The Origin of the Brunists - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966)
Origin, development, and collapse of a religious sect. Brunist comes from Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), a Dominican friar who was burned at the stake for heresy. See also 2014 Coover.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967; and New York: A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Post-mortem People" - Peter Tate (b. 1940) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1966)
Transplant dystopia in which the ability to transplant organs leads to the development of an elaborate system to profit from the death of others by claiming their bodies.
Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 383-97.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"The Primary Education of the Camiroi" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1966)
Eutopia in which everyone is expected to be an expert in everything from a very young age. The details of the educational system are given. See also 1967 Lafferty.
Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 161-74; in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 35-50; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 213-29, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (210-12). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rat Race" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1966)
Flawed utopia. Computer perfect society where any productive activity is illegal, which leaves no one with anything to do and many people are extremely bored. One man starts a fad for model trains and finds a way around the rules.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Pub. Co., 1972), 247-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Return of Arthur - Martyn Skinner (1906-93) (Chapman and Hall, 1966)
Epic poem most of which is concerned with the dystopia of the modern age, particularly that of Communism. The work ends though with the reestablishment of the best of the past and a eutopia.
Parts originally published as Merlin or the Return of Arthur. A Satiric Epic. Part One. London: Frederick Muller, 1951; The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. London: Chapman & Hall, 1955; and The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. Part Two. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. The utopia is only found in the 1966 version.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Richest Corpse in Show Business - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) (Compact Books, 1966)
Future dystopia of organized human hunts. Some humor.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Saga of Lost Earths - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) (Ace Books, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia as setting at the beginning. The bulk of the book is a heroic saga based on the Finnish Kalevala.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tenth Victim - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Ballantine Books, 1966)
Dystopia of legal hunts of humans by other humans. See also 1958 and 1960 Sheckley. His Hunter/Victim. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a prequel, and his Victim Prime. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a sequel. The film Le Decima Vittima (1965) directed by Elio Petri (1929-82) with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra (1920-2012) Giorgio Salvioni (d. 1994), Ennio Flaiano (1910-72), and Petri is based on “The Seventh Victim” and this is the novelization of the film.
U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1966. Rpt. London: Methuen, 1987. Originated as “The Seventh Victim” Galaxy Science Fiction 6.1 (April 1953): 38-51. Story 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), 300-11; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 109-22; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 61-72; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 14-29 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow Is Now--a possible voyage into man's future - Julius [K.] Vogel ([Author], 1966)
Play set in the country of Tomorrow, which is visited by a man who the inhabitants of Tomorrow think of as a barbarian. The inhabitants of Tomorrow see it as a eutopia while the visitor sees it as flawed. Children born artificially, no marriage or family life. Focus on individual achievement. This is, in effect, an introduction to 1992 Vogel, which has more details.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Turning Into Tomorrow - Watson Thomson (d. 1969) (Philosophical Library, 1966)
Essay with a focus on communal or "group" utopias.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Utopia Minus X - [Stanley Bennett] [Hough] (1917-1998) (Ace Books, 1966)
Flawed utopia which is believed to be the Perfect World in which no change is needed faced with a space explorer returning from space after two hundred years.
UK ed. as The Paw of God. London: Anthony Gibbs Library 33 Ltd., 1967. Rpt. London: Tandem, 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Watch Below - James White (1928-1999) (Whiting & Wheaton, 1966)
Two societies developing in isolation over generations are presented, one in a tanker at the bottom of the sea and the other in an alien starship approaching Earth. The potential war between Earth and the aliens is avoided through contact between those in the tanker and the other two. Both the undersea society and the alien society have eutopian elements, with the alien society the more complex one.
U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Rpt. New York: Walker, 1969. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Ryerson Press, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1966)
Dystopia in which false memories can be implanted.
Rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 248-65; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 191-212; in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Little Black Box (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 157-74; The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 35-52; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 46-73; and in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 385-404 with an editors’ note on 385-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wonderful World of Tomorrow: What It Will Be Like - Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986); Garner Ted Armstrong (1940-2003) (Ambassador College Press, 1966)
Tract deploring present conditions and foretelling the Second Coming of Christ and the conditions when God rules directly and church and state are unified. Supernatural force will eliminate crime and rebellion, and then people will be reeducated into God's truth. See also, 1979 Armstrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"102 H-Bombs" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, 1965)
Dystopia of militarism in which in what is officially a "non-war" 30,000 U.S. men are killed every year. To provide more soldiers, all orphanages are taken over by the military and the age for active service is lowered to 14 (the Pentagon wants to lower it to 10). People from a briefly depicted future eutopia visit and help people to recognize the futility of war.
Rpt in his one hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 9-38. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 8-38. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 7-33. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 130-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Age of the Pussyfoot" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Galaxy Magazine [Galaxy changed its name back to Galaxy Science Fiction with the 24.3 (February 1966) issue.], 1965)
Eutopia with problems. In a pleasure-oriented future everyone has a personal computer that provides anything desired, at least for the wealthy. There is widespread drug use, leisure, sexual freedom, and immortality through freezing and resuscitation. While there are various conflicts that drive the plot, the ending is positive.
Exp. under the same title New York: Trident Press, 1969. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Atrophy" - Ernest Hill (1915-2003) (New Writings in S-F, 1965)
Dystopia. Machines allow humans to atrophy then the machines break down.
U.S. ed. of the book as New Writings in SF-6. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 117-36.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bill, The Galactic Hero - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Doubleday, 1965)
Militaristic dystopia. This was the first volume of a series, the other volumes of which are anti-military but not dystopias.
Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1969. First published serially in New Worlds Science Fiction 49.153 - 155 (August - October 1965): 4-60; 45-99; 4-35. Part two has the title “A Dip in the Swimming-Pool Reactor,” and part three has the title “E=mc2 . . . OR BUST.” The first version was published in Italian as “Un Eroe Gallatico.” Trans. Lella Pollini. Galassia #47 (1984). The earliest English version was published as “Starsloggers.” Galaxy Magazine 23.2 (December 1964): 7-82.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Calling Dr. Clockwork” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Amazing Stories, 1965)
Satire on medical care in an automated future.
Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction: 1966. Ed. Donald A, Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1966), 31-41; Science Fiction Greats, no. 15 (Summer 1969), 90-98; and in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 51-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Caves of Mars - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) (Ace Books, 1965)
Dystopia in which a drug that provides perfect health also makes a person amenable to control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Code Three - Rick Raphael (Simon and Schuster, 1965)
Future dystopia of violence centered on superhighways.
UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. Rpt. London: Panther, 1968. Parts originally published as "Code Three." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.6 (February 1963): 8-57; and "Once a Cop." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 73.3 (May 1964): 38-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming of the Unselves - Edmund Ludlow (b. 1898) (Exposition Press, 1965)
The Unselves are minute beings from space who inhabit a person’s brain and make them speak only the truth. Even though it worked, it proved very unpopular. Businesses said that contracts agreed to under such conditions are not valid. People cannot vote under such circumstances. An honest accountant might be executed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Coming-of-Age Day" - A. K Jorgensson (Science Fantasy, 1965)
Dystopia of a new Victorian age in which information about sex is limited. Presented from the viewpoint of a growing boy as he learns about the new approach, which is to provide each person with a living organism that provides sex without contact with another human being.
Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 51-64; 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), 261-71; in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 148-63 with an editors’ note (147-48); and in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 52-65.
Keywords: Male author

"Cynia: An Original Utopia" - Gary G. Shriver (University of Wyoming, 1965)
Individualist anarchist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earthworks - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Faber & Faber, 1965)
The setting is a future England has been devasted by an ecological disaster fueled by overpopulation that left the countryside poisoned and the cities disease-ridden.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966. 154 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Eight Billion" - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1965)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. separately as an ebook. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2009; and in his The Story Writer and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume 1. Ed. John Pelan (Np: Dancing Tuatara Press/Ramble House, 2011), 154-164.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fable IV" - Fred Uhlman (1901-85) (The Aylesford Review, 1965)
Dystopia. Bored young people of the future try out various possibilities for entertainment and remain bored. Everyone has a holiday of six months and is looking for excitement. No monogamy. Modern art criticized. Religion emasculated. Commit suicide.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

Flying High - Dewey C. Brookins (1904-82) (Vantage Press, 1965)
A trip to an inhabited moon set in 2000 while Earth is preparing for the next world war, which appears to not happen. People on the moon far in advance of Earth. Buildings on the moon underground. Monarchy. Christianity and the religion of the moon are similar. The people from Earth are not allowed to return to Earth, and one marries the Queen. Other planets are also inhabited.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The God Killers - John [Martin] Baxter (b. 1939) (Horwitz, 1965)
Authoritarian, religious, anti-science dystopia.
Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction 50.163 - 164 (June - July 1966): 4-65, 74-129; and as The Off-Worlders. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Ace Double bound with Lin Carter, The Star Magicians.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Good New Days" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Magazine, 1965)
Humorous dystopia. Robots have replaced humans for all productive work and humans are valued depending on the number of meaningless jobs they hold. There is a statue honoring a twelve-job man.
Rpt. in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine, 1974), 295-310; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 271-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"I Always Do What Teddy Says" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 1965)
Teddy bear robots are used to socialize and educate small children. One is tampered with to allow the person to kill a political enemy, but he doesn't. According to Harrison, he had to change the ending to one he dislikes.
Rpt in The Days After Tomorrow. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971), 145-56; in The New Improved Sun. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 157-66; and in Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 137-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Loafers of Refuge - Joseph L[ee] Green (b. 1931) (Victor Gollancz, 1965)
Blending of two branches of humanity on a distant planet, one stressing technology and one stressing mental control. Problems and possibilities of both but with a particularly sympathetic portrayal of the latter.
Rpt. London: Pan, 1967. Earlier version published in New Worlds Science Fiction as "The Colonist." 41.121 (August 1962): 4-34; "The-Old-Man-In-The-Mountain." 44.131 (June 1963): 4-30; and "Refuge." 44.132 (July 1963): 4-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Diaries of Albert Smith - Robert Muller (b. 1925) (Jonathan Cape, 1965)
Dystopia in which Fascists come to power in Britain.
Later ed. as After all, this is England. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1967.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

A Man of Double Deed - Leonard [John] Daventry (1915-87) (Victor Gollancz, 1965)
Dystopia set in 2090 with an "Atomic Disaster" having occurred in 1990. Division between an orientation to pleasure and the existence of youth gangs killing at random. Telepathy. Polygamy is standard with the main character thought of as odd because he limited himself to two women.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable - Ronald L. Fair (b. 1932) (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965)
The novel is set in one dystopian county in Mississippi created through the machinations of a corrupt lawyer and an equally corrupt judge, killing or driving out the indigenous population, and re-establishing what amounted to slavery after the Civil War, a system that continued to the time of the novel. When the Federal government finally tries to bring change to the county, the federal marshals are thrown in jail. At this point, the Negroes revolt, burn down the town, and kill most of the tormentors while saving the white women and children. The title refers to the thousands of Negroes who had been killed previously.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Masculinist Revolt" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1965)
Satire. A pro-male revolt follows the reintroduction of the codpiece but ultimately fails.
Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 213-51; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 213-35 with an "Afterword" (236-37).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nobody Axed You" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1965)
Overpopulation dystopia in which violence is normal and the top-rated TV programs show people being killed.
Rpt. in his Time-Jump (New York: Dell, 1973), 130-60.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Plague of Pythons - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1965)
Dystopia in the classic power corrupts mode.
Rev. as Demon in the Skull. New York: DAW Books, 1984. A shorter version was published as "Plague of Pythons" in Galaxy Magazine 21.1 - 2 (October - December 1962): 112-58, 136-89.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Project Plowshare. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces" - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1965)
Dystopia brought about by world disarmament combined with the continued manufacture of weapons to keep the world economy going.
Rpt. as The Zap Gun. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces. New York: Pyramid, 1967. The copyright page of the book gives the title of the first publication as "Operation Plowshare", but it is as given here.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Psychedelic-40 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) (Bantam Books, 1965)
Dystopia of control through drugs and pleasure. Psychedlic-40 is a drug known as PSI-40 that produces dreams of extreme sensuality, but it also allows the taker's mind to be probed or even controlled.
UK ed. as The Specials. London: Herbert Jenkins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Galaxy Magazine, 1965)
Dystopia in which everyone is controlled by the clock.
Rpt. in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 130-44 [The first eight stories in Alone Against Tomorrow, including this story, rpt. as All the Sounds of Fear (London: Panther, 1973), 129-43]; in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publ. Co., 1972), 87-96; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 199-208; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 63-71, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 62; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 257-661; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 492-99 with an editors’ note on 491. Edition as “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman. The Classic Story by Harlen Ellison illustrated by Rick Berry. Designed by Arnie Farmer. Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1997 with a “Foreword Stealing Tomorrow” continued as an “Afterword Stealing Tomorrow” by Ellison (unpaged).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Smallcreep's Day - Peter Currell Brown (b. 1936) (Victor Gollancz, 1965)
Satire on the dystopia that is factory system seen through the eyes of one man who spends a day wandering around a huge factory.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Space Pioneer" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Fiction--Science Fact, 1965)
Story of the classic conflict between those who want to settle a newly discovered planet and those who want to simply strip of its resources for a profit.
Repub. London: Four Square/New English Library, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Squares of the City - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ballantine Books, 1965)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a newly built, intended to be ideal, city in a South American dictatorship. The novel is modeled on a game of chess and deals with a power struggle between the dictator and his main opponent.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Starchild - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Ballantine Books, 1965)
Sequel to 1963 Pohl and Williamson, "The Reefs of Space". In this volume the computer has tightened its grip but is threatened by unknown forces.
Originally published in a shorter version in Worlds of If Science Fiction 15.1 -3 (86 - 88) (January - March 1965): 6-52, 101-29, 91-128. Also published in their The Starchild Trilogy. The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1969), 151-286, which includes the third volume, the non-utopian "Rogue Star." Worlds of If Science Fiction 18.6 - 8 (127 - 29) (June - August 1968): 10-43; 119-59; 125-58; repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Survivor" - Walter F[rank] Moudy (1929-73) (Amazing Stories, 1965)
War replaced by the Olympic War Games in which there is real fighting between teams representing countries. The story stresses the importance of replacing war but also emphasizes that the traumas inflicted on the people fighting are real and long lasting.
Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelly (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 357-81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Terminal” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, 1965)
The story is set is an automated future where the problems of old age are solved by the United States Welfare Squad that monthly randomly “collects” one hundred “old timers” and takes them to Senior Citizen Terminals. If they are not claimed within thirty days, they are terminated. The protagonist is a man who has been misidentified by the machines.
Rpt. in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 182-192.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1965)
Dystopia where a drug is used that can induce eutopia to hide the horrors of contemporary life.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979; and in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan Allen Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 231-430 with "Notes" on 828.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Wasted on the Young" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Galaxy Magazine, 1965)
Future society with wealth for all in return for work. The young may borrow against future earnings. Story is about a young man who tries to beat the system and fails.
Rpt. in his From This Day Forward (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 63-77.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Weather in the Underworld" - Colin [Lewis] Free (1925-96) (Squire (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1965)
Dystopia set in UnderEarth, an underground haven designed to be a eutopia with no memories and technological control of thought and emotion. Drugs for every emotion and situation. A man whose conditioning fails is expelled to the surface where he is killed and eaten by those who had been left outside.
Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 49-57. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 49-57.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

White Lotus - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1965)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the Chinese suppress whites. Recreates the history of African Americans from slavery to a non-violent civil rights movement with whites as the oppressed and the Chinese as the oppressor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

You Sane Men - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) (Lancer, 1965)
Dystopia of sadism. An insane world where pain is essential for the maintenance of civilization.
​Rpt. as Bloodworld. New York: Lodestone, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Animal Farm: A Fable in Two Acts - Nelson [Slade] Bond (1908-2006) (Samuel French, 1964)
Adaptation of 1945 Blair.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aristos; A Self-Portrait in Ideas - John [Robert] Fowles (1926-2005) (Little Brown, 1964)
Mostly commentary on contemporary life, but a eutopia is suggested in the last two sections, "A New Education" (183-223) and "The Aristos" (234-39). The revised edition is a significantly different book but includes the same themes, with "A New Education" (141-83), and "The Aristos in the Individual" (212-14).
UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 1968. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1970. [4th] rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Burning World - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Berkley Medallion/Berkley Publishing Co, 1964)
Climate-change dystopia.
Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Clans of the Alphane Moon - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1964)
A mental hospital moon is trying to achieve independence. The paranoids are the leaders, the manics are the warriors, the depressed are the realists, and the schizophrenics are the visionaries.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Davy - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) (St. Martin's Press, 1964)
Future barbarianism but with elements of a dystopia dominated by religion.
UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1966. Expanded from "The Golden Horn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 22.2 (129) (February 1962): 98-129; and "A War of No Consequence." 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 51-73.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day the Machines Stopped - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) (Monarch Books, 1964)
All electrical power disrupted. This produces authoritarian dystopias plus an attempt to rebuild civilization.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Deathworld 2 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Bantam, 1964)
Dystopia of violence.
Rpt. in The Deathworld Trilogy (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 149-283. UK ed. as The Ethical Engineer. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. Originally published in a shorter version as "The Ethical Engineer." Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 71.5 - 6 (July - August 1963): 17-40; 53-80. Other volumes of the trilogy are Deathworld. New York: Bantam Books, 1960; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction 64.5 - 65.1 (January - March 1960): 10-56, 104-41; 62-82, 129-54 [the journal became Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction with the February 1960 issue]; and Deathworld 3. New York: Dell, 1968. U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969; originally published as "The Horse Barbarians." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 80.6 - 81.2 (February - April 1968): 6-69; 86-137; 100-42. There are five additional Deathworld volumes that were written for the Russian market.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Escape" - Marsh Haris (1936-93) (Overture in G Minor and Other Stories, Photographs and Drawings, 1964)
Earth is destroyed and five people set off to a new planet, which turns out to be a eutopia inhabited entirely by homosexual men. The women from Earth die within hours.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Evening Fool - [Arthur L.] [Greenaway] (1927-88) (Hutchinson, 1964)
Communal eutopia established on an island in the Pacific and its problems. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says “almost certainly the working name of UK lawyer, actor, scriptwriter and author Arthur Greenaway” with the birth year as 1927 (Wikipedia gives 1929). For various pieces of information that support both the name and the birth date, see https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/06/peter-van-greenaway.html.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Farnham's Freehold - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia of future war with a libertarian enclave surviving and flourishing.
U.K. ed. London: Dobson Books, 1965. Rpt. as vol. 42 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2007. Also published as ed. by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (b. 1919) in If 14.3 - 5 (July - October 1964): 6-77, 72-130, 66-130. The third issue was originally dated September, but October 1964 was printed over September 1964.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Gas Mask" - James D. Houston (The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future, 1964)
Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
Originally pub. in Nugget (1964).
Keywords: Male author

"Man on Bridge" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (New Writings in S-F, 1964)
Dystopia in which the unintelligent rule the intelligent, who are kept in camps where they do all the menial work.
Repub. in his Who Can Replace a Man? (New York: New American Library, 1965), 82-98. UK ed. as Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), 96-115; rev. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), 56-75.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Mary Celeste Move” - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1964)
A dystopia where North and South America are dominated by cars.
Rpt. in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 145-52; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 157-64; and in The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (New York: Tor, 2014), 392-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Moon People - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Avalon, 1964)
Dystopian society on the far side of the moon. The inhabitants are similar to apes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The New Encyclopaedist: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D." - Stephen [David] Becker (1927-99) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1964)
An entry in a future encyclopedia describing the survivors of a nuclear war who use what is left to build a eutopian future. See also his “The New Encyclopaedist--II: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.3 (160) (September 1964): 74-76; and “The New Encyclopaedist--III: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.4 (162) (November 1964): 62-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Noman Way - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) (Brown, Watson Ltd. Digit Books, 1964)
Dystopia. Competitive sports as population control. The losers die.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Nova Express - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Grove Press, 1964)
Dystopian imagery of an addicts’ world with the Nova Police versus the Nova Mob. Third volume of a trilogy following 1961 and 1962 Burroughs.
UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Only Lovers Left Alive - Dave [David Capadose] Wallis (1917-90) (Dutton, 1964)
Dystopia of teenage gangs and a high suicide rate. Finally, a new clan system develops as a good society.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Open Prison - James White (1928-1999) (New Worlds, 1964)
As the title says, an entire planet is s aside as a prison with people simply dumped there to make their way as best they can with no modern technology. Much of the novel is concerned with plans to escape.
Rpt. London: Corgi Books, 1970. U.S. ed. as The Escape Orbit. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Originally published in New Worlds (February - April 1964).
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Other Man: A Novel Based on His Play for Television - Giles Cooper (1918-66) (Panther, 1964)
Alternative history dystopia of a National Socialist Britain.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Pacifist" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1964)
The world is divided between two opposing forces from the Northern and Southern hemispheres that are nearing nuclear war. The Pacifists are an underground organization trying to stop the war by threatening to kill, or killing, key players on both sides.
Rpt. in The War Book. Ed. James Sallis (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969), 79-97; rpt. (London: Panther, 1971), 67-85; and in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 146-65 with an author's note on 145.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Peek at Heaven - Lucius M. Bush (Exposition Press, 1964)
Heaven as a eutopia in which everyone stays young, blacks turn white, there is romance and sex, and children stay children permanently.
Keywords: Male author

The Penultimate Truth - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Belmont Books, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia in which people are kept underground in the belief that a nuclear war rages on the surface. The truth is that peace has been achieved.
Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2005.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Placement Test" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Amazing Stories, 1964)
Overpopulation dystopia in a story about a man manipulated into fighting his way through the job placement process as a way of selecting the best people for top positions.
Rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction, no. 27 (October 1972): 34-60; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 58-85; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 213-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Proposed C-A-N-A-D-I-A-N A-M-O P-A-R-T-Y: Based on the Amo Formula - Edwin E.H. Hugli (b. 1890) (Author, 1964)
Eutopia based on a new money system. Stresses that the new money system would keep money flowing continuously, that his system would keep Canada independent of the United States and keep Canada debt free. See 1962 Hugli. See also 1933 Hugli.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Siege of Harlem - Warren Miller (1921-66) (McGraw-Hill, 1964)
After years of pleading for equal treatment, African Americans from around the country all called to Harlem and thousands of young people respond, Harlem secedes from the U.S. and becomes a separate country. Set seventy-five years later, the novel focuses on the first year and the struggle, both internal and with the U.S., to stay free as told to his grandchildren to his grandchildren. While there is little on the future state, it is clearly a much better place to be Black than in the society they left.
Rpt. New York: Crest, 1965.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Simulacra - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia set in the 21st century with the President of the United States of Europe (U.S. and West Germany) an android and the government a fraud.
UK ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Simulacron-3 - Daniel F[rancis] Galouye (1920-76) (Bantam, 1964)
Dystopia which pollsters or "certified reaction monitors" (colloquially known as "busybodies") are constantly checking on the population with the goal of eliminating risk from business, politics, and religion. An invention allows them to be replaced by electronic simulations, so it is opposed by powerful forces. Its inventor had intended it as a means of achieving a better, more orderly society, but it creates dual worlds of reality and simulcra and some people pass between the two worlds.
U.K. ed. as Counterfeit World. London: Victor Gollancz, 1965. Rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Stars Came Down - [Joseph Laurence] [Morrissey] (1905-81) (World Distributors, 1964)
Flawed utopia. A man returns to Earth five thousand years after he left and finds the people far advanced beyond his expectations. No governments. Extremely long-lived (600 is middle age); no children to keep control over population growth. No wild animals; all are tame. Cities abandoned; all Earth is inhabitable and people live in small groups or alone.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, 1964)
Dystopia in which schizophrenia is seen as a form of social organization. The "thesis" reports on the themes from Orwell's 1949 Nineteen Eighty-four, "Freedom Is Slavery", "Ignorance Is Strength", and "War Is Peace" and adds "Life Is Death" and "Love Is Hate".
Rpt. in his Fun With Your New Head (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 177-92. UK ed. of the book as Under Compulsion (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 181-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time of the Great Freeze - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964)
Young adult climate change dystopia in which, when a thaw begins, people who had been living deep in the ice, search for other communities hoping to reunify them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tongues of the Moon - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Pyramid, 1964)
Begins with an authoritarian dystopia in which a bomb implanted in everyone's brain can be detonated at any sign of disobedience. There is a successful revolt.
UK ed. London: Corgi, 1981. Exp. from Amazing 35.9 (September 1961): 6-; rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, no. 6 (November 1967): 4-.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Understanding Money, Unemployment and Inflation: Why New Zealand is a Modern Utopia - John Randolph Perkins (Vantage Press, 1964)
Non-fiction. New Zealand as a eutopia. In addition to being a natural paradise, New Zealand has more or less accidentally defined money in terms of work, which is the basis of its existence as a eutopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

The Unearth People - Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) (Belmont Books, 1964)
Dystopia of eugenic breeding where some girls are chosen to be bred from the sperm of important men from the past.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Unteleported Man" - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, 1964)
Various dystopias. Teleporting has become the standard means of interstellar travel, and a man who intends to travel the slow way runs into a conspiracy to stop him because the planet controlled by the people running the transportation system is being filled with slave labor. Lies, Inc. is the Listening Instructional Educational Services.
Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. Rpt. with gaps where manuscript pages were missing. New York: Berkley, 1983. U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1976. Rewritten version with gaps restored by John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) as Lies, Inc. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Year of the Angry Rabbit - Russell [Reading] Braddon (1921-95) (Heinemann, 1964)
Satire in which Australian scientists discover a biological weapon that the Prime Minister uses to force world peace and Australian economic and political dominance of the world.
U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1965. Partially serialized in Australian Women's Weekly 32.21 - 23 (October 21 - November 4, 1964): 19, 55, 59-60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 92-99; 33, 38, 46, 48-49, 51, 53-58, 66, 69-72, 74; 38, 47, 51, 55, 63, 65-66, 68-71, 77.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Better World - Karl Streichl (Vantage Press, 1963)
Detailed eutopia with a stress on equality, physical fitness, and education. Technologically advanced.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Breakdown" - Richard Graham (Science Fiction Adventures (UK), 1963)
Story of the dystopia created when the computer that runs a city stops working.
Keywords: Male author

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963)
Dystopian satire on the arms race, religion, science, and technology, with a catastrophic ending.
Rpt. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970. 191 pp.; and in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 1-188 with a Note on the Text (833) and "Notes" on 838-41. Dystopian satire on the arms race, religion, science, and technology, with a catastrophic ending.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dark Mind" - [Derek Ivor] Colin Kapp (1928-2007) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1963)
Authoritarian dystopia of corporate control and corrupt government as the background.
Repub. London: Transworld, 1965. U.S. ed. as Transfinite Man. New York: Berkley, 1964.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Day Natal Took Off. A Satire - Anthony [Ronald St. Martin] Delius (1916-89) (Insight Publications, 1963)
Satire on contemporary South African politics and race relations.
Rpt. London: Pall Mall Press, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

"Day of Truce" - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) (Galaxy Magazine, 1963)
Dystopia. Suburbs have become a war of strongholds versus the punks.
Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 111-34; and in Grotto of the Dancing Bear and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Four. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dreaming Earth - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Pyramid, 1963)
Overpopulation dystopia and the problems that arise from a drug induced euphoria that leads people to completely drop out. But the dropouts are actually dropping in to new, empty worlds presented as simple eutopias.
U.K. ed. as The Dreaming Earth. Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972. Originally serialized as “Put Down the Earth.” New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 107 -109 (June - August 1961): 4-47, 81-122, 77-127.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Forgotten Race - Julius P. Newton (Brown, Watson, 1963)
Most of the novel concerns a space race in the distant past and a nuclear war on Earth. One group, from a country like the Soviet Union, settles a planet called Lydia, near Mars, which remains fairly primitive. The other group, from a country like the U.S., settles Mars, and advances much further than the post-nuclear war Earth. The eutopia, briefly described, includes the following: World state. Universal language. Telepathy. Constitutional anarchism. Equality. Limit on population. Voluntary work. Teachers teach what they want and students take what they want. No laws.
Rpt. New York: Arcadia House, 1967.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Frigid Fracas" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction, 1963)
A truce was achieved by banning all weapons invented after 1900, but it led to TV programs showing mercenaries and constant warfare. Reynolds used the same trope with variations in his Mercenary From Tomorrow (1968), expanded as Joe Mauser: Mercenary From Tomorrow (1986); and Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes (1986). The same protagonist appears in his The Fracas Factor. New York: Leisure Books/Norden, 1978.
Rpt. as The Earth War. New York: Pyramid Books, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Full Circle - Bruce [Wallace] Ariss [Jr.] (1911-94) (Avalon Books, 1963)
After a nuclear war the American Indians have established a peaceful eutopia based on their traditional societies. White men return and conflict begins again.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Heretic - George [David] Woodman (Shipyard Press, 1963)
Scientific dystopia with a loss of emotion.
Keywords: Male author

It Was the Day of the Robot - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) (Belmont, 1963)
Computer controlled dystopia. A computer determines whether an individual can marry based on its determination of the genetic characteristics of her or his expected children. It was programmed to ensure that the correct balance of genetic types is born, and the novel focuses on a man whose expected children would upset the balance. A sexual alternative is provided by an artificial woman constructed to any desired specifications but with limited intelligence and emotional range. There is also "emotional illusion therapy" available. The novel follows the man and the woman he thinks is an android to the "ruins" outside the city where the few women are fought over and then to Venus.
UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1964.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Jack Fell Down” - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Science Fiction Adventures (UK), 1963)
While the novella focuses on interplanetary politics, Earth is presented as a technological eutopia that had been brought about largely by the drop in population resulting from colonization.
Rpt. in Crime Prevention in the 30th Century. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (New York: Walker and Co., 1969), 1-38.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Let the Spacemen Beware! - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Ace, 1963)
Flawed eutopia in that the people of an apparently eutopian planet have a homicidal instinct.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Living Gem - Paul [Samuel] Charkin (1907-86) (Brown, Watson, 1963)
Authoritarian dystopia with a Health Police. There is a small free love sect.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A New Boss for the Slaughterhouse? The Report of the Planet Four Expedition" - Walter Gore (To the Keepers of the Slaughter House. Two Narrative Stories: A Fictional But Unfictitious Study Of The Elements of Violence In the Conditions of Human Existence In the Present And In the Future--Dedicated To Man’s Supreme And Unceasing Struggle To Conquer Violence Completely And for All Time, 1963)
The discovery of a new planet inhabited by vegetables with a highly developed civilization and in coalition with other vegetables on other planets. They believe that only vegetables can live peacefully and that all animals, which includes humans, should be exterminated.
Keywords: Male author

"No Truce With Kings" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1963)
Dystopia of a future North America that has broken into warring parts and with war within some of the parts.
Rpt. in his Time and Stars (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 1-74; rpt. (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1965), 7-61; and in The Saturn Game. Volume Three. The Collected Stories of Poul Anderson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2010), 51-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nobody Starves” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1963)
The story is set in a future where the amount of food one receives depends on your work which is determined and judged by a machine. The protagonist is a man who hopes to be promoted but is fired instead and then falls down through the various stages of the community.
Rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK] 5.7 (June 1964): 55-; and in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 111-124.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Orphans of the Sky - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Victor Gollancz, 1963)
Multi-generation starship turns into a dictatorship of scientists.
Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Panther, 1975. U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Originally published as "Universe." Astounding Science Fiction 27.3 (May 1941): 9-42 [Rpt. as Universe. [At the head of the title Adventure on a Gigantic Spaceship]. New York: Dell, 1951]; and "Common Sense." Astounding Science Fiction 28.2 (October 1941): 102-24, 126-34, 136-38, 140-42, 144-48, 150-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Pan-Humanist Manifesto--A Call for Leadership and a Program of Action in a Free World" - Ralph Borsodi (1886-1977) (Way Out, 1963)
Wide-ranging eutopia that includes a proposal for something like H.G. Wells’s Samurai in A Modern Utopia (1904-05).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Physician to the Universe” - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL), 1963)
Dystopia in which being sick is a criminal offense and everyone must have a physical checkup every six months, bathe regularly, take daily exercise, and eat only healthy food.
Rpt. in Strange Fantasy (Flushing, NY), no. 13 (Fall 1970): 4-;; in Physician to the Universe. The Collected Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume II (Seattle, WA: Darkside Press, 2006), 219-51; and in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three (New York: Open Road, 2015), 51-98.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Possibility; An Essay in Utopian Vision. Foreword. Introductory. The Oedipal Personality - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93); Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (The Green Knight Press, 1963)
Non-fiction and largely a critique of the present and on the preliminaries to a utopia. But a eutopia is sketched that stresses diversity, variety, and equality. There is a common language added to the vernaculars. Technology. For a revised ed. see 1991 Golffing and Gibbs. See also 1962 Golffing and Gibbs and 1975 Gibbs and Golffing.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Programmed People" - Jack [John Michael] Sharkey (1931-92) (Amazing Stories, 1963)
Flawed utopia. Computer perfection with controls designed to keep the population steady. A revolt succeeds.
Repub. as Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rpt. as The Programmed People. Medford, OR: Armchair Books & Music, 2010.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reefs of Space" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Worlds of If Science Fiction, 1963)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the Plan of Man computer has essentially enslaved humankind. 1965 Pohl and Williamson, "Starchild" is a sequel.
Repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1965. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. Also published in their The Starchild Trilogy. The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1969), 151-286, which includes the third volume, the non-utopian “Rogue Star,” which was originally pub. in Worlds of If Science Fiction 18.6 - 8 (127 - 29) (June - August 1968): 10-43; 119-59; 125-58; and was repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sands of Time - [Frank James] [Pinchin] (1925-90) (Brown, Watson, 1963)
Revolt against rule by computer.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sentinel Stars: A Novel of the Future - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) (Bantam Books, 1963)
A rigidly stratified, authoritarian dystopia set in 2200 with East and West merged. Each person, whose name is a number, spends their life working off tax debts. A rebel escapes and discovers another society exists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shield - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Berkley, 1963)
Mostly adventure but includes a short presentation of a proposed new world political system based on personal invulnerability.
UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Spaceman on a Spree" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1963)
Dystopia of the deadening effects of an economically secure world called the Ultrawelfare State.
Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 276-96 with an author's note on 275.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Star Wasps - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Ace Books, 1963)
Corporate dystopia that has enslaved most of humanity and the struggle for freedom as the setting for an alien invasion story.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Subliminal Man" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1963)
Dystopia in which subliminal advertising makes the population continually consume.
Rpt. in In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 58-80; in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 158-77; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 213-30; in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 117-34; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 171-88; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 412-35.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Doomsday: A Narrative Story" - Walter Gore (To the Keepers of the Slaughter House. Two Narrative Stories: A Fictional But Unfictitious Study Of The Elements of Violence In the Conditions of Human Existence In the Present And In the Future--Dedicated To Man’s Supreme And Unceasing Struggle To Conquer Violence Completely And for All Time, 1963)
An authoritarian dystopia with both hot and cold war that is similar to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (1949).
Keywords: Male author

"To See the Invisible Man" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1963)
1963 Silverberg, Robert (b. 1935). “To See the Invisible Man.” Worlds of Tomorrow 1.1 (April 1963): 153-62. Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author’s note on 15-16. L, Merril, PSt A society in which punishment is through public invisibility with a brand on the forehead to identify the person. The story focuses on a man who is sentenced to a during which no one will notice or respond to him.
Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author's note on 15-16; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 352-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia? Never!!" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Amazing Stories, 1963)
A flawed utopia where the economy is based on a product that requires a series of deaths.
Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 78-81. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs. New York: Berkley, 1971), 78-81. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 67-69. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 86-89.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Walls" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Amazing Stories, 1963)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in Great Science Fiction Magazine from Amazing, no. 3 (1966): 33-45; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 45-57; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 159-71.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wheel Comes a Turn; A Novel Based On Scientific Study of War of the Sexes - Charles H. Good[rich] (b. ca. 1896) (Vantage Press, 1963)
Communist dystopia ruled by a woman who attacks and destroys the U.S. Some people escape to a planet they call Peace where only girls are born until they get help from another planet, and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia.  Communist dystopia ruled by a woman who attacks and destroys the U.S. Some people escape to a planet they call Peace where only girls are born until they get help from another planet, and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia. The author was born in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, and brought to the U. S. as a child.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A World To Be - Edward Bernard (Vantage Press, 1963)
Detailed eutopia particularly concerned with government structure, economics, law, and education. Representation by population worldwide. Detailed descriptions of elections and of each level of government. Gives plans for various economic sectors.
Keywords: Male author

"X Marks the Pedwalk" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1963)
Dystopia. Society divided into wheeled and pedestrians. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1951 Bradbury.
Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 105-10; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 165-70; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 282-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“2 B R 0 2 B” - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Worlds of If Science Fiction, 1962)
Dystopia in which to keep population in check under the Federal Bureau of Termination someone must die for each birth and only one child in a multiple birth will be allowed to live. The title is said to represent “To Be or Not to Be”.
Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 694-96 with an editor’s note on 694; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 447-51 with an editors’ note on 446; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 62-70; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 770-77, with a Note on the Text (819-23); and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 900-05.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The A-M-O F-O-R-M-U-L-A - Edwin E.H. Hugli (b. 1890) (Edwin E.H. Hugli, 1962)
Democratic socialist eutopia. Public ownership (including homes and farms), a single income for each person, Amo money (an invented medium of exchange based on production), industrial coordination, freedom and democracy, international and inter-racial harmony, and love and non-violence. See also 1933 and 1964 Hugli
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Another Man's Hell - W[illia]m E. Kemper Jr. (Chicago Paperback House, 1962)
Mildly authoritarian dystopia set in 2062. Computers do all the work.
Keywords: Male author

"The Cage of Sand" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (New Worlds Science Fiction (London), 1962)
Post-catastrophe dystopia where Florida is now. Mostly sand dunes, and people trying to live there are captured by wardens.
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), 137-59; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 355-72.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Clockwork Orange - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) (Heinemann, 1962)
Dystopia of violence, drugs, and youth gangs who speak Nadsat, an argot based on Russian. One theme that appears throughout Burgess’s works is opposition to state action, here reflected in the state’s attempts to reform the protagonist. The chapter missing from the U.S. edition and left out of the film depicts the redemption of the protagonist.
U.S. ed. with significant differences. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963; rev. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987, with “Introduction: A Clockwork Orange Resucked” (v-xi) and with an added last chapter that was in the original U.K. edition but not in the U.S. edition or in Stanley Kubrick’s film. Critical ed. based on the Heinemann ed. as A Clockwork Orange: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism. Ed. Mark Rawlinson (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 1-121, with “Notes on the Text” (122) and “A Glossary of Nadsat Terms” (123-27). 50th anniversary edition with a “restored text.” Ed. Andrew Biswell. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012, with an “Introduction by the editor (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (205-12), “Annotated Pages from Anthony Burgess’s 1961 Typescript (213-20, “The Clockwork Condition” 221-238), and “EPILOGUE: ‘A Malenky Govoreet about the Molodoy’ Anthony Burgess, 1987” (239-46). Rpt. illus. Ben Jones. London: The Folio Society, 2014, with an “Introduction by Irvine Welsh (xi-xix) and “A Note on the Restored Edition” (xxi-xxii), “Notes” (201-10), and “Nadsat Glossary” (211-14) by Andrew Biswell.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Cocoon" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, 1962)
Dystopia in which people have chosen to live in machines that keep them constantly fed and entertained, but the system breaks down.
Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 172-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Copper Cow - Tom Chetwynd (1938-2012) (Anthony Blond, 1962)
An odd authoritarian dystopia with much fear and violence.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Country of the Strong" - Dennis [William] Etchison (1943-2019) (Seventeen, 1962)
Eugenic dystopia in which the unfit are publicly murdered by SS (Selectival Survival) operatives.
Rpt. in New Writings in S-F 4. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (London: Dennis Dobson, 1965), 101-10 with a brief editor's note on 99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Critical Mass" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Galaxy Magazine, 1962)
Satiric dystopia of a future U.S. obsessed with bomb shelters.
Rpt. in their The Wonder Effect (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 11-46.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Different Drummer - William Melvin Kelley (1937-2017) (Doubleday, 1962)
The novel begins in the South that is a dystopia for all African Americans. One man revolts, salts his fields, kills his livestock, burns his house down, and leaves. All the other African Americans in the town follow his example.
Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 1989 with a “Foreword” by David Bradley (xi-xxxii); and London: riverrun, 2018, with a “Foreword: ‘The Lost Giant of American Literature’” by Kathryn Schulz (ix-xxxiv), which was originally published in The New Yorker 93.36 (January 29, 2018): 26-31 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-lost-giant-of-american-literature); and “A Biography of William Melvin Kelley” by Jessica Kelley (his daughter) (295-302).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Drowned World - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
A Ballardian version of a climate change/global warming dystopia set in 2145 in a tropical, abandoned, and flooded London.
U.S. ed. rpt. in The Drowned World and The Wind from Nowhere. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. U.K. ed. rpt. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1983; and, with minor changes. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an Introduction by Will Self (xi-xviii) and Illus. By James Boswell. Expanded from “The Drowned World.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.24 (January 1962).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Eleventh Commandment: A Novel of a Church and Its World - [Leonard] [Knapp] (1915-93) (Regency, 1962)
Overpopulation dystopia due to Roman Catholic dominance.
Rev. ed. without the subtitle New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Gadget Vs. Trend" - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) (Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction, 1962)
Dystopia. Effect of a machine allowing complete privacy and inviolability. Through the device, the U.S., which had been becoming too conformist, becomes too individualist.
Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 55-69; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 65-83; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 55-69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Good Morning! This Is the Future” - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (Rogue, 1962)
Brief vignettes of three men who had had themselves frozen being awakened into a dystopia worse than what they had been trying to escape.
Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 118-23.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Explosion - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) (Dennis Dobson, 1962)
Earth sends groups of people into space to practice their own beliefs, and three societies of the far future are described. The first is the result of a planet peopled by transported criminals. They develop into a series of isolated strongholds adept at war and opposed to labor and includes a group of nomadic Romany or Gypsies. The second, Hygeia, was settled by Naturists, is inhabited by healthy people, and is a eutopia. The third, Gands, was founded on Gandhian principles and is  an anarchist eutopia. Important slogans are F-I.W. (Freedom-I Won’t) and Myob (Mind your own business).
U.S. ed. New York: Distributed by Dodd, Mead, 1962. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1975. Part originally published as " . . . And Then There Were None." Astounding Science Fiction 47.4 (June 1951): 7-65; story rpt. in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 14 - 17 (1983 - 84): 2-13; 2-15; 2- 14; 2-10; in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 24-75; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 291-381; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 233-305.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Homosexual Aid Society in the Middle of the 21st Century" - Roger Barth (ONE Magazine (Los Angeles, CA), 1962)
Short story about a reformed future from a homosexual perspective. An agreement had been reached that homosexuals could live anywhere but would refrain from intercourse in small towns. In cities over 10,000, they were completely free, and in "the Great City" the Homosexual Aid Society had a large area with two large towers, one for men and one for women, and provided services ranging from education to match making.
Keywords: Male author

The Immortals - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Bantam Books, 1962)
Transplant dystopia with society controlled by doctors. See Gunn’s “The Immortals From Print to Film and Back Again.” Destinies 1.5 (October-December 1979): 230-53, which is in the 2004 ed. of the book as a “Preface” (vii-xiii).
Rpt. with an added “Part III Elixir” (91-145). New York: Pocket Books, 2004. Parts originally published as “The Immortals.” By Dr. Russell Pierce [pseud.]. Star Science Fiction #4. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 108-57. Story rpt. as “The Immortals.” In his The End of the Dreams: Three Short Novels about Space, Happiness, and Immortality (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1975), 127-77; rpt. in Bio-Futures: Science Fiction Stories About Biological Metamorphosis. Ed. Pamela Sargent New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1976), 183-251, with an editor’s note on 183-184; “New Blood.” By Dr. Russell Pierce [pseud.]. Astounding Science Fiction 56.2 (October 1955): 62-84; “Donor.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.11 (November 1960): 49-67, 120-28; Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [which reprinted stories from Fantastic], no. 1 (1966): 3-30; “Not So Great an Enemy” [in the book as “Medic”]. Venture Science Fiction 1.4 (4) (July 1957): 4-44; rpt. in the UK edition of Venture Science Fiction, no. 6 (February 1964): 76-112. “Elixir” was also published separately in Analog Science Fact Science Fiction 124.5 (May 2004): 8-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Inaugurator. Do you think that this is An Interesting Short Story? OR Interesting Science Fiction? OR A plan that makes the European Common Market out of date before it is born? OR A pointer to prosperity and World Peace? - [Frank] Harvey King (Holsum Pub. Co, 1962)
Eutopia. New system of international trade in which there will be a single world market with all prices regulated.
Keywords: Male author

"The Insane Ones" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Amazing Stories, 1962)
Dystopia in which all psychological intervention is illegal, being insane is a protected category, suicide is legal, and it is a crime to interfere with a suicide attempt.
Rpt. in Great Science Fiction, no. 7 ([1967]): 95-105; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 289-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Island - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) (Harper & Row, 1962)
Free love, psychedelic drugs, science, and religion bring eutopia.
Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"It Could Be You" - Frank Roberts (The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1962)
Dystopia in which a game is developed to raise consumption. A person is chosen and the one who kills that person wins.
Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 7-15. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 7-15.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Jewels of Aptor - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Ace Books, 1962)
Post-atomic age dystopian quest novel with much fantasy.
Rev. ed. New York: Ace Books, 1968 which restores cut in the first edition; U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1968. Further rev. London: Sphere Books, 1971; rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an “Introduction” by Don Hausdorff (v-xii).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"John Sze's Future" - John R. Pierce (1910-2002) (Great Science Fiction by Scientists, 1962)
A brief time-travel story in which the protagonist ends up in a future that officially rejects the hard sciences while unofficially using them. The word nuclear is obscene.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey Beyond Tomorrow - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Signet, 1962)
Machine dominated dystopia contrasted with a simple life eutopia.
Rpt. in Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 153-265. Abr. as "Journey of Joenes." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 23.4 - 5 (October - November 1962): 71-128, 71-127.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey Into Limbo; A Novel of Intimate Adventure - [Milton] Scott Michel (1916-92) (Liveright Pub. Corp, 1962)
Flawed utopia. A group of Christians are shipwrecked on an isolated South Atlantic island in 43 A.D. Over time they lose their religion and establish a society based on the goal of the happiest life free from guilt. People are made outcasts if not physically perfect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lani People - J[esse] F[ranklin] Bone (1916-2002) (Bantam Books, 1962)
A planet is inhabited by beautiful women who have been bred to perfectly please men and are only happy if completely naked. They are shipped throughout the galaxy.
U.K. ed. London: Transworld, 1962.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Last Year's Grave Undug" - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) (Great Science Fiction by Scientists, 1962)
Dystopia that is the result of two fascists fighting for power in the U.S. and destroying it. .
Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 141-66.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

A Life for the Stars - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962)
The novel begins with a dystopia of an Earth depleted of resources with entire cities leaving Earth as physical units to roam space looking for work. The focus of the novel is a young man who is impressed into the work force of a leaving city and then traded to another city.
UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Also published in Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.1 - 2 (September - October 1962): 6-51, 111-61. Part of a series collected in his Cities in Flight (New York: Avon, 1970), 131-234.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962)
Alternative history dystopia. Germans and Japanese had won World War II, divided up the world, and run their sections for their own benefit.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979 with an "Introduction" by Joseph Milicia (v-xxxiv); and in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan Allen Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 1-229. "Notes" 819-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Zealand: "The Small Utopia" - Kenneth [Hector] Melvin (1905-69) (Collins, 1962)
New Zealand as a eutopia. A picture book about New Zealand that explicitly contends that it is a eutopia. The epigram to the book is a poem from "'The Book of Tao': II-LXXX: Laotse translated by K.C. Lee", which is used with minor variations as chapter headings: "Let there be a small country, with small populationWhere the supply of goods is tenfold or hundredfold more than they can use: Let people value their lives and not migrate far. Though armour and weapons exist, there is no occasion to display them. Let them enjoy their food, beautify their clothing, be satisfied with their homes, delight in their customs; Needing never to move outside their own country" (5).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Old Man" - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (The Diner’s Club Magazine, 1962)
“The Old Man” is a computer that rules a country. The human rulers know it is a computer, but no one else does, and they resent the limitations on their freedom and that all electric power goes to power the computer.
Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 248-52.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Planet Called Terra - [Thomas W.] [Wade] (Digit, 1962)
Eutopia with no money and warehouses where all goods are freely available. The people are telepathic. Traditional gender-roles. Terra is a world on the other side of the galaxy where people from Earth are reborn with some degree of memory of their previous life or lives on Earth. A sequel is [Tom W. Wade], United Planets. By Victor Wadey [pseud.]. London: Digit, 1962. U.S. ed. New York: Arcadia House, 1967, which is set mostly on Earth with the same protagonists..
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Small Armageddon - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) (Heinemann, 1962)
Dystopia of militarism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Subversive" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction, 1962)
Dystopia of an inefficient U.S. economy with the Soviet Union ensuring that anyone with good ideas on how to improve it is eliminated.
Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 167-87 with a brief author's note on 166.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ticket That Exploded - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Olympia, 1962)
The second volume in a trilogy with Burroughs’s usual emphases. See 1961 and 1964 Burroughs for the other volumes in the trilogy.
Rev. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1967. Part of the section “silence to say good bye” (Grove 183-202) was originally published as “‘Burning Heavens, Idiot’.” The Insect Trust Gazette, no. 1 (Summer 1964): 21-26; and the appendix (not labeled as such in Grove) was published as “The Invisible Generation.” The International Times (London), nos. 3 and 6 (November 16-27, 1966 and January 16-29, 1967): 6, 6. The sections “in a strange bed” (Grove 32-42) and “the black fruit” (Grove 85-95) were written in collaboration with Michael Portman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Times Without Number - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ace Books, 1962)
Dystopian alternative history in which England did not defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588, and England became the center on the Spanish empire after Spain was re-conquered by Muslims.
Originally published as “The Word Not Written.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.26 [vol. 5 on cover] (May 1962): 62-100; “Spoil of Yesterday.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.25 [vol. 5 on cover] ([March] 1962): 2-40; and “The Fullness of Time.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.27 [vol. 5 on cover] ([July] 1962): 2-41. Rev. and exp. ed. of the book New York: Ace Books, 1969; rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. UK ed. London: Elmfield Press, 1974. The original stories, never before reprinted, can be found in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 13-165, with “Spoil of Yesterday” on 13-63, “The Word Not Written” on 65-114, and “The Fullness of Time” on 115-165.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Wanting Seed - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) (Heinemann, 1962)
Overpopulation dystopia in which homosexuality is encouraged to keep down population growth. Various methods were being used to keep population down including a fake war (called Extermination Sessions) and State condoned infanticide.
U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. U.K. ed. rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983 with "A Foreword" by the author comparing A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed; and in his Future Imperfect: The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 1-282, which reprints the 1983 foreword (ix-xii) and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Weather Man" - Theodore L[ockard] Thomas (1920-2005) (Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction (New York), 1962)
World control of weather has generally produced a eutopia.
Rpt. in The Days After Tomorrow. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971), 95-142.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When Time Stood Still - Ben [Harrison] Orkow (1896-1988) (New American Library, 1962)
Authoritarian, overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wind of Liberty - Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) (Digit Books, 1962)
Authoritarian dystopia in which corporations rule. Rebels.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Zilov Bombs - D[onald] G[abriel] Barron (André Deutsch, 1962)
Dystopian background with England controlled by the USSR and an underground movement organizing. Mostly adventure.
U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963.
Keywords: Male author

Acclivity: An Epic of the Universe - Robert Charles Lafferty (1880-2009) (Carlton Press, 1961)
Religious eutopia presented through a poem. Acclivity means an upward slope, and the poem begins with the present-day problems and ascends through various stages to a world of vigorous, healthy people living in a luxuriant land with no need of government. The author was an architect and engineer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" - [Paul Myron Anthony] [Linebarger] (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1961)
A future that rejects organized perfection in the name of freedom, such as the freedom to get sick and die, to be injured, or to be unhappy, finds that the new society has as many difficulties as the old one.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K.), second series 2.11 (October 1961): 86-112; in his you will never be the same (Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1963), 115-42; in The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1975), 259-86; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 49-73; and in The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith [pseud.]. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1993), 375-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Analysts" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Science Fantasy, 1961)
Most of the story concerns a “visualizer” trying to understand the purpose of a proposed building with internal staircases and corridors that end in blank walls. It turns out that if someone continues, they emerge in a future that is trying to atone for the way humans responded to discovering many peaceful, advanced civilizations, which was to attack rather than try to understand.
Rpt. in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 239-87.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Billenium" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1961)
Overpopulation dystopia presenting extreme overcrowding.
Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 7-21; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 92-107; and in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 137-51; and as “Billennium” in his The Terminal Beach (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964), 175-91; in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 50-65; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 3-23; 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), 94-109; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 136-51; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 125-40; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 286-301; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 267-78; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 113-25; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 113-25.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Black Man's Burden" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction, 1961)
The first volume in his Africa series about the attempt to keep an independent Africa free from the dominance of either East or West. In this volume, some people in an Africa that has advanced with the help of capitalists and Communists organize to keep Africa independent. The second volume, “Border, Breed nor Birth.” Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 59.5 - 6 (July - August 1962): 100-52, 104-56. Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1972. Ace Double bound with his Blackman’s Burden (1972), focuses on the conflict that follows. The third volume is The Best Ye Breed. New York: Ace Books, 1978 [Although there is no indication of it, the novel contains his “Black Sheep Astray.” Astounding, John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Random House, 1973). Rpt. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 218-50 with an author’s note on 219-20. U.K. ed. (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974), 206-34]. It describes further conflict between North African liberation movement and all the forces opposed to it, and the liberation movement is at least temporarily defeated.
Repub. as Blackman's Burden. New York: Ace Books, 1972. Ace Double bound with his Border, Breed Nor Birth (1972)
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Challenge. Plan of Action For a Better Tomorrow. A Major Novel of the Near Future - Arthur C. Mangels; Albert F. Byers (Rolley & Reynolds, 1961)
Capitalist eutopia. Complicated scheme to establish Earth's Trading Post, Inc. as the world's largest corporation to buy up US assets and lease them back, which will make everything more efficient and effectively compete with Communism. Good capitalists refuse salaries in excess of absolute need. The military is privatized and is more efficient. There is a strong religious component. Women's clubs, which can be established or joined through a coupon on the back cover flap, are instrumental in eliminating government waste. Another coupon on the front cover flap offers copies to corporations, complete with company logos on the cover, to distribute to their shareholders.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Come Out to Play - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961)
Satire on the effect of science on the world. Scientists recognize that the repression of sexuality or the sexual passions is one of the central roadblocks to human betterment and discover how to release the superego. The suggestion is clear that if such repression is overcome a much better life will be possible. While the author is best known for his books on sexual technique like The Joy of Sex (1972), his career ranged through fiction, poetry, anarchist theory, the biology of aging, and geriatric psychology. For an extremely detailed biography, see Eric Laursen, Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort Author of the Joy of Sex. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 740 pp. See also 1943, 1980 and 1989 Comfort.
Rpt. New York: Crown, 1975 with unpaged notes from the publisher and the author.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) (J. B. Ball, 1961)
One of his many detailed eutopias focusing on changes to the monetary system. This volume lays out the basic points, all of which stem from making credit always available, which are expanded and added to in later volumes. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This book and some others also include his cosmological views. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; See also 1956 Ball, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball; 1956 Ball, The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.
2nd ed. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball, 1962. 57 pp. 3rd ed. as Cosmocracy: One Corporate World. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball. 53 pp. 2nd ed. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball, 1962. 72 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Ecumen of Nations - Louis Martineau (Carlton Press, 1961)
Detailed eutopia of world order presented as a religious book, which begins "This is God's word to the nations of the earth. These will be their boundaries, their forms of government, their future destinies, and their ways toward happiness" (11).  The nations include many different religions and many current nations united into many. Most of the book is concerned with details regarding the nine commonwealths the world will be divided into. Intended to be the first volume of three, but no more were published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Education in the Thirtieth Century: After Automation--What?" - Howard [Augustine] Ozmon [Jr.] (1929-2014) (Educational Forum, 1961)
Mild satire on the future of education.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Escape to Berkshire. A Novel - H[ugh] C[ecil] Asterley (1902-1973) (Pall Mall Press, 1961)
The novel is set in a post-nuclear war England and the earlies beginnings of re-building.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Eupsychia—the Good Society" - Abraham H. Maslow Ph.D. (Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1961)
Combines comments on utopias and a brief statement of the author's idea of Eupsychia, or a psychologically healthy culture. In such a society all basic needs will have been met, and, with all people healthy, there will be much spontaneity and creativity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A for Anything - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (New English Library, Four Square Books, 1961)
A machine that can duplicate anything produces a dystopia of a rigid, stratified, slave society.
U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 1970. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1980. Shorter version as The People Maker. Rockville, NY: Zenith Books, 1959.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Freedom" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Science Fact--Fiction, 1961)
Dystopia of a future in which the Soviet Union is economically successful but remains a dictatorship. The story follows the trajectory of a man from when he completely accepts the system and eliminates dissent to when he comes to believe in the need for freedom.
Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 47-76 with a brief author's note on 46.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Gentle Dying" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Galaxy Magazine, 1961)
Dystopian satire on the innocence of children. A wealthy children's book author establishes a research institute to find ways for children to avoid growing up. Successful, the children then eliminate all adults; only the author is allowed to die a natural death.
Rpt. in their The Wonder Effect (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 47-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Harrison Bergeron" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1961)
Dystopian future tale in which equality is achieved by handicapping the superior.
Rpt. in his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 7-13. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 7-13. UK ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 7-13. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1972), 19-25; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 154-59; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 369-74; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 763-69, with a Note on the Text (819-23); and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 857-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

If the South Had Won the Civil War - [Benjamin] MacKinley Kantor (1904-77) (Bantam Books, 1961)
Alternative history eutopia. Pro-Southern. The country is divided among the Confederacy, the United States, and Texas. In the 20th century the Confederate States conquers Cuba, which joins the Confederacy. Slavery abolished. Country reunified. Blacks may get the vote someday.
Part originally published in Look 27.24 (November 22, 1960): 29-42, 45, 49-50, 52, 54, 58, 60, 62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Joy Makers - James [Edwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Bantam Books, 1961)
Dystopia. A company, Hedonics, Inc., that develops a system that sells happiness, becomes the sole power and gradually takes over the entire economic, political, and social systems and controls all aspects of people's lives. Power corrupts and the focus changes to those in power staying there. An underground opposition movement develops and leaves Earth. The last section shows a developing society with problems on Venus and an essentially abandoned Earth.
Rpt. New York: Crown, 1984 with an "Introduction" by George Zebrowski (ix-xi). UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. Sections originally published as "The Unhappy Man." Fantastic Universe 3.1 (February 1954): 4-30; "The Joy Ride" [Rpt. here as "The Naked Sky"]. Startling Stories 33.3 (Fall 1955): 10-48; and rpt. under the original title in his The End of the Dreams: Three Short Novels about Space, Happiness, and Immortality (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975), 55-123]; and "Name Your Pleasure." Thrilling Wonder Stories 44.3 (Winter 1955): 10-53.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lovers - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Ballantine Books, 1961)
Dystopia of an overpopulated theocratic society, which appears to have Islamic roots. In North America, there is only when area, the Hudson Bay Wildlife Preserve, that is not fully built-up. There are rigid controls on all aspects of life, and a minder assigned to individuals. Everyone must wear a hood when eating. Married couples never see each other nude, and sex is considered an unpleasant duty. Uniforms indicate class with badges to indicate rank, and even access to elevators is by rank. The regime is looking for new planets to colonize with no concern for the indigenous populations. Most people are specialists, and the protagonist is a linguist who is sent to one such planet with the avowed purpose of learning about the indigenous population. But his real mission is to find and excuse for exterminating them. The dystopia provides the background to a story about interspecies love.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Rev. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979; rpt. New York: Ballantine, 1980. Earlier short version under the same title in Startling Stores 27.1 (August 1952): 12-63; rpt. in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 55-141.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Man Who Had No Brains" - Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) (Amazing Stories, 1961)
Future authoritarian dystopia based on IQ. Atomic research outlawed. Telepathy known but attacked. Story of a successful revolt.
Repub. as The Atom Conspiracy. New York: Avalon Books, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Mark Gable Foundation" - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) (The Voice of the Dolphin and Other Stories, 1961)
Dystopia in which freezing oneself in order to be able to experience the future becomes a fad and threatens to destroy civilization.
Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 117-30. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72). This story was written in 1948, and a copy of that version exists among Szilard's papers at the University of California, San Diego, but there is no evidence of earlier publication.
Keywords: English author; German author; Hungarian author; Male author; US author

Metatopia - F[rank] N[orman] Ball (Thames Bank Pub. Co. Ltd, 1961)
Odd detailed eutopia set in 2023. Equalitarian but recognizing merit. Press controlled by the universities. Planning to decrease population, provide better housing, and more green space. His Intellectual Calculus. Ipswich, Eng.: The Thames Bank Publishing Co., 1957 provides some background.
Keywords: Male author

"Monument" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (Analog Science Fact--Fiction, 1961)
Anti-Communist story showing the advantages of the capitalist mentality. An invention, which allows everyone to fly individually, transforms the world in the direction of a libertarian eutopia.
Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 5-64; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 7-54. Rev. as Monument. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Moon Moth" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Galaxy Magazine, 1961)
Primarily an adventure and mystery novel but set in a complex society in which communication is through a complex series of stringed instruments and everyone must wear a mask. Status is the main concern.
Rpt. in his The World Between and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1965), 36-74. Ace Double bound with his Monsters in Orbit. Rev. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 203-50; and in The Jack Vance Treasury. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 453-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Old Men at the Zoo - Angus [Frank Johnstone] Wilson (1913-91) (Viking, 1961)
Dystopia set in 1971-73. Much of the novel is concerned with bureaucratic infighting at London Zoo, but the background includes the threat of war, even nuclear war, between England and France and Germany. The Greenbelt around London had been abolished in 1964.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Orbit Unlimited - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Pyramid Books, 1961)
Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia that uses its last spaceship to send misfits and rebels to another planet. The author says that his original title for the book was A Place for Freedom, which reflects the society created, after much hardship and adventure, on the new planet.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1978 with a brief "Introduction" (3-4) by the author. UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974. Parts originally published as "Robin Hood's Barn." Astounding Science Fiction 62.5 (January 1959): 54-82; "Condemned to Death." Fantastic Universe 11.6 (October 1959): 34-52; and "The Burning Bridge." Astounding Science Fiction 64.5 (January 1960): 99-121.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Other Side of the Universe - Kurt Dreifuss (1897-1991) (Twayne, 1961)
Eutopia. Little government, no cities, free association, and equal income. Everyone is expected to be productive.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Our Castle - William McKinely Fox (Carlton Press, 1961)
The central problem in society is self-interest, particularly manifested in marriage, which is evil, and family ties. The solution is free sexual expression without love. One religion and considerable discussion of how to achieve that. Eugenics with children raised collectively in the best conditions possible. People will live in age group communities within larger communities.
Keywords: Male author

The Philosophical Corps - Everett B. Cole (1910-2001) (Gnome Press, 1961)
Science fiction in which a corps is established to help bring primitive planets into galactic civilization with the appropriate ethical standards. The system is designed to avert or overcome dystopias and lead them toward becoming better.
Parts originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction as “Philosophical Corps.” 47.1 (March 1951): 50-65; “These Shall Not Be Lost.” 50.3 (January 1953): 98-121; “Fighting Philosopher.” 53.2 (April 1954): 8-41; “The Players.” 55.2 (April 1955): 96-139; “The Millennium.” 55.3 (May 1955): 6-47; and “The Missionaries.” 57.3 (May 1956): 8-51; and in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as “Here, There Be Witches.” 85.2 (April 1970): 8-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Planetary Agent X - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1961)
The background of the novel is the United Planets, which includes many planets settled by specific religious and political groups attempting to create their eutopia. The plot concerns a modern Tom Paine (1737-1809) inciting revolution and the attempt to eliminate him.
Originally published as "Gun for Hire." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 66.4 (December 1960): 104-15 [rpt. as "Hatchetman." Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 4-49]; and "Ultima Thule." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 67.1 (March 1961): 8-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Primal Urge - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Ballantine Books, 1961)
Humorous dystopia of the effects of a device that allows everyone to know the sexual desires of people vis-a-vis each other.
UK ed. London: Sphere, 1967. Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pudoria - Tom Pease (b. 1893) (Lyle Stuart, 1961)
Open, free love eutopia. Money is considered indecent.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Put Down This Earth" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1961)
Overpopulated, authoritarian dystopia. People escape through a drug that ultimately takes them to a new world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rebels of the Red Planet - Charles L[ouis] Fontenay (1917-2007) (Ace Books, 1961)
Standard authoritarian dystopia and rebellion set on Mars.
Keywords: Male author; US author