"Isle of Madness" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
A dystopia that literally reflects the title.
Keywords: Female author; US author

It Can't Happen Here. A Novel - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1935)
Dystopia of Fascism in the United States. The novel focuses on a small-town New England journalist and his reactions to the rise and success of a U.S. fascist movement, its complete abrogation of the U.S. constitution, its violent suppression of anyone thought to be a less than wholehearted supportive, the establishment of concentration camps, and the beginnings of a resistance movement. The U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher’s note saying that while the title It Can’t Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also. There is a theatrical version by Lewis and John C. Moffitt as It Can’t Happen Here: A New Version, by Sinclair Lewis of the Play by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis from the Lewis Novel. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1938. Produced by the Federal Theater Project in 1936 and re-written from those scripts. A new theatrical version written by Tony Taccone (b. 1951) and Bennett S. Cohen and directed by Lisa Peterson was produced at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2016 with a new production on You Tube October 13 - November 13, 2020. Also in October 2020 National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and other theaters produced a virtual, recorded reading of the 1936 script in Yiddish, English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Rpt. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press, [1936?]; New York: Triangle Books, 1939; New York: Dell, 1961; and without the subtitle New York: New American Library, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Michael Meyer (v-xv). The UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher's note saying that while the title It Can't Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Machine" - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) (Astounding Stories, 1935)
A flawed utopia. In this case the flaw is complete dependence on a machine intelligence. First story in a sequence, followed by “The Invaders.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.4 (June 1935): 54-67 in which aliens invade Earth and, while settling the planet, work to reinvigorate the humans who had become so dependent of machine intelligence; and “Rebellion.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.6 (August 1935): 64-85 in which humans, with their intelligence revived, expel the aliens.
Rpt. in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 53-68.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Man With Four Dimensional Eyes” - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Wonder Stories, 1935)
The man of the title is blind in our world but can see in an alternative high-tech eutopian world that he has seen since he was a child and describes he some detail.
Keywords: Female author; US author

My First Days in the White House. Dedicated to the Lazarus of Today and Tomorrow - Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) (The Telegraph Press, 1935)
Presentation of what Long (1893-1935) intended to do if elected President, including major government projects, particularly his Share the Wealth program that was designed to limit and redistribute wealth and to assist agriculture, all of which will produce a much better society. About half the novel is about the details of getting his economic plan accepted, defended in court, and implemented.
Rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nightmare Number Three” - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) (The New Yorker, 1935)
A revolt by machinery against humans. Animals and vegetation come to their aid.
Rpt. in The Complete Works of Stephen Vincent Benét. Volume One Poetry (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942), 452-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Of Lunar Kingdoms; A Group of Informal Essays" - Henry Lovejoy Wilson (Dissertation. State University of Iowa., 1935)
A discussion of the elements of an aristocratic eutopia on the moon. Some humor, some fantasy, but mostly a general discussion of principles.
Published without the subtitle Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1937.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Out of the Night: A Biologist’s View of the Future - H[ermann] J[oseph] Muller (1890-1967) (Vanguard, 1935)
While most of the book discusses the current poor state of the human race, the end of the book moves to what humanity can become if it chooses to take control of its own destiny through science, and eugenics specifically.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1984.
Keywords: Male author; US author

President Randolph as I Knew Him. An account of the historic events of the 1950's and 1960's written from the personal experiences of the secretary to the President - John Francis Goldsmith (Dorrance, 1935)
Eutopia of a United Nations of the World with most of the novel about the rise to power of the man who brought the eutopia into being and the struggle to get it accepted. Includes a constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution (423-48).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pygmalion's Spectacles" - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum (1902-35) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
The story is standard science fiction about a new invention, but the protagonist using the invention appears to visit an earthly paradise.
Rpt. in his A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales (Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974), 160-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Road of Ages - Robert Nathan (1894-1985) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1935)
Set in a future in which every country in the world except Mongolia have expelled all Jews. The novel takes places as the expelled Jews gather together and travel by land to Mongolia. During the travel, cliches form based on political ideologies and start trying to maneuver so that they will hold power when everyone reaches Mongolia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Woman's Independence - Claire Myers [Wanders] Spotswood (1896-1983) (Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1935)
Feminist eutopia using the allegorical form following the protagonist from Smug Harbor in the Land of Err where only Helfish (Half-truths) is spoken to Nithking (Thinking) where Reasonese is spoken. Explores questions of sexuality, marriage, divorce, and the position of women in society. Includes a section on an attempt to establish an egalitarian, simple life community called New Chimera that satirizes such attempts. Female author.
Rpt. as by Claire Myers Spotswood Owens. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993, with an “Afterword” (459-96), “Glossary” (497-508), and “Works Cited” (509-11) by Miriam Kalman Harris .
Keywords: Female author; US author

We, People of America And How We Ended Poverty. A True Story of the Future - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (National EPIC League, 1935)
This volume includes a history of Sinclair's run for governor and a future scenario in which the EPIC program wins support nationally. On EPIC, See also 1935 Sinclair, I, Governor of California, and his The Epic Plan for California [New York: Farrar & Rinehart], 1934, which includes, separately paged, I, Governor of California. A True Story of the Future (64 pp.), Epic Answers (32 pp.), The Lie Factory Starts (64 pp.), and Immediate Epic (35 pp.).
The copy at L has London: T. Werner Laurie pasted over the publishing information.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World As I Want It" - Clarence True Wilson (1872-1939) (The Forum and Century (New York), 1935)
Eutopia in a series of reforms. No depressions, no war, and no racism. Prohibition. Reduce cost of government. Religion but with freedom of religion. Universal primary education. Country life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World As I Want It" - Gutzon [de la Mothe] Borglum (1867-1941) (The Forum and Century (New York), 1935)
Eutopia presented through a series of reforms. Free homeowners of debt and prohibit mortgages that might endanger home ownership. Build assembly places in the country to be used as schools during the day and gathering places for adults outside school hours. Improved physical education. Spend money to enhance culture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Art Young’s Inferno: A Journey Through Hell Six Hundred Years After Dante - Art [Arthur Henry] Young (1866-1943) (Delphic Studios, 1934)
Satan has lost control of Hell to U.S. capitalists. The section “It’s Good for Us” was originally entitled (Utopians and Their Critics” (50 in the Delphic Studios edition; 33-34 in the Fantagraphics edition). The third of Young’s excursions to Hell. The first was Hades Up to Date. Chicago, IL: F. J. Schulte & Co., 1892. https://archive.org/details/hadesuptodate00youn. Rpt. as Hell Up to Date: The Reckless Journey of R. Palasco Drant, Newspaper Correspondent, Through the Infernal Regions, As Reported by Himself with illustrations by Art Young. Chicago, IL: The Schulte Publishing Co., 1893. This depicts the various people condemned to Hell with short captions. The second was Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt: A Series of Pictures and Notes of Travel Illustrating the Adventures of a Modern Dante in the Infernal Regions Also Other Pictures of the Same Subterranean World by Arthur Young. New York: Zimmerman’s, 1901. Much the same as the first and includes some of the same illustrations and text. Some were previously published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, the New York Evening Journal, and Judge. The author was a well-known cartoonist and socialist.
Repub. with the previously unpublished original art as Art Young’s Inferno: Original Art Edition. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2020, with Steven Heller, “Forever Art Young” (xi-xii), Glenn Bray, “Art Young’s Revised Inferno” (xv), and Art Young: An American” (xvii-xx). xx + 164 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Blind: The Story of the World Tragedy - William H[enry] McMasters (1874-1968) (Stratford Co., 1934)
The novel is presented as a history of “the greatest tragedy that ever befell humanity” and “the reclamation and re-organization problems that developed from it” ([vii]) during which, passing through the tail of a comet in 1950 everyone on Earth became instantly blind. The blindness only last twenty-one days, and there is widespread destruction, all but around five percent of the world's population die, and the survivors are mostly starving. The focus of the novel, though, is on the recovery in which, under the leadership of MacKenzie, the general welfare of the entire population is the mantra, and a worldwide eutopia of equality emerges. Stress on the role of women in the recovery. Various racist comments regarding Blacks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cankered Gold - Eugene L[eslie] Howard (b. 1903) (Author, 1934)
Non-fiction eutopia based on the elimination of capitalism as it is currently used and replacing them with a cooperative economic system (The United States Incorporated) and checks and small change only, which, he argues, will eliminate fraud and crime. Prices fixed. Free medical care. Production for use rather than profit. No taxes. See also 1949 Howard.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Castaway - James Gould Cozzens (1903-78) (Random House., 1934)
An odd modern dystopian Robinsonade and last man tale in which a man shelters in a department store after an unidentified catastrophe but is unable to take advantage of the riches surrounding him.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Christopher Brand; Looking Forward - [Mary Estella] [Yerex] (1867-1947) (Wetzel Pub. Co, 1934)
Socialist eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. National ownership, no money, and everyone works. Emphasis is on the struggle for the acceptance of the scheme.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Doctor Arnoldi - Tiffany [Ellsworth] Thayer (1902-59) (Julian Messner, 1934)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Enslaved Brains" - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65); [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1934)
Authoritarian dystopia controlled by scientists. Eugenic laws control breeding.
Slightly rev. in Fantastic Story Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1951): 9-85. Repub. New York: Avalon, 1965.
Keywords: Male author; US author

His First Million Women - George [T.] Weston (1880-1968) (Farrar Rinehart, 1934)
Humor and satire in which all men but one die.
UK ed. as Comet 'Z' [Comet Zed on the dust jacket]. London: Methuen, 1934. 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1935.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The History of Lewistonia - David Ewin Cooke (Cooke Pub. Co, 1934)
Toy city (land between two cherry trees) developed for children. The imagined land is an island off the coast of Florida. A government was formed with a flag and a coat of arms. Stamps were issued. A newspaper was started. Colonies were established. There were wars with pirates followed by a war with Russia. Following the “Red War,” there was a period of great prosperity and building. Three Lewistonia years is equal to fifty actual years. Lead standard for money. Includes a constitution (209-19).
Keywords: Male author; US author

If Tomorrow Comes - Louis Aaron Reitmeister (1903-75) (The Walden Press, 1934)
Detailed eutopia described by an accidental visitor from another planet, which has no laws, but it has equality of the sexes and suburban life. Much of the text is taken up with a tour of Earth and a criticism of human institutions, particularly religion. He published an extended attack on religion in A Brief Essay about the Gods and My Friends. Great Neck, NY: The Walden Press, 1948. 57 pp.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Intrigue on the Upper Level: A Story of Crime, Love, Adventure and Revolt in A.D. 2050 - Thomas Temple Hoyne (1875-1946) (Reilly and Lee, 1934)
Dystopia with a rigid class division between the employed and the unemployed. Luxury and dissipation versus homelessness. General theme of machines replacing human labor. Revolt succeeds and a better society will come, and there is a description of eutopian New City established by the current dictator.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mankind United. A Challenge to "Mad Ambition" and "The Money Changers" Accompanied by an Invitation To The World's "Sane" Men and Women - [Arthur H.] [Bell] (The International Registration Bureau (Pacific Coast Division) of North America, 1934)
Detailed eutopia. Mankind United presents itself as a Christian organization intended to discover the causes of war, human suffering, and poverty. In the future, people will work four hours a day, four days a week, eight months of the year through a Universal Service Corporation.
4th ed. [Oakland, CA]: The International Registration Bureau (Pacific Coast Division) of North America, 1938.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Me-Phi Bo-Sheth (If The Gods So Decide). An Undated Manuscript - Dr. Charles M[ephibosheth] Bradley (1864-1944) (Chicago Printing & Pub. Co, 1934)
Extremely detailed eutopia. New coinage, clock, and calendar. Highly structured with permits required for most activities. Everyone is given a stipend by the state.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Model State: Making a Utopia of California - Gilbert F. Stevenson (Gilbert F. Stevenson, 1934)
Anti-capitalist non-fiction strongly influence by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). The author is primarily concerned with monetary policy but also proposes a number of reforms designed to alleviate the effects of the depression. These include transforming the state militia into an industrial army for men 16 to 18. The last chapter, "The Altruistic Age" (109-23), describes the eutopia that the reforms will produce. Collective ownership. Everyone works their share and receives their share.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Old Faithful" - Raymond Z[inke] Gallun (1911-94) (Astounding Stories (New York), 1934)
Authoritarian dystopia set on Mars. Mars lacks food and water but is technologically advanced. The inhabitants of Mars are without emotion. Unless they are granted an extension based on the value of their work, they must die after a specified number of years to make room for the young. The protagonist, 774, must die because his work, the study of Earth, is considered unimportant. First in a loosely linked series. See also “The Son of Old Faithful.” Astounding Stories (New York) 15.5 (July 1935): 8-34; and “Child Of the Stars.” Astounding Stories (New York) 17.2 (April 1936): 10-43.
Rpt. in Imagination Unlimited. Ed. Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952), 146-93; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 268-75 with an editor’s note on 268. U.K. ed. (London: The Bodley Head, 1953), 138-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Thirty Years From Now - Emery, Robert C (R.C. Emery, 1934)
Dystopia of Communism in Minnesota.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Twilight" - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) (Astounding Stories, 1934)
The dystopia of the waning of the human race. Most cities are uninhabited except by machines. Humans are becoming sterile and very few children are born.
. Rpt. in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 19-37.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World As I Want It" - Norman [Mattoon] Thomas (1884-1968) (The Forum and Century (New York), 1934)
Personal essay. Socialist. "I want a fellowship of free men who have learned the secret of the shared abundance which the modern machine makes possible. I want a world rid for once and for all of poverty, economic insecurity, and the menace of war. Such a world would release unbelievable energies for the discovery of truth and the creation of beauty."
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World As I Want It" - Charles A[ustin] Beard (1874-1948) (The Forum (New York), 1934)
Eutopia of a workers' republic or "a republic in which industry is carried out in ways conducive to virtue and the fruits thereof are distributed in ways calculated to favor the good life for all--that is, without the degradation of poverty and unemployment on the one side or the degradation of luxury, rivalry, and conspicuous waste on the other" (233). Decentralized industry. The U.S. is a park.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World As I Want It" - Paul U[nderwood] Kellogg (1879-1958) (The Forum and Century (New York), 1934)
Essay. New Deal reforms more broadly applied guaranteeing work and earning power. Suggests that scientific advances be specifically applied to production to stabilize employment and purchasing power and avoid future depressions, establish public rather than private authority over natural resources, greater workplace democracy, protection for unions, and control of prices.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World As I Want It" - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (The Forum and Century (New York), 1934)
Personal essay. Standard Sinclair--"I desire a world from which exploitation of man by man has been abolished and in which it is impossible for a man to consume wealth without having produced an equivalent amount of wealth."
Keywords: Male author; US author

After Worlds Collide - Edwin Balmer (1883-1959); Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) (Blue Book Magazine (New York), 1933)
Sequel to their When Worlds Collide [(New York: Stokes, 1933. Originally published Illus. Joseph Franké in Blue Book Magazine (New York) 55.5 - 56.4 (September 1932 – February 1933): 6-29; 32-52; 30-52; 32-55; 50-73; 122-49]. Rpt. New York: Frederick. A. Stokes, 1933. Rpt. Chicago, IL: A. L. Burt, 1933; New York: Paperback Library, 1962. A 1951 film of When Worlds Collide was directed by Rudolph Maté (1898-1964) with a screenplay by Sydney Boehm (1908-90). When Worlds Collide shows preparations for leaving Earth prior to its collision with another planet and the successful landing on another planet. The After Worlds Collide shows the first period on that planet, the discovery of the cities of its previous inhabitants, with some suggestion that they had produced a eutopian society, and conflict with a dystopian society of “Asiatics” and Russians who had also escaped Earth and established a society based on slavery.
Rpt. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1934. Rpt. New York: Paperback Library, 1963. Separately paged with When Worlds Collide as Philip [Gordon] Wylie and Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1961; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, with an “Introduction” by John Varley (v-ix).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Dewey Outlines Utopian Schools" - John Dewey (1859-1952) (New York Times, 1933)
Education in Utopia. No schools as such. Children are brought together with adults and older children in groups no larger than 200. Substantial gardens and open space available. Workshops available. The purpose is to identify and nurture the abilities of the children. Rejects competition in education. For a sentence-by-sentence exposition, see William H. Schubert, Love, Justice, and Education: John Dewey and the Utopians. Charlotte, NC: IAP Information Age Publishing, 2009.
Rpt. in his The Later Works, 1925-1953. Volume 9: 1933-1934. Ed. Jo Ann Boydston, Anne Sharpe, and Patricia Baysinger (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), 136-40.
Keywords: Male author; US author

I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty. A True Story of the Future - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Upton Sinclair, 1933)
Sinclair's vision of the future after he has been elected Governor of California. His platform centered on EPIC (End Poverty in California), which included proposals for public ownership and transitional reforms, both to be achieved through election. See also his I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked. Pasadena, CA: Author, [1935?]. Rpt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. UK ed. as How I Got Licked and Why. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1935. The book was originally serialized in 1934 in daily installments in fifty U.S. newspapers. See also 1935 Sinclair and his The Epic Plan for California [New York: Farrar & Rinehart], 1934, which includes, separately paged, I, Governor of California. A True Story of the Future (64 pp.), Epic Answers (32 pp.), The Lie Factory Starts (64 pp.), and Immediate Epic (35 pp.).
UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1933.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Island of Unreason" - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton (1904-77) (Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL), 1933)
Dystopia of too much reason.
Rpt. in Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) 12.1 (Spring 1945): 90-97; in The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1926-1935. Ed. Michael Ashley (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1974), 154-71; and in The Best of Edmond Hamilton. Ed. Leigh Brackett (New York: Ballantine, 1977), 69-89.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last of the Japs and Jews - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) (H.W. Lefkowitz, 1933)
Primarily a future war story, but it begins in 2940 when all Jews have been eliminated and whites are slaves. The world is under the control of China, India, and Turkey with the Western Hemisphere a protectorate of these three inhabited by its indigenous peoples. Includes some of the characters in his other works. See also 1940 and 1946 Cruso.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Library of the Future” - Angus Snead Macdonald (1883-1961) (Library Journal, 1933)
Eutopian library of the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Life in a Technocracy; What It Might Be Like - Harold Loeb (1891-1974) (Viking Press, 1933)
Non-fiction that includes a partial description of the social, political and economic changes that would be brought about by technocracy, a system in which engineers and scientist are politically empowered. Emphasis is on the economic dimension.
Rpt. “With a New Introduction by Howard P. Segal.” Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lost Horizon - James Hilton (1900-54) (William Morrow & Co, 1933)
Classic lost race eutopia set in Tibet. Longevity.
UK ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. Films directed by Frank Capra (1937) and Charles Jarrott (1973).
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Man from Tomorrow" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ), 1933)
A man from a scientifically advanced future is accidentally brought to the present. The descriptions he gives, and his personality suggest that the future may be dystopian. Rigid occupational categories. Eugenics.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Awoke - Laurence [Edward] Manning (1899-1972) (Ballantine Books, 1933)
A series of future dystopias set thousands of years in the future with of the concerns human dependence on machines. The first chapter is a flawed utopia in that it is a successful eutopia with population growth creating a violent generational division based of a rule regarding the rights of future generations. In the concluding chapter immortality has been achieved with generally positive results.
Originally published in somewhat different versions illus. Frank R. Paul in Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) 4.10 - 5.2 (March - August 1933) as “The Man Who Awoke.” 4.10 (March): 756-67; rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 179-85 with an editor’s note on 179; and in Nature’s Warning: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2021), 71-111; “Master of the Brain.” 4.11 (April): 838-49; “The City of Sleep.” 4.12 (May): 926-36; “The Individualists.” 5.1 (June): 58-69; and “The Elixir.” 5.2 (August): 150-59, 183. Except for the first chapter, which is “The Forest People” in the book, the chapters in the book have the same titles as the original stories. Rpt. as three parts in Captain Future (New York) 3.1 - 3 (Summer 1941 – Winter 1942): 111-19; 115-21, 126-27; 111-17, 128-29. Rpt. as five parts under the same titles and with the same illustrations as in Wonder Stories in Famous Science Fiction (New York) 1.3 - 2.1 (Nos. 3 - 7) (Summer 1967-Summer 1968): 80-109; 6-33, 81; 36-65; 42-70; 58-83.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

My Visit to the Sun - Phoebe Marie Holmes (Los Angeles, CA: De Vorss & Co., 1933)
The author is taken by an angel to the center of the sun where she finds the heavenly city as described in the Revelation/Apocalypse of John and is reunited with her deceased husband, who has built a home for them that waits for her to furnish. She, of course, has to return to Earth to finish the work assigned to her.
2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA: J. F. Rowney, 1933. 135 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Robot Technocrat" - Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955) (Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL), 1933)
Set in 1954. Mostly on the dystopia of a collapsing world and the struggle for power. Suggests that technocracy is the solution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sometime - Robert [Welch] Herrick (1868-1938) (Farrar & Rinehart, 1933)
Detailed eutopia set mostly in Africa after a new Ice Age with strong anti-capitalist and anti-colonial themes. The novel is framed by two issues: very restrictive eugenic legislation and the re-opening of North America. The eutopia described in Africa has a much lower population, in part because a couple must have a multi-generational positive eugenic record. Technology. Labor army. Abundance with all food, clothing, housing free. Few personal possessions. In the next to the last chapter, the explorers of the Americas discover flourishing native communities that have recreated their traditional cultures among the “Esquimaux” in the north, the Pueblos in the southwest, and the Aztec and Mayan civilizations in Central America. In the final chapter, the protagonist reflects on how the African eutopia should respond to the discoveries made in the Americas.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tom's A-Cold - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) (Macmillan, 1933)
Dystopia. England has reverted to a savage state as a result of war and famine and consists of marauding bands. The novel focuses on one such band, with memories of better times.
US ed. entitled Full Circle. New York: D. Appleton, 1933.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"War of the Sexes" - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton (1904-77) (Weird Tales (Chicago, IL), 1933)
Dystopia of a literal war of the sexes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Farrar & Rinehart, 1933)
A version of Sinclair's eutopia in a series of letters to a millionaire who has lost money in the depression.
2nd ed. Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair. U.K. ed. with the subtitle A Solution of Our Present Economic and Social Ills. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1933.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Brave New World - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
Classic authoritarian dystopia with drugs, behavior modification, and promiscuity. Huxley later argued that the world depicted in this novel was approaching much faster than he had expected.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. Rpt. New York: The Modern Library, 1946 With a special Foreword by the author (unpaged); New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950, with an “Introduction” by Charles J. Rolo (vii-xviii); [Avon, CT]: The Limited Editions Club, 1974; illus. Mara McAfee and with an “Introduction” by Ashley Montagu (v-xi); illus. Leonard Rosoman. London: The Folio Society, 1971; in Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 1-231, with a “Foreword” by Christopher Hitchins (vii-xxi); and Toronto, ON, Canada: Vintage Canada, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Margaret Atwood (v-xiv); and illus. Finn Dean. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an “Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (ix-xiv), which was rpt. as Huxley’s Bad Trip.” In her Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016 (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer, 2016), 127-32.  Also, Brave New World. A Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. by Fred Fordham. New York: HarperCollins, 2022.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

“The Cities of Ardathia” - [Henry George ] [Weiss] (1898?-1946) (Amazing Stories (Dunellen, NY), 1932)
A dystopia in which the machines which humans created come to control them. Only loosely related to 1927 Weiss.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Interworld: A Novel - John W. Whitham (1868-1952) (Film Row Press, 1932)
Much of the novel is adventure, romance, and social commentary, but it also includes a eutopia on Mars. Earth is backward, but the rest of the universe communicates among the planets. The Martian eutopia has advanced technology that allows individual flight. Egalitarian. One government (231). One language (231). No police or military (231). The main function of government is to ensure that the little work needed to be done is equitably distributed (234).
Keywords: Male author; US author

It Could Never Happen or the Second American Revolution - Shaemas O'Sheel (1886-1954) (Coventry House, 1932)
Presented as The Veterans’ Revolution of 1932, By General Elmer Hicks formerly Commander-in-Chief, U.S.A. Ed. Teiresias MacHenry for the Modern Historical Society Press, Washington, D.C. 1982. There is a “Publishers’ Advertisement” (7-12) deploring the government’s response to the 1932 Bonus Expeditionary Force march on Washington and warning that a revolution could result. The book is the history of that revolution and the establishment of a benevolent dictatorship. An “Appendix” (172-91) includes the actual justification by the President for using the military against the marchers and excerpted statements from politicians and the press to the actual events of 1932.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Woman" - Thomas S. Gardner (1908-1963) (Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL), 1932)
Dystopia. Last woman and the man who came to love her killed in a world of macho men.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 131-48.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mechanocracy" - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) (Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ), 1932)
Machine dystopia that insists upon standardization and eliminates all who do not conform. The story is about the attempt to destroy Democratia.
Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 312-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Day Dawns. A Brief History of the Altruistic Era (1930 to 2162 A.D.) A.E. 200. Writing for Jane Bradshaw Historical Section, The National Library Service. Washington, D.C. A Diagnosis and a Possible Prognosis of the Ills of Our Present Social Order - Charles Elton Blanchard M.D. (1868-1945) (Medical Success Press, 1932)
Detailed eutopia emphasizing science and medicine in particular. National Health Service. The unfit are sterilized. Land publicly owned. Women economically independent. Revised constitution with unicameral legislature and fixed five-year terms for Congress and the President. The Supreme Court cannot declare a law unconstitutional. In his Our Unfinished Revolution. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1933, which is a critique of the current social order, he calls his eutopia as described in A New Day Dawns an industrial democracy. See also his Our Altruistic Individualism: A Critical Study of the Social Order. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1930.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Group of World Workers - [Alice Ann] [Bailey] (1880-1949) (Author, 1932)
The earliest of many works based on a group like the Samurai in 1905 Wells that will lead the world to eutopia. See also her The Next Three Years (1934-1935-1936). New York: Lucis Pub. Co., 1934 [Pub. in the U.K. as The New Group of World Servers]; and The Functions of the New Group of Servers. London: Edson, 1935, which focus on this group.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

"The Planet of Youth" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL), 1932)
Flawed utopia set on Venus where people stay young due to higher radioactivity, which is thought to enhance health. Men try to steal the secret for earth but fail. Positive effect is only temporary, and people begin to die and abandon Venus. In the end, people work to improve the Earth.
Rpt. in Tales of Wonder and Super-Science (London), no. 5 (October 1938): 4-32. Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1952. Rpt. as Youth Madness. American Fiction #8. London: Utopian Publications, [1945].
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Politics" - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) (Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ), 1932)
An anti-pacifist and anti-politician story in which the U.S. navy defeats an attacking enemy while the politicians want them to surrender.
Rpt. in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 138-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Progress in Arcadia" - Cyril Hume (1900-66) (Myself and the Young Bowman, 1932)
Satire on a Classical Greek competition to create a perfect city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Prohibiting Poverty. Being Suggestions for a Method of Obtaining Economic Security - Prestonia Mann Martin (1861-1945) (Rollins Press, 1932)
Eutopia. Essay describing The National Livelihood Plan which will require everyone to spend the ages 18-26 in an industrial army similar to that in 1888 Bellamy. The author was editor of the American Fabian and ran a socialist summer camp called the Summer Brook Farm; see Herbert Ernest Cushman, "Summer Brook Farm." Outlook 57 (November 13, 1897): 665-66.
Many eds. with 9th ed. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.
Keywords: Female author; US author

So a Leader Came - Frederick Palmer (1873-1958) (Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1932)
The dystopia of the present day requires a strong leader for the period of transition. Most of the novel is about the development of the leader, the struggle for power, and his success. The ending suggests that a better society results.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Time Conqueror" - L[loyd] A[rthur] Eshbach (1910-2003) (Wonder Stories, 1932)
A giant computer-like brain based on a human brain can perceive the future. It creates a technological eutopia, which is only briefly described, and foresees an invasion by aliens and their defeat by natural forces and a far future return to primitivism.
Rpt. as "Tyrant of Time." In his Tyrant of Time (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1955), 11-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Year of Regeneration: An Improbable Fiction - James Cooper Lawrence (1890-1932) (Harper & Brothers, 1932)
Fascist eutopia presented as if a book entitled The Year of Regeneration by Calvin Quincy Cabot (New York, 1983), purporting to be a summary of a text and selected notes deposited in 1933 by the "Master of the Sons of Liberty" to be made available in 1983.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Academy of Souls - John O'Hara Cosgrave (1866-1947) (Farrar & Rinehart, 1931)
Mostly a criticism of modern culture, but it includes a scientific, engineers' eutopia on Mars. Scientists have demonstrated the truths of religion.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

"The Birth of a New Republic" - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947); Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ), 1931)
Dystopia. Story of the battle for the independence of the moon. Earth is controlled by corporations, such as metals and transport, which are sovereign states. War among them.
Rpt. in The Metal Man and Others: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume One (Royal Oak, MI: Hafner Press, 1999), 239-425.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Blue Barbarians" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ), 1931)
Satire. Capitalist culture on Venus where the people are either at war or in extreme competition.
Repub. New York: Avalon, 1958.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming of the Amazons: A Satiristic Speculation on the Scientific Future of Civilization - Owen [McMahon] Johnson (1878-1952) (Longmans, Green and Co, 1931)
Gender-role reversal satire. Promiscuity. Class based on occupation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Conquest of Gola" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL), 1931)
Eutopia with dystopian elements. Described at the beginning in purely eutopian terms but becomes an atypical gender-role reversal story with the women having primarily mental powers and the men from another planet having only physical and technological powers. The women expel the invaders, and their men remain subversive.
Rpt. in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 31-42 with an editors’ note on 30; in Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Justine Larbalestier (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006), 36-49; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 96-109 with an editors’ note on 96-97; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 99-107 with an editors’ note on 98; in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 24-43; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 214-233-, with an editor’s note on 211-214. 978-6200496324. Additional material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Exiles of the Moon” - Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955); A[rthur] L[eo] Zagat (1865-1949) (Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL), 1931)
Dystopia of two classes: aristocrats and enslaved workers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Faith - Martha Cabanné Kayser (b. 1871) (Meador Publishing Co, 1931)
Much of the novel is concerned with the problems of the contemporary world, but it ends with the beginnings of a eutopia based on religion and moral values from a generally conservative perspective. The eutopia is being brought about through the successful establishment of a community on an island off Naples, Italy where a school is educating young people in the appropriate morals and spirituality. See also 1922 Kayser.
A rev. ed. entitled Heaven Is Here. New York: Author, 1938 is reported to have been published, but no copies can be located.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Grand Mysterious Secret Marriage Temple - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) (Np, 1931)
Eugenic eutopia. Heredity and eugenics taught in schools. Two different marriage certificates, one permitting children for the eugenically fit and one prohibiting children for the eugenically unfit. Tax bachelors. Married men paid more than unmarried and retained over unmarried men in times of economic downturn. Only men between 55 and 70 to fight in wars, which would produce fewer wars.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Hothouse World" - Fred[erick John] MacIsaac (1886-1940) (Argosy (New York), 1931)
Dystopia set 100 years in the future after a new ice age in which relatively few people survive under a dome. Similar to 1899 Wells When the Sleeper Wakes in that the man who awakes has ended up owning all the property. Struggle for power. In the end contact is made with other survivors, and it is suggested that the dystopia is overcome.
Rpt. in Fantastic Novels 4.4 (November 1950): 12-92; and New York: Avalon Books, 1965.
Keywords: Male author; US author

No Traveller Returns - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) (White Owl Press, 1931)
Future dystopia brought about by science; people selected for their scientific ability. All animals are destroyed. All culture eliminated.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Richest Man on Earth - [Charles] Test Dalton (1877-1945) (Lowe Shearon, 1931)
Reformed capitalist eutopia, known as the Plateau Republic, founded in Africa by an American. The basic idea is a voluntary limits on profit that the publisher of the book had developed where “managers of industrial enterprises and all those engaged in trade should state in advance a fee (so much per year) with which they will content themselves and prorate all surplus profits to the buyer in accordance with the amount of his purchases” (5-6). Labor unions are permitted. Workers receive a base pay sufficient to support a family and give college education to children. Single tax on land is the only and is used to pay government expenses. The author refers to Henry George (1839-97) but rejects the specifics of George’s single tax. A strong colonialist mentality pervades the book. Although the eutopia is brought about by a single, rich man, references are made throughout the book to Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930), an economist and President of Yale University as supporting the basic theory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Service First" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories, 1931)
Airplanes adapted for living provide cheap homes for all and produce eutopia.
Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 98-116.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Time Stream" - [Eric Temple] [Bell] (1883-1960) (Wonder Stories, 1931)
Mostly an adventure story, but it includes a future eutopian world based on reason and individual freedom. A eugenic sub-theme is concerned with the conflict between reason and love.
Rpt. as The Time Stream. By John Taine [pseud]. [Providence, RI: Buffalo Book Co. and G.H.E., 1946; and New York: Garland, 1975. Slightly rev. rpt. New York: Dover, [1971].
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

True Riches - Adrian R. Apple (Adrian R. Apple, 1931)
A Christian eutopia where money has been eliminated and replaced with certificates indicating merit and everyone of merit is guaranteed abundance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Woman's Utopia - [Mrs.] [Ellen Warner (Olney)] [Kirk] (1842-1928) (Ernest Benn, 1931)
Eutopia. The introduction summarizes Gerhart Hauptmann's (1862-1946) The Island of the Great Mother or The Miracle of Île des Dames. A Story from the Utopian Archipelago. Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: B.W. Huebach and The Viking Press, 1925. Originally published as Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (1924). The first chapter then follows with a critique of utopias created by men. This is followed by her eutopia. Two houses in Parliament, men's and women's. Ability and intelligence rewarded. Best salaries for the worst work such as mining.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Ape Cycle" - Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968) (Science Wonder Quarterly, 1930)
A dystopia is created when apes are trained to be servants and come to find their servitude unacceptable
Rpt. in her Away From the Here and Now: Stories in Pseudo-Science (Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Co., 1947), 296-365.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The City of the Living Dead" - Laurence [Edward] Manning (1899-1972); [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) (Science Wonder Stories, 1930)
Dystopia. Everyone spends their time dreaming in machines and the human race degenerates.
Rpt. in Startling Stories 4.1 (July 1940): 94-104; and Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 108-30.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Eternal Man Revives - D[rury] D. Sharp (1880-1960) (Wonder Stories Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL), 1930)
Authoritarian dystopia. Overpopulation. No animal life left. Sequel to his "The Eternal Man." Science Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) 1.3 (August 1929): 230-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Graphopolis--A Utopia for Literature" - Albert [Joseph] Guérard (b. 1914). (The Nineteenth Century and After. A Monthly Review (London), 1930)
A eutopia for artists that specifically rejects the technological utopia, saying "Poetry is the eternal protest against the mechanising trends towards Utopia" (256).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Here Is Thy Victory - Iris Barry (1895-1969) (Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930)
Involuntary immortality and its generally bad effects, which are reversed when death returns.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“The High School Library of the Future” - Aniela Poray (Wilson Library Bulletin, 1930)
Satire on the library of the future where knowledge is provided chemically and the librarians choose what students should know.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Into the 28th Century" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL), 1930)
Vague golden age eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Man with a Scarred Hand” - Henry Kitchell Webster (1875-1932) (The American Magazine, 1930)
The novel includes some material on a successful anarchist and atheist intentional community but most of it is adventure with elements of mystery and detection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pantopia - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) (The Panurge Press, 1930)
Eutopia located on a contemporary isolated island. Natural aristocracy of talent/performance combined with essential equality. Communal economics. Eugenics. See also 1924 Harris, “The Temple of the Forgotten Dead,” which is said to be the basis for Pantopia.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

"Paradise and Iron" - Miles J[ohn] Breuer [M.D.] (1889-1947) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY), 1930)
Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work.
Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Problem in Communication" - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) (Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York), 1930)
An apparently eutopian Science Community with a new religion in which science replaces God is closed off from the outside world with only the truly faithful allowed to come and go because the leader intends a coup in the U.S.
Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 257-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ultimo: An imaginative narration of life under the earth with projections by John Vassos and text by Ruth Vassos - John Vassos (1898-1985); Ruth Vassos (1896?-1965) (E. P. Dutton, 1930)
Flawed utopia. A new ice age forces people to develop a new society underground where the heat of the earth's core is balanced by the ice above. Almost all travel stops, and there is no communication among cities. Industry, which is mostly for the production of food, is separate from housing. The little work needed is distributed equally. No money. Population kept balanced. No marriage. No crime. Unrest results from the monotony of life and rules become necessary.
Keywords: Female author; Italian author; Male author; Romanian author; UK author; US author

The Valley of the Great Ray - Pansy E[llen] Black (1890-1957) (Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930)
Lost race story where no one grows old. Set in Australia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Vision of the Future in Vocational Education" - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) (School and Society (New York), 1930)
Projects a eutopian education in 1960 with a stress on vocational education. Education compulsory until eighteen. Vocational education is compulsory for entering work, and this education starts at eighteen.
Rpt. as three chapters (XV. “Some Backgrounds of the Great American Developments of Vocational Education from 1935-1960;” XVI. “The Period of Critical Evaluations and Reconstructions of Vocational Education;” and XVII. “The 1960 Programs of Vocational Education in the United States”) in his American High Schools and Vocational Schools in 1960 (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931), 95-119.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Voyage to Purilla - [Elmer Leopold] [Reitzenstein] (1892-1967) (Cosmopolitan Book Corp, 1930)
Satire on romantic films showing a planet based on such films.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Waste--The Future of Prosperity” - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) (Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums, 1930)
Satire on conspicuous consumption including such outlandish ideas for the time as bottled water. See 2007 Shouse for a commentary and a new satire. For Burke’s own reflections on the essay, see his “Recipe for Prosperity: ‘Borrow, Buy, Waste, Want’.” The Nation (New York) 183.10 (September 8, 1956): 191-93; and 1971 Burke.
A shorter version rpt. in The New Republic (New York) 63 (July 16, 1930): 228-31; and in The New Republic Anthology 1915 : 1935. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936), 330-37. A condensed version was published in The Reader’s Digest (Chappaqua, NY) 17.102 (October 1930): 481-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After 12,000 Years" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1929)
A future divided into three nations and four species. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements.
Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Barton's Island" - [Harold Vincent] [Schoepflin] (1893-1968) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
The U.S. is a dictatorship with the poor, dressed in grey, kept from education, decent housing, and so forth. A scientist develops a means of changing minds and brings about the beginnings of improvement.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) 7.2 (Fall 1934): 6-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Between Worlds - Garret Smith (1876?-1954) (Stellar Publishing Co, 1929)
Begins on a Venus that is a eutopia based on long tradition and a rejection of coercion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brain of the Planet - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Stellar Publishing Co, 1929)
A eutopian world state is achieved as a result of a machine that broadcast positive images of social solidarity directly to human brains. As a result, capitalism disappeared, followed by national boundaries. Inventions flourished replacing much physical labor. Men and women were able to marry for love.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"How We Made Utopia" - Will[iam James] Durant (1885-1981) (The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny, 1929)
Story of a community that agrees to the basic program for establishing a eutopia. The proposals include a program of eugenic education; radically improved education, including Schools of Public Administration to train those wanting to be public officials; municipalization of utilities and services; inexpensive housing; and, to pay for it all, a reformed tax system and contributions from the rich. All the proposals are rejected by the politicians.
Book rpt. as The Pleasures of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953), 319-32. Story rpt. with no indication of an earlier publication in The Thinker (New York) 4.2 (September 1931): 18-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Man" - Wallace G[eorge] West (1900-80) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1929)
Dystopia. Sexless women rule a dull and dying world.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories 40.5 (April 1966): 64-87; and in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 104-30.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
Brief depiction of a future eutopia based on a rural world-wide democracy.
Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp, and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 9-13; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 23-28 with an editor’s note on 23.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Men With Wings" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Air Wonder Stories, 1929)
The first of two stories about winged people in South America that were created by an English scientist and have evolved into a substantial, well-established civilization, conflicts with the outside world, and, finally, acceptance and integration. In comparison to the men, the women are small and weak. The second story is “Women With Wings.” Illus. [Ed] Leonard. Air Wonder Stories 1.11 (May 1930): 984-1003. Rpt. in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 131-210. In it, the political geography of the world has changed substantially, primarily through consolidation, and the world is ruled by the representatives (all men) of the ten most powerful nations. “Color was of no consequence” (986). Universal language (987). Use the sun and radium for energy (988). The issue faced by the culture is that a high percentage of women are dying in childbirth. Contact is made with Venus where an amphibious race has evolved, also with wings, in which the women are dominant, and the men are weak and small. The solution for Earth is interbreeding which is successful.
Rpt. without the illus. in Femspec 11.1 (2010): 86-155, with an editor’s note on 86-87; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 32-139, with an editor’s note on 29-31 that covers this and “Women With Wings” below.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Metropolis of Tomorrow - Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962) (Ives Washburn, 1929)
Architectural utopia. The book is illustrated by drawings of contemporary and proposed buildings. Includes a final section--"An Imaginary Metropolis"--that describes an ideal city. No people mentioned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Moon Woman: A Tale of the Future" - [Minna] [Odell] (c.1857-1940) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
Eutopia set in 3014. Earth is technologically and socially advanced with the help of the inhabitants of the moon. World government. Food in liquid form.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Out of the Void" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Amazing Stories, 1929)
Mostly adventure and romance, but a flawed high-tech utopia is present that is vegetarian, telepathic, can communicate with animals, has painless euthanasia for both humans and animals, and has an island with no government set aside for higher education where men and women are free to go to study and teach. But the society is also hierarchical with slavery and has treated one group as not even able to be slaves. The ending indicates that some of this will change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Prince of Atlantis - Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1868-1932) (Educational Press, 1929)
Atlantis as a eutopia with classical trappings but democratic and egalitarian. Includes an Appendix (344-51) presenting material that the author contends relates to Atlantis and the Atlanteans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Should a Child Have More Than One Mother? A Psychologist's Nation of a Better Way to Grow Up" - John B[roadus] Watson (1878-1958) (Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody (New York), 1929)
Detailed eutopia. The author says, "Let us build a Utopia where we can dream of a different kind of family life" (32) and describes a society in which all children are raised collectively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Squareheads; the Story of a Socialized State. A Futuristic Novel - William Salisbury (b. 1875) (Independent Pub. Co, 1929)
Anti-socialist dystopia. Squareheads are symbols of conformity--must speak in phrases of four syllables and in sentences of equal metric value. Official thought. Eugenics. Some hypocrisy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia College: A Prospectus" - Addison Hibbard (1887-1945) (Outlook and Independent (New York), 1929)
Eutopian university stressing independent, interdisciplinary study and a focus on intelligence rather than character.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When the Sun Went Out - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Stellar Publishing Co., 1929, 1929)
The sun is dying, and the human population has declined in numbers, intelligence, and physique from relying on the machines and production of the past, machines that are also dying. The most intelligent of the remaining population build great caves far underground to which the remaining population of the Earth retreated after the sun died. The decline was from a scientific world eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"White Collars" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1929)
Dystopia in which the educational system produces too many professional people for the positions available, rather like India today, and they, refusing to take readily available blue-collar jobs, live in ghettos and starve. A bill is passed forcing them to work at the well-paying blue-collar jobs, and they all, but one family, adjust rapidly. The story has a sexist ending in that a young plumber kidnaps the daughter of the family trying to leave. She has turned him down many times but is instantly convinced to marry him on seeing the nice kitchen she, a lawyer, will have.
Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL:. Black Dog Books, 2012), 66-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Biological Experiment" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1928)
Dystopia. Far in the future "companionate marriage" without children is standard, a license is required before a child is permitted, and then children are born artificially and raised by trained nurses rather than mothers and fathers.
Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 149-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Childermass. Section I - [Percy] Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) (Chatto and Windus, 1928)
Dystopia after death in Purgatory, which is depicted as a completely unstable wasteland where everything and everyone may change without warning. The protagonists find their way to the "camp", which is at least stable, but ruled by "The Bailiff", who is in conflict with Hyperides and his followers. The novel continues with the same characters in The Human Age Book Two Monstre Gai Book Three Malign Fiesta. London: Methuen, 1955. An additional planned volume, The Trial of Man, was never published.
Rpt. as The Human Age Book One Childermass. London: Methuen, 1956. U.S. ed. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"A Few Things Altered or Abolished" - Edna Ferber (1887-1968) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Critical of the idea of utopia. She would change marriage but unsure how, abolish automobiles, ensure work for all, require gardens and trees with all homes, require open wood-burning fireplaces, and other very miscellaneous changes. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Hicks Inventions with a Kick. The Perambulating House” - [Ernest Clement] [Fezandié] (1856-1959) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1928)
One of a series of satire on technology on technology gone wrong, in this case a house that can move of its own volition. The other stories in the series are “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Self-Serving Dining Table” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.1 (April 1927): 52-57, 99; “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Apartment.” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.5 (August 1927): 493-97, 512, 514; and “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Electro-Hydraulic Bank Protector.” Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963). Amazing Stories 2.9 (Dec 1927): 860-69.
Rpt. as “The Perambulating House.” New Horizons: Yesterday’s Portraits of Tomorrow. The Last Science Fiction Anthology Edited by August Derleth With Introduction and Biographical Notes by Joseph Wrzor (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1998), 143-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Little Husbands" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Weird Tales (New York), 1928)
Minor gender-role reversal story. Seventy-foot-tall Amazons with normal sized husbands.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mr. Lorimer and Me" - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Satiric comments on utopian visions. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, and Upton [Beall] Sinclair.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"My Private Utopia" - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Comments on the experiment at Helicon Hall. Socialism. Sinclair. On Helicon Hall, see Lawrence Kaplan, "A Utopia During the Progressive Era: The Helicon Home Colony 1906-1907." American Studies 25.2 (Fall 1984): 59-73. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, Sinclair Lewis, and H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Political Utopia" - Frederic Clemson Howe (1867-1940) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Eutopia based on a natural aristocracy and the single tax. Cooperative system designed to eliminate economic privilege. Public ownership of all transportation, gas and electricity, and the telephone and telegraph. No protective tariffs. 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

"The Revolt of the Pedestrians" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1928)
Dystopia. Pedestrians outlawed, but a small group survives and successfully revolt. Compare to 1951 Bradbury and 1963 Leiber.
Rpt. in Beyond Time and Space. Ed. August Derleth (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1950), 347-76; and in his The Threat of the Robot and other Nightmarish Futures with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 13-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Stenographers' Hands" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1928)
Dystopia of a successful eugenic experiment by a corporation to produce stenographers who do not make mistakes.
Rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 2 (1947): 7-26; and in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 117-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Sunken World" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1928)
Atlantis as a eutopia. Athenian democracy limited in size to 600,000 residents. Common property except for personal property. Free housing. All posts gained by defeating rivals in debate. Education by the wise. Laws approved by 100 citizens and then put to a referendum within thirty days.
Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) 7.2 (Fall 1934): 28-108. Repub. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1948. 2nd ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950. U.K. ed. of 1st ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. London: Fantasy Books, [1948].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Through the Visograph - J[ohn] W[alter] Chancellor (1876-1954) (Christopher Pub. Co, 1928)
The visograph allows the viewer to see far into the past. A despotic world is found on Earth and a eutopian but non-human world on another planet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia--Made to Suit" - Charles J[oseph Frederick] Finger (1867-1941) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
A world where all family members would each be able to develop individually. Anti-urban. Separate space for the young. Each member would have a separate apartment while the family unit was maintained. Freedom of expression. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"A Very Private Utopia" - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). (The Nation, 1928)
First in a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.  Proposes a series of reforms that would, among other things, enhance health, improve beauty by segregating industrial from living areas, ensure economic security, and make life-enhancing work possible. Stresses the importance of leisure. Not the same as 1975 Chase.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"What Is This Talk About Utopia?" - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken (1880-1956) (The Nation 126.3284 (June 13, 1928):, 1928)
Satire on utopias and utopianism but concludes that Maryland is as close as it gets. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Almost Perfect State - Don[ald Robert Perry] Marquis (1878-1937) (Doubleday, Page, 1927)
Newspaper articles and essays from utopia. Considerable satire.
U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1927. Originally published in “The Sun Dial” in the New York Evening Post and “The Lantern” in the New York Tribune.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Exile - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) (Little, Brown, 1927)
The novel begins with Eldorado Island, where English settlers are shipwrecked in the eighteenth century and establish a flourishing community, which grows with additions from visiting ships and the birth of children. Presented as a eutopia of simplicity. But on the mainland war and a dictatorship develop and Eldorado Island is used as a place of exile for dissidents. The novel follows the latest exile's experience on the island, the coming of another war, and its ending with a worldwide spiritual awakening that suggests that a eutopia will follow.
U.K. ed. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ideal State. The greatest poem of all the ages.--Critic - John Allen Mette (b. 1864) (Southern Printing and Pub. Co, 1927)
Poem. Racist, socialist eutopia. No profits, interest, rent, dividends, religion, or lawyers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Machine Man of Ardathia” - [Henry George ] [Weiss] (1898?-1946) (Amazing Stories, 1927)
A visitor from thousands of years in the future describes what, is in his eyes, a eutopia in which people are born and spend their lives within a capsule in which they are integrated into machinery. See also the very loosely related 1932 Weiss.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Life and Future Mating - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Olerich Pub. Co, 1927)
An elaboration of various points made in 1893, 1915, 1919, and 1923 Olerich. This short book stresses a world court, disarmament, and pacifism (all political candidates must be pacifists), with war only being able to be declared after a referendum. Eugenics is an important theme.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Things as They Ought to Be" - R[obert] L[ittell] (The New Republic (New York), 1927)
Short satirical sketch of a mostly dull utopia set in 2027. The sketch ends with "You may welcome such a Utopia, but would you find it interesting."
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Venus" - Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) (Unpublished play, 1927)
See the brief synopsis in Colette Lindroth and James Lincoln. Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995), 58-59, which refers to two people having returned from the advanced civilization of Venus.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"If I Were Dictator" - John Maurice Clark (1884-1963) (Social Control of Business, 1926)
Essay proposing the establishment of industrial councils in each industry composed of employers, workers, consumers, and others with related interests. They would operate under the principles laid out in “An Economic Constitution for the State” (170-89), which proposes limited economic regulation. The councils would take over some of the regulatory functions of the state. This chapter in the second edition published during the Depression and New Deal is vague and general with no specific proposals and a call for more research, and in the “Preface to the Second Edition,” the author says that the chapter, “picturing an imaginary democratic dictator, came close to being abandoned, but a brief fresh treatment was finally retained, with mention of such matter from the earlier version as might still be pertinent” (ix).
1926 Clark, John Maurice (1884-1963). “If I Were Dictator.” In his Social Control of Business (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1926), 461-73. The 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939), 520-25 is completely different and has the title as “If I Were Dictator”. PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis" - Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) (The Forum (New York), 1926)
Dystopia. Women achieve equality after they stop wearing their “feminine” veils. Some women then return to the veil, which reintroduces inequality but with women dominant. Conflict follows and brings about the destruction of Atlantis.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 34.2 (February 1968): 121-28; in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 95-103; and in More Voices from the Radium Age. Ed. Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023), 207-218.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 35 [bis]. A Journey to the Year 3000" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1925)
Technological eutopia. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Easy Millions. A Story of Adventure and the Discovery of How to Make and Keep Everybody Rich - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Frank Rosewater, 1925)
As in most of Rosewater's works, eutopia can be achieved by all income being spent each year. Cooperative system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Formula For a Utopia" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (The Little Magazine, 1925)
Brief poem describing the characteristic boys and girls should have. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “The Woman Called ‘Beauty’”.
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: 132.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Shamballah" - Bliss Carman (1861-1929) (Far Horizons, 1925)
Poem about a Golden Age city written in 1922.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Volonor - Glen B[rian] Winship (1887-1966) (Thomas Seltzer, 1925)
Dystopian free love colony in which women have no status and cannot own property.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“White Man’s Madness” - Lenore E[dith Johnstone] Chaney (1881-1972) (Weird Tales, 1925)
Lost race story in which the protagonist is a white man searching for the storied riches of the Incas. He accidentally discovers a peaceful, sheep-tending pre-Incan Aryan community that worships the sun and uses gold for their dishes and jewels as decoration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Woman Called 'Beauty' and Her Seven Dragons A Poem for Those Who Desire an Aesthetic Utopia" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (The Little Magazine, 1925)
Poem with fairly vague suggestions of a eutopia of art that will set humanity free to be fully human.  See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “Formula For a Utopia”.
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: 125-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Idealism and the Ideal State" - Hugh W[heeler] Sanford (1880-1961) (The Business of Life, 1924)
Eutopia of eugenics--keep the "inefficient" from breeding--and a reformed capitalism. No unions and no collective bargaining. No minimum wage. Elected representatives are not delegates reflecting the opinion of their district but are expected to vote to support the "ideal state".
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Lost Car" - James J. Hayden (Odds and Ends (Miscellaneous Writings), 1924)
Detailed eutopia of New Hellas (later just Hellas), a society of four million square miles in the Southern Hemisphere descended from classical Greece, which has chosen to remain isolated until the rest of the world becomes peaceful The story includes both a description of the eutopia by an outsider and a history of the eutopia by a resident. No poverty because land cannot be privately owned, and everyone works. Taxation based on the use of the land, which covers all costs. A brief vignette at the end set in 3003 AD shows contact between the Hellenes and future, peaceful humanity with wings but no legs.
In his "Note The Lost Car" (xvii-xxi) the author says that the story was originally published in "over a dozen installments" in the "Journal", previously the Sewanee Banner (presumably Sewanee, OH). No such paper appears to survive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Mastered Time - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) (Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York), 1924)
Third of the Golden Atom stories (see 1922 Cummings). Six thousand years in the future there is a class-based dystopia.
Rpt. Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg, 1924; and in Fantastic Novels Magazine (New York) 3.6 (March 1950): 10-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Negrolana - [Henry Franklin] [Triplett] (1854-1928) (Christopher Publishing House, 1924)
Paternalistic eutopia. Land founded for freed slaves by wealthy slave owners. Single tax. Very strict. Stress on a good, broad education. 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

Paul's School of Statesmanship - William H[ope] Harvey (1851-1936) (Mundus Pub. Co, 1924)
Eutopia. Monetary reform results in money being tied to the amount of goods. As a result, it can be constantly in circulation rather than saved.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The People's Corporation - King C[amp] Gillette (1855-1932) (Boni and Liveright, 1924)
Non-fictional explanation of his ideas for eutopia. The People's Corporation is the only employer, owner, and seller. "All property and wealth in individual or corporate ownership shall be acquired by purchase. . ." (219). See also 1894 Gillette and 1910 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

Supercity: A Planned Physical Equipment for City Life - Robert R[uss] Kern (Np [Ptd. Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou, Inc.], 1924)
Very detailed description of an ideal city and the way it will improve peoples’ lives.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Temple of the Forgotten Dead" - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) (Undream'd of Shores, 1924)
This story is said to be the basis for his 1930 Pantopia. In the story, a storyteller tells two stories. The eutopian one, which gives the story its title, describes an isolated island which has developed a religion with gods representing each virtue and bases its society on self-development and duty to others. It is also technologically advanced.
The manuscript is at Princeton University.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

"Utopia Interpreted" - Sarah N[orcliffe] Cleghorn (1876-1959) (Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1924)
Traces the history of the world up to a future eutopia. Four "interpretations" of the future are presented--a new ice age, a modern Franciscan movement among women, technological change, and the new nomads. Written as if from July 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Venus - Rena Oldfield Pettersen (Dorrance & Co, 1924)
Eutopia. Telepathy in an idyllic society about two thousand years in advance of Earth. Much romance and the picture of Venus comes out through the interactions of two Venusians with people on Earth during a visit to Earth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A World I’d Have” - J[onathan] E. Hoag (1831-1927) (The Troy Times, 1924)
Something of an Arcadia, a paean to nature. And near the end he writes, “Let sturdy yeomen man their ploughs/Till not a mouth for bread need crave.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bride of Christ. A Message from Jerusalem to the True and Faithful Subjects of Jesus Christ throughout the World - Emry Davis (The Palestine Press, 1923)
Religious eutopia (primarily for Baptists) in which Jerusalem is restored to its former state but is now for Christians. Detailed reforms, including abolishing interest, dividends, rent, and high salaries and fees. Uniform wage of five dollars a day. Provides a constitution consisting of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and new rules and regulations. Racist. See his Introductory Edition to The Bride of Christ and a Message from Jerusalem. Jerusalem, (Palestine) and New York: The Palestine Press, nd. (CtY), where he argues that Anglo-Saxons, and Baptists in particular, are the ten lost tribes and blood descendants of Israel but specifically rejects the argument that the British Empire is the new Israel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day of Judgment and the Celestial Missionaries of Life - Louis Pauer (Author, 1923)
Socialist eutopia introduced to Earth by visitors from space. People from Earth then carry the message to other planets.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 23. What Hackensaw Found on the Moon" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1923)
Advanced beings on the moon who change shapes and sexes at will. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Eurekanian Paternalism. For an economic expedition to explore and exploit Eurekania, the New State in the Realm of Utopia. With Aims and Plans of Providence, final and immediate, for the Development of the Latent Qualities and Resources inherent in Society under Advanced Organization, Production and Distribution through the Administration, eventually, of a Non-Politic, Quasi-Public Economic Institution, which shall be promoted, in the early stages of its development, by a Foundation Society and other Subsidiary Organizations - Louis Pauer (Np, 1923)
Odd version of a cooperative eutopia that combines considerable public control and privately owned corporations with limits on profit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Age or The Depth of Time - Fred M. Clough (The Roxburgh Pub. Co, 1923)
Eutopia 1000 years in the future. Science. Reason. Easy travel in the solar system; other planets being inhabited by people from Earth. Rural life with 2-10 acres per home to grow food, which is then liquefied because food is only consumed in liquid form.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Gopher Prairie--A.D. 2000" - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) (School and Society (New York), 1923)
Educational eutopia with a stress on culture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Idealia: A Utopia Dream; or, Resthaven - [Mrs.] [Harriet Alfarata (Chapman)] [Thompson] (d. 1922) ([Ptd. by J.B. Lyon Co.], 1923)
Arcadia. Simple life in one large family in one large house with extensive grounds.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mr. Podd - Freeman Tilden (1883-1980) (Macmillan, 1923)
An intentional community founded on an island is a failure. Satire on the Peace Ship, which Henry Ford (1863-1947) sponsored to sail to Stockholm, Sweden during World War I in a failed attempt to negotiate an Armistice.
Keywords: Male author; US author

My Wondrous Dream - Frank P. Ball (Frank P. Ball, 1923)
Rigid control of blacks by whites presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger” - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) (Vanity Fair, 1923)
Selections from January, April, July, and September from an almanac that describing events taking place in a future that becomes more and more restrictive and puritanical. Happy New Year changed to Virtuous New York; dancing abolished; the Society for the Suppression of Imagination in Children censors children’s stories; women’s clothing regulated in the name of modesty; dancing outlawed; compulsory church attendance; co-education abolished; and more.
Rpt. as by Nancy Boyd in Distressing Dialogues. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924), 29-37. Rpt. under the author’s real name in her Poems and Satires. Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester, Eng.: Carcarnet, 2021), 165-69
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence. An Interesting Scientific Forecast of the Important Progressive Changes That Will Likely Take Place On Our Earth During the Next Thousand Years - Professor Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Olerich Pub. Co, 1923)
Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast. A third version of 1893 Olerich. In this volume he stresses the improved status of women that will be brought about if his ideas are adopted. Initial education through play and everyone is both a student and teacher for life; for his educational theories, see his Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar. Chicago, IL: Laird and Lee, 1900. Marriage and divorce are entirely up to the couple, who are educated about both sex and eugenics. On these issues, see 1927 Olerich, The New Life and Future Mating. Racial and national prejudice will die out.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Desert Stars - Frank Koester (1876-1927) (Washington Square, 1923)
Chapter 10 describes a eutopian Mars that is scientifically advanced, particularly in radio technology. Radio had replaced the entire written language; schools, churches, and all other meetings had been superseded. Used waterpower. Each person is responsible for some work. On returning to Earth the protagonists discover that thousands of years have passed and that much of the world is primitive. Africa and Asia dominate. All a dream.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Utopian Essays. 1. The Flowers of Democracy. 2. For "Sports" Only. 3. The Powers That Be - Veiby, John (John Veiby, 1923)
Series of essays on aspects of a eutopian society. Anti-press; anti-religious. Proposes establishing social experiments. See also 1917 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aerial Flight to the Realm of Peace - Martha [Cabanné] Kayser (b. 1871) (Lincoln Press & Pub. Co, 1922)
The eutopia is based on religion, and there is only one throughout the world. Equality. Arbitration. Early education is the key. Each nation has distinctive dress. Marriage--men cannot marry before eighteen, women before sixteen; most marry by twenty-two. See also 1931 Kayser.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bladed Barrier - Joseph Bushnell Ames (1878-1928) (The Century Co., 1922)
Typical lost race dystopia, in this case led by an evil Chinaman.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Originally published by Street & Smith (1922-1923).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dalleszona and the Seventh Treasure - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) (The Roxburgh Pub. Co., 1922)
Eutopia. Pure democracy. Compulsory education. Each person receives a living wage but must work for it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 11. Journey to the Year 2025" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1922)
Technological eutopia. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Girl in the Golden Atom - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) (Methuen, 1922)
Gulliveriana with the world in an atom. Monarchy with advisers (half men and half women). No money. See also 1924 and 1958 Cummings.
Textual differences in U.S. ed. New York: Harper, 1923. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Part originally published as “The Girl in the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 95.1 (March 15, 1919): 1-29. This was rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.1 (September-October 1939): 75-99; Super Science and Fantastic Stories 1.20 (October 1945): 4-29; Fantastic Novels Magazine 5.1 (June 1951): 40-69; and Famous Science Fiction 1.1 (Winter 1966/67): 11-60. Part was also originally published as “The People of the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 106.2 - 107.3 (January 24 - February 28, 1920): 161-81, 173-89, 583-602; 127-41, 296-316, 373-89, 445-60. This was rpt. in Fantastic Novels (New York) 1.2 (September 1940): 6-117; and in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of “The Scientific Romance” in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 175-219.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. A Psychic Revelation. Being a Comprehensive Outline of the Planet's Physical Features, Which Includes Its Geographic, Topographic and Meterologic Aspects; a History of Its People and the Plan of Their Utopian, Industrial and Economic System; of their Knowledge concerning our Theories of Relativity, Constitution of Matter, Interatomic and Cosmic Energy, Electricity, Hyperspace, Neutralization of Gravity; including a History of the Spiritual Progress of the People of Mars and Christ's Visit to their Planet Ten Thousand Years Ago - [James Scott] [Marshall] (N.p, 1922)
Detailed communal eutopia on Mars. No government. No profit. Cooperation. Homeschooling for basic education. Scientific determination of vocation. No divorce because each person finds their true mate. Spiritualism. Some on life on other planets.
Rpt. as The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. By Eros Urides (A Martian) [pseud.]. N.p.: N.p., 1956.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; US author

"Worlds Within Worlds" - Philip M[elancthon] Fisher Jr. (1891-1973) (Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York), 1922)
Dystopia of assigned marriage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Yezad; A Romance of the Unknown - George [Henry] Babcock (1863-1942) (Cooperative Pub. Co., 1922)
A few pages of a scientific Martian eutopia, which had been settled from a planet highly advanced in science. Martians can renew body parts. No central government: local self-rule through bodies based on education. No printed laws but custom sets standards. Citizenship depends on passing exams.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Blind Spot" - Austin [Javen] Hall (1880-1933); Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-Allstory Weekly (New York), 1921)
A greatly advanced race both spiritually and technically. A non-utopian sequel was published as “The Spot of Life.” Argosy Weekly (New York) 231.6 - 232.4 (August 13 - September 10, 1932) : 3-22; 55-75, 108-23, 123-41, 122-41. Rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1965]. Both with Hall listed as the sole author.
Rpt. in Fantastic Novels 1.1 (July 1940): 3-141; Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1951; and London: Greenhill Books, 1987. A six part serial reprint was announced but only three parts were published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.6 - 2.2 (March - May/June 1940): 6-40; 34-63; 46-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day of Faith - Arthur Somers Roche (1883-1935) (Little, Brown, 1921)
Anti-utopian novel. A eutopia where everyone is honest, and there are no police or jails proves weak and collapses.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Devolutionist" - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York), 1921)
Earth scientists visit other planets using a form of telepathy and an argument emerges on the advantages of power in the hands of an elite or in the hands of the people. A loose sequel is “The Emancipatrix.” Argosy-All Story Weekly 136.5 (September 3, 1921): 631-80; rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 96-191 in which the same argument takes place on another planet.
Rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 5-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Industrial Public. A Plan of Social Reconstruction in Line with Evolution - Horace N. Fowler (b. 1848); Samuel T. Fowler (b. 1821) (H.N. Fowler Co, 1921)
Eutopia. Common ownership of property frees women from the marriage bond and dependence on men. Vegetarian. There is a "Constitution" with comments on pp. 210-24. This is followed by the "Covenant" that members would sign on pp. 224-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Island of Eugenia; The Phantasy of a Foolish Philosopher" - William McDougall (1871-1938) (Scribner's Magazine (New York), 1921)
Presented as a dialogue between a practical man and a scientist. Eugenics. Children will be brought up to be devoted to saving the world. The island would be closed regarding marriage and education, but otherwise open to outsiders. After the initial establishment, it would recruit new members mostly from their own children. Early marriage encouraged. The state will be politically independent but economically dependent on the outside world; uses the analogy of a university. Appeals to a millionaire to help establish it. T
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

A New Constitution for a New America - William Macdonald (1863-1938) (B.W. Huebsch, 1921)
Precisely what the title says. Includes explanations for the changes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anona of the Moundbuilders: A Story of Many Thousand of Years Ago - J[ames] Clarence Marple; Albert Nelson Dennis (Progressive Publishers, 1920)
Simple, primitive, agrarian eutopia. The Moundbuilders are “tall, symmetrical, fair-skinned.” Attacked by “black savages” from south of the Gulf of Mexico. The Princess Anona builds a less primitive social order as part of the process of defeating the enemy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax - [John W.] [Hultberg] (1872-1951) (Dent Publishing Co, 1920)
Collection of stories/essays reflecting various reforms. "Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax. The Pro and Con Of It" (11-104) is concerned with the way that inheritance continues the power and influence of "dead men". "Putting a Meter on Your Windpipe" (105-12) and "Old Man Noah's Shoes" (113-26) are attacks on monopolies. The first concerns the control of breathable air; in the second Noah claims ownership of the world after the flood. "Happy Days in the Moon" (127-42) and "Old Satan Turns a Trick" (143-61) describe capitalist dystopias. "Democracy Come True" (162-245) is a cooperative eutopia set in Chicago in 2000.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

Doomed. A Startling Message to the People of Our Day, interwoven in an Antediluvian Romance of Two Old Worlds and Two Young Lovers, by Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe. By the Atlon Calendar, the Year 14,909; by Our Calendar the Year 1920 - [Frank] [Rosewater] (1856-1934) (Frank Rosewater, Publisher, 1920)
Atlism, in which everyone must spend their entire income to promote production, brings eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Fall of Atlantis" - G[ranville] Stanley Hall (1844-1924) (Recreations of a Psychologist, 1920)
Begins with a brief description of the year 2000 in which there is high technology, but a loss of religious belief has produced something like a dystopia. This is followed by the description of the end of the eutopia of Atlantis through the failure of the people, particularly professional people. Satire on medicine, law, education, religion, and women.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Book of Springfield. Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (Macmillan, 1920)
Eutopia set in 2081 in Springfield, Illinois with a world-renowned University of Springfield at its core. Much on mysticism but some on the social system. Racial intermarriage. Drugs. A world government that is not presented entirely positively. Refers to 1919 Cram. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1999 with an "Introduction" by Ron Sakolsky (xi-cxvii). See "The Golden Book of Springfield Containing a Brief Prospectus of a Book With Wings That Will Appear in Various Forms in Springfield, November, A.D. 2018." The Little Magazine 2nd imprint (1920) and 3rd imprint (1925): Both 109-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Hermit of Chimaso Island" - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) (The Earthomotor and Other Stories, 1920)
Sketchy technological eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Moonward" - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) (Moonward and Other Orientations, 1920)
A trip to the moon in 1935 to escape an overpopulated, polluted, violent, dystopian Earth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A New Robinson Crusoe. A New Version of His Life and Adventures With an Explanatory Note - [Henry] Gilson Gardner (1869-1935) (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920)
Purports to be a volume co-authored by Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) and Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), generally considered to be the original of Robinson Crusoe. Presents the history of Crusoe’s island in economic terms, stressing the system of competition and exchange that results from trade with other islands. Ends with a revolution with the intention of establishing common ownership of land.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reductio ad Absurdum" - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) (Moonward and Other Orientations, 1920)
Anti-socialist satire. No traffic laws because they interfered with freedom. No requirements for drivers because such requirements curtailed the freedom of "defectives".
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sweet Rocket - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) (Harper & Brothers, 1920)
Sweet Rocket is an estate/farm in Virginia that is in effect a religious, agrarian eutopia.
U.K. ed. London: Constable & Co., 1920.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Termitodoxa, or Biology and Society” - William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937) (Scientific Monthly, 1920)
While the purpose of the essay is the illumination of the way a termite colony functions, it is done so through a letter from “Wee-Wee 43rd Neotenic King of the 8429th Dynasty of the Bellicose Termites” who describes the eutopia that is the colony with some disparaging comments on human society.
Rpt. in his Foibles of Insects and Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), 207-17; and Essays in Philosophical Biology. Selected by Professor G. W. Parker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939), 71-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Three Weeks Inside the Earth" - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) (The Earthomotor and Other Stories, 1920)
Sketchy eutopia inside the earth with telepathy and advanced technology. No sin.
Keywords: Male author; US author

West Wind Drift - George Barr [Greaves Richard] McCutcheon (1866-1928) (Dodd Mead, 1920)
Eutopia that evolves from a shipwreck on an isolated island. Many problems and internal conflicts, but eventually harmony is achieved, and the people are able to lead a comfortable life.
Rpt. New York: A.L. Burt, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cause and Cure of the High Cost of Living. Reconstruction Program for Political, Social and Industrial Democracy - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Author, 1919)
A pamphlet describing a system of cooperative industrialism. See also 1893, 1915, 1923, and 1927 Olerich.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of Endless Night - Milo [Milton] Hastings (1884-1957) (Dodd, Mead, 1919)
Dystopia. A remarkably accurate picture of a future fascist society in Berlin. The society is completely authoritarian, completely racist, and completely sexist. There is a tremendous emphasis on eugenics with marriages arranged by the state. Berlin is completely underground, and there is a constant war with free democracies outside. One emphasis in the work is the status of women, who are primarily used for breeding. In the end Berlin is defeated.
Rpt. with an introduction “Milo Hastings: Prophet of Totalitarianism” by Sam Moskowitz (unpaged). Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Originally published as "Children of 'Kultur'." True Story Magazine 1.1 - 7 (May - November 1919): 21-[26,] 83; 33-38, 88, 90, 92-94; 33-39, 90-92; 33-39, 80, 82-83; [September - October not seen;] 39-44, 81-82, 84-85, 97-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crucible Island; A Romance, An Adventure and an Experiment - Condé B[enoist] Pallen (1858-1929) (Manhattanville Press, 1919)
Anti-socialist dystopia showing weaknesses of a seemingly good society. The society had been established as an island prison for subversives but allowed to rule themselves and the initial depiction of the society implies that it is an entirely successfully socialist eutopia, but this is a centralized, state socialist system and those holding power use their position for their own advantage.
U.K. ed. London: Harding & More, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; US author