977): 58-61, 96; "After the Dreamtime." New Dimensions IV. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: New American Library, 1974), 9-39; "Sail the Tide of Mourning." New Dimensions 5. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 214-34; and "The Bentfin Boomer Girl Comes Through." Amazing Stories 50.4 (March 1977): 28-46.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Year Dot - [John Newton] [Chance] (1911-83) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1972)
Machine, authoritarian dystopia. Civilization is destroyed when machines stop. Stonehenge is one of the remains.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The 1990 Draft Constitution" - Arthur [Israel] Waskow (b. 1933) (motive, 1971)
A new constitution for the Federal Commonwealths of America that is based on autonomous ethnic, regional, and occupational groupings. The text is accompanied by a number of articles, all originally published in motive in its March and April 1971 issues, critiquing the proposed constitution. These articles are Jim Stenzel, “Tokyo: An Asian Critique of ‘1990’ (253-57) motive 31.5 (March 1971): 24-26; Steve Nickeson, “Toward a Civil Future” (258-61) motive 31.5 (March 1971) as “Notes Toward a Civil Future” (21-22); Merrill Jackson, “Weaknesses and Problems of the 1990 Constitution” (266-68) motive 31.6/7 (April-May 1971): 87 [Page wrong in Contents]; and Eleanor Burns Women’s Collective, “In a New Society Why Do We Have to Have a Boring Constitution?” (269-75) motive 31.6/7 (April-May 1971): 83-85 [Page wrong in Contents]. See also 1973 Waskow.
Rpt. As “Draft Constitution.” Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 245-52. According to a note on 245, this was to be published in a book entitled The 1990 Draft Constitution, said to be forthcoming from The New American Library in January 1972. No such book exists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

... and all the stars a stage - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Doubleday, 1971)
Includes as background a dystopia of male-female conflict caused by a technology that allows parents to choose the sex of their children. Too many men made most of them superfluous.
U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Abr. version originally published in Amazing Stories 34.6 - 7 (June - July 1969): 6-67, 80-131.
Keywords: Male author; US author

At a Beetle’s Pace: A Play in One Act - Louis E. Catron (1932-2010) (Samuel French, 1971)
Flawed utopia in which people do not age and rarely die. The play focuses on a man of the previous generation who is among the few who are old and the inept way the new generation deals with him. The third play in a trilogy on love in the twentieth-century. The others, neither of which are utopian, are Where Have All the Lightning Bugs Gone and Touch the Bluebirds.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day” - Carl L[ee] Shears (1937-79) (Niggers and Po’ White Trash. Stories, 1971)
The story is a discussion between the President and a senior adviser, who is black, prior to the following law going into effect. “Any parent or parents, who are declared functionally or totally illiterate by a test administered by the Health, Welfare, and Education Department of the United States Government, without regard to race, color, or creed, will be placed in an education center for the purposes of bringing their reading and writing level up to the standards of the nation’s. Their children will be placed in an appropriate children’s home. If after a two-year period the parent or parents have not reached the necessary level, they will be sterilized and placed in an urban reservation for the mentally deficient for the rest of their lives. From that day forward, all rights as citizens will be forfeited. The parent or parents then become wards of the state” (22). The senior adviser believes that the law will mostly effect blacks. Another story in the same volume, “If There Is a Knock” (38-47) is about how the law affects poor blacks. See also 1971 Shears "That Day," 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Big Day" - Donald Malcolm (1930-2013) (New Writings in S-F, 1971)
Dystopia. Gladiatorial contests to alleviate boredom in a mechanized society.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Building the City of Man: Outlines of a World Civilization - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (Grossman Publishers, 1971)
Non-fiction with half the book on the current Crisis of Civilization (1-74) that could result in a spiral to barbarism. But the second half includes a eutopia, Cosmopolis (75-178), with an explanation of its institutions. A new world culture based on a world religion that will give rise to world morality. There will be an end to patriarchy, multiple family structures, and a “liberation of eros.” Radically reformed education and a world government. See also the author’s 1989 A Short History of the Future and 1991 The Next Three Futures.
Rpt. San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman, 1971. xii + 180 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Call of Utopia - Eric C[yril] Williams (1918-2010) (Robert Hale, 1971)
The novel begins in an authoritarian dystopia set in 2060 in which criminals are surgically altered to live in underwater prisons. One such prisoner, driven by his desire to find a eutopia in Brazil, escapes and finds his eutopia which stresses variety, few laws, and limited work.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cities - Robert Kelly (b. 1935) (Frontier Press, 1971)
Describes many hidden cities, including at least two eutopias. The first, with elements of satire, is the Autonomous City-State of Fatima, an island in the Caribbean that is oil rich and with only three laws--“Do not Kill . Do Not Hurt People . Do Not Take What Isn’t Yours” (8). Another city, Ára in North Africa, is immensely advanced in biology but has no other technology. Yet another, Wuara in South America and the largest hidden city in the world, is far in advance of the rest of the world in biology (mature Wuarans can choose their gender), technology (Wuara has settled, Mars, two moons of Jupiter, and Venus), and social organization (each Wuaran states their needs for the next year in detail, and they are provided).
An earlier version appeared as "Cities." The Iowa Review 1.4 (Fall 1970): 28-51.
Keywords: Male author

"The Discontent Contingency" - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) (New Writings in S-F, 1971)
Benevolent dictatorship which uses a happiness generator to control the people. This results in there being no creativity.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ends - James Hughes (Alfred A. Knopf, 1971)
Dystopian future where government has decided on mass suicide and various misfits refuse.
U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1971.
Keywords: Male author

Exiled from Earth - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (E. P. Dutton, 1971)
First volume of a trilogy. Supposedly utopian world government uses authoritarian means to maintain the status quo. A new society is established in space by a scientist exiled from earth in an attempt to create a free world. The first volume focuses on the decision to exile the scientists and their imprisonment on a large ship circling Earth. The second volume, Flight of Exiles. New York: E.P. Dutton. Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley, 1980), 151-288. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 151-288, focuses on the exiles leaving Earth orbit for the stars and their discovery of a planet to settle. The third volume, End of Exile. New York: E.P. Dutton. Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley, 1980), 289-441. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 289-441, is concerned with the exiles’ settlement on a planet and the establishment of good society.
Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 1-149. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 1-149.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Faceless Man" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1971)
Authoritarian dystopia in which every adult must wear an explosive device around their neck which can be set off by the rulers.
Rpt. as The Anome. Durdane: Book 1. New York: Dell, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1975. Repub. as The Faceless Man. New York: Ace Books, 1978; and as Durdane 1. The Faceless Man. San Francisco, CA: Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Rpt. in Durdane. London: VGSF, 1989, which also contains The Brave Free Men. Durdane: Book II (New York: Dell, 1972) and The Asutra (New York: Dell, 1973). All are separately paged. Durdane is also rpt. as vol. 27 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2005. The Anome (1-206); The Brave Free Men (207-422); and The Asutra (223-617).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of New York - Miles Donis (1936-79) (David McKay, 1971)
Dystopia. New Left revolution leaves New York deserted except for children, who are fighting the Army, each other, and the Mafia. The Army wins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The First Team - John [Dudley] Ball [Jr.] (1911-88) (Little, Brown, 1971)
Dystopia depicting a Soviet takeover of the U.S. The novel focuses on the successful underground resistance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Future" - Tim[othy Richard] Shadbolt (b. 1947) (Bullshit & Jellybeans, 1971)
Eutopia that says that in the future there will be free distribution of goods, which he calls "love shops"; communes; co-operatives; a New Zealand rock music revival; more pot smoking; a growth in underground media; activist farmers; radicals directly involved politically; a growth of political awareness among the people; a bi-cultural society; and the end of the war in Vietnam.
See also the author's untitled contribution to Ans Westra, Notes on the Country I Live In (Wellington, New Zealand: Alister Taylor, 1972), 9-12; and his Concrete Reality [Cover adds Poems]. Green Bay, Auckland, New Zealand: Republican Press, 1981 for related statements.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Gadget Man - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Doubleday, 1971)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a future Republic of Southern California with a focus on a rebellion against the dystopia.
Based on a story of the same name in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy 35.6 (December 1968): 100-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Going" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction, 1971)
Dystopia of population control through voluntary suicide.
Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Three: Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 106-55 with an author's note on 105-06.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gray Matters - William [Reinhold] Hjortsberg (1941-2017) (Simon & Schuster, 1971)
Dystopia in which brains are kept alive and required to follow the directions of a central computer.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great 24 Hour ‘Thing’ - Andrew J[efferson] Offutt [V] (1934-2013) (The Orpheus Series/Bee-Line Books, 1971)
Mildly erotic satire in which, as a joke, two of the beings that oversee Earth decide to mess with their sector by granting all males their sexual desires for twenty-four hours.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Half Past Human - [Thomas J.] [Bassler] [M.D.] (1932-2011) (Ballantine Books, 1971)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Parts published originally as "Half Past Human." Galaxy Science Fiction 29.4 (December 1969): 16-76; and "Song of Kaia." If 20.8 (151) (November-December 1970): 4-85, which is published as "G.I.T.A.R." in the novel, which incorrectly gives this as the title of the story in If.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Horizon Alpha - Douglas [Rankine] Mason (1918-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1971)
Dystopia of a future rigid city as it breaks down.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

"How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?" - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) (Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction, 1971)
The environmental dystopia of the present contrasted with an ecologically balanced future.
Rpt. in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 130-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Human Side of the Village Monster" - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) (Universe, 1971)
Dystopia of overpopulation, pollution, poverty, hunger, and violence. Addictive contraceptives used to try to keep population growth down.
U.K. ed. (London: Dennis Dobson, 1971), 193-202. Rpt. in his Among the Dead and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 93-102. Rpt. New York: Collier, 1974), 93-102.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Interface. Science Fiction - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971)
First of a series about Stahlnex (the only building material) Corp. which controls the world. A few genetically enhanced executives live in splendor and isolation while others live in an overpopulation dystopia. Creativity has mostly disappeared. The novel ends with a revolt against the corporation and its power. See also 1972 and 1975 Adlard.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ishmael into the Barrens" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Four Futures; Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction, 1971)
Dystopia, the "Gentle World," in which Hippies, rather misrepresented, are in control and legally require disorder.
Rpt. in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 305-53.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Little Dog's Day. A Novel - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) (Allison & Busby, 1971)
Future authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia and an anti-bureaucratic movement.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lorax - [Theodor Seuss] [Geisel] (1904-91) (Random House, 1971)
Children’s picture book depicting the creation of an environmental dystopia through logging an area until no tree is left, and all the wildlife have fled. Terri Birkett wrote a response to defend logging, The Truax. illus. Orrin Lundgren Memphis, TN: Hardwood Forest Foundation, 1995, which was sponsored by the National Wood Flooring Manufacturers’ Association. http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/NDow/files/TRUAX1.pdf. A TV adaptation was aired on CBS February 14, 1972. A feature film directed by Chris Renaud (b. 1966) with a screenplay by Cinco Paul (b. 1964) and Ken Daurio (b. 1972) was released March 2, 2012. A musical version with music and lyrics by Charlie Fink (b. 1986) ran at the Old Vic in London from December 2, 2015, to January 16, 2016, returned in 2017, and has toured in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Los Angeles A.D. 2017 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) (Walker, 1971)
Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Popular Library, nd.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World - Walker Percy (1916-90) (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1971)
Dystopia located in Louisiana depicting a general collapse of the U.S. with some local institutions surviving. Racial conflict and, at the end, the northern cities with large African American populations have seceded. The protagonist believes himself to be a collateral descendant of Thomas More and regularly refers to him.
U.K. ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Mind Prison" - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (New Writings in S-F, 1971)
Dystopia. People had lived in a building originally built as a fall-out shelter and expanded as population grew. Fear of the outside, encouraged by the male leaders, keeps people inside long after it is no longer necessary.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

“The Mnemone” - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?, 1971)
The story is set in a future dystopia in which most words have been lost, and some people, called Mnemones, travel from place to place selling words.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 245-53.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Moderan - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) (Avon Books, 1971)
Post-nuclear war dystopia in which one man is trying to cover the Earth with plastic. Others turn themselves into cyborgs and continue to fight each other.
Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, 2018, with the addition of eleven stories that did not appear in the first addition, three rpt. and eight published for the first time and with a “Foreword” by Jeff VanderMeer (ix-xx). Parts were originally published as “A Little Girl’s Xmas in Modernia.” Coastlines, no. 10 (3.3) (Autumn 1958): 31-35. rpt. as “A Little Girl’s Christmas in Modernia.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 18.1 (104) (January 1960): 102-07; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction British Edition 2.2 (January 1961): 2-7 (Avon 166-72/NYRB 179-85); “Was She Horrid?” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 8.12 (December 1959): 120-24 (Avon 142-46/NYRB 153-57); “The Flesh-Man from Far Wide.” Amazing Stories 33.11 (November 1959): 134-38; rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 566-68 with an editors’ note on 555-56 (Avon 172-76/NYRB 186-90); “A Complete Father.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.1 (January 1960): 104-09 (Avon 137-42/NYRB 147-52); “Strange Shape in the Stronghold.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.3 (March 1960): 50-55 (Avon 102-08/NYRB 108-13); “Remembering.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.4 (April 1960): 100-03 (Avon 162-66/NYRB 175-78); “Penance Day in Moderan.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.7 (July 1960): 61-65 (Avon 98-102/NYRB 103-07); “Getting Regular.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.8 (August 1960): 112-18 (Avon 108-14/NYRB 114-21); “A Husband’s Share.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.10 (October 1960): 117-20 (Avon 133-37/NYRB 143-46); “The Warning.” Amazing Stories 34.11 (November 1960): 67-71 (Avon 189-94/NYRB 204-09); “The Final Decision.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 35.2 (February 1961): 100-07; rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (October 1972): 124-31 (Avon 220-27/NYRB 237-45); “Has Anyone Seen This Horseman.” Shenandoah 12.2 (Winter 1961): 43-46 (Avon 194-98/NYRB 209-12); “The One From Camelot Moderan.” Descant (Winter 1962): 9-13 (Avon 179-84/NYRB 193-98); “It Was Black Cat Weather.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.2 (February 1963): 100-03 (Avon 155-59/NYRB 167-70); “Survival Packages.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.4 (April 1963): 70-74, 123 (Avon 80-85/NYRB 83-88); “One False Step.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.5 (May 1963): 90-95 (Avon 75-80/NYRB 77-82); “Sometimes I Get So Happy.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.8 (August 1963): 103-06 (Avon 159-62/NYRB 171-74); “2064, or Thereabouts.” By Darryl R. Groupe [pseud.] Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.9 (September 1964): 122-27 (Avon 92-97/NYRB 97-102); “Reunion.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 39.2 (February 1965): 45-49 (Avon 184-89/NYRB 199-203); “Playmate.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 14.5 (May 1965): 27-30 (Avon 130-33/NYRB 139-42); “The Walking Talking I-Don’t-Care Man.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 39. 6 (June 1965): 6-10 (Avon 115-20/NYRB 122-27); “The Miracle of the Flowers.” The Smith, no. 7 (2.3&4) (October 1966): 11-23; rpt. in Pulpsmith 6.4 (Winter 1987): 108-15 (Avon 206-15/NYRB 222-31); “Incident in Moderan.” Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories. Ed. Harlan [Jay] Ellison (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 295-99, with an “Introduction” (293-94) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (302-03) by Bunch (Avon 215-19/NYRB 232-36); “How It Ended.” Amazing 42.5 (January 1969): 59-64 (Avon 233-40/NYRB 253-60); “No Cracks or Saggings.” The Little Magazine 4.1 (Spring 1970): 44-53; rpt. without the “s” on Saggings in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 557-62 with an editors’ note on 555-56 (Avon without the “s” 25-35/NYRB without the “s” 21-31); and “A Glance at the Past.” Illus. Dan Adkins. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 20.1 (October 1970): 84-86 (Avon 147-50/NYRB 158-61). A story first published in Moderan, “New Kings are Not for Laughing,” was rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 562-66 with an editors’ note on 555-56; rpt. in the New York Review of Books ed. (38-44). Stories first reprinted in the New York Review of Books ed. are “Two Suns for Two Kings.” Worlds of If Science Fiction 21.4 (159) (April 1972): 113-18 (NYRB 274-78); “When the Metal Eaters Came?” Galaxy Science Fiction 39.10 (June/July 1979): 120-22 (NYRB 304-07); and “A Little Girl’s Spring Day in Moderan.” Galaxy Science Fiction 39.11 (September/October 1979): 122-26 (NYRB 308-14). Stories first published in the New York Review of Books ed. are “A Little at All Times” 263-67); “The Joke” (268-73); “The Good War” (279-85); “In the Land That Aimed at Forever” (286-91); “Among the Metal-and-People People (292-97); “The Dirty War” (298-303); “December for Stronghold” (315-23); and “The Heartacher and the Warehouseman” (324-27).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - [Robert Lesly Carroll] [Conly] (1922-73) (Atheneum, 1971)
Young adult eutopian animal tale. Mrs. Frisby is a mouse who gets help from long-lived, intelligent rats that were the result of experiments at NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health). The rats created a eutopia for themselves after escaping from the laboratory.
Rpt. as The Secret of NIMH. New York: Scholastic, 1982, which was the title of an animated film version directed by Don Bluth (b. 1937) released that year. A direct-to-video sequel, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, unrelated to the book and without Bluth's involvement was released in 1998.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"No Direction Home" - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (New Worlds Quarterly, 1971)
Drug dystopia in which psychedelics are used in all aspects of life.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 227-44; in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 263-86 with an “Introduction to No Direction Home” (261-62), and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 663-66 with an editor’s note on 663.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Our Man in Utopia" - [Douglas George] Fetherling (b. 1949) (Our Man in Utopia, 1971)
Poem about an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The People of Prashad" - James Keilty (1947-79) (Quark 2, 1971)
Anarchist, nature-oriented eutopia located in a valley in the Himalayas. An alphabet is provided (72), and there is "An Informal Introduction to the Language of Prashad" (76-78).
Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 49-80 with editor's notes on 49 and 80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Pepper Leaf. An Episode - Colin [A.] Gibson (b. 1933) (Chatto & Windus, 1971)
The novel presents a small group of people who become isolated after a catastrophe and create a dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Pig World - Charles W[est] Runyon (Doubleday, 1971)
A Sixties style revolution succeeds but is corrupted by an authoritarian dictator.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Right to Revolt" "The Right to Resist" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Worlds of If, 1971)
"The Right to Revolt" is the story of a group of men who take over a planetary government and have to deal with all the problems the previous regime faced. In this story, those resisting are short sighted, kill innocent people, and come close to ruining the economy. "The Right to Resist" is what happens next.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Roommates" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future, 1971)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 312-31; and in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell Books, 1976), 97-120.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Scorpius Equation - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) (Traveller' Companion, 1971)
Gay male dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Badboy, 1993.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sea is Boiling Hot - George [Everett] Bamber (b. 1932) (Ace Books, 1971)
Pollution dystopia. Sex and violence in domed cities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Second Trip" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Amazing Stories, 1971)
Dystopian background where criminals have their personality wiped out and a new personality implanted.
Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shepherd Is My Lord - Dimitri Gat (Doubleday, 1971)
Authoritarian dystopia. One company rules the known galaxy.
Keywords: Male author

"Silent in Gehenna" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (The Many Worlds of Science Fiction, 1971)
Dystopia of patriotism with the universities run by the military.
Rpt. in his Approaching Ellison: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow. Eleven Uncollected Stories (New York: Walker, 1974), 97-114.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sleep Two, Three, Four! A Political Thriller - John Neufeld (b. 1938) (Harper & Row, 1971)
Young adult future tale in which the U.S. President uses gangs to terrorize neighborhoods and stay in power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sleepwalker's World - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) (J. B. Lippincott, 1971)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1972.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The Sliced Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (New Dimensions, 1971)
Overpopulation dystopia in which each person is assigned to one day and only one day and "sleeps" all the other days. See 1985 Farmer and 2016 Farmer and Adams for works that develop the basic idea.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 113-29; in The Grand Adventure: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 163-90; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 130-45; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 487-503.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Smith's Dream - C[hristian] K[arlson] Stead (b. 1932) (Longman Paul, 1971)
Authoritarian dystopia set in New Zealand with the focus on one man's resistance to it. The second version includes the ending the author says he originally intended. In this ending the protagonist is killed, whereas the first ending is hopeful. The change takes place on page 140. Stead explains the change in "John Mulgan: A Question of Identity." In his In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature (Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1981), 87-88 [Originally published in Islands 25 (7.3) (April 1979): 286-88]. A film version was entitled Sleeping Dogs (1977) and was directed by Roger Donaldson (b. 1945) with the screenplay by Ian Mune (b. 1941) and Arthur Baysting.
With a different ending Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1973. Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: New House Publishers, 1993. The change takes place on page 140. Stead explains the change in “John Mulgan: A Question of Identity.” In his In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature (Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1981), 87-88 [Originally published in Islands 25 (7.3) (April 1979): 286-88].
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Strong Man - H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating (1926-2011) (Heinemann, 1971)
Dystopia. Political novel describing the struggle against a dictator who uses religion to manipulate people. The replacement is not much better.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sun Grows Cold - Howard [Francis] Berk (1925-2015) (Delacorte, 1971)
Post-World War III dystopia. An underground Complex is involved in erasing memories, and the novel focuses on a man who wants to recover his.
U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Survival World - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) (Prestige Books, 1971)
The novel is set in a world devastated by pollution so that starvation has become the norm.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Terminus - Leonard [John] Daventry (1915-87) (Robert Hale & Co., 1971)
Dystopia where radioactive fallout from the bomb tests of the forties and fifties had caused cancers in babies and young children that led to a drop in the birthrate. Most people carry guns. Another society, the Terminus of the title, is a world without and disparaging of ideals; it is society that results from an upheaval in the original dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"That Day" - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Niggers and Po’ White Trash. Stories, 1971)
The story about the dystopia that is black/white relations in a small town in Georgia and the opposition of both to a young black man who has been admitted to a predominantly white university. At the end, the white police chief kills him. See also 1971 Shears, “Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day,” 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

THX 1138 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Paperback Library, 1971)
Authoritarian dystopia. Thought control. All people are bald; all clothes are white.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Time of Changes" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1971)
Dystopia with an emphasis on group cohesion. Polite language does not include "I". No self-revealing. At birth bond brothers and sisters are chosen and more can be told to them. Sexual freedom except with bond brother or sister. Change brought about by a drug that opened people to each other.
Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time of the Great Death. A Novel - Claude M. Skinner (b. 1916) (Vantage Press, 1971)
A sleeper wakes novel in which a eutopia has developed after nuclear war, civil war, and disease has reduced the world population by three-quarters and a new mentality, called Humanism, has developed that values community and helping others over competition. The wakened sleeper cannot adjust and finds a woman who wants a strong, masterful man, which suggests that there are others who do not accept the new way of life. At the end of the novel, Earth has reverted to the old ways under a world-wide dictatorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time Story - Stuart [Richard Alexander Steuart] Gordon (1947-2009) (New English Library, 1971)
A future technologically advanced but structurally feudal dystopia.
U.S. Ed. New York: DAW Books, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Tolstoy Lives in 12N B9 - Eric Geen (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971)
Conformist, computerized dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision” - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) (The Sewanee Review, 1971)
A satiric essay that begins by reflecting on 1930 Burke and on the waste created by war and pollution, and then suggests the development of Helhaven, a “culture bubble” on the moon. Burke extends the satire in his “Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One.” Michigan Quarterly Review 13 (Winter 1974): 307-37. Rpt. in his One Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows 1967-1984. Ed. William Rueckert and Angela Bonadonna. Arranged and Annotated by William Rueckert (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 66-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Travels in Nihilon - Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) (W. H. Allen, 1971)
Satire on anarchism (nihilism).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Trial of Christopher Okigbo - Ali A[l’Amin] Mazrui (1933-2014 (Heinemann, 1971)
A post-death After-Africa (life is Herebefore) that on the surface appears to be eutopia but has most of the problems and conflicts of contemporary Africa. People appear to live well but the problems of Herebefore continue to influence action in After-Africa.
Keywords: Kenyan author; Male author; US author

The True North Blueprint. A Trilogy - Louis Capson (b. 1944) (Playwrights Co-op, 1971)
Play presenting a dystopia in which the authoritarian system grows stronger throughout the trilogy.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Unknown Industrial Prisoner - David [Neil] Ireland (b. 1927) (Angus & Robertson, 1971)
Contemporary industrial system as a dystopia comparable to the most vicious prison regime.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Unsigned" - William [Herbert] Walling (b. 1926) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1971)
Dystopia in which life insurance companies control life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vandenberg - [John] [Wadleigh] (1927-2013) (Stein & Day, 1971)
Dystopia of a communist takeover of the U.S.
Rpt. as Defiance; An American Novel. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Vision of Environment" - Peter L. Marks (American Scholar, 1971)
Essay describing an ecological eutopia that does away with existing political boundaries and replaces them with boundaries based on watersheds, each of which would contain one major city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Warlord of the Air; A Scientific Romance - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) (Dell, 1971)
Alternative future histories. Describes some eutopian and some dystopian societies but not in much detail. The same approach is continued in two sequels The Land Leviathan. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. U.K. ed. with subtitle A New Scientific Romance. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: Quartet, 1974. Rpt. in his The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 157-302. Rev. with the subtitle For Mongazi Feza, who demanded justice. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 157-297. U.S. ed. as The Second Adventure The Land Leviathan (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 147-276; and The Steel Tsar. New York: DAW Books, 1981. U.K. ed. with the subtitle Third Volume in the Oswald Bastable Trilogy. London: Granada, 1981. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 303-441. Rev. with the subtitle To the memory of Michael Cornelius Dempsey, who died, as he had lived, a captain of his own ship. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 299-457. U.S. ed. as The Third Adventure The Steel Tsar (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 277-423.
U.K. ed. London: NEL, 1971. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 1-155. Rev. with the subtitle For Colin Ward and the international anarchist conspiracy. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 1-154. U.S. ed. as The First Adventure The Warlord of the Air (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 1-146.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Wednesday, November 15, 1967" - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future, 1971)
Post-catastrophe dystopia as seen by the last man.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The World Inside - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Doubleday & Co., 1971)
Overpopulation dystopia with an emphasis on population growth, with large families living in huge buildings.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 2010 with a new “Preface” by the author (7-12). Part published in Galaxy Science Fiction as "The Throwbacks." 30.4 (August 1970): 26-54; "The World Outside." 30.6 (October/November 1970): 4-50, 192; "We Are Well Organized; An Episode--Urban Monad 116." 31.1 (December 1970): 38-69; and "All the Way Up, All the Way Down." 32.1 (July-August 1971): 140-60. Another part was published as "A Happy Day in 2381." Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), 17-33; rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 121-35; in A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Perennial Library, 1972), 100-17; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 289-304; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 160-71; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 318-32 with an author's note on 317-18.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1989: Population Doomsday - Don[ald Eugene] Pendleton (1927-95) (Bee Line Books, 1970)
Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"2020 Hindsight" - William Thompson (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Future of Canada as a eutopia with scientists in control. No equality. The U.S. is fascist.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"2020 Visions of an Electric Mutant German Historian Guitar Playing Berkeley Expatriate Prophet" - Hermann Rebel (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satiric poem. Complete freedom with tribal families as the basic social and legal units.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"2430 A.D.--Too Late For the Space Ark" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (IBM Magazine, 1970)
Conformist dystopia in an overpopulated world. The focus of the story is one man who keeps the last zoo, holding the last few small animals on the planet. For the good of society, he is asked to get rid of them. He does and kills himself also. "And after that there was really perfection. for all over the Earth, there was . . . not one unsettling thought, not one unusual idea, to disturb the universal placidity that meant that the exquisite nothingness of uniformity had at last been achieved" (165-66).
Rpt. without the subtitle in his Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), 159-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

666 - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) (Salem Kirban, Inc, 1970)
Dystopia of the aftermath of the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and Thessalonians 4: 15-17) focusing on the Antichrist and Armageddon (see Revelation 16). His 1000. Huntingdon Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc. Bound with his 666. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, [1970] is a sequel focusing on the 1000 years of the Millennial Age. See also 1968, and 1974 Kirban.
Rpt. bound with his 1000. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, [1973].
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After the Ball (A Story of Man in the Future)" - Charles Alldritt (1908-2007) (Worlds in Mind, 1970)
Dystopia and eutopia. Mostly a criticism of contemporary conditions with a particular emphasis on the dystopia being brought about by overpopulation. Includes a brief general eutopia at the end after the population problem is solved.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; UK author

After Things Fell Apart - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Ace Books, 1970)
Satire of a future U.S. broken into small enclaves. A women's group is killing men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"America the Beautiful" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (The Year 2000: An Anthology, 1970)
Flawed utopia. The U.S. is a technological utopia that has solved the population and education problems. The legalization of marijuana and peyote has largely solved the drug problem, but there is constant war.
Rpt. in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 268-79; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 311-24; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 285-97; and in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 193-203.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ancient Story of Selentag - Melvin [Ezell] Gorham (1910-94) (Sovereign Press, 1970)
An individualist anarchist eutopia and its ruin by people desiring power presented in the form of a myth. See also 1975 and 1979 Gorham. For other works from the same general perspective, see 1984 von Konen, the note there, 1984 Valoric Fire, and 1987 Pedersen.
Rev. as Kris Krinkle and the Moon Princess. Rochester, WA: Sovereign Press, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Attitude - A. Neale McDougall (Vantage Press, 1970)
Eutopia and dystopia set at the end of the twenty-second century. The eutopia is the Intercontinental Federation that emerged after the Second Dark Age in the twenty-first century. Teaching is now an honored profession. The dystopia is the United States, which is fragmented and on the verge of civil war.
Keywords: Male author

Barrier World - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) (Lancer Books, 1970)
Flawed utopia in which perfection is the only physical standard allowed, and there is a maximum age of 48. Compulsory exercise periods twice a day.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bishop. A Novel - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) (Constable, 1970)
First volume in a linked series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. This volume serves as a prequel in that it is set in the present and is concerned with the reaction both within and outside the Church to the Pope's encyclical confirming the ban on all forms of contraception. See 1973, 1975, and 1976 Marshall for the other volumes in the series.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Black is Beautiful." - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (The Year 2000: An Anthology, 1970)
Flawed utopia. A future New York with both the city and the suburbs under domes. The city is black except for the white workers and tourists from the suburbs. From the perspective of a disaffected black teenager, the city appears a eutopia when the whites are gone on the weekends, and the city is certainly much better for blacks than at present, but it is shown to still have serious problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Blood of Tyrants" - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Amazing Stories, 1970)
Dystopia. A plan to educate teenage gang leaders and then have them lead their former gangs to a less violent life backfires in that the gang leaders use their knowledge to organize to gain power.
Rpt. in his Forward in Time: A Science Fiction Story Collection (New York: Walker & Co., 1973), 17-34; and in The Best of Bova. 3 vols. (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 1: 113-131.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bodyguard - Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) (Jonathan Cape, 1970)
Dystopia of violence focusing on one ambitious man and what he does to succeed within the dystopia.
Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Canadiana" - Dennis Duffy (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Dystopia of a militantly patriotic Canada.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Computer World - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Modern Literary Editions Publishing Co, 1970)
Technological flawed utopia. In the U.S. at birth everyone is given a basic credit and a Universal Credit Card, which is also their means of identification. All records are kept by the International Data Center, which is threatened with destruction. Reynolds uses the same basic trope in a number of other novels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Contact Lost - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) (Jonathan Cape, 1970)
The third volume of a trilogy concerned with the development of the Soviet-Bonn bloc, an expanding authoritarian dystopia which Britain voluntarily joins. This volume is concerned with the successful underground opposition movement. See 1968 and 1969 Tucker.
U.S ed. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

“Dear Aunt Annie” - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) (Fantastic, 1970)
The story is set in a future after the Last War in which the United States killed off most of the population of the rest of the world. As a result, the entire culture came to center eliminating violence control by a robot agony aunt and centers where everyone is required, at least once every three months, to take an anti-violence pill. In the story, people are becoming immune.
Rpt. in Second Creation: Selected Stories Volume One ([Vancleave, MS]: Ramble House, 2016), 11-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Doomsday Show. A Cabaret" - George Macbeth; J. S. Bingham (New English Dramatists, 1970)
Brief dystopian play set in an authoritarian society that evolved in caves among the few survivors of a nuclear war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dragon Feast - John Elliott (Belmont Books, 1970)
United States occupied by Chinussian alliance. Dystopia but mostly about the counter-revolution.
Keywords: Male author

Earthjacket - Jon Hartridge (b. 1934) (Macdonald, 1970)
An authoritarian dystopia based on technology that has destroyed most of the natural environment. A successful attempt to undermine the imposed order results in the destruction of the society.
U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Electric Crocodile - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Ace Books, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia with constant surveillance. Almost everyone is bugged, and people have to use jammers to have a private conversation.
U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile. New York: Ace Books, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"E.R.A." - Timothy Findley (1930-2002) (Cavalier, 1970)
Dystopia that eliminates rural life. E.R.A. refers to an Environmental Redevelopment Agent, which are destroying the countryside by poisoning it.
Rpt. as “What Mrs. Felton Knew.” In his Dinner Along the Amazon (Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, 1984), 116-32; and in Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction. Ed. Lesley Choyce (Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1992), 181-96.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards - Andrew J[efferson] Offutt V (1934-2013) (Paperback Library, 1970)
Armageddon (See Revelation 16). Conflict between a religious tyranny and a Satanist coven.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Guardians - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Hamish Hamilton, 1970)
Dystopia. Overcrowded cities for the proletariat. Rural life for the aristocracy. Maintained by psychological conditioning and brain surgery.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Homage to Raphael Hythloday" - David Austin; David Page (ARK (Journal of the Royal College of Art, London), 1970)
A eutopian education, with much criticism of even good contemporary education. In Utopia they teach the parents--which includes everyone who the child chooses to learn from--first. That means that no elementary schools are needed, and there are no age or generational distinctions. No one works but people create and make things as and when they choose.
Rpt. without the illus. in Anarchy 115 10.9 (September 1970): 266-268.
Keywords: Male author

"How the Whip Came Back" - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (Orbit, 1970)
Dystopia of the reintroduction of slavery.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 385-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Hunter at His Ease." - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Science Against Man, 1970)
Dystopia of a future world constantly at war and "Progress" gradually destroying the environment.
Keywords: English author; Male author

I Will Fear No Evil - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970)
Dystopia of violence.
Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Also published in Galaxy Science Fiction 30.4 - 31.1 (July - December 1970): 4-25, 96-184, 100-90; 96-186.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Indians Won - Martin [William] Cruz Smith (b. 1942) (Belmont Books, 1970)
Alternative history in which an independent North American Indian nation occupies half of the area of the U.S.
Rpt. New York: Severn House, 1982.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Indoctrinaire - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Faber and Faber, 1970)
Anarchist eutopia set in Brazil 200 years in the future. There is no government. All simple decisions are left to individuals, but they are expected to consult on more complex ones, and there is a social hierarchy based on merit that may be consulted.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. [Rev. ed.] London: Pan, 1979 with an "Afterword" by the author (191-92). Part originally published as "The Interrogator." New Writings in S-F 15. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (London: Dennis Dobson, 1969), 45-76.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Inside the Machine for Living" - Ross Mendes (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Eutopia stressing technology. At thirteen children choose to be apprenticed, go to a university town, or join a Children's Crusade to improve some part of the planet.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Interurban Queen” - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Orbit 8: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Eutopia created when railroads were chosen over cars and highways.
Rpt. in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 87-95, with an editor’s note on 87 and “Questions” on 95; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 134-44; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 56-68, with an Introduction by Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (54-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey to Utopia - L. A. Glass (Vantage Press, 1970)
The novel describes a search for eutopia that permits the destruction of anything and anyone who gets in the way of the search.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King Strut - [Charles Sumner] Chuck Stone (1924-2014) (Bobbs-Merrill, 1970)
Black revolution presented positively but with substantial satire directed at the way the political system functions, particularly its favoritism and corruption. The novel focuses on a black politician, Hiram Elliott Quinault, possibly based on Adam Clayton Powell (1908-72), who rises to a position of seniority in the House of Representatives. His rise leads to the inevitable backlash from the established white politicians, who uses every means available to demean and diminish him. When a group of black nationalists declare the independence of Blackland in Mississippi from the U.S. and ask Quinault to be their President, he accepts, is expelled from Congress, and assassinated. In retaliation, the black nationalists kill twelve Congressmen and wounding others.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Learning in the Age of Wonder" - Lloyd [Arthur] Dennis (1923-2012) (The Guelph Papers, 1970)
Eutopia of future education that is free and individualized and begins with parenting education.
Rpt. in Visions 2020. Ed. for the Canadian Forum by Stephen Clarkson (Edmonton, AB, Canada: M.G. Hurtig, 1970), 183-88.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Leatherjacket. A Thriller - Arthur Wise (1923-83) (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970)
Mostly adventure but based around a movement to revive National Socialism.
Keywords: Male author

"Looking Back on Illth" - John T. McLeod (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Eutopia of medicine in the future. Mostly a critique of the past, but describes "one-stop" health care.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Lost Continent." - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Science Against Man, 1970)
Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an "Introduction to The Lost Continent" (331-33).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lustopia - Scott Harford (Pendulum Books, 1970)
Erotica describing a commune where all sexual desires can be fulfilled.
Keywords: Male author

Magellan. A Novel - Colin Anderson (b. 1933) (Walker, 1970)
Welfare dystopia in the one city left after a global nuclear war. Using a giant computer the intent is to give everyone immortality in their own paradise, and the novel follows the main character through a number of these worlds.
U.S ed. New York: Walker, 1970.  Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971; and New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972. The PSt ed. simply has the Walker identification pasted over the Gollancz identification.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Mask of Jon Culon - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) (Lenox Hill Press, 1970)
Post-catastrophe, anti-technological, religious dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: John Gresham, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Matrix - Douglas Rankine Mason (1918-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1970)
Machine dystopia in which machines are about to phase out the human race.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale & Co., 1971.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"MIRV" - John M. Robson (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on the future of higher education. MIRV is the “Minority interim report (voluntary) of the permanent participatory committee of the Free University of Toronto (F.U. To.) on the expedition of consultation concerning staffing and distaffing procedures during the next demicent with a view to implementation in, at or about the year 2020.” The majority report read in its entirety, “Get the hell out, before it’s too late!”
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A More Perfect Union - Robert Stapp (1914-85) (Harper's Magazine Press in Association with Harper and Row, 1970)
The South seceded from the U.S. and in 1981 the Confederacy is a totalitarian dystopia in conflict with the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) (Viking Press, 1970)
A minor thread discusses the possibility of establishing a eutopia on the moon. There is also considerable discussion of H.G. Wells and of the nature of utopianism.
Originally published in different form illus. Mario Micossi in The Atlantic 224.5 - 6 (November - December 1969): 95-150, 99-142.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The New Arrangement" - Gaeton Fonzi (1935-2012) (Philadelphia Magazine, 1970)
Essay with some fictional elements about the better living arrangements in an intentional community, with the stress on child-rearing and the family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A New Renaissance?" - Gregory [G.] Baum (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Canada as a troubled religious eutopia in 2020. Canadian universities had been destroyed by student revolts in the 1990s and replaced with centers of conversation. These led to a revival of religion and a reduction in productivity. The government gives out drugs to get people re-connected to reality, and the church becomes an inquisitor.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy - Louis P[reston] Trimble (1917-88) (Ace Books, 1970)
One setting of the novel is a small-town eutopia in England that is basically Victorian but includes modern technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nobody Lives in Burton Street" - Greg[ory Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Amazing Stories, 1970)
Future U.S. dystopia. African Americans contained in ghettoes, but there are constant riots.
Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 9-16. Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There." Vertex 1.6 (February 1974): 72-75, 94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power" - Neil Postman (1931-2003) (The New York Times Magazine, 1970)
Eutopia. Based on a passage in Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) about the need for students to live life rather than just studying, New York City removes students from school and puts them to work cleaning up and repairing the rundown city. Post-secondary students asked to participate and were added.
Rpt. in Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 197-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Oogenesis of Bird City" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Dystopia. The story describes the political maneuvering around the establishment of a separate, eutopian city for all those on welfare, who are all black, thus deliberately separating the races.
Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1982), 5-27; and in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 115-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Friends From Frolix 8 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia in which different types of humans rule the normal humans. The revolt against the dystopia is assisted by an alien from Frolix 8.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise Is Not Enough - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) (Robert Hale, 1970)
Dystopia of mechanical perfection in which robots do everything except act in the pervasive Tri-V shows and are planning to take over those jobs also.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Piece of Resistance - Clive [Frederick William] Egleton (1927-2006) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia of a Communist Britain. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are Last Post of a Partisan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971; and The Judas Mandate. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972. Rpt. as The Last Refuge. London: Severn House, 2006 with a foreword by the author. U.S. ed. as The Judas Mandate. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagan, 1972.
Rpt. as Never Surrender. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Pressure of Time" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories, 1970)
All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals.
Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Profit of Doom. Science Fiction - Hugh Dirac (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970)
The dystopia brought about by being able to transplant almost all organs.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Proposals to Save the World" - R[ichard] I. F[airfield] (Alternatives! Foundation Newsletter, 1970)
One page outline of a eutopia. Radical decentralization of power; new educational system based on volunteers; guaranteed minimum and maximum incomes; volunteer military until no longer need; a National Youth Service Corps for those fifteen to twenty-five; and a National Adult Service Corps for those forty to fifty.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"R26/5/PSY and I" - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (New Writings in S-F, 1970)
Overpopulation dystopia where few people have jobs and food is strictly rationed. Many people come to be completely apathetic and never leave their rooms. The story is about therapy to overcome this condition.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"The Return of the Empire Loyalists" - Andrew Wernick (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on future Canada where everyone is stoned.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Right Off the Map" - Pip Winn (Orbit 8: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Brief overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Rivet in Grandfathers Neck - Bruce Elliott (1914-73) (Modern Literary Editions Publishing Co./Curtis Books, 1970)
Flawed utopia on a planet called New Australia. The planet was initially settled by convicts, sent to the new planet as subversives to the established order, and their convict status appears to be the only connection to Australia. The planet chooses to cut itself off completely from Earth and develops society based on extremely long life with the oldest having the most power. The novel is about a man who discovers the underside of the utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Robert Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not!’” - John Robert Colombo (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on the future of Canada.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Seven Steps to the Sun - [Sir] Fred Hoyle (1915-2001); Geoffrey Hoyle (b. 1941) (Heinemann, 1970)
Dystopia of an authoritarian decentralized political system.
Rpt. ed. Barbara Hoyle. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1981. U.S. ed. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sex and the High Command - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright and Talley, 1970)
Satire on male chauvinism and women's liberation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Shaker Revival" - Gerald Jonas (b. 1935) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1970)
A new Shaker sect called The United Society of Believers (Revived) has more than 100,000 members after only four years, most under eighteen years old and very few "feebies" (those over 30) are accepted. The basic creed is the "Four Noes"--"No hate, No war, No money, No sex". They establish a rock band that is immensely popular. The setting for the revival is a world with heavy drug use and emphasis on sexual and other gratification. Full time consumers belonged to the "Contract Consumer Corps", and producers are considered lower class. All African Americans live in ghettos, and there is a wall around Harlem. The Shakers, or the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing were a religious group practicing celibacy that originated in England in the eighteenth century and established a number of communities in the U.S.
Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1971. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 263-92; and in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 240-67.
Keywords: Male author

"The Show Must Go On" - David I[rvine] Masson (1915-2007) (The Disappearing Future, 1970)
Dystopia of overpopulation and violence.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Six-Gun Planet - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) (Paperback Library, 1970)
Satire. Planet called Missouri designed to be like the popular images of the Old West in the U.S. with a gunfight at sundown.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Son of Kronk - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)
A dystopia of pollution and violence, but a new venereal disease develops that limits aggression.
Rpt. as Kronk. London: Coronet, 1972. U.S. ed. as Kronk. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Space Stadium - H[erbert] U[rlin] Bevis (1902-2001) (Lenox Hill Press, 1970)
Peace on earth achieved by having teams of men fight in space with world control the prize.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A State of Denmark or a Warning to the Incurious - [Robert William Arthur] [Cook] (1931-94) (Hutchinson, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia set in an England that has deported all non-whites.
Rpt as by Derek Raymond [pseud.]. London: Serpent's Tale, 1994; and London: Serpent's Tale, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Statistician's Day." - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Science Against Man, 1970)
Dystopia in which birth control is insufficient and death is also controlled.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Supergenmot" - James Reany (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire. Happiness is marketed as Supergenmot, which allows everyone to individually produce as much energy as they want. The formula is made available to everyone. People fly off to other planets, and earth becomes a museum.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

This Perfect Day - Ira [Marvin] Levin (1929-2007) (Random House, 1970)
Dystopia in which computer control produces sameness; e.g. there are only four names each for boys and girls. People are kept drugged; no free movement. Genetic engineering to overcome size and color differences. Promiscuous sex required weekly.
Rpt. in Three by Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby This Perfect Day The Stepford Wives (New York: Random House, 1985), 163-273.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Toe to Tip, Tip to Toe, Pip-Pop As You Go" - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) (The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Drug dystopia of an enclosed society in which the majority of the population is using legal drugs but those advertizing them are prohibited from taking drugs. There is a group living "outside" who oppose the drugs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Traffic Problem" - William [J.] Earls (Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, 1970)
The dystopia brought about by traffic congestion.
Rpt. The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 243-52; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 52-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Travelin' Man" - Leo P[atrick] Kelley (1928-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1970)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 398-408.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Troika Incident. A Tetralogue in Two Parts - James Cooke Brown (1921-87) (Doubleday, 1970)
Detailed eutopia of a decentralized, craft-based economy and free love.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Truth Worth of Ruth Villiers" - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (New Writings in S-F, 1970)
Satire on the welfare system. Individuals are each valued, and all services provided are based upon their credit worth.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"Utopian." - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (The Year 2000: An Anthology, 1970)
Flawed utopia. A eutopia of world government, universal education, efficient birth control, automation, no money, no war, no crime, little disease, and essentially free unlimited power results in people with no ambition.
Rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972), 83-99; and in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 331-47 with an author's note on 330.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Victory of the NIMs over the GEBs" - Max Clarkson (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire. Education of the future turned away from technology. NIM refers to the New Image of Man which stresses self-realization. GEB refers to the alliance of government, education, and business which agreed to cooperate under the Orwell Treaty of 1984 that gave multinational corporations control of education.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"A Visit to the Museum" - Jean-Pierre Wallot (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Dystopia of Canada as part of the United States with a tour through the Museum of the Man of Canada.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Walter Perkins Is Here!" - Raymond E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) (The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Satire on an affluent world in which everyone "belongs" to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome to Wesbloc/Wesbloc" - Anthony Haden-Guest (The Disappearing Future, 1970)
Dystopia in which five buildings cover the entire world.
Keywords: Male author

"The Winner" - Donald E[dwin Edmond] Westlake (1933-2008) (Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Dystopia of a penal system that implants a device that causes intense pain as the inmate moves away from the prison.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Withering Away of Welfare" - Leonard Shifrin (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Eutopia of the positive effects of automation with an Athenian style democracy with a diverse culture.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Women of Landau - Jim Kent (Scripts Publications, 1970)
Two dystopias presented mostly as excuses for mild erotica. In the first the virginity of one's daughters ensures wealth for the father. In the second violence against women is the norm.
Keywords: Male author

The Year of the Last Eagle - Leona Train Rienow (1903-83); Robert Rienow (1909-89) (Ballantine Books, 1970)
A satire on the future U.S. centered on the 1989 Bicentennial but with no eagle.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Your World, and Welcome to It (the 33rd Earl of Chesterfield writes to one of his sons)" - A[rchibald] P[aton] Thornton (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Anti-socialist satire. Pills against aggression. Racial peace because pills make everyone the same color.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

2069 - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) (Phenix Publishers, 1969)
Gay male dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are 2069 + 1. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 245-464; and 2069 + 2. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 465-656.
Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 9-243.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Action for a New Government - Adolf Diegel (Author, 1969)
Detailed conservative eutopia, the program for which is summarized on 149-54. The basic right to vote is reserved to men 30-59. Others 20 or older can gain the right to vote by paying a tax that is the same for everyone. Can choose not to pay the tax and not vote. Government cannot spend money it has not raised in taxes.
Keywords: Male author

AFRO-6 - [Enrique] Hank Lopez (d. 1985) (Dell Books, 1969)
The title, which is capitalized in the text, is the name of a long-planned movement of Blacks to take over Manhattan with similar plans in cities throughout the country. The plot is explicitly based on the writings of Che Guevara. The emphasis of the novel is on the dystopia of Black and Chicano life, the planned takeover, and its temporary success. No depiction of the society the movement hoped to create.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

"Agharta, The Subterranean World" - Raymond Bernard (The Hollow Earth: The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History Made by Admiral Richard Byrd in the Mysterious Land Beyond the Poles--The True Origin of the Flying Saucers, 1969)
Eutopia in the center of the Earth presented as fact. He says it is based on eastern legends, but he also says that the people are descendents of Atlantis and Lemuria. World government under a king. No old age or death; no sex (reproduction by parthenogenesis); men and women live apart; children raised collectively. Extremely advanced scientifically and is the source of flying saucers. Live on fruit. The chapter also includes discussion of other subterranean utopias.
Keywords: Male author

"Along the Scenic Route" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Deathbird Stories, 1969)
Action tale that suggests a macho, dystopian society.
Book rpt. as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Jill Bauman and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Terry Dowling with a textual note that all stories have been reviewed by Ellison for needed corrections. Story rpt. in his The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 19-28; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 243-53; and in The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective. Ed. Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont (Omaha, NB: Nemo Press, 1987), 439-47. Originally published as "Dogfight on 101" in Adam (August 1969) and Amazing Stories 43.3 (September 1969): 6-14. The current title is Ellison's preference.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Asylum World - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) (Paperback Library, 1969)
Dystopia of future world poverty brought about by the arms race. Poor physical and mental health.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Atrocity Exhibition - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Jonathan Cape., 1969)
Wide-ranging dystopia with the violence of the contemporary world the primary focus.
Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-60;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968), rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969. Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968) [Not Found}, rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Babel - Alan Burns (1929-2013) (Calder & Boyars, 1969)
Experimental novel with hundreds of characters, including well-known people, and no discernible plot that depicts contemporary life as dystopia and returning time and again to the war in Vietnam.
An excerpt appeared in New Worlds, 191 (June 1969): 24-27.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Benji's Pencil" - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Overpopulation dystopia in which art is dead, there is no grass, and death is mandatory at seventy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Binary Divine - Jon Hartridge (b. 1934) (Macdonald, 1969)
The novel focuses on a computer that everyone relies on and confides in that takes on the role of God and creates a dystopia.
U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1969. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Black Corridor - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) (Ace, 1969)
Overpopulation dystopia as the context for the story line.
Rpt. in his Sailing To Utopia (London: Millennium, 1993), 183-314. Rpt. in The Michael Moorcock Collection under the title Travelling to Utopia. Ed. John Davey (London: Gollancz, 2014), 355-505.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Broke and Hungry, No Place to Go” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Galaxy Magazine, 1969)
The story is set in a future U.S. that is short of food and judges peoples’ worthiness to be fed on judgements made by computers on their possible future contributions to society.
Rpt. in Galaxy Science Fiction [UK] (December 1969) with the same pagination; and as “Broke Down Engine.” In his Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 27-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bug Jack Barron - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Walker, 1969)
Dystopia. The protagonist is a TV personality with a show called "Bug Jack Barron" where he listens to people's complaints and calls the politicians or others involved and puts them on the spot. As a result he becomes very powerful. A focus of the novel is the choice between allowing a corporation to be run for profit to freeze and later revive people or to have it publicly available. Presents race relations in the future with Mississippi run by African Americans but with African Americans generally in inferior roles.
Rpt. [Book Club Edition] New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1969. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Blaylock (vii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1970. Shorter version first published in New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 179 - 183 (February - October 1968): 4-12, 43-51; 28-30, 42-56; 13-22, 44-59; 20-33; 45-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Captive Universe - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969)
Two dystopias. Aztec's sealed off from the rest of the world and the technological world outside.
U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Class War Comix: A Brief History of the Revolution - Skip [Mervyn] Williamson (1944-2017) (Mike Johnson, 1969)
Satire on both the current situation in the United States in the late Sixties with a suggestion that, the revolution won, the winners would be as corrupt as the current politicians.
Collects his Class War Comix: Eat Leaden Death. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Class War Comix: Good Lord. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Conspiracy, Class War Comix: Kitty Doody Stink Bomb. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1970; Racist Pig Comix. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969); and Tuna Fat Funnies. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America - Alan Seymour (b. 1927) (Souvenir Press, 1969)
A dystopia describing an extremely violent race war in the United States that leads to its destruction.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1971.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Cosmic Eye. A Novel - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Belmont Books, 1969)
Dystopia in which every act is controlled and everyone is constantly monitored. The novel focuses on a man at the top of the hierarchy who is a rebel.
Shorter version as "Speakeasy." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 24.1 (January 1963): 66-126.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Dancing Gerontius" - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) (Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1969)
The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one.
Rpt. in The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Days After - T[homas] E[dwin] Dorman (b. 1914) (Vantage Press, 1969)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Drag Hunt - James Broom Lynne (Michael Joseph, 1969)
Mixed future. General tolerance and economic prosperity, but there is a human hunt replacing fox hunting. Violence is encouraged in political protests. Young Purity Party.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Emphyrio - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Doubleday, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia based on control of utilities and religion and a monopoly of trade.
Serialized in Fantastic 18.5 - 6 (June - August 1969): 6-77, 82; 10-83. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1970. U.K. ed. [London]: Coronet, 1980. Repub. as vol. 20 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002; in The Jack Vance Reader: Emphyrio The Languages of Pao The Domains of Koryphon. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 21-206 with “Emphyrio Introduction (15-19) by Robert Silverberg; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 509-722 with a “Note on the Text” (732-33) and “Notes” (742).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of the Dream Machine - Dean R[ay] Koontz (b. 1945) (Ace Books, 1969)
Extrapolation of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan (1911-80) into a dystopia. McLuhan was best known for his statement that the "medium is the message."
Keywords: Male author; US author

Five Way Secret Agent - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1969)
Future satiric dystopia. Negative Income Tax provides an income cushion. Conflict in the world.
Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 83.2 - 3 (April - May 1969): 6-54, 96-142.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gardens 12345 - Peter Tate (b. 1940) (Doubleday, 1969)
Dystopia in which social experiments are run on people by placing them in gardens and observing their actions when changes are made.
U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Give-and-Take Utopia" - Alan Brien (1925-2008) (New Statesman, 1969)
A personal view of eutopia, which he calls a "half-way utopia" and a "more-or-less Merry England". It will be planned but not predictable, permissive but not lawless, safe but not dull, and patriotic but not racist. Among other things, there will be a limit on income, and everyone must work.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Glass Cage - Kenneth W[ayne] Hassler (1932-99) (Arcadia House, 1969)
Dystopia. Post-catastrophe society inside a sealed city. Religion and politics combine to keep people inside after the need to do so is over.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Immortalist: An Approach to the Engineering of Man's Divinity - Alan Harrington (1919-97) (Random House, 1969)
Immortality will bring eutopia. The chapter "Notes on a Utopia Beyond Time" says that in the immortalist eutopia each person will have many lives doing different things. More nonconformists. Permission required to have children. This chapter is (New York: Random House, 1969), 280-89; (London: Panther, 1973), 250-62; (London: Abacus, 1973), 275-84. See also 1977 Harrington for a different take on immortality.
UK ed. London: Panther, 1973. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Time of Disposal of Infants" - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) (Amazing Stories, 1969)
Dystopia in the future where unwanted live children (usually infants) are collected like garbage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Islar: A Narrative of Lang III - Mark Saxton (1914-88) (Houghton Mifflin, 1969)
Sequel set in the time of the grandson of the protagonist of 1942 Wright. Primarily political intrigue brought about by internal and external enemies. See also 1979 and 1982 Saxton.
Keywords: Male author; US author