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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mandrake - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia in which people are required to live in the district in which they are born; movement around the country is restricted; the main cities are re-walled; and immigration is eliminated. The country is under the control of the Ministry of Planning.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

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

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

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

Not a Cloud in the Sky - Josephine Lawrence (1889-1978) (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964)
A dystopia in which the elderly forced to move into rest homes at 65. At Tranquil Acres everything has been designed for what is good for them and also functions as “a center for the study of geriatrics” (41). Must move in no later than the morning of the day one turns 65. A spouse who is not yet 65 can move in or wait until they are. No one over 65 can smoke or drive. Ramps, no stairs, ground floor living except for the very wealthy. Moving sidewalks. The elderly poor and controlled even more than the others, which leads the protagonist to reflect that “money is the elderly’s best friend” (92). There is an underground railroad to help people escape to Canada. The author’s papers are held at Boston University.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We Serve the State of Freedom" - [Mary Jane] [Engh] (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1964)
Eutopia embedded in a number of dystopias. Those who follow the Star of Freedom give and take gifts freely but are surrounded by the Star of Battle, the Star of the Market, and the Star of Beauty, all of which exchange less freely.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Another Rib" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99); [Juanita Ruth Wellons] [Coulson] (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1963)
An early transgender story in which the sun has exploded and destroyed Earth and all the other planets. The only survivors are a group of sixteen men on a distant planet they had recently discovered.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

"My Own Utopia" - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) (Ascent of Woman, 1963)
All people female until forty-four and then become male presented positively.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; German author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Rebellers - Jane Roberts [Butts] (1929-84) (Ace Books, 1963)
Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the revolt against it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Sedge - Louis J[oseph] Halle (1910-98) (Frederick A. Praeger, 1963)
Small town eutopia. Emphasis on keeping things small.
Keywords: Swiss author; US author

"The Sellers of the Dream" - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) (Galaxy Magazine, 1963)
Dystopia of planned obsolescence in which people can get new bodies and personalities each year as well as fashions. Conflict between the two main corporations providing the changes leads to war.
Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 86-123; and in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 80-116.
Keywords: US author

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

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

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

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

The Three Sirens. A Novel - Irving Wallace (1916-90) (Simon and Schuster, 1963)
In the late eighteenth century, a man influenced by William Godwin's (1756-1836) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) settles his family on a Polynesian island and, in cooperation with the local natives, establishes a sexually free and generally egalitarian community. Most of the novel is concerned with the community being discovered and visited in the twentieth century.
Keywords: US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The Deer Park" - [Mary Russell] [Standard] (b. 1926) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1962)
The story is set in a future that would now be characterized as with people living in Virtual Reality. In the story, told from the point of view of the man, the protagonist lives the world he created with a woman he created. He is challenged by a woman from outside his reality who completely rejects his sense of reality.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 3.6 (May 1962): 38-; and in Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963). Ed. A. J. Howells, Janice Marcus, and Erica Frank (Visa, CA: Journey Press, 2019), 142-54, with an introduction by Claire Weaver on 142-43.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

[“A Fable for Tomorrow”] - Rachel Carson (1907-64) (The New Yorker, 1962)
Rpt. with the chapter title in her Silent Spring. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3. Rpt. With an Introduction by Vice President Al Gore. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3; and in Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Ed. Sandra Steingraber (New York: The Library of America, 2018, 9-11 with a note on the text (514-15).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

The Immortals - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Bantam Books, 1962)
Transplant dystopia with society controlled by doctors.
Rpt. with an added "Part III Elixir" (91-145). New York: Pocket Books, 2004. Parts originally published as "The Immortals." By Dr. Russell Pierce [pseud.]. Star Science Fiction #4. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 108-57. Story rpt. as "The Immortal." In his The End of the Dreams: Three Short Novels about Space, Happiness, and Immortality (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975), 127-77; "New Blood." By Dr. Russell Pierce [pseud.]. Astounding Science Fiction 56.2 (October 1955): 62-84; "Donor." Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.11 (November 1960): 49-67, 120-28; Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [which reprinted stories from Fantastic], no. 1 (1966): 3-30; "Not So Great an Enemy" [in the book as "Medic"]. Venture Science Fiction 1.4 (4) (July 1957): 4-44; rpt. in the UK edition of Venture Science Fiction, no. 6 (February 1964): 76-112. "Elixir" was also published separately in Analog Science Fact Science Fiction 124.5 (May 2004): 8-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Perfect Planet - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) (Avalon, 1962)
Satire. Artemis was an isolated planet that served as a health resort but was cut off during Earth’s wars. Earth has become prudish, and the people are overweight and physically weak. A man and a woman from Earth arrive on Artemis, and they find a society in which the brochures from the past are infallible, sacred texts. The people are required by law to keep at their ideal weight and wear few clothes, shocking the overdressed and overweight Earthlings. A continuing sub-theme is that the women treat the men as the “superior sex” while being in complete control.
Rpt. New York: Lancer, 1963.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) (Ariel Books, 1962)
A young adult science fiction novel about the struggle between good and evil that depicts an authoritarian dystopia on another planet. A film with a screenplay by Jennifer Lee (b. 1971) and directed by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972) was released in 2018. On the film, see Kate Egan, The World of A Wrinkle in Time: The Making of the Movie. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan, 2018. See also the non-utopian sequels, A Wind in the Door. New York: Crosswind, 1973; A Swiftly Tilting Planet. New York: Crosswind, 1978; and Many Waters. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.
25th anniversary ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 (500 numbered copies). 50th anniversary ed. with an "Afterword" (205-22), her "Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech" (255-62), and other material. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2012. Rpt. in The Wrinkle in Time Quartet: A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters with The Kairos Novels at the head of the title. Ed. Leonard S. Marcus (New York The Library of America, 2018), 1-151, with “The Expanding Universe, Newberry ward Acceptance Speech” (747-51), “Unpublished Essay on Time” (752-54, “Childlike Wonder and the Truths of Science Fiction” (755-63), “Dare To Be Creative! Lecture at the Library of Congress” (764-75) “Four Deleted Sections from A Wrinkle in Time” (776-99), a Note on the Text (830-32), and Notes (835-40). See also Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. The Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. Hope Larson. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012. A film tie-in edition of the book New York: Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017 was published with “An Appreciation” by Ava DuVernay (1-3), “Go Fish Questions for the Author” (203-06), the author’s “Newbury Acceptance Speech The Expanding Universe” (207-12), and “The L’Engle Cast of Characters” (214-15).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Judas Bomb" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1961)
Dystopia of biker gangs controlling all cities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pilgrimage: The Book of the People - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Doubleday, 1961)
The People are extraterrestrials that crash-landed on Earth. The stories are about the adventures of their descendants as they discover their powers and each other. They form something very like a utopian community as they come together. A related story is "The Closest School." Fantastic Science Fiction Stories 9.4 (April 1960): 45-54. See also 1966, 1968, 1971, 1975, and 1980 Henderson.
Rpt. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: <st1:place w:st="on">Avon</st1:place>, 1963. Collected with other related material in The People Collection. London: Corgi, 1991; and in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Mark and Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1995), 1-215. Related stories first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “Ararat.” 3.6 (October 1952): 103-23; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 181-200; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K. ed.) 1.2 (November 1953): 73-94; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 3 [(1955)]: 95-115. “Gilead.” 7.2 (39) (August 1954): 28-54; “Pottage.” 9.3 (52) (September 1955): 99-126; “Wilderness.” 12.1 (68) (January 1957): 3-37; “Captivity.” 14.6 (85) (June 1958): 5-45; and “Jordan.” 16.3 (94) (March 1959): 28-53.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

The Runaway World - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Avalon Books, 1961)
In the future the people of Earth are divided between two planets, Earth and Orcus, a close neighbor. Earth is inhabited by the Ants who developed a society structured as a mechanism. Orcus is inhabited by the peace loving, more balanced Antelopes. The novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, focuses on a man from Orcus who goes to Earth to rescue the woman he loves who has, with many other women from Orcus, been kidnapped by the Ants and his success in bring change to Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sense of Obligation" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Analog Science Fact--Fiction, 1961)
An evil, authoritarian, overpopulated dystopia contrasted with a people from a scientific humanist society built around competitive games that is presented as a good society. The games included contests in chess and poetry as well as things like archery and fencing. Separate contests for men and women. While successful, it was an experiment by outsiders to remold a barbarian planet.
Rpt. as Planet of the Damned. New York: Bantam, 1962. UK ed. as Sense of Obligation. London: Dennis Dobson, 1967.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Silver Eggheads - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Ballantine Books, 1961)
Dystopia. Automation of the publishing industry where computers write books. A female robot (colored pink) is the censor. People lose the ability to write.
Shorter version originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 16.1 (January 1959): 42-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Soft Machine - William [Seward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Olympia, 1961)
The present as a dystopia with stress on drugs and sex together with the perception of secretive state operations. The first volume of a trilogy followed by 1962 and 1964 Burroughs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961)
Communal eutopia of love, sharing, and group sex set in an authoritarian dystopia. The novel became a favorite during the Sixties.
Uncut ed. New York: Ace/Putnam, 1991. Rpt. as vol. 8 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2007. Collector's Edition illus. Kent Bush and with a "Preface" by Virginia Heinlein and an "Introduction" by James Gunn (both unpaged). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Taste of Tenure" - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) (If, 1961)
Overpopulation dystopia. After a certain number of years everyone has tenure in their jobs and problems result.
Rpt. in his In Iron Years (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), 61-94.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The Tunnel Ahead" - Alice Glaser (b. 1929) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1961)
Overpopulation dystopia in which an arbitrarily selected group of people are gassed on a regular basis to help keep the population down.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 3.4 (March 1962): 64-; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 239-48; in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp. and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 129-36; and 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), 340-50. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Voice of the Dolphins" - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) (The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores, 1961)
A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin's ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war.
Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72).
Keywords: English author; German author; Hungarian author; Male author; US author

"Well of the Deep Wish" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (If, 1961)
Dystopia where people spend twenty-three hours a day watching TV.
Rpt. in his The Metallic Muse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 138-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

30-Day Wonder - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) (Ballantine Books, 1960)
Aliens bring eutopia to earth through a conscience gas.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Alpaca - H[aroldson] L[afayette] Hunt [Jr.] (1889-1974) (H.L. Hunt Press, 1960)
Capitalist eutopia in which power is given to the wealthiest by giving extra votes depending on the amount of tax paid. See also 1967 Hunt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Astera: The Planet That Committed Suicide - Dr. Ray[mond] W[right] Johnson (b. 1900) (Exposition Press, 1960)
A eutopian planet fails by giving rights to its minorities. Racist.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Burning" - Theodore [Rose] Cogswell (1918-87) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1960)
Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.
Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 138-42.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) (J.B. Lippincott, 1960)
Dystopia tracing the three stages of the re-birth of civilization after a war had completely destroyed the previous civilization. The three stages are religion, which saves documents without understanding them, the re-birth of science using those saved documents, and then a new war that will destroy the new civilization. At the end the entire process is set to begin again on a new planet. See also 1997 Miller.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961; and Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975. UK ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. Originally published in somewhat different versions as "A Canticle for Leibowitz." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 8.4 (April 1955): 93-111; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 98-116; "And the Light Is Risen." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 11.2 (August 1956): 3-80; and "The Last Canticle." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 12.2 (February 1957): 3-50; rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 13 ([June 1958]): 1-52. See also A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Clark Fuller. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1962; Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Revised and adapted by Richard Felnagle. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1986; and Robert Douglas Manning, "The Abbey": dramatic screenplay based upon the original novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Michael Miller, Jr. (1959) Lethbridge, AL, Canada: Robert Douglas Manning, 1999 (MH).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, Investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to Purchase a Male Child - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960)
Dystopia concerned with a corporate attempt to establish a pool of pliant brain power by purchasing children when very young and conditioning them to solve complex problems. The conditioning includes complete isolation, emptying the mind of all knowledge and emotion, feeding it the data need to solve the problems, and eliminating all the senses except a limited sense of touch.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961. U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. A play was written by Paul Shyre, The Child Buyer: A Drama in Three Acts Adapted from the Novel by John Hersey. London: Samuel French, 1962. It was first performed May 3, 1962, by The Theatre Group at UCLA and had a brief run in New York in 1969-70.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Conquest of Life - [Diane] [Detzer de Reyna] (1930-92) (Avalon Publishers, 1960)
The novel begins as a dystopia in which human males are remade as controllable and robot-like but with human intelligence and an infinite lifespan. Most are said to be purchased by women to work for them and as playthings. One woman, who had herself, been captured and held by aliens, was interested in the inner life of the man she purchased and together they topple the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Day in the Suburbs" - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1960)
Dystopia of future violence with war among the women living in different styles of housing in the suburbs, with a truce at night so that the men know nothing about the violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Drunkard's Walk" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Galaxy Magazine, 1960)
The background to the story includes a dystopian overpopulated, poor society contrasted with the privileged few who pass extremely stringent tests to enter the relative prosperity of university.
Repub. New York: Ballantine Books. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Girls and Nugent Miller” - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1960)
The only male survivor of an atomic war, a mild-manner pacifist, discovers some young women led an older woman who tries to kill him. He loses his pacifism.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 227-37.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Goodbye" - Burton [Nathan] Raffel (1928-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1960)
Story of a Kafakesque encounter with an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Life on Mars" - Werner [Wernher Magnus Maximilian] Von Braun (1912-77) (This Week Magazine (New York Herald Tribune), 1960)
Eutopia on Mars based on unlimited electrical power.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"Notes Towards a Utopia" - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (The Partisan Review, 1960)
Short essay entitled "Why do we want to write another Utopia?" together with three rituals ("Celebrations") from the eutopia for childbirth, the movement of the child from the home to the children's community, and a girl becoming an adult. See also 1975 Gibbs and Golffing and 1991 Goffing and Gibbs.
Rev. as by Golffing and Barbara Gibbs (1912-93). Stand 6 (Winter 1962): 51-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Omega" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1960)
Dystopia of a prison planet where there is a religion of evil, much violence, and one succeeds through murder. This is contrasted with a eutopian earth that is ineffectual. Includes an early version of his human hunt. See 1958 and 1966 Sheckley.
Repub. as The Status Civilization. New York: New American Library, 1960. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1968. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1976; rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1979.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Peacemakers - Curtis W[erner] Casewit (1922-2002) (Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy, 1960)
Dystopia after a nuclear war in which survivors have been invited to an island state expecting freedom, only to discover that the leader of the state had been overthrown and replaced by a totalitarian regime.
Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1968.
Keywords: German author; US author

Planetary Legion: A Study of War and Peace, 1940-1980 - [Marion] [Matarisvan] (1920-2009) (Veritas Foundation Publication Centre, 1960)
Eutopia. The novel begins with World War II, but the period after the war is transformed by the development of a world united by the Planetary Legion for Peace, a movement that leads to the eutopia. Rejects both capitalism and communism in favor of “universal cooperation”. Emphasis on those aspects of all religions that lead to peace.
U.S. ed. Los Angeles, CA: Pantheon Press-G.E., 1967. Rev. as Planetary Legion for Peace: Story of Their War and Our Peace, 1940-2000. London: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre, 1987. Fiction with a non-fiction “Author’s Preface” (7-14).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy)" - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) (The Nation, 1960)
Satire on democracy. Machines replace voters and legislatures.
Rpt. in his Level 7. Ed. David Seed (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 191-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Practicable Utopia - Donald McKelvey (Students for a Democratic Society, 1960)
The essay describes, at a very general level, what the author thinks is needed to create a cooperative “practicable utopia.” A cooperative society “is much more conducive to the desired love relationship and individual development than is the competitive society” (8). Decentralized into “administratively and economically independent areas” but with interactions among them as desired or needed as well as individuals interacting (9). Replaces all motorized transportation by “up to twenty parallel moving roads, each one moving five miles per hour faster than the next” as well as smaller local moving roads (10). No religion. No private property. Obligation to be productive in exchange for material goods.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Puritan Planet" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (Original Science Fiction Stories, 1960)
Religious dystopia about a planet called Brotherhood that would allow a human to die but not a cat.
Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 115-21.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Revolution" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, 1960)
The story describes a Cold War in which Russia has been more successful economically than the U.S., and the U.S. supports the opposition in the hope of overthrowing the Russian government. But the opposition looks like it might be even more successful, and the U.S. is considering supporting the government.
Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 78-113 with an author's note on 77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sexless Dynasty - William W. Bolton M.D. (b. 1900) (Dorrance & Co, 1960)
Dystopia brought about by the reproductive independence of women. Sex role reversal with women considering eliminating men altogether. There is a men’s resistance movement, and the most anti-male woman falls in love.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Sight of Eden" - Howard [Melvin] Fast (1914-2003) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1960)
A eutopia of many planets of peace and plenty is discovered, but the human race is barred from entry as the only ones in the universe who are ashamed of their bodies and war on each other.
Rpt. in his The Edge of Tomorrow (New York: Bantam Books, 1961), 107-20; and in his Time and the Riddle (Pasadena, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1975), 391-403.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Tower" - Philip [Edmund] Booth (1925-2007) (Poetry, 1960)
Dystopian poem about a huge tower, which comes to dominate the lives of the people and was built by an authoritarian government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Venus Plus X - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) (Pyramid, 1960)
Hermaphrodite eutopia. Each individual is created with both sexes. Small, isolated community of 800. Technology and an emphasis on change and forward movement.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an “Introduction” (v-xxi) by Paul Williams; and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. Also published in New Worlds Science Fiction 34.102 – 05 (January – April 1961): 4-46; 90-126; 80-122, 124-25; 84-118, 120-23 with a “Postscript” (123-24).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vulcan's Hammer - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1960)
Computer dystopia in which the computer, Vulcan 3, had been designed to be completely rational and the problems that arise when it has to deal with human irrationality.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979 with an "Introduction" (v-xi) by Fax Goodlife; and New York: Vintage Books, 2004. An earlier version was pub. in Future Science Fiction, no. 29 (1956): 4-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vulgarians - [Robert Chesley] Osborn (1904-1994) (New York Graphic Society, 1960)
Art/comic book that begins with an idealized version of the early American settlers but focuses on the dystopian that has been created by greed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When the Kissing Had to Stop - [Robert Louis] Constantine [Lee-Dillon] FitzGibbon (1919-83) (Cassell, 1960)
Dystopia of a collapsing Britain followed by a dystopia of a Communist takeover.
U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1960 with the author's name as Fitz Gibbon on the cover but FitzGibbon elsewhere; rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961 with the author's name as Fitzgibbon on the cover and FitzGibbon on the title page. UK ed. rpt. London: Pan, 1962; London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1971 with an "Introduction" by the author (i-xi); London: Granada, 1978; and London: Bellew Publishing, 1989, with a brief "Foreword" by Julian Amery and a brief "Tribute" by Louis FitzGibbon. The Granada edition is a reprint of the Tom Stacey edition, but even though the title page says "With a new Introduction by the Author," there is no Introduction.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

A Woman A Day - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Beacon Books, 1960)
Authoritarian, post-catastrophe, and anti-sex dystopia and the opposition to it.
Galaxy Novel No. 43.. New York: Lancer Books, 1968; as Timestop! New York: Lancer Books, 1970; and under the original title New York: Berkley Books, 1980. Earlier version pub. as "Moth and Rust." Startling Stories 30.2 (June 1953): 10-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

World Without Women - Leonard Pruyn (1898-1973); [Gunnard] [Hjerststedt] (1904-69) (Fawcett, 1960)
Standard dystopia of a world with few women. Most women die and gang wars follow.
Keywords: US author

"The World-Timer" - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, 1960)
A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose.
Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Adrift at the Policy Level" - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) (Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology, 1959)
Corporate dystopia.
Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 167-93. This is the author's preferred version. Originally published in a different version in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.], (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959), 66-85.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Anno Domini 2000 - Coury, Phil (Vantage Press, 1959)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia except that it is not yet too bad, and the right person wins an election.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Caduceus Wild" - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78); Robert Bradford (Original Science Fiction Stories, 1959)
Dystopia. Tyranny of doctors making sure everyone is healthy.
Rpt. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Day at the Beach" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959)
Post-nuclear war dystopia presented through the eyes of a surviving housewife.
Rpt. in SF: The Best of the Best. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Delacourt, 1967), 274-84. U.K. ed. (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 274-84; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 97-107; and in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 108-14.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dodkin's Job" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1959)
Conformist dystopia with computers ruling and one man discovering how to undermine the system.
Rpt. his Future Tense (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 7-46; book rpt. as Dust of Far Suns (New York: DAW Books, 1981), 37-77. Story rev. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. Vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 153-201.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Eyes of Dust" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Rogue Magazine, 1959)
Flawed utopia that expects everyone to be physically perfect. A woman with a mole on her face and a blind man are shunned, marry, and give birth to a child who has the "eyes of dust", known only as Person, who they keep hidden. When Person is discovered, he is killed.
Rpt. in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Stories (New York: Pyramid Books, 1967), 65-73, with an author’s note on 64; and in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 187-206.
Keywords: Male author; US author

False Coin. A Novel - Harvey Swados (1920-72) (Little, Brown, 1959)
Novel set in an intentional community, called Harmony Farm, which is designed to provide artists a space to together create great art that is accessible to a mass public. The usual conflicts among individuals ensure failure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Funhouse: An Eyewitness Report of the historical search for the world's most dangerous weapon, the A-I-D. . . - Benjamin Appel (1907-77) (Ballantine Books, 1959)
Two worlds are shown, the Pleasure State and the Reservation. The Reservation has no machinery invented after 1879. The Pleasure State is a computer controlled eutopia based solely on pleasure. But there is a weapon that could destroy the world, and this report is by someone from the Reservation who is about the search for it. The report sees the Reservation positively and the Pleasure State, known in the Reservation as the Funhouse, negatively.
Also published as The Death Master. New York: Popular Library, [1980].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Man's Life 1925-2000 A.C - Albert Archer Van Petten (1925-2005) (Utopian Publishers, Inc, 1959)
Detailed eutopia. Improved democracy based on a more egalitarian government structure. Prosperity assured by establishing a fund to guarantee a minimum income. Generally eliminates government regulations. A.C. stands for After Christ. See also 1972 and 1989 Van Petten.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Invaders are Coming! - Alan E[dward] Nourse (1928-92); J. A. Meyer (Ace Books, 1959)
Authoritarian dystopia of an America under the Department of Psychological Control, which wiped the brains of dissidents, who are then placed in labor camps.
Part originally published as "The Sign of the Tiger." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 32.5 (May 1958): 63-145.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The John Franklin Letters (Free Enterprise Publication distributed by The Bookmailer, Inc., 1959)
Right wing eutopia that is mostly on the struggle against a Communist takeover of the U.S., but with the overthrow of the Communists at the end. The letters of the title were sent by John Franklin, who was active in the Rangers, an underground group opposed to the direction the U.S. was taking, to his uncle in Illinois. The work is racist (Blacks and Jews), opposed to the New Deal, opposed to the United Nations, against immigration, against “social engineering,” anti-Communist, and anti-Union. It supports the National Rifle Association and is very patriotic. At the end of the novel, the resistance to “world government” has won in many countries. A last note indicates that while the next President is a Negro, he is solidly right-wing.
Keywords: US author

Level 7 - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) (William Heinemann, 1959)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government, preparing for nuclear war, builds many fallout shelters at various levels, with level one for civilians, and others for the elite, government officials, and the military. Level 7 is the deepest and designed for those who will push the buttons to send the missiles. The novel is presented as a diary by X-127, one of the button-pushers, and presents the society created. When the war comes, apparently accidentally with automated responses on both sides, the world is destroyed, and the shelters all fail.
U.S. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1960]. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1962; London: Allison & Busby, 1981. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 1989; and ed. David Seed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Life and A Half" - [Frederik George] [Pohl] [Jr.] (1919-2013] (If Worlds of Science Fiction, 1959)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his The Abominable Earthman (New York: Ballantine Books, 1963), 48-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Masters of Evolution - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Ace Books, 1959)
Urban-rural conflict in 2064 with the two largely cut off from each other. The cities (five in the U.S.) are advanced in technology, have robot servants, synthetic food, and the like. The rural areas have rejected technology, grow their own food, raise animals, and are advanced in biology. The novel is concerned with the need for the two to interact, which leads to war and the collapse of New York City.
Shorter version originally published as "Natural State." Galaxy Science Fiction 7.5 (January 1954): 6-69. Story rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 215-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Naked Lunch - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Olympia Press, 1959)
One of many dystopias by Burroughs which generally share the same characteristics: authoritarian tending toward the paranoid and concern with drugs and homosexuality. His dystopia, known as the Interzone, was based on Tangier, Morocco.
Also pub. as Naked Lunch. New York: Grove Press, 1962. These two editions differ substantially. Grove Press ed. rpt. New York: Grove Press, 1992. UK ed. as The Naked Lunch. London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1964. Something approaching a critical edition is Naked Lunch: The Restored Text. Ed. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles. New York: Grove Press, 2001. This edition corrects errors and adds “Original Introductions and Additions by the Author” (197-229) and “Burroughs Texts Annexed by the Editors” (231-89), which includes “Editors' Note” (233-47). Rpt. as 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Grove Press, 2009 with an added “Afterword” by David L. Ulin (291-99). A bibliographic nightmare in that all the early editions differ because they are based on different versions of the text and have added differing front and back matter. Parts were originally published as by William Lee [pseud.] as “From: Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage.” Black Mountain Review, no. 7 (Autumn 1957): 144-48; “Have You Seen Pantapon Done.” Yūgen (New York), no. 3 (1958): 4-5; “Excerpt from Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.1 (Spring 1958): 25-30; and “Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.3 (Autumn 1958): 3-12. When further sections were stopped by the University of Chicago, Big Table was established to publish them and despite police attention published “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch.” Big Table, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 79-137; and “In Quest of Yage.” Big Table 2 (Summer 1959): 44-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nor Custom Stale" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959)
Flawed utopia of a house, which is supposed to be immortal, that took care of all needs of its occupants for many generations and its gradual failure.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 1.5 (April 1960): 34-; and in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 124-37.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Pagan Passions - [Gordon] Randall [Philip David] Garrett (1927-87); Larry M[ark] Harris (1933-2002) (Galaxy Publishing Co, 1959)
The Greek Gods return and establish a Golden Age. No war, improved economic system, and greater sexual freedom. Conflict among the gods, who are in fact criminal aliens from another planet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pirates of Ersatz" - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1959)
Humor--planet called Walden whose inhabitants think they live in a eutopia but are mistaken.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Poorhouse Fair - John [Hoyer] Updike (1932-2009) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1959)
The background of the novel is a future United States that is slowly degenerating and becoming stagnant. The novel takes place on the day the poorhouse holds its annual fair and the people in the house revolt against the director of the home.
© 1958 and published January 12, 1959. Rpt. New York: Fawcett, [1964].
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Season of the Babies" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Fantastic Universe, 1959)
Dystopia presenting a people who have all their children in one season, choose the best to be raised, and eat the others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Dell, 1959)
Satire. Depicts all of human history as brought about to deliver a spare part to a stranded alien spaceship on Titan. Various dystopias.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1961; and rpt. as the Collectors' Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Richard Powers and with an “Introduction” (vii-ix) by Vonnegut. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Jasper Fforde (ix-xiii); and in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 309-532, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (828-29).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Starship Troopers - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959)
Dystopia with constant war that presents the military, and particularly the infantry, positively.
Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1961; New York: Berkley, 1968; New York: Ace Books, 1987; and as vol. 3 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2006; and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Also published as “Starship Soldier.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 17.4 - 5 (101 - 102) (October - November 1959): 103-62; 51-95. Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. British Edition 1.8 - 10 (July - September 1960): 83-128; 96-128; 92-128.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time Out of Joint - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (J.B. Lippincott, 1959)
The novel presents what appears to be a classic 1950s small town eutopia centered on family life, but this has been constructed by a militaristic dystopia to fill the paranoid fantasy of a man who does much of the calculations for the war with Venus.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979; and London: Gollancz, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tranquility, or Else!" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Fantastic Science Fiction, 1959)
Flawed utopia. Conditioning for freedom leaves people too controlled and in need of outlets for aggression.
Rpt. in his Mind Spider and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1961), 1-54. Rpt. as “The Haunted Future.” A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 154-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wolfbane - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Ballantine Books, 1959)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the Earth has been moved by extraterrestrials resulting in the remaining humans dividing into two groups. One, called Sheep by the other group, that reduces its activities to a so as to conserve energy and kills anyone who violates their norms. The other, called Wolves by the first, who are much more active and establish a community of their own. But the aliens have a use for the wolves, and they become part of a machine.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. Shorter version in Galaxy Science Fiction 14.6 - 15.1 (October - November 1957): 8-52; 54-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"World of Heart's Desire" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Playboy, 1959)
In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy.
Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds." In his Store of Infinity (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“‘All the Troubles of the World’” - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Super-Science Fiction, 1958)
Flawed dystopia about a massive computer that runs the world. The story focuses on its ability to predict crime. See also 1975 Asimov.
Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 88-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) (Ace Books, 1958)
Dystopia using the same miniaturization trope as in 1922 Cummings.
Some was published under the same title in Astounding Stories 5.3 (March 1931): 314-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Big-Ball. A Novel - Frank Earl Jones (Jones Publication, 1958)
Eutopia on Mars. Mars has large domed cities, pooled resources, and concern for others. Earth considered backward. Very poorly written.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Birthright." - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Fantastic Universe, 1958)
Satire on the growing tendency to provide medical treatment in the most extreme cases. The story is about a baby needing heart surgery to survive who already needs regular insulin shots and who has significant visual problems and will be deaf at a young age.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Case of Conscience - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Ballantine Books, 1958)
Two societies are presented, Lithia, a eutopia, and earth, a dystopia. Earth, which is called the Shelter Society because it emerged from entire cities moving underground as bomb shelters is stratified and hedonistic but with considerable alienation. Lithia is a eutopia that is entirely rational. The novel’s primary protagonist is a Jesuit who concludes that Lithia is a creation of Satan.
U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Rpt. New York: Walker & Co., 1969; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1963; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 492-547; London: Millennium, 1999; and in American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: Library of America, 2012), 373-553, with a “Biographical Note” (809-10), a “Note on the Text” (815-16), and “Notes” (823-29) and additional material on line at loa.org/sciencefiction. An illus. 300-copy edition has been published Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2021. Originally published abridged in If 2.4 (September 1953): 4-51, 116-17.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Eastward Ho!" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958)
Satire in which Indians have retaken the American continent.
Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 73-93; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Ed. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Primus, 1985), 278-94; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 187-98 with an "Afterword" (199-200).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Examination Day" - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (Playboy, 1958)
Brief dystopia. At age twelve each child takes an intelligence exam. Those with very low-level results are executed.
Rpt. in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 314-19; in A Legend in his own Lunchbox: English Workshop. Ed. Peter Forrestal and Jo-Anne Reid (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1970), 92-96; and in Weird Worlds, no. 4 (1980): 6-.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Phoenix - Mary Shaffer Carlton (Vantage Press, 1958)
Visit to a eutopian planet named Oopana. Technically advanced, no poor, with each continent having a monarchy. Religious. Large military for fear of other planets. Each class (rich, middle, lower) based on intelligence and skill and can advance with higher education. Each class lives in a separate district with more or less elaborate housing (47) and wear different clothing (53). Deported if unwilling to work. Traditional gender roles.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Good Society: The Goal of Law and of the Religion of Jesus, the Unconscious Goal of Creative Evolution, and the Coming Purposeful Goal of Life - Hugh Evander Willis (b. 1875) (Vantage Press, 1958)
Criticism of contemporary society that includes a section describing some of the institutions of a future eutopia. The author contends that it is not "another dream utopia" but a realistic set of proposals based on Christ's plan.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Illusionists" - Elder Olson (1909-92) (Plays & Poems, 1948-58, 1958)
Two dystopias. In the dominant one a few people acting like gods run the machines that give everyone their desired illusions. In the other, Earth is controlled by a dictator who provides happiness to all who are obedient.
Rev. as "A Crack in the Universe: A Play in Three Acts." First Stage: A Quarterly of New Drama 1.2 (Spring 1962): 9-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Immortality, Inc - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Avalon, 1958)
Dystopia. Suicide Act of 2102 in which a person joins a game as the Hunted and tries to elude professional killers. For different versions of the same theme, see 1960 and 1966 Sheckley.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959; and in Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 17-151. Short version as "Time Killer." Galaxy Magazine 16.6 - 17.3 (October 1958 - February 1959): 4-46, 94-137; 104-41, 156-94. Another short version as Immortality Delivered. New York: Avalon, 1959.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invaders from Earth - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Ace Books, 1958)
Dystopia of capitalism and public relations in which a plan is hatched to destroy a world and its people for profit.
Invaders from Earth was published in a shorter version as "We the Marauders." Science Fiction Quarterly 2 (February 1958): 8-70, which was rpt. in A Pair From Space (New York: Belmont Books, [1965]), 5-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invisible Barriers - [Robert] [Silverberg] (b. 1935) (Avalon Books., 1958)
Dystopia of a world where all countries have cut themselves off from each other.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"It Walks in Beauty" - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) (Star Science Fiction 1.1, 1958)
Dystopia in which career women are considered non-sexual, marriage is rare and disparaged, and wanting children slightly obscene.
Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 194-228.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Joy Wagon - Arthur T[wining] Hadley [II] (1924-2015) (Viking, 1958)
Humor in which a computer runs for President.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Letter" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1958)
Satire on a technologically oriented society that uses most of the technology for advertising. People live in hives overseen by a Queen Mother and every boy in the hive must marry one of the “Girls Next Door.”
Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 132-44; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 219-32. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 219-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last of the Deliverers" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958)
Conflict between Freeborn and Communist communities showing flaws in both systems. The Freeborn community appears to be a capitalist eutopia, but there is very little economic activity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Living City - Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) (Horizon Press, 1958)
Architectural eutopia describing Wright’s eutopias Usonia and Broadacre City. Includes both building designs and layouts for towns and cities plus an argument for the beneficial effects of his ideas. See also his The Disappearing City. New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932; When Democracy Builds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945; and “Broadacre City: An Architect’s Vision.” The New York Times (March 20, 1932): 8.
Keywords: US author

"The Minimum Man" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1958)
The background of the story is an overpopulation dystopia desperate for suitable planets to colonize. The story is about a program to test planets by sending incompetent, accident prone explorers to test them; if they survive, anyone can.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 71-101; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 463-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Mission to a Distant Star” - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) (Satellite Science Fiction, 1958)
Aliens, called Scorpions, who appear to be completely human but with much more advanced technology arrive on Earth. Much of the novel is concerned with the difficulties in understanding each other, based in part on their own failure to understand themselves. The Scorpions, it turns out, had as flawed a history as the humans and had thoroughly suppressed it.
Rpt. as by Frank B[elknap] Long as Mission to a Star. New York: Avalon Books, 1964
Keywords: Male author; US author

No Place on Earth - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) (Doubleday, 1958)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 2240 in which procreation without permission is treason.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Plenitude" - [William W.] [Mohler] (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958)
The story is told from the point of view of a father creating a good life for himself and his family using the traditional skills of farming, fishing, and hunting after the collapse of civilization brought about by most people choosing to live in spheres that maintain their lives artificially. No real explanation for the choice people made.
Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 396-402 with an editors’ note on 395.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reap the Dark Tide" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Vanguard Science Fiction, 1958)
Two dystopias, one at sea and one on land. The one at sea focuses on the desperate need to keep a convoy together and harvest enough to feed the thousands of people on each ship. The one on land develops into a cult of death. At the end of the story, one ship, expelled from a convoy, begins the process of starting over with land and sea connected.
Rpt. as "Shark Ship." In his A Mile Beyond the Moon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958), 166-196; in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 1-35; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 268-305.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tale of Two Futures; A Novel of Life on Earth and the Planet Paliades in 1975 - William P. Heyne (1910-85) (Exposition Press, 1958)
Earth is a dystopia with class differences, gangs, and inflation. Paliades is a eutopia of religion and monogamy. Its constitution is on 154-58. Throughout the novel “human nature” tries to undermine the eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"This Crowded Earth" - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1958)
Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change.
Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Two Dooms" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Venture Science Fiction, 1958)
A future dystopia dominated by the Japanese because U.S. atomic scientists decided not to make the bomb.
Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 20 (April 1965): 72-112; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 264-310; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 284-336; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 274-308.
Keywords: Male author; US author