"Faulty Register" - Joe [Joseph Nicholas] Gores (1931-2011) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Parallel world without any social or economic problems maintained by televised torture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Final Solution - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) (Doubleday, 1973)
University problems of the 1960s and 1970s projected into a dystopian future. Graduates of universities, including some with graduate degrees, cannot read. Students are kept as children through drugs that delay puberty. Children of unwed mothers raised separately with no visits by the mothers. Standard English rejected; Black English required of all students. No grades. Positions like Professor of Shoe Repair. University level driver training.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Free at Last" - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Infinity Five, 1973)
Dystopia of sex and death in the future with Wide Open Marriage and a U.S. Transition Service providing for death.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Future Glitter - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Ace Books, 1973)
Anti-Communist dystopia, which the author makes clear in the "Author's Introduction" (5-8). Successful revolt against the dictatorship by a group of scientists. See the note at 1945 van Vogt.
U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976; and as Tyranopolis. London: Sphere, 1977.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"[Future History]. A Serviceable Past" - C. George Benello (1926-87) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia of two societies set in 2010. In one, depletion of resources has produced a poor society. In the other, a eutopia is presented that reflects growth and emphasizes ecology and religion. Decentralization, crafts, and education through apprenticeship.
Rpt. as "A Future History." In Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 561-91.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Future Perfect" - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Vertex, 1973)
Flawed utopia. A hyper-organized eutopia that controls all aspects of life for the benefit of each person is defeated by a young man in love with a young woman who, under the rules, he cannot marry.
Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 151-74; and in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 389-407.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Futurology: The Real World of 2084" - Richard N. Farmer (d. 1987) (The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Forseeable Future, 1973)
A presentation of eutopian and dystopian scenarios for 1984 focused on the expansion or restriction of choice. The dystopian scenarios, which are only suggested, are environmental collapse, total war, and "mass mind control". The eutopian scenarios are technological and include the ability to choose the details of the child you want, choose your skin color, a radically extended healthy life span, technologically enhanced education with knowledge imprinted directly on the brain, and a variety of other ways that radical new technology might revolutionize life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Ghost Writer" - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Universe, 1973)
Flawed utopia presenting a society of high technical ability that is strongly opposed to change or difference. The story focuses on "authors" who simply repeat fragments of the great writers of the past and one who, having admitted that he writes his own material, is eliminated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (New Dimensions, 1973)
A eutopia that outlaws any misrepresentation of a product (advertising) is being successfully undermined by corporate interests.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1989. Tor Double bound with Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019). Screwtop [Originally published in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 151-208]; in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 44-79; in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 178-213; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 74-120; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 151-90; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 135-184, with a biographical note on 469-471 and notes on the text on 483-485.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The God Machine - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1973)
Dystopia of a fascist United States creating a police state. There is an opposition movement that uses "The God Machine" to shrink people so that they can escape the authorities. In the end the opposition wins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Great Wall of Mexico" - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. 1971 Waskow is probably the basis for this.
U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-58. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Harriet" - Stephen [Charles] Goldin (b. 1947); C. F. Hensel (Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives. Original Science Fiction, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Hours of Trust" - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (Bad Noon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia of a war in the United States, some of which is faked.
Keywords: Male author; US author

How It All Ended: The Decline and Demise of the West as Reconstructed by Johann Sebastian Barberini in the Year of Our Lord 4776 - Sergio [Franz] Funaro (1922-1986) (A. M. Aronowitz, 1973)
Satire on both Italian and U.S. politics.
Keywords: Male author; San Marino author; US author

"IMT" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Disintegration of the cities of the future. Violence, poverty. Hope through a new technology but problems with how to introduce it for the best results.
Rpt. in her Starshadows: Ten Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1977), 88-108.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"In the Group" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Eros in Orbit: A Collection of All New Science-Fiction Stories About Sex, 1973)
Dystopia from the perspective of the protagonist. It is possible to teleport anywhere in the world, but closeness and emotion are considered atavisms. It is only acceptable to love Us, not an individual. In the Group one feels the sensations of a couple having sex and the experiences and responses of those who are experiencing their actions.
Rpt. in Penthouse 4.9 (May 1973): 80-82, 122, 124, 126, 128; in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 12-29; in Beyond the Safe Zone: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1986), 124-36; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 3: Beyond the Safe Zone (London: HarperCollins, 1994), 146-62; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Four: Trips: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 14-28 with an author’s note on 13.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kalos; What Is To Be Done With Our World - Alfred De Grazia (1919-2014) (Kalos Press, 1973)
Detailed eutopia with Tutors similar to the Samurai in 1905 Wells who will help bring it about. Includes specifics of the governmental structure and general statements of the conditions that should be reached in fifty years.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Left On! The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution - Harry [Heinrich August] Rositzke (1911-2003) (Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973)
Satire on U.S. politics seen through a eutopia of "evolutionary democracy", which has striking affinities to aspects of China under Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976), including a "Cultural Revolution". Some have read it as intending to present a eutopia; others have read it as an attack on the left. The inside front and back covers have a Chronology of the period covered by the book (July 1972 to February 1975).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Life in the Year 2000" - Percival Goodman (1904-89) (Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, 1973)
General overview of a better society. See also 1947 Goodman and Goodman and 1977 Goodman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"London Times, 2075 July 15. Reporter Visits Lincoln. First Reporter in 100 Years" - Marion L[undy] Dobbert (b. 1943) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia--ecologically sound society that stresses the human scale.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lone Warrior" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1973)
Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy, waking in Reynold’s future, described here in the most eutopian of his novels. Everything automated. New world language. The woman he falls in love with rejects him as a throwback. See also 1977 Reynolds, Equality.
U.K. edition. Morley, West Yorkshire, Eng.: Elmfield Press, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The National Pastime." - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Nova, 1973)
Dystopia of violence with combat football.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 96-113. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 171-97 with an "Introduction to The National Pastime" (169-70).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Nice Morning Drive" - Richard S. Foster (Road & Track, 1973)
A dystopian story in which government safety features on cars have gone overboard so that the cars are unwieldy, and few people drive for pleasure. The focus of the story is one such driver who drives an unimproved MG Roadster on the back roads, but encounters drivers in improved cars who try to crash into older cars knowing that they will be safe but destroying the older car.
Rpt. in Inspired ‘Red Barchetta’.” 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush. Ed. Kevin J. Anderson and John Mc Fetridge (Toronto, ON, Canada: ECW Press, 2016), 75-81 with a note by Anderson on 74 and an “Author’s Note” on 82-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Notes from 1999" - Arthur [Israel] Waskow (b. 1933) (Working Papers for a New Society, 1973)
Eutopia presented as a future history with the period from 1980 to 1990 called the Period of Transformation. In 1980 Quebec and northern New England become independent and other regional, ethnic, and workplace groups become autonomous. Between 1994 and 1999 the U.S. government collapses and, although there are some continuing problems, the autonomous groups simply work together outside and legal or political structure. The eutopia is presented through letters from a man in a "Irbutz", a farm and city kibbutz in the Washington, DC area that is part of the "Verein" or Jewish Commonwealth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (New Dimensions, 1973)
Flawed eutopia. The suffering of one child is necessary for the existence of a eutopia. See Sarah Pinsker, “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) (March-April 2017): 67-69 for a brief version giving the perspective of the child. Corey Doctorow’s Walkaway. New York: Tor, 2017 is clearly related. P. H. Lee’s “A House by the Sea.” Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24 (September 2018). https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ is about the lives of the children after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. Nora K. Jemisin’s,  “The One Who Stay and Fight.” In her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 1-13; rpt. Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ reflects the story’s title. Cynthia Gómez’s “The Ones Who Came Back to Heal.” Strange Horizons (July 17, 2023). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ concerns a trans person who had left but returns to try to help the child. A related story that connects the children in Omelas to the refugee crisis is Rene Denfeld, “The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away.” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 112-116.
Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 224-31; in Utopian Studies 2.1 & 2 (1992): 1-5; in The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2009), 39-44; without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 33-38; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 33-38; and with the subtitle in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 1-7; with the subtitle in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 329-36; with the subtitle in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 87-94; and without the subtitle in Futures and Fictions. Ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, and Simon O’Sullivan (London: Repeater Press, 2017), 379-88.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Our Brilliant Future" - [Bernhardt] Ben Klassen (1918-93) (Nature's Eternal Religion In Two Books. Book I. The Unavenged Outrage Book II: The Salvation, 1973)
Short National Socialist eutopia with the purified "White Race" completely dominant.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Paradise Regained" - [Theodore Rose] [Cogswell] (1918-87); [Theodore Lockard] [Thomas] (1920-2005) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 171-79.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Parks of Rest and Culture" - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 19-30.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The People of the Wind" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Analog Science--Science Fact, 1973)
Eutopia of limited government.
Repub. New York: New American Library, 1973. Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Port of Saints - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Covent Garden Press/Am Here Books, 1973)
Dystopia similar to that in 1959, 1961, 1962, and 1964 Burroughs. In this novel Burroughs includes a number of different plot lines, one of which is the attempt to change history by travelling through time.
Different version Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. U.K. ed. London: John Calder, 1983.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pugilist" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1973)
Authoritarian dystopia. U.S. taken over by Communists. Militarism.
Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 85-117; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 104-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Quality of the Product" - Lil Neville; Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 31-54.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Race Against Time - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Hawthorn, 1973)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. The Standards were the few survivors of bacterial warfare and lived on an Earth that was recovering slowly. They stressed no waste and no pollution, but their society was becoming stagnant. Since they still had the old technology, they created groups of individuals of high intelligence of various pure racial stocks who were to live in racially pure enclaves. These people decide to keep the races pure but to cooperate otherwise and will become examples to the Standards.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Randy-Tandy Man" - [Ross Louis] [Rocklin] (1913-88) (Universe, 1973)
The story is set in a society in which hate is controlled by forcing everyone to hate until they purge themselves. The protagonist, who is in the final stages of purges himself, sees the society in dystopian terms, but the story presents it in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Red Canary" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Orbit, 1973)
Bureaucratic welfare dystopia of extreme poverty and the rationing of health care.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 113-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Regiment of Women. A Novel - Thomas [Louis] Berger (1924-2014) (Simon & Schuster, 1973)
Dystopia. An extreme form of gender-role reversal in which men have breast implants, women have facial hair implants, and dress and behavior patterns reflect strong versions of female and male stereotypes.
U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methue, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Relatives" - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Pollution, overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The R-Master - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) (J. B. Lippincott, 1973)
Flawed utopia governed by the bureaucracy of the Earth Council, which presents itself as governing in the interests of the people but in fact controls them and governs in its own interest. The society has an ideology of complete freedom, but a hidden practice of constant control.
Rev. and exp. as The Last Master. New York: Tor, 1984.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Roller Ball Murder" - William [Neal] Harrison (1933-2013) (Esquire, 1973)
Dystopia of a future game of violence in a world run by corporations.
Rpt. in his Roller Ball Murder (New York: William Morrow, 1974), 77-95; U.K. ed. (London: Robson Books, 2005), 77-95; and in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 125-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rope of Glass" - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia of a future society where having certain diseases is punishable by death.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Saving the World" - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia with a hopeful ending.
Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 2-17.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shelter - Dan[iel John] Ljoka (b. 1935) (Manor Books, 1973)
Fallout shelter dystopia. The novel focuses on a shelter in Washington, DC and a shelter in New Zealand. Ultimately everyone dies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Slide Show" - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) (Omega, 1973)
Dystopia of poverty.
Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973), 83-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Small War" - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 61-67.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Three Tinks on the House" - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby (1921-2005) (Vertex, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia focusing on daily life. The work week is thirty hours but must be done in three days to reduce commuting. Personal security is a major issue. Homosexuality is encouraged to reduce the birth rate.
Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 157-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973)
Wide-ranging detailed eutopia and dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974; and as vol. 2 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Excerpts of the aphorisms published as The Notebooks of Lazarus Long. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Extract published in Science Fiction Monthly (London) 1.3 ([March 1974]): 2-4.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Transfer to Yesterday - Isidore Haiblum (1935-2012) (Ballantine Books, 1973)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with history constantly being rewritten. Competing self-interest groups that replaced government are called Anny, a corruption of Anschluss; anny or anarchist replaces citizen because there is no longer a government. The novel focuses on a man who had chosen to no longer be affiliated with an Anny and was thus considered a Heretic liable to be hunted by anyone.
Rpt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1981.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Trullion: Alastor 2262" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
A complex society set in an immense populated universe. The society is basically agricultural and generally very happy, but there are conflicts, crime, danger, and a group of outcast gypsies.
Repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973; and San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1979. Repub. as vol. 25 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Two Urban Tomorrows" - Richard N. Farmer (d. 1987) (The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Forseeable Future, 1973)
The two scenarios set in 1984 are an environmental eutopia and, briefly, the dystopia that will be produced by following current policies. The eutopia has strict pollution controls; hydrogen power; a falling birth rate; many people working from home; and lots of two-story apartment building complexes appealing to different constituencies such as the elderly, families, and singles. Taxes within cities are assessed on what the land would be worth if developed so there is no rundown commercial property.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ultimate Solution - [Eric] [Pelletier] (1899-1979) (Warner Books, 1973)
Dystopia of the U.S. under Nazi rule. Slavery, homosexuality, and violence are the norm.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Undercity" - Dean R[ay] Koontz (b. 1945) (Future City, 1973)
Crime in a eutopian city of the future told from the point of view of a professional criminal. Most things like gambling, drugs, and sex that had financed the underworld in the past are now legal and even murder has been replaced by the "code duello". But there are still many opportunities for the creative professional.
Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 67-81; and story rpt. 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), 218-30; and in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction. Ed. Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg (New York: New Viewpoints, 1977), 4-15, with an editors’ note on 3-4..
Keywords: Male author; US author

Univaria; A Cultural Alternative" - Dorothy Kuer (b. 1924); Russell La Due (b. 1924) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia with leadership by people like the samurai in 1905 Wells. Ceiling on income, no inheritance, and no taxes. Decentralization. Limit on family size.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magaroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 593-612.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Unreal People - Martin Siegel (1938-72) (Lancer Books, 1973)
Post-catastrophe underground authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Up-Wingers - F[ereidoun] M. Esfandiary (1930-2000); [Rev. Dr.] [Joseph Denis] [Jackson] (1929-2008) (The John Day Co, 1973)
Detailed eutopia presented as optimistic prediction. Up-wing is the optimistic contract of right and left wing. The eutopia stresses a mobile, communal life with the abolition of possessiveness. The author was born in Iran, the son of an Iranian diplomat, and lived in many countries. He changed his name to FM-2030 and at his death he was frozen with the intent of later being brought back to life. See also 1974 Esfandiary and his Optimism One: The Emerging Radicalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970.
Keywords: Iranian author; Male author; US author

The Velvet Monkey Wrench - John Muir (1918-77) (John Muir Publications, 1973)
Extremely detailed eutopia with a heavy technological element with computers central to almost all aspects of life and much production automated. Stresses cooperation, decentralization, and ecology with procedures for achieving the eutopia laid out in considerable detail.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Village" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Bad Noon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia in which an absolutely typical U.S. village is invaded by U.S. forces raping the young women and killing everyone.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 277-87.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Weariest River" - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) (Future City, 1973)
Dystopia of immortality, which is for sale from the Company. Immortality had produced poverty and intense conflict between old and young. Sexually the young desire the old and vice versa. At an undefined point the old are placed in 'kraals' where they are essentially entombed but unable to die. The story is told from the viewpoint of the inventor of immortality, who stresses the guilt he feels.
Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 94-134; and in his Caution! Inflammable! (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 230-70.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome to the Standard Nightmare." - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Nova, 1973)
The "standard nightmare" is Earth meeting superior aliens, in this case on an alien eutopian planet. The eutopia has all the usual elements of a society in balance and has no government. A man from Earth decides to become the ruler and then decides to invade Earth.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 85-99. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 11-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"When Petals Fall" - Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Where Have All the Followers Gone?" - Raylyn [Thyrza] Moore (1928-2005) (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia in which all the hippies and acid heads in California are lured to a camp where they are gassed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Windmill" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia in a post-disaster society. Complex control on the use of resources.
Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 149-70.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Windows in Dante's Hell" - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia that divides people based on their contributions to society with those who contribute the least living in the smallest residences in the deepest levels of the city. Everyone is constantly monitored.
Rpt. in his Catacomb Years. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1979), ; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World as Will and Wallpaper" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Future City, 1973)
Dystopian satire referring to William Morris (1834-96), whose name is used for the protagonist. A city encompasses the world, which is built above land and oceans. The one area of trees in the city is considered huge in that it covers two blocks. The story follows a man who wants to explore the world and his trip reveals that most people are illiterate, communicate poorly, and have very limited lives, but that there is an elite who created the city to keep the majority of the people content and controlled.
Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 28-43; story rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 27-43; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 356-74, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (353-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
Keywords: Male author; US author

334 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
Near future U.S. as a dystopia with violence, overpopulation, and poverty.
U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Good War; A Love Story - Peter Roger Breggin (b. 1936) (Stein and Day, 1972)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Great emphasis on sex but no emotional content.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Against Arcturus - Susan K. Putney (Ace Books, 1972)
A well-described alien eutopia on a planet that Earth plans to colonize to settle people from overpopulated worlds. This will require the elimination of the indigenous inhabitants, who are spiritually and socially advanced far beyond humans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Al" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019); Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Orbit 10: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories, 1972)
The story tells of a man who survives a plane crash in an isolated valley that seems to be a eutopia of artists and his experiences there. Told both from the point of view of the man and some of the inhabitants.
Rpt. in Best Stories from Orbit 1-10. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Publishing Co., 1975), 350-59; and in her Joy in Our Cause: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 143-54.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia in which humans become addicted to contact with aliens.
Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 52-60.
Keywords: Female author; US author

At the Seventh Level - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (DAW Books, 1972)
Dystopia. Development of 1969 Elgin. "For the Sake of Grace," which is reprinted here (7-31). In the patriarchal society one woman has risen to the top level, where she is constantly under attack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Barons of Behavior - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) (Ace Books, 1972)
Dystopia of behavior control.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Big Space Fuck" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Satirical dystopia primarily concerned with overpopulation and pollution.
Rpt. in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 68-74; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 773-78 with a Note on the Text (835) and “Notes” on 850; and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 895-99. .
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Burning - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Dell Books, 1972)
Dystopia in which a future reaction against science destroys the world.
Originally published as "Witches Must Burn." Astounding Science Fiction 57.6 (August 1956): 52-91; "Trial By Fire." If 19.2 (February 1969): 67-98, 142-158; and "Witch Hunt." Galaxy Science Fiction 28.3 (April 1969): 5-55
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Castle Keeps - Andrew J[efferson] Offutt V (1934-2013) (Berkley Books, 1972)
Overpopulation and pollution dystopia. Isolated, fortified homes provide the only hope for the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Catholics" - Brian Moore (1921-99) (New American Review, 1972)
A dystopian future is implied in which ecumenical Catholicism is contrasted with a traditionalist monastery. The focus of the novel is on the suppression of the practices of the monastery, on the Isle of Muck, off the Irish Coast.
Rpt. as Catholics. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1996. U.S. ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Northern Ireland author; US author

"Caught in the Organ Draft" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (and walk now gently through the fire and other science fiction stories, 1972)
Transplant dystopia in which young, fit people are drafted ("the organ draft") to provide an organ to keep the elderly alive. This can be any organ and may result in death; if not, the person then becomes eligible to receive organs from others for as long as they live.
[Science Fiction Book Club ed.] (Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books Co., 1972), 123-36. Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Three: Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 368-80 with an author’s note on 367; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 375-84; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 375-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ching Witch!" - [Ross Louis] [Rocklin] (1913-88) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Dystopia in which Earth is the only planet left where there are wars, and it is destroyed. The story is about the lone survivor who travels to the planet Zephyrus, which appears to be dominated by teenagers, where he represents himself as a representative from Earth and appeals to the teenagers with the music and dance fads of Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City Machine - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) (DAW Books, 1972)
Class-based overpopulation dystopia on a colonized planet. Those in power had instituted a new language and destroyed the books so that no one had the knowledge to construct new cities and undermine the system. One man who can read searches for and finds the information to build new cities, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Cloak of Anarchy" - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1972)
Flawed utopia that presents freedom as possible only through control. Anarchism in the sense of order without rule is not possible. The story focuses on a park where everyone is completely free of fear of others but only because everyone is being constantly observed by the police; when the system breaks down chaos and violence erupts.
Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 41-61 with an editor’s note on 39; and in his Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 111-33; and in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 400-19.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cybernia - Lou Cameron (1924-2010) (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1972)
Flawed utopia. Computer eutopia gone wrong as the computer takes over more and more of the life of a community.
U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earth - Marie C. Farca (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1972)
Eutopia. A future extremely polluted earth and a simple, individualistic, ecologically oriented culture surviving under a plastic dome. Each person is responsible for feeding themselves and building their own housing (a small hut). Community buildings (one each for the children and the old and one community building) are built by individuals not working in concert. The old, the children, and the fire are cared for by the adults in rotation. Cooperation exists in the form of "gifting". The society is presented through the eyes of a man from a very advanced technological society, which he returns to in 1973 Farca.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"East Wind, West Wind" - Frank M[alcolm] Robinson (1926-2014) (Nova 2, 1972)
Pollution dystopia with stringent controls that have failed, and as the developing countries industrialize air pollution is about to be pushed past the point that human life can be sustained.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 16-44. Rpt. 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), 181-208; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 215-42; and in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 9-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ecce Femina!" - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia of violent male-female conflict.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publ. Co., 1972), 272-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ecodeath - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942); E[ugene] V[incent] Snyder (b. 1943) (Doubleday, 1972)
Pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Dystopia. A society in which equality is achieved by making everyone ill.
Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 125-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The End of the Dream - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) (Doubleday, 1972)
Dystopia. The novel begins with the struggle to reconstruct a better human society after a disaster/catastrophe after systematic destruction of the environment for profit. The section, “‘Vengeance Is Mine,’ Sayeth Nature” (51-161), shows the various ways the world has been ravaged and the population decimated.
U.K. ed. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle - Garrett [James] Hardin (1915-2003) (Viking, 1972)
Four sections of the book, “From the Spaceship Beagle: Embarkation” (3-15), “On Board the Beagle: The Dawn of Responsibility” (91-100), and “On Board the Beagle: Freedom’s Harvest” (155-67), and “The Return of the Beagle” (216-37) are fiction beginning on an Earth failing environmentally, and there is a backlash against ecologists, who are hunted down and killed. The other three sections are set on the spaceship Beagle, which is looking for other planets to colonize. The people on the spaceship repeat in a smaller space all the errors committed on Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Funeral" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Post catastrophe dystopia with society divided into castes. The center of power is the schools and teachers hold great authority, and children are under the complete control of the teachers. The old resent the young and had most of them killed three times in the past.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 288-318; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 175-213; in In the Field of Fire. Ed. Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann (New York: Tor, 1987), 157-68 with an editors’ note on 158; in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 263-87; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 47-67; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 47-67; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 23-58, with a biographical note on 474-476 and a note on the text on 479-481.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Gantlet" - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) (Orbit: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories, 1972)
Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
Rpt. 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), 254-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Gift of Nothing" - Joan C[arol Hunter] Holly (1932-82) (and walk now gently through the fire and other science fiction stories, 1972)
Eutopia. A planet is being opened up to colonization, which will destroy the existing society, which is presented as a eutopia paralleling those of traditional Native American Indians.
[Science Fiction Book Club ed.] (Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books Co., 1972), 57-95.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Goat Song" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia of a computer-run stable society balanced by a wild country in which violence is permissible. A constant population is maintained.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 281-306.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Heirs of Babylon - Glen [Charles] Cook (b. 1944) (New American Library, 1972)
Authoritarian dystopia in a future of constant, devastating war.
Keywords: US author

“The Hippie-Dip File” - Robert Thurston (b. 1936) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia in which drugs provided by the government are used to “rehabilitate” those on the left.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"I Tell You, It's True" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Nova, 1972)
Dystopia brought about by electronic brainwashing.
Rpt. in his Conflict (New York: Tor, 1983), 128-50; and in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 171-90.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Iron Dream - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Avon, 1972)
From an alternative history in which Hitler becomes an SF writer. This presents Hitler's novel Lord of the Swastika (1953) (Won Hugo 1954) and a scholarly afterword. The novel presents a far future earth where Nazi's struggle for power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Light That Never Was - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (Doubleday, 1972)
Some dystopia and some satire. The novel is set on a planet that is devoted to art and once produced many great artists but is now flooded with mediocre artists selling to hordes of tourists. The plot centers on pogroms against non-human aliens.
Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Machines of Loving Grace" - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) (Orbit, 1972)
Overpopulation and machine dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Man Who Waved Hello” - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) (Universe 2: An Original Collection of All-New Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia set in a future where the government provides everything one needs based on one’s status seen through the eyes of a man in the middle ranks who will never rise further.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Motorman - David Ohle (b. 1941) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972)
Influential post-apocalyptic novel with violence, odd illnesses, and the struggle to survive in such conditions.
Rpt. Brooklyn, NY: 3rd Bed Press, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nobody's Home" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (New Dimensions II, 1972)
Eutopia. The focus of the story is an extended family of eighteen adults living in a future world with a fairly low population. The main technological change is a matter transmitter that allows nearly instantaneous travel to any place on Earth, which means that only some are living together at any one time. The family described values high intelligence, and it is implied that this is the norm. Each person must contribute "tax labor" to the Earth community.
Rpt. in Women of Wonder. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1974), 231-56; illus. Dennis Neal Smith in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 52-69; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 249-62.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Old Folks" - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Nova 2, 1972)
Dystopia in which senior citizens live in retirement communities and treat their children and grandchildren as enemies. The story is told through the eyes of a couple visiting her parents at Sunset Acres in Arizona, which is built as a eutopian version of a Kansas small town, complete with ice cream parlor. They learn that the inhabitants are united in paying their children back for all the trouble they caused them as children and ensuring that there is no money left to inherit.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 133-51. Rpt. in Best SF: 1972, Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), 29-47.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Project 40" - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia where humans are bred to be hive creatures. They have been in existence for some 300 years and currently comprise 54,000 members living in an extensive underground hive in Oregon. The hive is developing a new weapon that could destroy the Earth and uses it to blackmail the U.S. government to leave it alone. The hive's plan is to continue to grow until it completely overwhelms the rest of the world.
Repub. as Hellstrom's Hive. New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1974; and New York: Tor, 2007. U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prosperity Plan; The only way to maintain widespread, well-founded prosperity and free enterprise in any society without war without debt without hardship without inflation without high taxes without big government and without communism - A[lbert] A[rcher] Van Petten (1925-2005) (Utopian Publishers, 1972)
Plan for good society. "1. Eliminate all taxes on transactions. 2. Pay $2 per day to every citizen. 3. Derive all revenues from an Inefficiency tax. 4. Exempt $20,000 per person. 5. Assess at the highest current offer" (viii). See also 1959 and 1989 Van Petten.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Revelations: A Paranoid Novel of Suspense - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Warner, 1972)
Technological dystopia with the emphasis on a TV talk show that uncovers the secrets of people and governments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Seventy Years of Decpop" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1972)
Effects of a radical drop in population which causes serious problems at first but results in a better life for most people.
Rpt. in his Pearls from Peoria. Ed. Paul Spiteri (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2006), 169-211
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shareworld - Morris Hershman (b. 1920) (Walker & Co, 1972)
Dystopia of free enterprise. Extrapolation of the economic ideas of Louis O. Kelso (1913-91), who developed the Employee Stock Ownership Plan. On Kelso, see the Kelso Institute at www.kelso.institute.org.
Rpt. as The Crash of 2086. Canoga Park, CA: Major Books, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Solitaire" - Robert [Woodruff] Anderson (1917-2009) (Solitaire & Double Solitaire, 1972)
Dystopia set in a highly mechanized future where most people's interactions are with machines rather than other people.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Soundless Evening" - [Shirley Bell] Hoffman (1932-2007) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Overpopulation dystopia in which each person could have one child and any children beyond that were killed at age five.
Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 152-55.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Stoned Counsel" - [Ben Neal] [Ramsey] (1921-77) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Satire on the drug culture and the legal profession in which a variety of drugs are used in court by attorneys.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Students of the Light; An Educational Odyssey - John [Harvey] Mann (Grossman, 1972)
Educational eutopia describing a school that is very much of the "Sixties". The school is presented through three diaries by students describing their experiences, which are basically good, but that also reflect the problems of the period. Education as an encounter group.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

This Star Shall Abide - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Atheneum, 1972)
Young adult highly structured, religious, authoritarian dystopia which turns out to be better than it initially seems. The society is led by Scholars, who keep knowledge to themselves, in the middle are the Technicians, who keep the machines running that make the planet inhabitable, and at the bottom are the villagers, who work the land. See also 1973 and 1981 Engdahl.
U.K. ed. as Heritage of the Star. London: Victor Gollancz, 1973. Rev. in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 15-215 together with 1973 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21) and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Thrumthing and Out” - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
The story is set in a society that has cut itself off from the outside world, the Out, which is considered to be a deadly threat. The society inside the walls is slowly decaying as are the walls and most knowledge has been lost.
Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 419-46.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"The Total Influence or Outcome of the Matter: THE SUN." Part 11 of "Laying down the tower" - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (off our backs, 1972)
Fairly vague eutopian poem regarding children and their need for freedom. See also 1970, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.
Rpt. as "Outcome of the Matter: The Sun." In her Circles on the Water: Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 137-38.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

"When It Changed" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Eutopia without men, who had all died in a plague, and the clash that occurs when men from Earth arrive. The eutopia is called Whileaway, the name of the eutopia in 1975 Russ. The story is told from the point-of-view of one of two happily married women with three children.
Rpt. in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 3-11; in The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1977), 227-39; in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 45-53; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 204-10, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 203; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 333-40; 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), 507-15 with an editors’ note on 507-08; in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 194-202; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 603-07 with an editors’ note on 602; in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 59-69, with a biographical note on 492-493, and notes on the text on 481-483; and in Russ, Novels and Stories. Ed. Nicole Rudick (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 621-629, with a Chronology on 681-694 that includes chronologically references to Russ’s publications, notes on the text on 697, and notes on 708-710.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"The Word for World is Forest" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Human colonial dystopia versus indigenous eutopia. Exploitative colonization that treats the indigenous inhabitants as if they were animals, enslaving them, raping them, and destroying their way of life to ship timber back to Earth, which had been denuded of it. The indigenous inhabitants have a very complex, non-technological life deeply in tune with their planet. No government or overall authority with significant cultural difference among the communities. The women in each community, and the especially the headwoman, and the practical organizers of their communities’ activities. Some of the men were active dreamers in touch with a different reality.
. Published separately New York: Berkley, 1976. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 1977, with an “Author’s Introduction" (5-10); London: Gollancz, 2014, with an “Introduction” by Ken MacLeod (1-3) and the “Author’s Introduction” (5-10); and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 1-104 with a “Note on the Text” (780), “Notes (783-84), and “Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest” from the 1977 Gollancz edition (753-57).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"X: A Fabulous Child's Story" - Lois Gould (1932-2002) (Ms, 1972)
Gender-role non-differentiation in the future presented humorously but positively. An experiment is developed to raise a child so that its gender is unknown, and the story details some of the difficulties that arise. See 1972 Gould.
Keywords: US author

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

2150 A.D - Thea Plym Alexander (b. 1936) (Macro Books, 1971)
Detailed eutopia--technologically advanced, telepathic, vegetarian. Unified society on high emotional, intellectual, and spiritual plane. There is a “Micro Island” where the ways of the past are still practiced. See also Don Plym and Thea Ann Plym. A Macro Philosophy for the Aquarian Age. 2nd ed. Grosse Pointe, MI: Macro Development Center, 1971; and Thea Alexander, The Prophetess; Conversations With Rana. Book Four of the How to Develop series. Tempe, AZ: Macro Books, 1972. 47 pp. where the differences between Micro and Macro lives are contrasted regarding past and future, love and hate, government and politics, freedom and bondage, wisdom and folly, crime and punishment, war and peace, religion and god, law and injustice, sex and marriage, good and evil, and life and death. For a plan to put some of the ideas into practice, see Macro Associates. Micro Society Community. Phase II. Phoenix, AZ; Macro Associates, nd.
Tempe, AZ Macro Books_
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"As Simple as That" - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Holding Wonder, 1971)
Post-apocalyptic (unknown cause) dystopia told from the point of view of the only remaining teacher and the few surviving children.
Rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 188-99; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 305-14. 978-1-61037-338-8
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Blueprint for Yesterday - June Wetherell (1909-2010) (Walker, 1971)
Dehumanized technological dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Daughter" - Anne [Inez] McCaffrey (1926-2011) (The Many Worlds of Science Fiction, 1971)
Coming of age story with a background of a society that carefully chooses the occupations of its citizens based on their aptitudes.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; US author

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

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

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

The Far Side of Evil - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Athenaeum, 1971)
Young adult novel in which a planet has reached the stage in which they are likely to annihilate itself with nuclear weapons. The same protagonist as and called a sequel to 1970 in Engdahl, although in her “Afterword” to the 2003 edition, the author says this work is aimed at an older audience.
Rpt. Illus. Richard Cuffari. New York: Collier, 1989; and Illus. Jody Hewgill. New York: Walker, 2003, with an “Afterword” by the author (321-24). U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1975.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Frog Pond" - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1971)
Pollution dystopia but shows a small community adapting to the new conditions.
Rpt. in her Cautionary Tales (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 9-17; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 11-22, with a biographical note on 477-478.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Furthest - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (Ace Books, 1971)
Authoritarian dystopia with women in an inferior position.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Incident After" - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Holding Wonder, 1971)
Post-apocalyptic (unknown cause) dystopia told primarily from the point of view of the few remaining people, a woman who is afraid to leave her house, her two daughters, and her husband.
Rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 256-62; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 367-72.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"The Lathe of Heaven" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Amazing Stories, 1971)
Begins with a dystopian background stressing pollution and overpopulation. Search for eutopia driven by a power-hungry psychiatrist controlling a man whose dreams can change reality.
Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1972.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Out There - Adrian [Pearl] Stoutenburg (1916-82) (Viking Press, 1971)
Young adult future tale in which children from a dystopian domed city experience nature for the first time and work together to protect it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

Saltflower - Sydney [Joyce] Van Scyoc (b. 1939) (Avon Books, 1971)
Includes some consideration of a eutopia based on privacy and a dystopia that eliminates it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Quark, 1971)
A story of multiple futures for one person. One is an authoritarian dystopia where everyone is required to watch a TV channel a specified number of hours each day. Another is an overpopulation dystopia. None are positive.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 219-32.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Chaos Died - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Ace Books, 1970)
Telepathy on a eutopian planet with Earth an authoritarian dystopia. Children are considered babies until they are prepubescent, after which they become capable of acting telepathically. They can slow down their maturation, in the case mentioned because the girl wants to develop intellectually. Adults rarely talk. In the third section of the novel, the novel shifts abruptly among times and places. In one future Earth, the population has grown immensely, with some cities constructed underground and on and under the sea and few animals are plants remain. Food is manufactured and what plants still grow are contaminated. Few people are literate. People were generally free to do as they choose; drugs are commonly to induce experiences, including death. But there is no organized crime, sex is no one’s business except for the people involved, people have practically unlimited credit. One couple has traditional gender roles, as defined by the man.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1978, with an “Introduction” by Robert Silverberg (v-xi).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

"The Chosen" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Orbit 6, 1970)
Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Communipaths - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (Ace Books, 1970)
Dystopia that uses those with telepathic ability, known as Communipaths, to send information throughout the galaxy. They are raised them in a crèche and are assigns them to a particular location where they live their brief lives communicating. This changes with the birth of a particularly powerful telepath.
Ace Double bound with 1970 Trimble.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Constitution for a United Republics of America" (The Center Magazine, 1970)
A proposal resulting from discussions at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. In the same issue, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell (1891-1979) discusses the constitution in "Introduction to a Constitution for a United Republics of America as suggested and discussed at The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions" (11-23).
Keywords: US author

Dance the Eagle to Sleep - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (Doubleday, 1970)
Dystopia which has a required "19th Year of Service" seen through the eyes of various young people who are suppressed by their parents, their schools, and the social order in which they live. This part of the novel reads like a realistic novel which then shifts to the youth rebellion and the rest of the novel focuses on the rebellion, the people involved in it, their relations and conflicts, and the organizations they establish including urban and rural communities. See also 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.
Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971; and Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, with an "Introduction to the New Edition" by the author (vii-ix).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution - Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012) (William Morrow, 1970)
One of the more radical feminist texts of the time, which ends with a chapter entitled "The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations" (183-224) [called "Conclusion: The Ultimate Revolution" (232-74) in the U.K. ed.]; and, in the rev. ed. a section called "Alternatives" (226-42) outlining a future feminist eutopia. The book ends with a chart outlining the history of the position of women from the beginnings into a far future "cosmic consciousness".
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Rev. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Enchantress of the Stars - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Athenaeum, 1970)
Young adult novel about a colonization scheme that has no concern about the welfare of the inhabitants. The same protagonist as in 1971 Engdahl.
Rpt. illus. Leo and Diane Dillon. New York, Walker, 2001, with a “Foreword to the 2001 Edition” by Lois Lowry (vi-xi) and an “Afterword to the 2001 Edition” by the author (287-88).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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