The Fall: Being a True Account of What Happened in Paradise, for the Benefit of All Scandal-Mongers, With a New Interpretation of Sacred History, Vindicating Snakes and Apples - George Seibel (1872-1958) (The Lessing Co., 1919)
Eutopia brought about by conquering the physical universe, such as controlling gravity and changing anything into gold. Men and women separated. Scientific control of procreation. No private property. No gods. Entire planet moved from Earth to Venus to assist the younger Venusians to civilization. Two malcontents, Adam and Eve, are left behind.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Heads of Cerberus" - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). (Thrill Book (New York), 1919)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel Philadelphia in 2118. There is a corrupt government with many petty rules.
Repub. illus. Ric Binkley. Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1952 with an "Introduction" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (13-16). Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978;  New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984 with an "Introduction" by Robert Weinberg ([15-18]); and New York: The Modern Library, 2019 with an Introduction by Naomi Alderman (vii-xi).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" - John Cournos (1881-1966). (The Nineteenth Century and After, 1919)
Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.
Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author; US author

"Plus Ultra" - Edward Lucas White (1866-1934) (1919)
Detailed eutopia stratified upon the basis of intelligence and contributions to society. Highly technological.
Hand written manuscript at The Johns Hopkins University. Typescript at the Maryland Historical Society Library. Summary in A. Langley Searles, "'Plus Ultra': An Unknown Science-Fiction Utopia." Fantasy Commentator 4.2 - 5.2 (Winter 1979-80 - Winter 1984): 51-59; 162-69, 176-77; 240-42; 44-49; 100-05.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Psychic Trio or Nations Reconciled - Charles Edmund DeLand (1854-1935) (Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press, 1919)
The end of the book tells of the development of a reformed world order that will bring peace and prosperity to the entire world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Queen of Life" - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York), 1919)
Flawed utopia. An apparently eutopian Venus continues conflict between men and women.
Rpt. in his The Lord of Death and The Queen of Life (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 78-143.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Romance of Two Centuries. A Tale of the Year 2025 - Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (1871-1940) (The Platonist Press, 1919)
Sleeper wakes story. A controlled eutopia stressing efficiency and equality with extremely detailed regulations. Includes as an appendix an "International Calendar of Heroes" with each month dedicated to different types of heroes (368-69).
Keywords: Scottish author; US author

Beyond the Horizon - Fred B[rown] Morrill (1858-1949) (Neale Publ. Co, 1918)
Eutopia. System of voluntary cooperatives with no government and no weapons of destruction. Animals are no longer afraid of humans. No private property.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Coöperative Commonwealth." - William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) (The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, 1918)
A critique of intentional communities and cooperation in the form of a future newspaper.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Democracy Made Safe - Paul Harris Drake (b. 1889) (LeRoy Phillips, 1918)
Eutopia will be brought about by abolishing money and capitalism.
Rpt. Boston, MA: The Four Seas Co., 1920
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mildred Carver, U.S.A. - Martha Bensley Bruère (1879-1953) (Ladies Home Journal (Des Moines, IA), 1918)
Eutopia. Universal service produces an egalitarian system. Each person must serve a period of time in some labor for the country, which turns them into patriots as well as producing public works. The focus is on two very wealthy people and the way they become truly useful citizens by serving their required time, interacting with people from varied backgrounds, and doing useful work.
Rpt. as Mildred Carver, U.S.A. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 218-32 with an editor’s note on 216-17; and different selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 195-211.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Planeteer” - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (All-Story Weekly, 1918)
Earth is moved to near Jupiter to use Jupiter’s resources to replace Earth’s Depleted resources with, in the longer term, but only suggested, the creation of a eutopia. A sequel is “The King of Conserve Island.” All-Story Weekly 89.3 (October 12, 1918): 411-69 in which a group of people have chosen to isolate themselves on Earth with no contact with the changes brought about in the first story. It is suggested that they create a generally good society but, in the future, choose to contact the others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

20,000 Trails Under the Universe with the Cerebroscope. A Tale of Wonderful Adventures. A Protest Against the Principle of Death in Nature. The Gods, Nature and Man on Trial in God's Country - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) (Privately Ptd, 1917)
Humanity in touch with Heaven. Most of the book is taken up with criticisms of contemporary life. There is some fairly standard "domestic heaven" and a few pages (134-37) describing the eutopia produced on Earth. Nationalism has ended; the Universal Truth Church has replaced all denominations; and most enterprises are publicly owned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"By the World Forgot": A Double Romance of the East and the West - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) (A.C. McClurg, 1917)
Primarily romance but includes a lost race on an island in the South Pacific. There are eutopian aspects to the society on the island, like abundance without much labor, but the race is degenerating (except for one beautiful girl).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Her Invisible Spirit Mate: A Scientific Novel and Psychological Lessons on How to Make the World More Beautiful - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (Author, 1917)
Spiritualist novel in which other planets are depicted as higher spiritually and better than Earth and an improved Earth is predicted after the war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Pleiades Club: Telegraphers’ Paradise on Planet Mars - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) (Multnomah Printing Co., 1917)
The spirits of past telegraphers meet on Mars on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Lincoln presiding, the Fourth of July, when the discuss the future of the telegraph, which includes radically improved conditions for the workers (a five hour workday twenty days a month, three free meals a day, retirement at thirty with a pension for five years, and generally being treated decently by management), followed by a number of chapters which are devoted to telegraphers’ tall tales and comments on current affairs on Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Social Problem Solved, Without Either Socialism or Capitalism. The Coming Golden Age. An Outgrowth of Remedying Rather Than Abandoning Our Industrial System - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Author, 1917)
Eutopia will be achieved by following the author's monetary principles, which here he calls Proprietarism, which is a system in which everyone is their own proprietor and that requires that money be circulated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Unprecedented Invasion of Altruria - Don C[arlos] Seitz (1862-1935) (Rustic Press, 1917)
Laissez faire eutopia.
Supposed to have been reprinted from the New York Evening Post (April 7, 1917) but not found there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Utopian Way - Veiby, John (Author, 1917)
Eutopia based on religion and decentralization, with the county the basic unit of government. See also 1923 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Beyond Thirty” - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (All Around Magazine, 1916)
The work is set two hundred years in the future in which the U.S. stayed out of World War 1 and European had destroyed itself and returned to a barbarian state while the Americas had developed into a technological eutopia. Although no one from the Americas had passed the 30th meridian East of the 175th meridian West until a group of Americans did accidentally. After fighting the barbarians and being rescued by the Chinese, the world will in future be open again.
Rpt. Fantasy Press, 1955; in Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957), Lincoln, NB: Bison Books, 2001; and as The Lost Continent. Original title Beyond Thirty. New York: Ace Books, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Building a Socialist City" - A[lice] Constance Austin (1862-1955) (The Western Comrade (Llano, CA), 1916)
Detailed eutopia showing what the Llano Community was supposed to become.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"How They Were Denobled" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
Satire on the "servant question" in which twenty-five members of the nobility find themselves in a castle without servants.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes - Grantly Standerson (Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1916)
The Society of Progress works throughout human history to build a religious eutopia that does not contradict science. It is particularly opposed to Mormonism, and Salt Lake City is destroyed in an earthquake. The first of the “Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes” is “to arouse spiritually thousands of devout, honest, followers of a false religion [Mormonism] to the real degradation of their religion, and the other as high a purpose as ever can move a human being” [the search for Truth] (5).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"June 6, 2016" - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Colliers (New York), 1916)
A love story set in a technological eutopia that has greater gender equality but with many of the same issues remaining.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 72-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

State Socialism After the War; An Exposition of Complete State Socialism. What It Is: How It Would Work - Thomas J. Hughes (b. 1865) (George W. Jacobs and Company, 1916)
Eutopia. Detailed exposition of how a system of complete governmental ownership of property, except personal effects, would work.
Later ed. subtitled A Retrospect of Reconstruction After the War. Rev. ed. Dayton, OH: New Era Pub. Co., 1919. 2nd rev. ed. adds Embracing a Greater Democracy, and Founded on the Teaching of Christ to 1919 subtitle. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1924.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Surplus Woman" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
A solution to what the women who are left without families, widowed, or without men to marry as a result of all the men killed in the war. The proposal is, like so many of Gilman's, is for women to go into business, with the difference here that they do into business together in a Women's Economic Alliance to provide services for a town and housing for the women. See also her "Women After the War." The Forerunner (New York) 7.7 (July 1916): 173-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"With Her in Ourland" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
Continuation of 1915 Gilman in which one of the couples tours and comments on world conditions and then more specifically on the U.S. The woman from Herland concludes that she could not have a child in the U.S. She wants to return to Herland and hopes for a boy.
Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 270-387. First book publication as With Her in Ourland. Sequel to Herland. Ed. Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), 59-193. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 200-08; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 242-52.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Women of the Future - Meta Stern Lilienthal (1876-1948) (The Rand School of Social Science, 1916)
Pamphlet describing the better society that socialism will bring about emphasizing the changed position of women. With everyone a worker, everyone will be able to work at what most interests them and change work as their interests change, women will not be limited to the home, and most domestic work will be done collectively. Everyone will have a good education and the right training for their work. No children working. There will be no male sex privilege. Marriage will be based on love and divorce will be easy. High quality child-care readily available.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Air Trust - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Phil Wagner, 1915)
Dystopia. A trust gains control of the air and enslaves humankind, but it is overthrown. For a work using a similar idea, see 1897 Mills, “The Aerial Brickyard.”
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. Originally published in The National Rip-Saw (January - October 1915) as “The Story of the Air Trust.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of a Nation. A Sequel to the Birth of a Nation - Thomas [Frederick] Dixon [Jr.] (1864-1946) (D. Appleton and Co., 1915)
Dystopia in which the United States is defeated by Germany and internal subversion. The purpose the novel is to argue for military preparedness.
Originally published in The National Sunday Magazine (1915 - 1916), which was published with Sunday newspapers throughout the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Herland" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1915)
Feminist eutopia on an island inhabited only by women and girl children. Stress on sisterhood. Parthenogenesis. Deep concern for the physical and mental health of the children and educating them appropriately. No poverty. No punishment, which has been replaced by treatment. There are strong environmental themes, but animals have been generally eliminated. The novel is told from the point of view of one of three men who discover Herland and marry three Herland women. See also the sequel 1916 Gilman.
First book publication New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 150-269. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 189-99; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 229-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"John Jones's Dollar" - Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) (The Black Cat (Boston, MA), 1915)
Scientific eutopia. Democratic Socialist. Some humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mania of the Nations on the Planet Mars and Its Terrific Consequences. A Combination of Fun and Wisdom - [James Howard] [Calisch] (1863-1926) (The Denker Publishers, 1915)
Satire on human foibles using Mars. Religion. Focus on religion and nationalism.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

"A Modern Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Babyland" - John R[ussell] Corydell (1848-1924) (Physical Culture (New York), 1915)
A crusty, puritanical descendent of Gulliver visits a eutopia where children are taught about their bodies from an early age.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Modern Paradise. An Outline or Story of how Some of the Cultured People will probably live, work and Organize in the Near Future - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Equality Pub. Co, 1915)
Another version of 1893 Olerich which has a considerable amount on the technology, the factory that the community will run, and the labor checks and how they are used. Heavily illustrated. The short version is mostly on the generation by wind and water, storage, and use of electricity.
Rpt. [Charleston, SC]: NABU Press, 2010. A short version (28 pp) was published as Modern Paradise: The Model Home.--Solutions of the Social Problem. Future Greatness of Electricity.--Proposed Experiment in Social Science.--An Earthly Eden and How to Attain It.--A Unique Power Plant. Wonderful System of Education. Elegantly Illustrated [Subtitle on the cover--Grandest Dwelling Place on Earth. Elegantly Illustrated]. Omaha, NB: Author, [1915].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Northland - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) (Thomas Benton, 1915)
Lost race dystopia. Most of the book is represented on an added title page as Krocker Land: A Romance of Discovery. By Alfred Erickson, Prof. Hlmath Bjornsen, Antoine Goritz, [and] Spruce Hopkins. The Narrative of Alfred Erickson. Edited by Azaziel Link. This is the story of an exploratory trip in the North and the discovery of the luxurious Valley of Rasselas in Krocker Land, with its capitol city of Radiumopolis. Krocker Land has a large population described as Eskimos or Mongolians who are dominated by a population of small, highly intelligent scientists with large heads.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Romance in Starland: A Scientific Novel - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (New Herald Publishing Co, 1915)
Includes a visit to planets, including eutopias on Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. On Venus there is no war or sin. Simple life. Women are unable to give birth to more than two children. Saturn is home to "angelic missionaries". On Jupiter there is no need for money and people communicate telepathically.
Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].
Keywords: Female author; US author

Uncle Sam Banker 1910-1940. Published by the Author - James A[rthur] Fulton (Hutchinson & Broadbent, 1915)
Eutopia in which a new public banking system brings general prosperity. Includes a "Summary of Legislative and Administrative Policies Outlined" (285-86) keyed to the text.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The White Man's Burden, A Satirical Forecast - [Roger Sherman] [Tracy] (1841-1926) (Gorham Press, 1915)
Set in 5027 with Africa a completely Black and Christian eutopia. All the races have advanced except the Caucasian, which continues its old, dystopian ways and initiates a race war, which it loses.
Rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"An Argument" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (The Congo and Other Poems, 1914)
The argument is between "The Voice of the Man Impatient with Visions and Utopias" and "The Rhymer's Reply: Incense and Splendor" and is presented as two poems under those titles. The former takes an anti-utopian position, and the latter replies with the hope for a coming eutopia. See also 1909, 1913, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 194-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Darkness and Dawn - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Small, Maynard, 1914)
Much of the novel is a post-catastrophe dystopia with a young couple apparently alone struggling to survive, then in conflict with other survivors, but the novel ends depicting the beginnings of a new egalitarian, peaceful eutopian society.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with unpaged “The Fantastic in Fiction” by the author, originally published as “Facts About Fantasy.” The Story World (July 1923). Originally serialized as “Darkness and Dawn.” The Cavalier 10. 4 (January 1912): 621-34; The Cavalier and the Scrap Book 11.1 - 3 (January 6 - 20, 1912): 169-85, 321-39, 521-33; “Beyond the Great Oblivion.” The Cavalier 24.1 - 25.2 (January 4 - February 8, 1913): 1-34, 215-32, 434-52, 645-65; 115-34, 272-92; and “The Afterglow.” Cavalier 29.4 - 30.3 (June 14 - July 5, 1913): 577-607; 71-100, 250-78, 495-519. All three were rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 2.3 (August 1940: 6-78; 3.2 (June 1941): 6-105; 3.5 (December 1941): 6-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Equitania; or, The Land of Equity - Dr. W[alter] O. Henry (b. 1858) (Ptd. by Klopp & Bartlett, 1914)
Detailed eutopia. Equitania was founded by groups of Buddhists from India, Christians from the U.S., Muslims from Turkey, and Jews from England. Democracy. Freedom of religion. Traditional sex roles, but there is sex education. All natural resources and utilities owned by the government. Men earn enough to be able to comfortably support a family. Includes a constitution. The eutopia includes a lot on appropriate gender relations, the reasons for and dangers of prostitution, venereal disease, etc., mostly from the male viewpoint, and much on medical care.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Man Who Rocked the Earth" - Arthur [Cheney] Train (1875-1945) (Saturday Evening Post, 1914)
Mostly war and political intrigue, but at the beginning of the novel war has produced a world-wide dystopia with nations collapsing and significant sections of the world destroyed. The inventor of a new power threatens world destruction if peace does not come. After much adventure, the final chapter describes a world at peace under a Law of Humanity with an international police force. All weapons abolished.
Repub. as by Train and Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955). Illus. Walter L. Greene and Woods. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924, 1914)
Eleven survivors of a catastrophe that kills everyone else in the world initially replicate the capitalist dystopia that is the U.S. in 2000, but most of the people come to reject that and by the end a socialist eutopia is suggested but not developed.
UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. Rpt. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000 with an introduction by Carl Jensen (vii-xxvi). Originally published in The Appeal to Reason (1914).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nature City: The Ideal Commonwealth - James W. Bucklin, LL.B. (Author, 1914)
Democratic and single tax eutopia. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. Includes brief comments on Plato, More, Bacon, Campanella, Bellamy, and Gronlund.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The War of the Worlds: A Tale of the Year 2,000 A.D. - Frederick Robinson ([Author], 1914)
Eutopia and dystopia. This short novel focuses on the antics of one man who becomes fabulously wealthy, is rejected by the woman he wants, and in vengeance brings about a war with the U.S. attacked by the nations of the Earth and Mars. While the US, which has grown to include all of North and Central America, wins, New York City is destroyed. Early in the book, the world is depicted in eutopian terms both politically and technologically with New York City free of crime as a result of eugenic advances. All other nations are depicted as advanced and the only reason for their cooperation against the U.S. is that it is even more advanced. In a note To the Reader the author says that the book originated as a scenario he wrote in connection with a stage spectacle he was preparing.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The American Emperor. A Novel - William Salisbury (b. 1875) (The Tabard Inn Press, 1913)
An ambitious American financier creates a dystopia with himself as sole ruler.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Angel Island - Inez Haynes Gillmore (1873-1970) (Phillips Pub. Co., 1913)
Isolated island with shipwrecked men showing the range of male attitudes toward innocent winged-women. The men capture some of the women and cut their wings off and clip them every six months so that they cannot grow back. Girl children are born with wings, and the men plan to cut theirs off when they reach adulthood. The women revolt and win. A boy with wings is born.
1913 Gillmore, Inez Haynes (1873-1970). Angel Island. Illus. John Rae. New York: Phillips Pub. Co. Rpt. New York: Holt, 1914; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 10-90; New York: Arno Press, 1978; and New York: New American Library, 1988. U.K. ed. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Female author; US author

“Announcement. “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” and “A Fantasy. Abstract of One Chapter from Part I of Utopia” - Oscar Morrill Heath (Composts of Tradition: A Book of Short Stories dealing with Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations, 1913)
An announcement that a book entitled “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” in the near future together with a synopsis of its three sections, “Utopia,” “Neutralia,” and “Atlantis” together with an excerpt from “Utopia” (302-303). “The most striking features of Utopia are its school system and its unique eugenic process of courtship and marriage. The most interesting feature of Neutralia is that the inhabitants are all sex-less. The climax of interest is in Atlantis, where the women hold two-thirds of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers and the men one-third” (300). The author says that the first part was published “about four years ago,” but I have been unable to find it. Most of the book, which is dedicated to “Hygienic Motherhood,” is composed of stories that comment on sex relations through the ages and on Neptune. In the Preface “The Apology of an Iconoclast” he proposes that the wealthy buy the land and build “model tenement houses. Throughout he contends that motherhood is women’s sole purpose and men’s sole purpose is to support them, which is what they do in Atlantis.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Bee Wise" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1913)
A group of women establish two communities, Beewise and Herways, which provide an economic base for transforming lives.
Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 226-34; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 211-19.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy. A Cycle of Conversations and Discourses with Occasional Side-Lights upon the Speakers - Albion W[oodbury] Small (1854-1926) (Inter-collegiate Press, 1913)
A fictional discussion people centering on a strike. Includes attacks on and defenses of capitalism with arguments about how to produce a better society. See George Mariz, “Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of the Clerical-Utopian Novel.” Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 65-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Court of Infant Relations" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1913)
The Court of Infant Relations is an institution established in a future eutopia to protect the rights of children and ensure that parents are adequately trained in childcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Gay Rebellion - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (D. Appleton, 1913)
Satire on women's rights. Includes a women's community that tries to throw off male domination through the use of eugenics.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975. 298 pp. Parts published earlier in Hampton’s Magazine--“Amourette.” 26.5 (May 1911): 530-47; “A Matter of Eugenics.” 26.6 (June 1911): 675-86; “Pro Bono Publico: Further Developments in the Eugenist Suffragette Campaign.” 27.1 (July 1911): 19-30; “Lords of Creation.” 27.2 (August 1911): 131-43; and “A Daughter of the Revolution.” 27.3 (September 1911): 330-40 with 337-38 misnumbered as 339-336.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"'Jesus is Here!'" - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) (The Christian Herald (New York), 1913)
Sequel to 1896-97 Sheldon with many of the same characters and set fifteen years after the events of that novel. In this novel, Jesus returns to earth and faces the same issues as the people did in In His Steps. But in this novel the issues are expanded to broader economic and political issues with an indication at the end the revitalized Christianity will bring about a worldwide eutopia.
Rpt. as “Jesus is Here!” Continuing the Narrative of In His Steps (What Would Jesus Do?). New York: George H. Doran, 1914. U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Rpt. Topeka, KS: Capper's Books, 1984.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Love of Meltha Laone; or, Beyond the Sun - David Leroy Stump (Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1913)
This is a much-expanded ed. of 1896 Stump at the end of which the protagonist's interest in Meltha Laone is mentioned but not developed. Detailed eutopia set on a planet on the opposite side of the sun. No money. Technology. “Everybody has all of everything they need and can use and consume. . .” (33). Stress on the family. No pets. Refers to a related work entitled A Romance of Two Planets that appears to be lost.
Keywords: Male author; US author

My Monks of Vagabondia - Andress [Small] Floyd (1873-1933 ([Author], 1913)
A series of stories about an intentional community called the Self Master Colony that works with people who are down-and-out. The stories are called "Fact-stories selected from the old files of Self master magazine" ([13]), and the magazine has many such stories including some not included in the book. The colony was established in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey in 1908 and lasted until 1938.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise on Earth - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) (Paradise on Earth, 1913)
Portland, Oregon as a eutopia in 1999. Many technological advances. The status of women has improved, they vote, are elected to public office, are judges, and serve in all public positions, with half the police force women. Women may keep their name hyphenated with her husband's. No longer any need for prisons. Improved health with doctors public employees. Lawyers salaried. No horses. Indians disappearing. No alcohol. One universal language. Cremation.
Book also entitled Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches. Portland, OR: F.W. Baltes and Company, 1913.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (Author, 1913)
Eutopian broadside with short poems and illustrations, each illustation depicting "the censers of angels" swinging over a Springfield, Illinois landmark. The eutopia suggests a socialist Illinois. See also 1909, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay
Rpt. in his A Letter About My Four Programmes for Committees in Correspondence (Springfield, IL: Jefferson Printing Co., [1917]), 15-32. Also rpt. in his The Little Magazine both 2nd (1920) and 3rd (1925) imprints (49-64); and in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 197-212.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1960 (A Retrospect) - James [Scott] Marshall; Margaret Scott Marshall (J.F. Rowny Press, 1912)
Apartheid as a utopia with problems, but those problems are not related to the racial separation.
Also entitled World of Tomorrow. 3rd ed. Chico, CA: Author, 1954. First published in the Natal Advertiser (South Africa) (1912).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; South African author; US author

Attraction of the Compass: A Romance of the North, Based Upon Facts of a Personal Experience - H[oward] L[ewis] Dodge (1867-1946) (Dove & Courtney, 1912)
Lost race eutopia emphasizing trial marriage.
2nd ed. with an additional chapter as Attraction of the Compass: or the Blonde Eskimo: A Romance of the North, Based Upon Facts of a Personal Experience. Long Beach, CA: Seaside Printing Co., 1916.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"A Flight to Freedom" - [Chancey Corey] [Brainerd] (1874-1922); [Edith Rathbone Jacobs] [Brainerd] (885-1922) (Munsey's Magazine 47.2 (May 1912), 1912)
Two couples escape to the countryside where they create a new Eden.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Forecast" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1858-1919) (The Englishman and Other Poems, 1912)
Eutopian poem. World peace, eugenics, knowledge.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Freed" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
Eutopia brought about by the loss of memory of the past and the disappearance of legal records and most books, except in the sciences. Humanity then recreates itself, establishes a world language and frees women to become full participants in the creation of knowledge. Women chose to limit the number of children to the number that could be supported.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Her Memories" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
A eutopia in which a large apartment block in New York City is designed to include cooperative housekeeping, pre-school and early schooling, and places for public activities and entertainment.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 174-81.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ostrich for the Defense - William H. Hile (1869-1943) (Geo. H. Ellis Co, 1912)
Mostly adventure but includes a lost race eutopia depicting a cooperative system based on the principles of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers for cooperation and other well-known cooperative schemes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Philip Dru: Administrator. A Story of Tomorrow 1920-1935 - [Edward Mandell] [House] (1858-1938) (B.W. Huebsch, 1912)
Eutopia after a civil war in the U.S. between the corrupt plutocracy and those supporting the citizenry as a whole. The U.S. system is reformed under the leadership of a man who takes the title "Administrator of the Republic". Reforms include votes for women, a graduated income tax, national rather than state and local laws, radical reduction in the number of judges, and elimination of the ability of the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of laws, among other things. Includes a new national constitution.
Rpt. Appleton, WI: Robert Welch University Press, 1998 with a "Foreword" (i-xi) by William Norman Grigg, "Publisher's Appendices" (251-75), and an "Index" (276-82). The added material presents the book as seriously undermining the U.S. political system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Program of Radical Democracy" - J[ames] Mckeen Cattell (1860-1940) (The Popular Science Monthly (New York), 1912)
Essay outlining the basis for a eutopia with, among other provisions, universal suffrage, including children; the abolition of limitation on the powers of both national and state governments; progressive income tax on individuals and corporations; conversion of the army into local police and the navy into a mercantile marine; international arbitration; free medical care; pensions; and the eight-hour workday and minimum wage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific Novel - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (Author, 1912)
Spiritualist novel in which Mars is depicted as a place where true love flourishes. The novel also describes various dystopian regions.
Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scarlet Plague" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (The London Magazine, 1912)
Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which the oldest survivor, who had been a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is still trying to tell his uncomprehending grandchildren of the wonders of the past. Resonates with 1949 Stewart.
Rpt. illus. Gordon Grant. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1915; illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961) in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 92-118; and in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 156-97 with an editor's note on 155-56; and in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Strange Land" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
Eutopia about a country with the goal of making all people better and the country more beautiful. They reject capitalism.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 182-85; and rpt. abbreviated as "A Certain Land." Woman's Journal (February 8, 1913): 42.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Superwoman" - Miriam Michelson (1870-1942) (Smart Set. A Magazine of Cleverness, 1912)
A typical, wealthy American male chauvinist ends up on an unknown island inhabited by Amazonian women and effeminate men, although, in this case, the women are presented positively. The editor compares the story to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland" (1915).
Rpt. in The Superwoman and Other Writings. Ed. Lori Harrison-Kahan (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019), 55-135, with an “Introduction: Miriam Michelson, Frontier Feminist” by the editor (1-54).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Utopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future - Herman Hine Brinsmade (Broadway Pub. Co., 1912)
Eutopia set in 1960. Many reforms, particularly in diet, which is primarily vegetarian. The Federal Bureau of Health provides education, ensures that food is pure, and offers free medical care with a stress on prevention. Advances in technology. Five-hour workday. Single tax ensures prosperity. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-1897). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Athonia or, The Original Four Hundred - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) (The Lakeside Company, 1911)
An odd novel in that a series of eutopias is presented, all of which fail. Four hundred people (200 men and 200 women) of ancient Athens discover America (Yucatan is suggested) and try a number of different social experiments. Initially they try equality without laws to regulate behavior; then they institute a number of laws; and then they institute inequality between men and woman. Ultimately most of the people choose to hunt and fish rather than establish a great civilization.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Centaurians. A Novel - [Lottie F.] [Ambrose] (Broadway Publishing Co., 1911)
Lost race flawed utopia located near the North Pole. There are four societies in the area, with one, the Centaurians, the focus of this aspect of the novel. The Centaurians are advanced technologically and see themselves as having achieved perfection and no longer love or hate. The novel contains the standard love story with the man from outside falling in love with a woman who is considered almost divine and is known as the Priestess of the Sun and is wedded to the Sun. Although she is supposed no longer to be able to experience love, she does, but not him.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Columbus of Space - Garrett P[utnam] Serviss (1851-1929) (D. Appleton, 1911)
Science fiction novel about an extended stay on Venus. Mostly adventure, but Venus is inhabited by two peoples, one of which is generally good and the other of which is evil.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Horroboos - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) (The Liberty Press, 1911)
Anti-capitalist satire. See also 1893 and 1903 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Moving the Mountain" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1911)
Detailed feminist eutopia. "'Moving the Mountain' is a short distance Utopia, a baby Utopia, a little one that can grow. It involves no other change than a change of mind, the mere awakening of people, especially the women, to existing possibilities. It indicates what people might do, real people, now living, in thirty years--if they would" (6). No poverty, no pollution, no racial problems, no gender conflict, and little disease. A two-hour workday is required, but most work four.
Repub. New York: Charlton Company, 1911. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 37-149. This ed. compares The Forerunner version with the Clarion version and includes the brief "Preface" from the Clarion version that was not in The Forerunner (37). Excerpt published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 178-88; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 159-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Nut Cracker and Other Human Ape Fables - Charles Elton Blanchard (1868-1945) (Broadway Publishing Co., 1911)
The book combines a critique of capitalism and the outlines of his eutopia through essays and stories. The expanded edition includes more of the eutopia, which is further developed in 1932 Blanchard.
Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ralph 124C 41+ ["One two foresee for one"]" - Hugo Gernsback (1887-1964) (Modern Electrics (New York), 1911)
Technological eutopia.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Romance of the Year 2660. New York: Stratford Co., 1925, with a “Preface” by Hugo Gernsback (3-5); and in Amazing Stories Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1929): 4-53; 2nd ed. New York: Frederick Fell, 1950, with a different “Preface” by Hugo Gernsback. Rpt. illus. Paul. Merril. New York: Fawcett, 1958 with an unpaged “A Preview of Tomorrow” by Fletcher Pratt; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, with an “Introduction” by Jack Williamson (vii-xi), the two Gernsback prefaces (xiii-xix), and a “List of Specially Named Inventions and Technological Devices” (295-300).
Keywords: Luxemburg author; Male author; US author

The Road to Avalon - Coningsby [William] Dawson (1883-1959) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911)
Allegory in a medieval setting with various fantastic countries. Avalon, which is reached in the last chapters, is the goal.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Seven Sons of Ballyhack - Thomas Sawyer Spivey (1857-1938) (Cosmopolitan Press, 1911)
Mostly fantasy and adventure, but the last chapter includes twenty points of the "Essentials to National Government" (307-10) outlining the elements of what is needed to create a eutopia. The points include few, simple laws; no war; no personal weapons; no secrecy; limited taxation; the arts; particularly music; and others primarily concerned with limiting governmental power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Spirit Messages with an Introductory Essay on Spiritual Vitality - Hiram Corson (1828-1911) (Austin Pub. Co, 1911)
The work is mostly composed of messages from well-known writers of the past (Longfellow, Tennyson, Whitman), friends of the family, and family members. But buried in the messages are descriptions of the afterlife, which is a standard "domestic heaven".
New ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1919.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Judgment Day: A Story of the Seven Years of Great Tribulation - Joshua H[ill] Foster (1861-1947) (Baptist World Publishing Co., 1910)
Fictional interpretation of Revelations including the Rapture (see 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-52) and the dystopia that follows up to the battle at Armageddon.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man From Mars or Service, for Service's Sake - Henry Henry Wallace (Dunraven) Dowding (1867?-1938) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1910)
Detailed Christian eutopia on Mars. No large cities. No military. Stress on the home. Martians are both rational and artistic. Many completely equipped school buildings. "On the planet Mars education starts with a principle called Service" (251). Individual talents developed. Universal language. Includes extracts from a constitution.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Mayor of New York: A Romance of Days to Come - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) (G.W. Dillingham, 1910)
A dystopia of corrupt upper classes and irreligious lower classes. Revolution. There is a religious revival, and the Pope comes to the U.S. See also 1903 Gratacap.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mirage of the Many - William Thomas Walsh (1891-1949) (Henry Holt, 1910)
Socialism as dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Outland - [Mary Hunter] [Austin] (1868-1934) (John Murray, 1910)
Tale of a hidden hunter gatherer society, called the Outliers, with a simple, balanced life.
U.S. ed. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Roadtown - Edgar [Stephen] Chambless (1870-1936) (Roadtown Press, 1910)
A cooperative eutopia built as a long, road-like city written as a serious proposal with a considerable amount on how it will be constructed and operate. Cooperative housework and cooking. Cottage industry in which each house has a work room and machines can be purchased or rented. The illustration on the cover shows the structure of the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Startling Statements or the Downfall of the Great Republic: Facts and Figures for the People - Ralston J. Markoe (1854-1927) (Np, 1910)
Eutopia. Mostly criticism of contemporary conditions, but the last section (237-95) is a detailed authoritarian eutopia (said to have been written in 1897) stressing efficiency, training, and administrative responsibility with little or no popular participation in government. All “citizens” (but only men) must join the army or navy, and the national games and the national music have a military character
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Voice in the Rice - Gouverneur Morris [IV] (1876-1953) (Dodd, Mead, 1910)
A hidden country that maintains the culture of an idealized antebellum South, including slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

World Corporation - King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) (New England News Company, 1910)
Non-fiction eutopia. Proposes forming a cooperative to absorb the world's economy and put it on a sound financial basis. See also 1894 and 1924 Gillette Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Conflict of Nations; or, The Japanese American War. A Narrative - Ernest Hugh Fitzpatrick (1863-1933) (H.W. Rokker, 1909)
While most of the novel is on the war, the last two chapters (273-306) following the “Anglo-Saxon” victory describe the way the world becomes unified, first through the confederation of the English-speaking nations and then with the development in an International Parliament and free trade.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Comrades; A Story of Social Adventure in California - Thomas [Frederick] Dixon [Jr.] (1864-1946) (Grosset & Dunlap, 1909)
Standard failure of an intentional community, with the founding of a community where no one will do the dirty work followed by infighting and collapse. Middle volume of an anti-socialist trilogy, with the other two being mostly concerned with romance and personal conflicts between the wealthy and reformers. The first volume is The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia. Illus. B[enjamin] West Clinedinst (1859-1931). New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903; and the third volume is The Root of Evil. A Novel. Illus. George Wright [probably George Hand Wright (1872-1951)]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. Also pub. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911, illus. George Wright; and Toronto, ON, Canada: Musson Book Co., 1911, illus. W[illiam] Sherman Potts (1876-1930), but they are the same illus., and the book says printed in New York.
Rpt. New York: Doubleday Page, [1909]
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Divine Seal - Emma Louise Orcutt (C.M. Clark, 1909)
Mostly a lost race adventure set in a future after 2100. Includes, at the beginning, a brief picture of the eutopian future stressing both technology and politics. Atlantis has been discovered, Atlantean records show a rich continent near the North Pole, and an expedition is mounted to find it. Alaska is now warm. The American Republic includes most of North America and has four capitals, including Yu-kon-il-i-a in Alaska. No one can vote who cannot pass a test on the principles of republican government. No one can be elected to office without a certificate of good character. The expedition includes "several professors from Indian and negro colleges" (4). Women hold office. Technologically advanced. The expedition quickly discovers people of the lost country, some of whom are highly civilized and one of whom is evil. The novel then becomes a typical lost race adventure.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Dream of Debs: A Story of Industrial Revolt" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (The International Socialist Review (Chicago, IL), 1909)
A successful general strike will bring about a better world. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1908 London, "Goliah".
Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1914; in his The Strength of the Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 134-76; in The International Socialist Review 17.7 (January 1917): 389-95, 432-34; in The Bodley Head Jack London. Ed. Arthur Calder Marshall. 3 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1963-65), 1: 225-46; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1261-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fate of Iciodorum: Being The Story of a City Made Rich By Taxation - David Starr Jordon (1851-1931) (Henry Holt and Co, 1909)
Satire on protectionism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Golden-Faced People. A Story of Chinese Conquest of America" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (War Bulletin, no. 1 (July 19, 1909): Reprint no. 3, 1909)
Dystopia. Satire on U.S. race relations seen through the eyes of a white American subservient to the Chinese. See also 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. in The Crisis (November 1914): 36-42; and in The Prose of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed. Dennis Camp (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1988), 1: 85-93.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Red Dragon or the Flaming Red Devil - [Cyrus Reed] [Teed] (1838-1908) (Guiding Star Pub. House, 1909)
Japan and China overrun the earth but ultimately Christianity and astrology win. See also his The Cellular Cosmogony or The Earth a Concave Sphere. Estero, FL: Guiding Star Pub. House, 1905. A community based on Teed's ideas was established in Florida.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Land of the Blow (After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others.)" - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) (Collected Works, 1909)
Gulliveriana. The protagonist visits a number of countries which provide the basis for wide-ranging satire, particularly on religion, capitalism, and politics.
Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 89-196; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 32-74. According to Joshi and Schultz "The Land of the Blow" is composed of a number of short stories previously published as follows: "Sons of the Fair Star." San Francisco Examiner (June 10, 1888): 11; "An Interview with Gnarmag-zote" (published as "The Golampians." San Francisco Examiner (November 24, 1889): 11; "The Tamtonians: Some Account of Politics in the Uncanny Islands." San Francisco Examiner (November 11, 1888): 9; "Marooned on Ug." San Francisco Examiner (February 20), 1898): 18; "The War with Wug." San Francisco Examiner (September 11, 1898), 20; "The Dog in Ganewag." New York American (May 12, 1904): 14; "A Conflagration in Gharagarod." Cosmopolitan (New York) (February 1906): 457-58; "An Execution in Batrugia." from "A Letter from Btrugumian." New York American (April 30, 1903): 16; "Small Contributions." Cosmopolitan (New York) (May 1907): 96-97; "The Jumjum of Gokeetle-guk" (published as "Trustland: A Tale of a Traveller"). San Francisco Examiner (November 19, 1899): 15; and "The Kingdom of Tortirra." San Francisco Examiner (April 22, 1888): 12.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars. Together with an Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann - James B[radun] Alexander (1831-1914) (Np, 1909)
Presents a variety of pictures of the future. In the main eutopia a reformed government for the United States is shown, which puts more power in the House of Representatives. Strict control of population. People have an instinct to work for the community and to respect others. In one the single tax system is tried and fails. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Morgan Rockefeller's Will; A Romance of 1991-2 - Francis H. Clarke (Clarke-Cree Publishing Company, 1909)
The Rockefeller estate (accumulated for five generations) is donated to the government and is controlled by a paternal brotherhood for the good of the people.
Keywords: US author

The New Columbia or the Re-United States - [George Hamilton] [Phelps] (b. 1854) (New Columbia Publishing Company, 1909)
Eutopia. Public ownership; no private monopolies. Deport all who won't work. United States and Canada united. Get rid of all current money and use labor checks instead. Land cannot be held for speculative purposes, and no rent can be charged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Regime, A.D. 2202 - John Ira Brant (1872-1959) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1909)
Eutopia brought about by ending competition. Basically, uses the model of 1888 Bellamy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise Found and the Society of New Epoch (An Ergocracy) - J. A. Cole M.D. ([Author], 1909)
A detailed eutopia describing a successful community in South America with a stress on cooperation and eugenics. Ergocracy refers to cooperative industrialism.
Keywords: US author

Reciprocity (Social and Economic) In the Thirtieth Century The Coming Co-operative Age. A Forecast of the World's Future - [Thomas] [Kirwan] (1829-1911) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1909)
Detailed socialist eutopia brought about by election. Use of eminent domain with restitution. Strong emphasis on vocational or practical education. All religions are dead. Women sit on juries where women are on trial, but juries are not mixed. Must have high physical, mental, and moral qualifications to be allowed to marry; examined by physicians of one's own sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Redemption - E[phraim] Peterson (Author, 1909)
Proposal for an intentional community with a constitution. City on about 2500 acres plus 5000 acres of agricultural land. All land and property are held in common. No money. No lawyers. Christian but without ministers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Thro' Space - [Clinton A.] [Patten] (New England Druggist Publishing Co., 1909)
All planets are inhabited. Venus is a eutopia, but there is little detail.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To the Poles by Airship or Around the World Endways - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) (Baumgardt Publishing Co, 1909)
Mostly a rather odd book about flying around the world but includes a fairly vague eutopia after Armageddon (See Revelation 16) that stresses religion and scientific development.
2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1910.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vision of New Clairvaux or Ethical Reconstruction Through combination of Agriculture and Handicraft, under Conditions which exercise Emotion, Sentiment and Imagination, with loyalty to a supreme Ideal - Edward Pearson Pressey (b. 1869) (Sherman, French and Company, 1909)
Intentional community modeled on the vision of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), founder of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux. It is called "an ethical experiment station" (19), and stresses the advantages of country life, handicrafts, and small industries. The author, a Unitarian minister, founded such a community in Montague, Massachusetts in the 1890s.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"What Diantha Did" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1909)
The initial development of a eutopia in which a woman creates a for-profit housekeeping business which gradually expands to a complete housing system with professionals doing the cooking, cleaning, and so forth.
Rpt. New York: Charlton, 1910. Rpt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 123-40; and in Carol Farley Kessler’s Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 137-46.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zarlah, the Martian - R[obert] Norman Grisewood (1876-1923) (R. F. Fenno, 1909)
Eutopia. Technologically and ethically advanced civilization on Mars. World government, universal language. Much romance and adventure.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of Religion in the Aquarian Age of the World. Transcribed from the Akashic Records - [Levi H.] [Dowling] (1844-1911) (C.F. Cazenove, 1908)
New Age eutopia in the form of a Holy Book that rewrites the Bible and has Jesus also in India Tibet, Persia, Assyria, Greece, and Egypt. The Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (ACCU) is based on its teachings.
There are many editions with slight variations in the title. A recent edition has the title as The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal. Transcribed from the book of God’s Remembrances known as The Akashic Records. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2009. It is based on London: L.N. Fowler/Los Angeles, CA: E.S. Dowling, 1911, which has a map as a frontispiece that is not in the reprint. The “Introduction” to the 1988 ed. by Eva S. Dowling, Ph.D. Scribe to the Messenger (3-13) gives the title as The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Aunt Mary's Pie Plant" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (Woman's Home Companion, 1908)
Women establish businesses and turn a small town into a eutopia.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 117-28.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Coup D'Etat of 1961" - Henry Dwight Sedgwick [III] (1861-1957) (The New American Type and Other Essays, 1908)
Dystopia of rampant capitalism that results in an effective monarchy in the U.S.
Rpt. American Utopias. Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Curious Fragment" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (Town Topics, 1908)
Dystopia. Depicts an extreme capitalist system in which workers are slaves. For example, teaching a worker to read is a serious offence, as it was regarding slaves in many states in the U.S. South prior to the Civil War. See also 1907 London, 1908 London, "Goliah", and 1909 London.
Rpt. in his When God Laughs and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 257-75; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 79-86 with an editor's note on 79;  in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1279-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Eve and the Evangelist; A Romance of A.D. 2108 - Harry E. Rice (The Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1908)
The Brotherhood of Man rules North America. Christianity. Free education through university. Blacks are in the process of relocating to Liberia. All laws passed by initiative and referendum. Technologically advanced with flight; a submarine tube between Britain and the continent; an electric typewriter that could be connected to another on another continent; trains that reach 300 mph, and other such advances.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Geyserland; Empiricisms in Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded By the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D. [A Tentative Edition] - Richard Hatfield, ed. [written by] (b. 1853) (Ptd. for Richard Hatfield, 1908)
Eutopia. No money. All property common. Eugenics with no marriage or families. Stress on prudential restraint. Elders or a Council of Doctors administers the island; there is also a representative government. Jobs are rotated. Occupation and status revealed by dress. Much of the text is composed of lectures to the reader.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Goliah" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (The Red Magazine, 1908)
Socialist eutopia in which all labor is gradually abolished. It is brought about by a man with a powerful weapon who forces individuals and countries to accept his dictates. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1909 London.
Rpt. in The Bookman (New York) 30.6 (February 1910): 620-32; in his Revolution and Other Essays (London: William Heinemann, 1910), 73-116; as Goliah: A Utopian Essay. Berkeley, CA: Thorp Springs Press, [1973]; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 87-108 with an editor's note on 87; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1201-21.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Liberators; A Story of Future American Politics - Isaac N. Stevens (1858-1920) (B.W. Dodge & Company, 1908)
Eutopia based on the nationalization of utilities and railroads. The attention of the book focuses on one individual who fights throughout the entire time for these changes, including battles in the streets and almost class war. The ultimate conversion of one of the capitalists due to the love of his daughter for this man is the key to getting the railroad bill passed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Century Publishing Co., 1908)
1908 Rosewater, Frank (1856-1934). Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed. Chicago, IL: Century Publishing Co. NN Proposes what he calls “Centrism,” a two-money system, one used by buyers the other by sellers, which is given when receiving money. The system will require that money be spent. No usury. See also 1894, 1908 Rosewater, The Making of a Millennium, 1917, 1920, and 1924 Rosewater.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Making of a Millennium; The Story of a Millennial Realm and Its Laws - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Century Publishing Company, 1908)
Eutopia named Temploria with a new monetary system. See also 1894, 1908 Rosewater, Light of Centuries, 1917, 1920, and 1924 Rosewater.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Man's Machine-Made Millennium" - Hudson Maxim (1853-1927) (Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1908)
Technological eutopia based on the discovery of a method of producing unlimited power. Every want will be filled by pressing a button, except for human companionship and sympathy. No one will need to work except as recreation. No disease. Cities will be replaced by one immense building.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Pilgrim's Progress in Other Worlds; Recounting the Wonderful Adventures of Ulysum Storries and His Discovery of the Lost Star "Eden" - [Marie Antoinette Parish Hough] Martin (1840-1915) (Mayhew Publishing Company, 1908)
Spiritualism. Immature, crude Earthman travels around the planets. Most planets advanced spiritually and socially beyond Earth. The advance is largely due to the improved status of women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Planetary Journeys and Earthly Sketches - George Raffalovich (1880-1958) (Arnold Fairbairns, 1908)
Four connected stories. "A Trip to Another Planet" is about a vaguely described eutopia with no prejudice, a single language, no politics or religion, no marriage and few women or children. "On the Loose" renews contact with the visitors from another planet and is mostly a critique of the Earth. In "The Hardy Annual" another planet is visited that is inhabited by the Greek Empedocles, his descendants, and beings he has created. "The Windmillers" describes the society of that planet, which stresses science and mutual respect. The other stories, two of which were also published in New Age, are not utopian.
New ed. as On the Loose (London: Publishing Office of the Equinox, [1910]), 1-52. Collection of stories, the first four of which were originally published in New Age--“A Trip to a Planet” (1-16) in no. 692 (ns 2.7) (December 14, 1907): 132-33; “On the Loose” (17-30) in no. 695 (ns 2.10) (January 4, 1908): 192-93; “The Hardy Annual” (31-41) in no. 698 (ns 2.13) (January 25, 1908): 252-53); and “The Windmillers” (42-52) as “The Wind-Millers” no. 702 (ns 2.17) (February 22, 1908) 331-32.
Keywords: French author; Male author; UK author; US author

The Smoky God or A Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George Emerson (1856-1918) (Forbes & Co., 1908)
A lost race eutopia of giants who live 600 to 800 years in the center of the earth. The basis is a cloud of electricity ("the smoky god") that drives an advanced technology. Also, the vegetation is luxurious, and there is a thriving agricultural economy.
Rpt. New York: Fieldcrest Publishing Co., 1964; and Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1965; rpt. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, [1965].
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Voyage in the Motive Ship Pelican to the North Pole. Captain Solomon, Commander - E. D. Eldridge (Record Publishing Co, 1908)
The motive ship is a form of airplane which flew from the U.S. to the North Pole, where there is a eutopian city. Technologically advanced. Stress on the beauty and grandeur of the city. People live to an average age of 133 with some living to over 200; this is based on moderation. Much adventure.
Keywords: US author

When Things Were Doing - C[harles] A[llen] Steere (Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1908)
Socialist eutopia. Much of the novel is concerned with the initial revolution, which is simple and bloodless because almost all the workers are already socialists. Rapid transformation of the United States as a result of new technology, which is described in detail, and hard work.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Demetrian - [Edmond] [Kelly] (1851-1909) (Brentano's, 1907)
Romance and adventure set in a collectivist eutopia with problems in 2004. All land owned by the state. No city versus country division; people changed residences from time to time and do physical as well as mental labor. Classical Greek culture plus Christianity. Political parties organized around principles with the main parties being the conservatives who support the current system and the radicals who want to reestablish private property. Eugenics. The novel focuses on the love between a man and a woman who had been “selected” to marry someone chosen by the Cult of Demeter, the consequences of which brought about violence and almost a revolution. The author also wrote Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not, What It Is, and How It May Come. Ed. Florence Kelly. New York: Longman, Green, 1910. In the section “What Socialism Is” (202-411) describes in detail the utopia that socialism could become including a lengthy discussion of the Farm Colonies (263-277) that play an important role in Demetrian. The author was a lawyer who spent most of his life in Europe and was, at his death, Lecturer on Municipal Government at Columbia University. Shortly before his death, he was planning to join Upton Sinclair’s (1878-1968) Helicon Hall community in New Jersey. The Penn State copy includes a photocopy of an excerpt from the chapter on Kelly in James Gilbert, “Edmond Kelly and the Socialism of Order.” Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 (Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 125-158, 301-303.
UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Episode in Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension. To Which Is Added A Outline of the History of UNÆA - C[harles] H[oward] Hinton (1853-1907) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1907)
Satire on contemporary England set in Flatland (See 1884 Abbott) or Astria, as it is called here, which is divided between the savage Scythians and the civilized Unæans, who are the focus of the novel.
Keywords: English author; US author

"Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Taken from His Own Ms" - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) (Harper's Monthly Magazine (New York), 1907)
Satire on heaven as eutopia.
Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909; and Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” In The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2018), 123-74. Editions with additional materials can be found in his Report from Paradise. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952, which includes “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (1-83), “Letter from the Recording Angel” (84-94), “Report from Paradise Introduction” by Dixon Wecter (ix-xxv), and drawings by Charles Locke; and Ray Browne, ed. Mark Twain’s Quarrel with Heaven: “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” and Other Sketches. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1970, which includes an “Introduction” by Browne (11-37), “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (39-110), which is based on the manuscript in the Twain papers at the University of California, Berkeley, “The Late Reverend Sam Jones’s Reception in Heaven” (111-16), with the note “Not published--forbidden by Mrs. Clemens.--S.L.C., “Mental Telegraphy” (117-19), and two brief appendices. This version rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 14-58; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 14-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Industrial Republic; A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907)
Socialist eutopia brought about by the vote rather than revolution. Industries nationalized. Permanent employment. No servants. Simpler life; no luxuries. No private schools. Cooperative farms. Includes a description of the Helicon Home Colony in Englewood, NJ, where the author lived while writing the book.
U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1907.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Iron Heel - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (Macmillan, 1907)
Primarily an anti-capitalist dystopia stressing the struggle against capitalism and the defeat of the revolution. The text, which is written as an account of the struggle by a participant, is accompanied by a "Foreword" and footnotes purporting to have been written seven centuries in the future in 419 B.O.M. (Brotherhood of Man) when a eutopia had finally been established. See also 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, 1908 London “Goliah”, and 1909 London.
Rpt. New York: The Regent Press, [1913]; New York: Sagamore Press, 1957; London: Arco, 1966; London: Journeyman Press, 1974; Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, [1980], with an introduction by H. Bruce Franklin (i-vi); Edinburgh, Scot.: Rebel, Inc., 1999; ed. Jonathan Auerbach. New York: Penguin Books, 2006; and in his Novels and Social Writings (New York: Library of America, 1982), 315-553. “The Iron Heel Chapter 23” was rpt. in The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution. Ed. Jonah Raskin (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), 192-206. Most sources give 1908 as the date of publication, but the copy at the British Library is clearly dated 1907 on both the title and copyright pages. This is considered to be a copy filed for copyright with the first published edition being 1908.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Through the Eye of the Needle; A Romance with an Introduction - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) (Harper and Bros., 1907)
Sequel to 1894 Howells describing an altruistic Arcadian eutopia. The "Introduction" critiques the picture of the U.S. presented in the first volume by the man from Altruria and suggests that the depiction of Altruria in this volume presents a flawed utopia.
Part I had been originally published as the last six (except for part of “Letter IX”) of “Letters of An Altrurian Traveller.” The Cosmopolitan 16 - 17 (April - September 1894): 697-704 with the subtitle “How People live in a Plutocratic City”; 46-58 with the subtitle “Plutocratic Housing”; 221-28 with the subtitle “Dinner, Very Informally”; 352-59 with the subtitle “The Selling and Giving of Dinners”; 495-99 with the subtitle “An Altruistic Plutocrat”; and 610-18 with the subtitle “A Plutocratic Triumph.” The first two letters 16 (November - December 1893): 110-16, 218-32 were first rpt. in Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Fascimiles & Reprints, 1961, which includes all the letters. Letters III, IV, V and part of IX became essays in his Impressions and Experiences. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Critical ed. as The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text Established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 265-442.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When Theodore is King. Extracts Taken From a Complete Account of the New Declaration of the Change From the United States of America To the United Kingdom of America and the Establishing of Theodore on the Throne - [Wayland] [Spaulding] (1850-1918) (Chauncey Holt, 1907)
Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Class conflict followed by a peaceful revolution and the establishment of a monarchy that creates economic and racial equality. The wives and daughters of the rich supported the changes and that is what tipped the balance in support of a peaceful revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Woman's Utopia" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (The Times Magazine, 1907)
A feminist eutopia with Gilman writing "Now is the time for practical utopias" (Kessler 135). The eutopia was brought about through a new religion with a social conscience and, even more, by women no longer being treated as inferiors and becoming involved in politics and the work force. Radical improvement of the environment. Cooperative housekeeping.
To be continued but not. An additional chapter can be found in the Gilman Collection at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Rpt., including the first publication of the additional chapter, in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 133-74 with an editor's note on 131-32.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Anglo-American Alliance. A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future - Gregory Casparian (1856-1942) (Mayflower Presses, 1906)
Eutopia that includes a wide variety of reforms. Odd, in that the main character begins as a woman and becomes a man. Co-education had been abandoned. Women's Clubs are a vehicle to bring about reform but vote to not be involved in politics. Central Africa colonized by the poor and homeless from Britain and the U.S. An American penal colony is established on an island in the Philippines. See https://gizmodo.com/the-first-lesbian-science-fiction-novel-published-in-1-5847805.
Keywords: Armenian author; Male author; US author

As It Is In Heaven - Mary Sparkes Wheeler (1835-1919). (Universal Book and Bible House, 1906)
Heaven as eutopia.
Also published as by One of the Redeemed [pseud.] (Mary Sparks Wheeler). Illus. Philadelphia, PA: P.W. Ziegler Co., 1906.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills - John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929) (The John C. Winston Co., 1906)
A southern preacher becomes concerned with labor conditions, and, while most of the novel is about the problems, the last chapter (633-44) has him building a cotton mill owned by the workers and transforming the town into a eutopia with no child labor, a library and school, and every mill worker having a home. Since the author was an apologist for the South and blatantly racist, the good society only applied to white Americans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Decimon Hûŷdas: A Romance of Mars. A Story of actual experiences in Ento (Mars) many centuries ago given to the Psychic Sara Weiss and by her transcribed under the editorial direction of Spirit Carl De L'Ester - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) (Austin Publishing Co, 1906)
Story of life on Mars related to 1903 Weiss.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Looking Forward; The Phenomenal Progress of Electricity in 1912 - H[arry] W. Hillman (b. 1870) (Valley View Publishing Company, 1906)
Eutopia by 1912 through cooperation and electricity. Based on 1888 Bellamy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Missing Empire: A Tale of the “Kittatinnies” - A[lphonso] M[oser] Gher (b. 1858) (Np, 1906)
Begins with a vision of a peaceful world ruled by a queen who is fair to everyone. Her followers spread throughout the world bringing at least temporary peace. The stress of the book is on motherhood and home life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Scarlet Empire - David M[aclean] Parry (1852-1915) (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906)
Authoritarian dystopia set in Atlantis practicing precise equality, to the extent of limiting the number of words spoken each day. A full quarter of the population are inspectors to ensure that the rules are obeyed. Satire attacking socialism and labor unions.
Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1911]; New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Trust Trusted - W. T. F. Smith M.D. (Primo Press, 1906)
Detailed eutopia brought about by all property being owned by a single combine in which everyone is a shareholder. The combine takes over from the government. Very strict immigration. Religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

As It May Be; A Story of the Future - Bessie Story Rogers (Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1905)
Eutopia of great technological advances, including control of the weather, personal airplanes, and no illness and no death. Religious but no churches (praise God every day and everywhere) (pp. 68-73). Vegetarian and all animals tame. Set in 2905.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ashes of the Beacon. An Historical Monograph Written in 4930" - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) (New York American, 1905)
Satire on the United States from the point of view of a future society with a weak understanding of U.S. history. Self-government considered a contradiction in terms. Satire on politics, the legal system as a whole and the jury system in particular, women, religion, labor relations, and other subjects.
Rpt. in the San Francisco Examiner (February 26, 1905): 44; in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 17-86. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 17-86; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 3-31. The version in The Collected Works incorporates “The Jury in Ancient America: An Historical Sketch Written in the Year of Grace 3687. Translated by Ambrose Bierce.” Cosmopolitan 39.4 (August 1905): 384-88; and “Insurance in Ancient America: Translated from the Work of a Future Historian.” Cosmopolitan Magazine 41.5 (September 1906): 555-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Edinindia; A Tale of Adventure - J[ohn] P. Armour (1852-1902) (G.W. Dillingham, 1905)
Eutopia based on a model of health stressing moderation. Few laws, no lawyers. Arbitration is used to settle disputes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Ideal City for an Ideal People - E[phraim] Peterson ([Author], 1905)
Eutopia of Christian socialism including a proposal for an intentional community.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Life in a Thousand Worlds - Rev. W[illiam] S[huler] Harris (1865-1956) (Pub. By G. Holzapfel, 1905)
Brief pictures of various worlds. Many of the worlds visited are only briefly described with only a few of the characteristics of the inhabitants indicated. Anti-capitalist, particularly concerned with the evils of monopolies and depicting a number of worlds with monopolies. Various worlds are eutopias based on socialist principles, a rigidly enforced moral system, a national health system, or technology. There is repeated stress on the need for non-combustible building materials. Concerned with the religious practices of the planets described. Sexual purity is important. The concluding chapter describes Heaven.
Sold by subscription only. Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company, 1905; Illus. Sold by subscription only. Boston, MA: James B. Earle & Co., 1906; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971, which reprints the Minter Company edition. All the versions are identical except for the title page.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Other Worlds; A Story Concerning the Wealth Earned by American Citizens and Showing How It Can Be Secured to Them Instead of to the Trusts - Lena Jane Fry (Author, 1905)
Socialist eutopia with housing and food at cost. Well-equipped facilities for children. Six-hour day for nurses.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Revolution: The Foreword of a Proposed World Movement to Solve the Labor and other Social Problems of Our Strenuous Times - [William T.] [Love] (The Aragain Co, 1905)
Mostly a critique of contemporary society but includes a eutopia based on cooperation and a Model City. Workers will own all industries. No private ownership of farmland. He says that he will build a manufacturing city near Niagara Falls and purchased land on which to build the city, land which became the notoriously polluted Love Canal site. He says that more details will be given in three forthcoming books: Sargasso: A Tale of Anarchists, Shipwreck, Mystery and the Development of a New Civilization on an Island supposed to have been discovered in the Sargasso Sea--the Great Dead Sea of the Atlantic Ocean; The Rejuvenation of Pittsburgh; and The Way: Through Revolution to a New Civilization--the Millennium of Prophecy. None of them were published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Titan, Son of Saturn. The Coming World Emperor - Joseph Birkbeck Burroughs, M.D. (1854-1921) (The Emeth Publishers, 1905)
Religious eutopia. The first twenty-eight chapters (twenty-nine in the 10th ed.) is on Armageddon (See Revelation 16), but Chapter XXIX (XXX in the 10th ed.) is on “The Kingdom of God” where the Saints rule. In the 10th ed., there are four appendices (409-52) in which the author gives supporting evidence.
10th and later eds. rev. with the added subtitle A Story of the Other Christ. Oberlin, OH: The Emeth Publishers, 1914. The manuscript is at Oberlin College.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The World Above; A Duologue - Martha Foote Crow (1854-1924) (Blue Skys Press, 1905)
Play about a mechanical dystopian world underground and search by two lovers for a way out.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Born Again - Alfred [W.] Lawson (1869-1954) (Wox, Conrad Co, 1904)
Eutopia. Technology, religion. The novel begins with the discovery of a survivor of an ancient civilization called the Sagemen, which was highly advanced intellectually, morally, and technologically. Their fundamental principle was "Selfishness is the root of all evil; eradicate selfishness from all human beings and the earth will be heaven" (62. Original emphasis). The latter part of the novel describes attempts to convince the world to follow their teachings. Lawson founded a religion and a community in Des Moines, IA and followers still exist. During the 1930s Lawson published a newspaper, The Benefactor, in Detroit that had some Polish issues.
Rpt. Detroit, MI: Humanity, [1931?]; and Detroit, MI: Humanity Benefactor Foundation, nd.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Cast Away at the Pole” - William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) (The Argosy, 1904)
Lost race story that includes a dystopia (initially seen as a eutopia by one of the characters) in which intelligence rules/enslaves strength.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dwellers in Vale Sunrise. How They Got Together and Lived Happy Ever After. A Sequel to "The Natural Man"; Being an Account of the Tribes of Him - J[ohn] W[illia]m Lloyd (1857-1940) (The Ariel Press, 1904)
Eutopia of the simple life in community. See 1902 Lloyd The Natural Man for a novel about one man living in tune with nature who inspires the establishment of a community. See also 1900 Lloyd "The Story of Zendos."
Part was published anonymously as Two Letters Telling How They Lived in Vale Sunrise. Where a Colony of Comrades of the Co-operative Fellowship Being Free Socialists Dwell Most Happily. Westwood, MA: The Ariel Press, [1904].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The First American King - George Gordon Hastings (Smart Set Publishing Co, 1904)
Dystopia. US in 1975 with a king and the concentration of capital into a few hands. Technologically advanced. A new republic is suggested to replace the monarchy and overthrow the current economic system.
New ed. London/New York: Smart Set Publishing Co., 1905.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Harris-Ingram Experiment - Charles E[dward] Bolton M.A. (1841-1901) (Burrows Brothers Co., 1904)
Eutopia. Successful cooperative scheme for a steel mill with a stress on the need for labor and capital to work together.  See also his “A Model Village of Homes.” In his A Model Village of Homes and Other Papers (Boston, MA: L.C. Page & Co., 1901), 11-32. Rpt. from his “A Suburban Model Village.” The American Monthly Review of Reviews 20.5 (November 1899): 573-76. NN
Keywords: Male author; US author

Medical Union Number Six - William Harvey King (b. 1861) (The Monograph Press, 1904)
Dystopia. Anti-union tract. Unionization, specifically of doctors, thirty years in the future. Doctors work six hours only and only on a narrowly defined part of the body; they must allow the patient to die rather than break these rules. Medical education is no longer required, and no medical journals exist. Independence prohibited. In response to a campaign against it, the union releases diseases that kill sixty million people and destroys the economy. Killing a scab is not a crime.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery - Geo[rge] W[illiam] Bell (1838-1907) (The New Zealand Times, 1904)
Two eutopias are presented. One is a fictionalized account of New Zealand (Zelania in the text; Zealandia in the Table of Contents) as a eutopia, which comprises the bulk of the book. Mr. Oseba is an inhabitant of the center of the earth, a highly advanced technological eutopia. The theory of John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) that the earth is hollow and can be entered at the poles is used to characterize the center of the earth. The eutopia in the center of the earth is called Cavitorus, with one nation called Shadowas. The main city is Eurania. Terribly written.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

The Old Mountain Hermit - James F. Raymond (b. 1826) (Broadway Publishing Co, 1904)
An odd novel which begins with the discovery of ancient ruins, in which Adam and Eve, the serpent, and Cain are all buried. Tablets discovered in the ruins retrace the history of Paradise. A eutopia 500 years in the future is presented in which direct democracy has resulted in fewer laws, people are much better educated, much government has simply disappeared, better knowledge resulting in better health means fewer doctors, and there are no clergy. The novel ends with a tour of the inhabited planets. Much adventure. Much spiritualism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sky Blue: A Tale of the Iron Horse and of the Coming of Civilization - Olin J. Ross (Author, 1904)
Eutopia. World united into a great new civilization by the railroad, which destroys slavery, helps bring prohibition, and frees women. Eugenics. Disease ended.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Song of To-morrow" - George D[avis] Herron (1862-1925) (The Comrade (New York), 1904)
Poem suggesting the eutopia to come after the revolution. Slightly over half of the poem is on problems of the present. See also the author's The Day of Judgment. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1904.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Struggle for Existence - Walter Thomas Mills M.A. (1856-1942) (International School of Social Economy, 1904)
A treatise but pages 383-585, constituting fifteen chapters of a section entitled "Current Problems of Public Interest and Socialism", are a combined criticism of the current situation and a presentation of socialism as a desirable alternative. Discusses most basic social institutions. See also 1894 Mills.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Angels' Diary; and, Celestion Study of Man - [Mrs.] [J. A. Seeds Samson] [Lender] [Probable author] (Merchants Publishing Co., 1903)
The first part of the book is a visit to Paradise, both before and after death, with brief visits to other planets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars; Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap ed. [written by] (1851-1917) (Irving Press, 1903)
Socialist eutopia. Spirit world but become flesh and blood. Simple life. No sex. See also 1910 Gratacap.
Also published New York: Brentano's, 1903.
Keywords: Male author; US author

D'Mars Affinity: Romance of Love's Final Test in Time and Tide - J[ames] M[oses] Bloomer (1844?-1923) (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co, 1903)
Mostly romance and spiritualism but includes a cooperative eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The End of the World" - Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) (McClure's Magazine, 1903)
A complacent eutopia with an easily enforced international law, little news, and one language is unable to respond to a potential catastrophe. See also 1900 Newcomb.
Rpt. in The London Magazine 15 (August 1905): 143-152; The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories: An Anthology of American Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and L[loyd] W. Currey (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976), 181-95; in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 34-44 with an editor’s note on 33; and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 151-68, with an editor’s note on 149.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Henry Ashton; A thrilling Story of How the Famous Co-operative Commonwealth was established in Zanland - R[obert] A[ddison] Dague (b. 1841) (Author, 1903)
Eutopia of Christian socialism. Much of the book is an adventure story and romance, but it ends with the successful establishment of a socialist community on an island of a million inhabitants. See his Ten Reasons Why I Am a Socialist. 3rd ed. Milwaukee, WI: The Milwaukee Leader, [1933?] (WHi only).
Keywords: Male author; US author

His Pseudoic Majesty or The Knights of the Fleece - William Augustus Smith (Liberty Pub. Co, 1903)
Satire on American emulation of Europe with a king and court established in the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ideal City - Cosimo Noto M.D. (b. 1871?) (Author, 1903)
Socialist eutopia set in New Orleans with a major emphasis on health and medical care. U.S. and Europe united.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Italian author; Male author; US author

Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) (The Bradford Press, 1903)
Spiritualism. Mars is mostly a better, more spiritually advanced society, but there are some people susceptible to the temptations of power. See also 1906 Weiss.
Later published as Journeys to the Planet Mars or Our Mission to Ento (Mars). Being a record of visits made to Ento (Mars) by Sara Weiss, Psychic, under the guidance of a Spirit Band, for the purpose of conveying to the Entoans, a knowledge of the Continuity of Life. Transcribed Automatically by Sara Weiss under the editorial direction of (Spirit) Carl De L’Ester. Rochester, NY: The Austin Publishing Co., 1905; and Eighteen Visits to Mars. Ed. Winthrop Allen Rember. New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Chapter 2 “Special Features” rpt. in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 28-39.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Monarch Billionaire - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) (J.S. Ogilvie, 1903)
Conflict between capitalists and idealists. The latter barely win, and this success leads to a cooperative eutopia where owners and workers work together for the benefit of all. Gradually all businesses go to the people. See also 1893 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Epoch As Developed by the Manufacture of Power - George S[hattuck] Morison (1842-1903) (Houghton Mifflin, 1903)
Non-fiction eutopia. Much of the book is prediction, but collectively the predictions amount to a global eutopia where the availability of inexpensive power eliminates ignorance, superstition, poverty, many languages, and many governments, and brings about significant changes in the rest.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Story of Atlantis. Written down for the Hermetic Brotherhood - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) (Hermetic Book Concern, 1903)
Atlantis as eutopia including details about the island, which in this version is in the Caribbean, its institutions, and its people.
A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Prince Hagen; A Phantasy - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (L.C. Page & Co, 1903)
Prince Hagen is the heir of the Nibelungs as described by Richard Wagner (1813-83) in his operas. On becoming King of the Nibelungs, he comes to control the world’s economy and deliberately destroys the financial basis of the world. Revolt.
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1910. Rpt. without the subtitle in his Plays of Protest: The Naturewoman, The Machine, The Second-Story Man, Prince Hagen (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), 155-226, with a Preface by Sinclair on i-vi; and New York: Arno Press, 1978. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Also published as Prince Hagen; A Drama in Four Acts. Privately Ptd. [1921] (First performed 1909); and as Prince Hagen. Little Blue Book No. 633. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co. [1924].
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Round Trip to the Year 2000 or a Flight Through Time" - William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) (The Argosy (New York), 1903)
Satire and dystopia. Trusts, such as the Air Trust which sells air for breathing (Compare to 1915 England) , women who are too assertive for the protagonist, men and women dressing alike, thought control, and robots that revolt. A sequel is “Castaways of the Year 2000.” The Argosy (New York) 70.3 - 71.3 (October 1912 - February 1913): 582-98, 871-91; 152-70, 405-24, 673-88, in which some from 2000 return to 1900 and then go back to 2000 to rescue the rest..
Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Street & Smith, 1903. The Adventure Library No. 4. Rpt. New York: Street and Smith, 1925. The Adventure Library No. 120, which is rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with an unpaged introduction "A Cook's Tour of Tomorrow" by Sam[uel] Moskowitz, who is unaware of the 1903 Street and Smith edition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Thousand Years Hence or Startling Events in the Year A.D. 3000. A Trip to Mars. Incidents by the Way - Ira S. Bunker (Author, 1903)
Eutopia of Christian Science and technological advances.
Keywords: US author

The Travels of John Wryland; being an account of His Journey to Tibet, of His Founding a Kingdom on the Island of Palti, and of His War Against the Ne-ar-Bians - [Henry J.] [O'Neill] (International News Company, 1903)
Satire on paternalistic government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Walda; A Novel - Mary Holland Kinkaid (1861-1948) (Harper Brothers, 1903)
Novel of a very conservative German religious intentional community with problems. The community is trying to achieve a good life following the dictates of their religion, but these dictates are so narrow that a dystopia is produced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"2002": Childlife One Hundred Years From Now - Laura Dayton Fessenden (b. 1924) (Jamieson-Higgins, 1902)
Children's book describing a future technological eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Atalantis. A Novel - Lowell Howard Morrow (1870-1951) (Eastern Publishing Co, 1902)
An experiment designed to build a eutopia in the ocean. Initially it appears to have succeeded in that the island of twenty-five acres was built in 1894 (and is sixty-five years old) with fifteen acres for buildings and the rest parks and gardens, with more gardens on the roofs of buildings. The idea was to have a country outside the control of any national jurisdiction. Equality. Low taxes. Very few laws. Freedom of religion. Free love. Gambling is legal, even encouraged. Became a center of corruption.
Based on a note and sketch "The New Atalantis." Harper's Weekly 38.1957 (June 23, 1894): 596 describing a proposal to build an "ocean-hotel". Reproduced in the "Preface".
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Constitution of Carnegia" - James Raymond Perry (1863-1953) (North American Review, 1902)
Eutopia. At the age of sixty all property is given to the state and support is provided for life with people working as and at what they choose. No military because it is too expensive.
Rpt. Current Literature 33 (September 1902): 269-71.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day of Prosperity; A Vision of the Century to Come - Paul Devinne (G.W. Dillingham, 1902)
Christian socialist eutopia. Generally, gender equality. Men and women elected by the same sex for most public offices. Something close to unisex dress (no fashion). Everyone lives in hotels, which are managed by women.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. UK ed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Rpt. London: Greening, 1903.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Dream of the Twenty-First Century" - Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874-1967) (Arena (Boston, MA), 1902)
Eutopia. Government ownership of basic resources and utilities brought about by women's votes. Compulsory education through twenty-two. Initiative and referendum. Everyone works an average five hour day. No trusts. Civil service. Rational religion based on the moral teachings of Jesus. Marriage universal and two children is the norm. See the author’s The New Womankind. New York: Broadway Publishers, 1904.
Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 207-11 with an editor’s note on 205-06; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 126-30.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age - J[ohn] William Lloyd (1857-1940) (Benedict Prieth, 1902)
Eutopia which begins with an individual living in tune with nature on a farm called Vale Sunrise. The final chapter moves from individual to a community (who call themselves Simplicists). This community, which has "no codes, no laws, no rigid customs, no officers", can be seen as transitional to 1904 Lloyd. See also 1900 Lloyd.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History - C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge B.S., M.D. (1847-1908) (Utopia Publishing Company, 1902)
The US Army is used to revitalize the West through massive public works projects and, in doing so, creates a cooperative eutopia that spreads to the rest of the country. Gives very detailed descriptions of and plans for the specific projects, including the use of irrigation in the deserts of Southern California. See also 1898 Wooldridge.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Affair in the South Seas: A Story of Romantic Adventure - Leigh H[adley] Irvine (1863-1942) (T. Fisher Unwin/San Francisco, CA: Payot, Upham, & Co. [Typography by the T.C. Russell Company, San Francisco]., 1901)
Colony called Atollia in the South Seas based on the structure of the U.S. government. Good relations with the indigenous inhabitants, including intermarriage. The establishment of agriculture and democracy result in a conservative eutopia with no very rich or very poor. Stress on limitations on state power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Back to the Soil or From Tenement House to Farm Colony. A Circular Solution to an Angular Problem - Bradley Gilman (1857-1932) (L .C. Page & Co, 1901)
Eutopia brought about by the establishment of farm colonies that have similarities to those proposed in 1890 Booth. The book begins by describing the conditions of the poor living in cities, and then turns to the establishment of what the author calls “Circle City,” with detailed plans for how it should be laid out and of the housing. It must be near a city, have good agricultural land and water. Includes a chapter on education including the type of teachers needed. There is an “Introduction” by Edward Everett Hale (ix-xiii).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Black Ocean - Rev. T[homas] McGrady (1863-1907) (Standard Publishing Co, 1901)
Most of the novel is a critique of capitalism and the struggle to change the system, but a socialist eutopia is presented at the end with freedom of religion, very little work, and the opportunity for lifelong education.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Also published as Beyond the Black Ocean: A Socialist Story. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1901. Library of Progress No. 36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The First Years of the Redeemed After Death: A New Unfolding in Theology and in the Christian Life and Destiny Here and Hereafter. With Some Connected Enquiries - William Clarke Ulyat A.M. (Abbey Press, 1901)
Heaven as eutopia. Paradise is the first stage after death; those who do well there move on to higher heavens.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Glance Ahead; Being a Christmas Tale of A.D. 3568" - J[ohn] K[endrick] Bangs (1862-1922) (Over the Plum-Pudding, 1901)
Satire. The entire Western Hemisphere is the United States; Europe and Asia are now combined; all African Americans have returned to Africa, which is united, and Africans are now mercenaries for the rest of the world. Technological advances. Immortality; no births. All businesses are controlled by the government and make huge profits.
Rpt. in Ancestral Voices: Anthology of Early Science Fiction. Ed. Douglas Menville and R[obert] Reginald [pseud.] [Michael Roy Burgess] (New York: Arno Press, 1974), with each story using its original pagination.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and some Romantic Love Affairs amid Strange Surroundings. The Whole Recounted by one Nicholas Chase, Promoter of the Expedition, whose Reports have been Arranged for Publication by Albert Bigelow Paine - Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) (J.F. Taylor, 1901)
The last chapter describes a eutopia at the South Pole. Telepathy. No technology and opposed to technological development. Few laws, no money.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Greatest Thing in the World" - [William Gilbert] Van Tassel Sutphen (1861-1945) (The Nineteenth Hole: Being Tales of the Fair Green, 1901)
Humor set in 1999. Golf has so swept the U.S. that in 1950 the presidencies of the country and the U.S. Golfing Association have been combined under the latter title. In 1952 Congress passed the Compulsory Golf Bill for all citizens, both men and women, between eighteen and forty-five. Most people played golf full time and could earn a living and pension doing so. Huge technical advances in clubs and balls. Ends with golfing being overthrown in a revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In The World Celestial" - T[homas] A[ugustus] Bland M.D. (b. 1830) (Alliance Publishing Co./Plymouth Publishing Co., 1901)
Eutopia set in heaven. The stage of Heaven where the novel takes place is preparatory for higher heavens, but those who move on sometimes come back to visit. The city was founded by Zoroaster, was once led by Jesus, and is now led by a legislative council elected by all adults for a five year term. While non-Caucasians participate as equals in the world congress from their different nations, "they are not in any way the peers of those of the Caucasians" (74). Entertainment is mostly lectures by illustrious people of the past. . The author says that he is telling the story as told to him by a friend and that it is a true story. See also the author’s The People’s Party Shot and Shell. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1892. Vol. 4 of the Library of Progress.
2nd ed. Chicago, IL: T.A. Bland, 1902, with and introduction by Rev. H. W. Thomas, D.D., President of The Worlds Liberal Congress of Religions. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: T.A. Bland & Co., 1904.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Intermere - William Alexander Taylor (1837-1912) (XX. Century Publishing Company, 1901)
A technological, property-owning eutopia set in a re-surfaced Atlantis. Pure democracy. Labor honored. Simple life. Communicate by thought.
Rpt. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1969; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Man from Mars - Carra DePuy [Hess] Henley (1869-1905) (Ptd. by B.R. Baumgardt, 1901)
The dead go to Mars, which is an Arcadian eutopia. Very ethereal with little social content. Temples to learning. Many inventions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mark Chester: or A Mill and A Million. A Tale of Southern California - Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903) (Benner of Light Publishing Co, 1901)
A poverty-stricken young man proves worthy of divine intervention and is told where to find a large gold deposit. He uses some of the money to establish a city called Millennial to house the homeless. He also built a large Spiritual Temple there. Spiritualists in the area then built more cities to help the poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Queen of Appalachia - Joe [Joseph] H. Borders (b. 1858) (Abbey Press, 1901)
Eutopia of an Arcadian monarchy combined with advanced technology. Mostly adventure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Secret History of Eddypus, the World Empire" - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) (Mark Twain's Fables of Man, 1901)
Satire on Christian Science written in 1901-1902. The author projects the domination of the United States by Christian Science at various places in his Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Rpt. without the subtitle Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993. U.K. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. A critical ed. in What Is Man? Ed. Paul Bender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 215-397, 553-77, 651-705.
Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 176-223; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 176-223.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Thyra; A Romance of the Polar Pit - Robert Ames Bennet (1870-1954) (Henry Holt, 1901)
Mostly lost race and adventure but includes a brief description of an artistic, communal eutopia at the North Pole based on Norse Mythology.
Rpt. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, 1974; and New York: Arno Press, 1978. UK ed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1901.
Keywords: Male author; US author