"How the Whip Came Back" - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (Orbit, 1970)
Dystopia of the reintroduction of slavery.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 385-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

I Will Fear No Evil - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970)
Dystopia of violence.
Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Also published in Galaxy Science Fiction 30.4 - 31.1 (July - December 1970): 4-25, 96-184, 100-90; 96-186.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Interurban Queen” - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Orbit 8: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Eutopia created when railroads were chosen over cars and highways.
Rpt. in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 87-95, with an editor’s note on 87 and “Questions” on 95; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 134-44; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 56-68, with an Introduction by Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (54-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey to Utopia - L. A. Glass (Vantage Press, 1970)
The novel describes a search for eutopia that permits the destruction of anything and anyone who gets in the way of the search.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Lost Continent." - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Science Against Man, 1970)
Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an "Introduction to The Lost Continent" (331-33).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mask of Jon Culon - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) (Lenox Hill Press, 1970)
Post-catastrophe, anti-technological, religious dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: John Gresham, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A More Perfect Union - Robert Stapp (1914-85) (Harper's Magazine Press in Association with Harper and Row, 1970)
The South seceded from the U.S. and in 1981 the Confederacy is a totalitarian dystopia in conflict with the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) (Viking Press, 1970)
A minor thread discusses the possibility of establishing a eutopia on the moon. There is also considerable discussion of H.G. Wells and of the nature of utopianism.
Originally published in different form illus. Mario Micossi in The Atlantic 224.5 - 6 (November - December 1969): 95-150, 99-142.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The New Arrangement" - Gaeton Fonzi (1935-2012) (Philadelphia Magazine, 1970)
Essay with some fictional elements about the better living arrangements in an intentional community, with the stress on child-rearing and the family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy - Louis P[reston] Trimble (1917-88) (Ace Books, 1970)
One setting of the novel is a small-town eutopia in England that is basically Victorian but includes modern technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nobody Lives in Burton Street" - Greg[ory Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Amazing Stories, 1970)
Future U.S. dystopia. African Americans contained in ghettoes, but there are constant riots.
Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 9-16. Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There." Vertex 1.6 (February 1974): 72-75, 94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power" - Neil Postman (1931-2003) (The New York Times Magazine, 1970)
Eutopia. Based on a passage in Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) about the need for students to live life rather than just studying, New York City removes students from school and puts them to work cleaning up and repairing the rundown city. Post-secondary students asked to participate and were added.
Rpt. in Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 197-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Oogenesis of Bird City" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Dystopia. The story describes the political maneuvering around the establishment of a separate, eutopian city for all those on welfare, who are all black, thus deliberately separating the races.
Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1982), 5-27; and in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 115-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Friends From Frolix 8 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia in which different types of humans rule the normal humans. The revolt against the dystopia is assisted by an alien from Frolix 8.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pressure of Time" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories, 1970)
All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals.
Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Proposals to Save the World" - R[ichard] I. F[airfield] (Alternatives! Foundation Newsletter, 1970)
One page outline of a eutopia. Radical decentralization of power; new educational system based on volunteers; guaranteed minimum and maximum incomes; volunteer military until no longer need; a National Youth Service Corps for those fifteen to twenty-five; and a National Adult Service Corps for those forty to fifty.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rivet in Grandfathers Neck - Bruce Elliott (1914-73) (Modern Literary Editions Publishing Co./Curtis Books, 1970)
Flawed utopia on a planet called New Australia. The planet was initially settled by convicts, sent to the new planet as subversives to the established order, and their convict status appears to be the only connection to Australia. The planet chooses to cut itself off completely from Earth and develops society based on extremely long life with the oldest having the most power. The novel is about a man who discovers the underside of the utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sex and the High Command - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright and Talley, 1970)
Satire on male chauvinism and women's liberation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Six-Gun Planet - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) (Paperback Library, 1970)
Satire. Planet called Missouri designed to be like the popular images of the Old West in the U.S. with a gunfight at sundown.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Space Stadium - H[erbert] U[rlin] Bevis (1902-2001) (Lenox Hill Press, 1970)
Peace on earth achieved by having teams of men fight in space with world control the prize.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Statistician's Day." - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Science Against Man, 1970)
Dystopia in which birth control is insufficient and death is also controlled.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Taurus Four - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) (Paperback Library, 1970)
Satire centered on descendants of the Hippies who had been forcibly settled on another planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

This Perfect Day - Ira [Marvin] Levin (1929-2007) (Random House, 1970)
Dystopia in which computer control produces sameness; e.g. there are only four names each for boys and girls. People are kept drugged; no free movement. Genetic engineering to overcome size and color differences. Promiscuous sex required weekly.
Rpt. in Three by Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby This Perfect Day The Stepford Wives (New York: Random House, 1985), 163-273.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Toe to Tip, Tip to Toe, Pip-Pop As You Go" - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) (The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Drug dystopia of an enclosed society in which the majority of the population is using legal drugs but those advertizing them are prohibited from taking drugs. There is a group living "outside" who oppose the drugs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Traffic Problem" - William [J.] Earls (Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, 1970)
The dystopia brought about by traffic congestion.
Rpt. The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 243-52; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 52-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Travelin' Man" - Leo P[atrick] Kelley (1928-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1970)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 398-408.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Troika Incident. A Tetralogue in Two Parts - James Cooke Brown (1921-87) (Doubleday, 1970)
Detailed eutopia of a decentralized, craft-based economy and free love.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopian." - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (The Year 2000: An Anthology, 1970)
Flawed utopia. A eutopia of world government, universal education, efficient birth control, automation, no money, no war, no crime, little disease, and essentially free unlimited power results in people with no ambition.
Rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972), 83-99; and in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 331-47 with an author's note on 330.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Walter Perkins Is Here!" - Raymond E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) (The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Satire on an affluent world in which everyone "belongs" to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Winner" - Donald E[dwin Edmond] Westlake (1933-2008) (Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Dystopia of a penal system that implants a device that causes intense pain as the inmate moves away from the prison.
Keywords: Male author; US author

World Well Lost - [John Kempton] [Aiken] (1913-90) (Robert Hale, 1970)
The planet known as Eden, a non-violent eutopia anarchist, vegetarian, is invaded by a violent people, who create a dystopia. A few people choose to reject non-violence and fight back.
U.S. ed. under the author's name. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
Keywords: English author; US author

The Year of the Last Eagle - Leona Train Rienow (1903-83); Robert Rienow (1909-89) (Ballantine Books, 1970)
A satire on the future U.S. centered on the 1989 Bicentennial but with no eagle.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

2069 - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) (Phenix Publishers, 1969)
Gay male dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are 2069 + 1. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 245-464; and 2069 + 2. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 465-656.
Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 9-243.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Along the Scenic Route" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Deathbird Stories, 1969)
Action tale that suggests a macho, dystopian society.
Book rpt. as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Jill Bauman and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Terry Dowling with a textual note that all stories have been reviewed by Ellison for needed corrections. Story rpt. in his The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 19-28; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 243-53; and in The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective. Ed. Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont (Omaha, NB: Nemo Press, 1987), 439-47. Originally published as "Dogfight on 101" in Adam (August 1969) and Amazing Stories 43.3 (September 1969): 6-14. The current title is Ellison's preference.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Armed Camps - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Faber & Faber, 1969)
Military dominated dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Asylum World - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) (Paperback Library, 1969)
Dystopia of future world poverty brought about by the arms race. Poor physical and mental health.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Benji's Pencil" - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Overpopulation dystopia in which art is dead, there is no grass, and death is mandatory at seventy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Broke and Hungry, No Place to Go” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Galaxy Magazine, 1969)
The story is set in a future U.S. that is short of food and judges peoples’ worthiness to be fed on judgements made by computers on their possible future contributions to society.
Rpt. in Galaxy Science Fiction [UK] (December 1969) with the same pagination; and as “Broke Down Engine.” In his Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 27-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bug Jack Barron - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Walker, 1969)
Dystopia. The protagonist is a TV personality with a show called "Bug Jack Barron" where he listens to people's complaints and calls the politicians or others involved and puts them on the spot. As a result he becomes very powerful. A focus of the novel is the choice between allowing a corporation to be run for profit to freeze and later revive people or to have it publicly available. Presents race relations in the future with Mississippi run by African Americans but with African Americans generally in inferior roles.
Rpt. [Book Club Edition] New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1969. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Blaylock (vii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1970. Shorter version first published in New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 179 - 183 (February - October 1968): 4-12, 43-51; 28-30, 42-56; 13-22, 44-59; 20-33; 45-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Captive Universe - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969)
Two dystopias. Aztec's sealed off from the rest of the world and the technological world outside.
U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Class War Comix: A Brief History of the Revolution - Skip [Mervyn] Williamson (1944-2017) (Mike Johnson, 1969)
Satire on both the current situation in the United States in the late Sixties with a suggestion that, the revolution won, the winners would be as corrupt as the current politicians.
Collects his Class War Comix: Eat Leaden Death. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Class War Comix: Good Lord. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Conspiracy, Class War Comix: Kitty Doody Stink Bomb. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1970; Racist Pig Comix. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969); and Tuna Fat Funnies. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cosmic Eye. A Novel - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Belmont Books, 1969)
Dystopia in which every act is controlled and everyone is constantly monitored. The novel focuses on a man at the top of the hierarchy who is a rebel.
Shorter version as "Speakeasy." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 24.1 (January 1963): 66-126.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The CRIB Circuit" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Future dystopia with rigid population control.
Rpt. in her Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow: Collected Stories (New York: Walker & Co., 1971), 158-71.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Day of the Drones - A[lice] M[artha] Lightner (1904-1988) (W.W. Norton, 1969)
In a future post-catastrophe Africa, Blacks rule and believe that their civilization is the only one left. Whites are drones. An expedition led by a young African woman is allowed to search for others and finds both that others do exist and that there are the remains of Western civilization, both of which are likely effect to African civilization.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Emphyrio - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Doubleday, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia based on control of utilities and religion and a monopoly of trade.
Serialized in Fantastic 18.5 - 6 (June - August 1969): 6-77, 82; 10-83. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1970. U.K. ed. [London]: Coronet, 1980. Repub. as vol. 20 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002; in The Jack Vance Reader: Emphyrio The Languages of Pao The Domains of Koryphon. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 21-206 with “Emphyrio Introduction (15-19) by Robert Silverberg; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 509-722 with a “Note on the Text” (732-33) and “Notes” (742).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of the Dream Machine - Dean R[ay] Koontz (b. 1945) (Ace Books, 1969)
Extrapolation of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan (1911-80) into a dystopia. McLuhan was best known for his statement that the "medium is the message."
Keywords: Male author; US author

Five Way Secret Agent - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1969)
Future satiric dystopia. Negative Income Tax provides an income cushion. Conflict in the world.
Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 83.2 - 3 (April - May 1969): 6-54, 96-142.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"For the Sake of Grace" - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Patriarchal dystopia. Women considered inferior and adult males dominate all women. Resistant women are medicated. Occupation by competitive exam with poetry the occupation with the highest status. See also 1972 Elgin and 1978 Russ.
Rpt. in World's Best Science Fiction 1970. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1970), 105-27; in her At the Seventh Level (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 7-31; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 215-36.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Glass Cage - Kenneth W[ayne] Hassler (1932-99) (Arcadia House, 1969)
Dystopia. Post-catastrophe society inside a sealed city. Religion and politics combine to keep people inside after the need to do so is over.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Immortalist: An Approach to the Engineering of Man's Divinity - Alan Harrington (1919-97) (Random House, 1969)
Immortality will bring eutopia. The chapter "Notes on a Utopia Beyond Time" says that in the immortalist eutopia each person will have many lives doing different things. More nonconformists. Permission required to have children. This chapter is (New York: Random House, 1969), 280-89; (London: Panther, 1973), 250-62; (London: Abacus, 1973), 275-84. See also 1977 Harrington for a different take on immortality.
UK ed. London: Panther, 1973. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Time of Disposal of Infants" - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) (Amazing Stories, 1969)
Dystopia in the future where unwanted live children (usually infants) are collected like garbage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Islar: A Narrative of Lang III - Mark Saxton (1914-88) (Houghton Mifflin, 1969)
Sequel set in the time of the grandson of the protagonist of 1942 Wright. Primarily political intrigue brought about by internal and external enemies. See also 1979 and 1982 Saxton.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jamboree" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1969)
Dystopia in which machines rule violently. Only robots can have books; boys and girls kept separate.
Rpt. in A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), 40-49; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 25-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"J-Line To Nowhere" - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside.
Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Ace Books, 1969)
Eutopia and dystopia. The novel is best known for its depiction of a hermaphrodite or ambisexual (both words are used in the text) society in which the people are neuter most of the time but can become female or male for a period with another person and can both sire and give birth to children. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between two countries on the planet and within each country during the period after initial contact with an envoy from off planet. A related story is her "Winter's King." Orbit 5. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969), 67-88; rev. with the pronouns changed to they in her The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 75-95, which has some revisions (see the note on 75); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 301-16 with an editors' note on 200; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 923-43 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and the original Orbit 5 version (1044-64). See also, 1995 Le Guin, "Coming of Age in Karhide." Three stories by Stevan Allred set in Gethen are “Ib & Nib and the Ice Berries”, “Ib & Nib and the Golden Ring”, and “Ib & Nib and the Hemmens Tree” in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 76-82, 216-223, 358-362.
Also published New York: Walker and Co., 1969. The New York: Ace Books, 1976 edition has an unnumbered six-page introduction by Le Guin which is rpt. in her The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979), 155-59; Rev. ed. ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (London: Women's Press, 1989), 130-34. 1st American ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 150-54. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Kelly Freas with an "Preface" by Joan D. Vinge (v-xiii) and the 1976 "Introduction" by Le Guin xv-xviii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. The 25th anniversary ed. New York: Walker, 1994 contains an important "Afterword" (287-93) and appendices (295-345) concerning the issue of gendered language. The 40th Anniversary ed. London: Gollancz, 2009 includes an "Introductory Note for the 40th Anniversary Edition" (ix-xii), 1995 Le Guin (249-68), "Some Kardish Words, and Two Songs from the Domain of Estre" (269-72), and "Author's working sketch map" (273). The Library of America edition reprints the 1969 Ace Books edition; Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 385-611 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), “Notes” (1090-91), and “Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1023-27). The London: Gollancz, 2017 ed. has an “Introduction” by China Miéville (ix-xii) and the 1976 “Introduction” by Le Guin (xiii-xvii), albeit not identified as such. 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Ace Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by David Mitchell (ix-xiv) and an “Afterword” by Charlie Jane Anders (305-15).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Looking Forward - Kenneth S. Keyes Jr. (1921-95); Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (A.S.Barnes\Thomas Yoseloff, 1969)
Technological eutopia. "Part II A Projection of Our Future" (87-195) is a computer-based eutopia using atomic power. Government replaced by computers. Extensive genetic engineering. Production and distribution computer controlled, and no industrial work for people. Human work is administrative and creative. People sleep little. Extremely healthy with constant automated health checks at home. No Money. The third part, "Looking Forward," is a single chapter, "Education for Change". See also 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lovely - David Meltzer (1937-2016) (Essex House, 1969)
A dystopian pornographic series depicting a future bureaucratic, militaristic dystopia in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Man on the Mountain - Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904-99) (Little, Brown, 1969)
Dystopia. A country where race and class no longer matter but in which people are separated into four different regions on the basis of age.
Keywords: Female author; US author

No Time Like Tomorrow - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) (Crown, 1969)
Corporate, authoritarian dystopia in the future. Classified as Young Adult.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Ordinary Man - Mel[vin Angelo] Arrighi (1933-86) (Dramatists Play Service, 1969)
Authoritarian, bureaucratic, racist dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Peter H. Wyden, 1970. U.K. ed. London: Allan Wingate, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prisoner - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Ace Books, 1969)
Novel depicting the dystopia of the famous television series. See also 1969 McDaniel and 1970 Stine. For the series see Matthew White and Jeffer Ali, The Official Prisoner Companion. New York: Warner Books, 1988; and Dave Rogers, "The Prisoner." In his Danger Man & The Prisoner (London: Boxtree, 1989), 129-254.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1979. Rpt. London: NEL, 1980; in The Prisoner Omnibus (London: Carlton Books, 2002), 4-177; and London: Penguin Books, 2009. While the 2009 edition says that it was first published in the U.S. by Carlton International Media, the book copyright is 1969 and the television series copyright is 1967 by Independent Television Ltd (ITV), and, although one source says it was first published in hardcover in 1967, I have been unable to identify a copy of the 1967 publication. A second, shorter series was produced in 2009 by the U.S. cable network AMC and ITV.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rakehells of Heaven - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright & Talley, 1969)
Satire--promiscuity, anarchy, nudity, and a return to nature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sexmax - [George H.] [Leonard] (1921-94) (Paperback Library, 1969)
Computer dystopia with sexual relations chosen by computer. Emphasis on pleasure but with the usual rebels.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Strangers in Paradise - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) (Tower Publications, 1969)
Mostly adventure but includes a dystopian city that is a large slum.
U.K. ed. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Teg's 1994; An Anticipation of the Near Future - Robert Theobald (1929-99); J[ean] M. Scott ([Theobald and Scott], 1969)
Detailed eutopia based on ecology, personal growth, and interpersonal communication. Problems remain, and the author's say, "In our opinion, Teg's world would make a very poor Utopia for anybody" (x, 1972 ed.). See also 1968 Theobald and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
New ed. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Thrill City - [Jean Marie] [Stine] (b. 1945) (Essex House, 1969)
Dystopia. Erotic future SF with the emphasis on the sex rather than either the SF or the future.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

"The Throwaways" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Consumption (Seattle, WA), 1969)
Dystopian satire on future consumption patterns, which focuses on everything being a throwaway.
Rpt. in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 98-102.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Twig Benders - [Wilda] [Holst] (The Feminists, 1969)
Sex role reversal dystopia set in the Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the boys are “required to be naked at all times” and “The Instructors, all women, are expected to use the boys sexually, as such experience counts as part of the boy’s training for the Masculine Role” (1).
Rpt. in Everywoman 1.3 (June 19, 1070), 5, 11 with an introduction by Varda One, “Woman as Masochist, Man as Sadist” (1)); and under the author’s name in The SCUM Manifesto and The Twig Benders. (Np: Gynarchy Poche, [2017?]), 67-78 with a note (7) on the author by Aline d’Arbrant (1952-2015).
Keywords: Female author; US author

A View of Century 21 - Walter Orr Roberts (1915-90) (The Claremont Colleges, 1969)
Mostly prediction but includes a technological eutopia. In “A View of The Future--A Fictional Preview” (20-27) Los Angeles has banned the internal combustion engine, highways are automated. Large buildings house both companies and their workers with 300,000 people living in a single building. Free underground public transportation. The distinction between weekdays and weekends has been abolished and everyone works four days out of the seven. Schools are largely computerized with access twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and students work at their own pace. Medical care and finances will also be mostly computerized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"We All Die Naked" - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Three for Tomorrow, 1969)
Pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1993: The World of Tomorrow - Paul Orr; Violet Orr (1918-76) (Pacific Progress Publishers, 1968)
Detailed socialist eutopia stressing decentralization set in the Los Angeles area. Some technological advances. Some technological advances. Sleeper wakes motif with a died-in-the-wool capitalist waking in a socialist future.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Agency - David Meltzer (1937-2016) (Essex House, 1968)
A dystopian pornographic trilogy presenting a powerful sexual underground and its political and personal connections. Followed by his The Agent. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 107-210; and his How Many Blocks in a Pile. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 211-322.
Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 3-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) (The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968)
Poem. A computer Cockaigne but with an element of irony.
Rpt. (New York: Delta, 1968): 1.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Alternative Future for America. Essays and Speeches - Robert Theobald (1929-99) (Swallow, 1968)
Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 Theobald and Scott and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
2nd ed. as An Alternative Future for America II. Essays and Speeches. Ed. Noel McInnis. Chicago, IL: Swallow, 1970. Parts that had been previously published were rpt. in the 1st ed. as follows: “The Problem” (17-21) originally published as “The Revolution of the ‘Powerless’.” The Los Angeles Times (September 8, 1967), Part 2, p. 5; “The Guaranteed Income” (93-131) was originally published in the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Guaranteed Income, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, December 9, 1966; “The Communications City” (132-44) was originally published in The Christian Century (March 27, 1968): 385-88; “Green Force” (145-50) was originally published as “Green Force: A Mechanism to Speed Urban Peace.” The Los Angeles Times (March 12, 1968), Part 2, p. 5; and “Education for a New Time” (151-63) was originally published in Journal (Division of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) 5.6 (March 1967): 3-7. Parts that had been previously published but not included in the 1st ed. were rpt. in the 2nd ed. as follows: “Incredible man and His Credible Future.” Reflection. A Journal of Opinion at (Yale Divinity School (November 1967): 1-5; “Women” (85-96) originally published in Dialogue on Women (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1967), 11-17 [In the original, the piece is described as being by unidentified editors, but there is no mention of anyone else in the reprint]; “Ecology: A Dangerous Crusade” (151-56) was originally published "War on Pollution Could Backfire." The Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1970). Part G, p. 7; and “Freedom in Education” (157-81) was originally published in Journal (Council of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) (April 1969): 10-16. Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Among the Bad Baboons" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Dystopia of violence in depopulated cities and an “Ultra-welfare state” where everyone gets an “Inalienable Basic” income outside the cities. Reynolds uses this trope in a number of novels and stories. This story focuses on a couple trying to survive in New York City.
Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 135-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anthropol - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) (Ace Books, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia of gender-role reversal with women ruling men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Camp Concentration" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a prison. A war is ongoing, and the protagonist is a conscientious objector.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1971; and New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Conquest by Default" - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1968)
Libertarian eutopia that presents a violent society as positive because no group can get large enough to hold formal power.
Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Vol. 2 Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry Pournelle with John F. Carr (New York: Baen, 1987), 252-89; in Vinge, Threats . . . and Other Promises (New York: Baen, 1988), 30-71; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 159-86 with notes by the author.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Curious Culture of the Planet Loretta - William J. Palmer (Vantage Press, 1968)
Capitalist eutopia with an area set aside for social experimentation, which experiments, generally being socialist, fail. Stress on responsibility.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1968)
Post-catastrophe dystopia.  Basis of the 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott (b. 1937) with a screenplay by Hampton Fancher (b. 1938) and David Peoples (b. 1940). The screenplay by Fancher was published Hollywood: Script City, 1981. Unrelated to 1974 Nourse. See 1995 Jeter.
Rpt. in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan [Allen] Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 431-608. “Notes” 828-29. Rpt. as Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. During his lifetime Dick refused to allow the title change. Graphic Novel version as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6 vols. Art Tony Parker, Colors Blond, Letters Richard Starkings of Comicraft, Cover Bill Sienkiewicz, Ed. Ian Brill [vol. 1 only] and Bryce Carlson, Design Stephanie Gonzaga. Los Angeles, CA: Boom Studios, 2009-11.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Epilogue: Not Quite Utopia" - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). (The Most Probable World, 1968)
Brief but detailed eutopia set in 2001. One focus is that the world is completely free of new pollution and almost all the badly polluted areas of the past have been cleaned up. Use of petroleum products radically reduced and replaced with nuclear fusion power. No advertising in newspapers or on TV. No private cars in Manhattan, radical reduction in city population, and half of New York City is open space. Electric vehicles standard. Strong United Nations, which has relocated to an island in the Indian Ocean. World language as well as local languages. See also 1928 and 1975 Chase.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Feasibility Plan" - Earl Conrad (1912-86) (The Da Vinci Machine; Tales of the Population Explosion, 1968)
Humor on job creation during a time of automation. Pencil sharpeners, wastebasket emptiers, and clock watchers are among the jobs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Freezer" - Candice Bergen (b. 1946) (The Best Short Plays 1968. The Margaret Mayorga Series, 1968)
Dystopia in which everyone is frozen and repaired at 65 so that they can be useful citizens in an authoritarian state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Gift from Earth - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
Transplant dystopia showing the power of doctors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The God Machine. A Novel - Martin Caidin (1927-97) (E. P. Dutton, 1968)
Computer dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Baen, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Guide to Survival - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) (Tyndale House/Coverdale House/Salem Kirban, Inc., 1968)
The dystopia that will follow the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) and surviving it. Antichrist and Armageddon (See Revelation 16). His Your Last Goodbye. Huntingdon Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969 is similar. See also 1970, 1974 Kirban; and Kirban’s Book of Charts on Prophecy. Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969. Kirban published around fifty books on these and related subjects.
Keywords: Male author; US author

I, The Machine - Paul W[arren) Fairman (1916-77) (Lancer Books, 1968)
Machine dystopia with a single rebel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) (Writing 21, 1968)
Eutopia on the Cockaigne model.
Rpt. New York: Delta, 1968. UK. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ladies' Day - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Belmont Books, 1968)
Gender-role reversal dystopia. Woman had taken over after another war. A revolt of men is put down, but a movement toward equality is beginning.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Starship from Earth - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright and Talley, 1968)
Eugenic dystopia and the struggle against it. Science rules. Everyone is classified according to their talents and can only marry within their caste.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mercenary from Tomorrow - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1968)
Future dystopia of boredom, drugs, and television wars.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1969 as an Ace Double with his Five Way Secret Agent (1969); and New York: Ace Books, 1975. Expanded as by Reynolds with [Alan Gould (b. 1951) as Joe Mauser: Mercenary From Tomorrow. By Reynolds and  Michael [A.] Banks [pseud.]. New York: Baen Books, 1986. Earlier, shorter version as “Mercenary.” Analog Fact--Science Fiction 69.2 (April 1962): 6-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Constitution for a New Country - M[ichael] Oliver (Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press, 1968)
Detailed capitalist eutopia containing a complete constitution (49-128). A review of the book by Robert L. Meiers, M.D. was published in The Capitalist Country Newsletter in 1.2 (August 1968): [1-3], a journal edited by Oliver. The book was meant to outline the reasons for and constitution of a new country that he called Minerva that the author hoped to establish and for which he minted a coinage. He found a reef near Tonga, and in 1971 built it up with dredged sand, built a concrete platform, planted a flag, and declared the Republic of Minerva. In 1972 the King of Tonga emptied its one prison and took the prisoners to the reef, where they destroyed the platform. See Raymond Craib, “The Brief Life and Watery Death of a 70’s Libertarian Micronation.” Slate (May 21, 2022). <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-republic-of-minerva-history-libertarian-micronations-tonga.html" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue; text-decoration:underline">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-republic-of-minerva-history-libertarian-micronations-tonga.html. A longer treatment by Craib can be found in Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022.
Rev. ed. Reno, NV: Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press, 1968.
Keywords: Lithuanian author; Male author; US author

Of Men and Monsters - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
In the far future, after earth has been successfully invaded by huge aliens, human beings live like mice in the walls of the alien’s houses. The social system is complex, tribal based, and focuses on survival and striking back at the aliens. The status system was dual in male and female lines although there were variations between tribes. Large numbers of children always gave status. Women kept alive what little knowledge there was largely through ritual and taboo.
Rpt. in Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume II Ed. James A. Mann and Mary C. Tabasko (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 389-534 with an “Afterword” on 535-37. Part originally appeared as “The Men in the Wall.” Galaxy 22.1 (October 1963): 8-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Omnivore - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
Science fiction novel set on both an over-regulated Earth and a planet being explored. The dystopian parts are mostly background.
U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Past Master - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Ace Books, 1968)
A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40).  U. K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The People Trap" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance (New York: Dell, 1968), 7-26. and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 347-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Proposition 31 - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (New American Library, 1968)
A version of Rimmer's sexual eutopia. Proposition 31, found on page 255, would legalize group marriage and the novel is about one such foursome. The novel includes the design for a house that reflects the new way of living. See also 1966, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Return to the Starship - [Diane] [Detzer de Reyna] (1930-92) (Avalon, 1968)
Dystopia of a city which was designed to be a eutopia with everything provided but everyone isolated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ring - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934); Robert E[rvien] Margroff (1930-2015) (Ace Books, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia. Technologically enforced conformity to too rigid moral standards.
UK ed. London: Macdonald, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rite of Passage - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) (Ace Books, 1968)
The novel is concerned with the society that develops on a spaceship and particularly with the rite of passage to adulthood in which young people are put on a colony world to survive or perish. Can be classified as eutopian, dystopian, or a flawed utopia depending on the reader's perspective. Related stories are "What Size Are Giants." Worlds of Tomorrow 3.1 (13) (May 1965): 8-47; and "The Sons of Prometheus." Analog Science Fiction Science-Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 50-71.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with "Introduction: The Story of Rite of Passage" (v-xiv) by the author; and as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Debbie Hughes and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Edward Bryant; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 22 (1986): 3-24. To be continued but the journal stopped publication. Part was originally published as "Door to the Worlds of Men." Worlds of If Science Fiction 13.3 (July 1963): 89-112.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Santaroga Barrier - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) (Berkley Books, 1968)
Flawed utopia. An additive to food gives people an expanded awareness that allows them to create an inward looking, small town eutopia, but they are ready to kill to keep the community as it is.
U.K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1970. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. A shorter version was published in Amazing Stories 41.4 - 6 (October 1967 - February 1968): 6-51, 119-33, 147-54, 156, 158, 160; 129-40, 144; 67-123.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Specter Is Haunting Texas" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Dystopia. Texas has taken over most of the Americas from Canada to Nicaragua. Racial, ethnic, financial, and political discrimination. ". . . a man can't feel really free unless he's got a lot of underfolk to boss around" (15). African American republics exist in California and Florida. Circumluna is a satellite of scientists, hippies, and others.
Repub. New York: Walker & Co. U.K. ed. as A Spectre Is Haunting Texas. London: Gollancz, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Story of Operation Atlantis - [Werner K.] [Stiefel] (1921-2006) (Atlantis Publishing Co, 1968)
Outlines a libertarian eutopia. Gives credit to Ayn Rand (1905-82). For an article on Operation Atlantis, see http://shimajournal.org/issues/v10n2/e.-Simpson-Shima-v10n2.pdf
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia. Includes an automated city with a mother complex.
Rpt. in The Liberated Future. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 139-58; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 62-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

They - Marya Mannes (1904-90) (Doubleday & Co, 1968)
A dystopia in which a computer decides on the value of each person and decides that the old are worthless, isolate them, and kills all those who have not committed suicide by sixty-five. The computer also establishes the appropriate values in the arts. They refers to the young.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Time Machine That Never Got Past First Base: A Laugh--at the Future? - [March] [Laumer] (1923-2000) (Opium Books, 1968)
Humor of boring people visiting boring futures.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome to the Monkey House" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Playboy, 1968)
Birth control through deadening sensation below the waist and reducing the population by voluntary euthanasia. A few people fight back.
Rpt. in his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 27-45. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 28-47. U.K. ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 27-45. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1972), 38-55; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 737-55 with a Note on the Text (834-35) and "Notes" on 850; in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 863-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wild in the Streets - Robert Thom (1929-79) (Pyramid, 1968)
Dystopia of a teenage takeover.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Will It End This Way? - Vance A[cton] Geigley (1907-96) (Vantage Press, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia from a conservative perspective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Affluence of Edwin Lollard" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Writings in S-F, 1967)
Future dystopia in which it is a crime to be poor and illiteracy is normal.
Rpt. in his White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 138-51.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Agent of Chaos - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Belmont, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia set in the twenty-fourth century with all of the solar system inhabited. Small rebel group and another violent group that ultimately destroys the dictatorship.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Alpaca Revisited - H[aroldson] L[afayette] Hunt [Jr.] (1889-1974) (H.L.H. Products, 1967)
Sequel to 1960 Hunt that includes a new constitution (153-95) detailing his proposal for ensuring that the wealthy will have the most power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anarchaos - [Donald Edwin Edmond [Westlake] (1933-2008) (Ace Books, 1967)
A dystopia of anarchism as popularly understood as a situation where the strong will kill the weak.
U.K. ed. under the author's name London: Severn House, 2004. Ace ed. rpt. under the author's name in his Tomorrow's Crimes (New York: Mysterious Press, 1989), 115-263.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"At Central" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Mister da V. and other Stories, 1967)
Dystopia in which all people stay inside watching television.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Beyond - Jean Sutton (1915-2003); Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967)
A dystopia describing a prison planet for telepaths and others with unusual psychic capacities, but the society that exiles its paranormals is vaguely described in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Bright New Universe - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Ace Books, 1967)
A combination of adventure novel regarding the successful search for extraterrestrial life, Sixties protest novel in the description of contemporary conditions, and suggestions of the utopia possible made possible by the educational technology discovered through contact.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brothers of Uterica - Benjamin Capps (b. 1922) (Meredith Press, 1967)
Founding and failure of an intentional community based on the La Réunion community founded in Texas by Victor Considerant (1808-93).
Rpt. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1988, with a "Preface" (vii-ix) by the author and an "Afterword" (311-14) by C.L. Sonnichsen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bull on the Bench - Lowell B[lake] Mason (1893-1983) (Arcturus Pub, 1967)
Satire. After a nuclear war cattle gain the ability to speak and come to rule the world, with, for example, the U.S. becoming the United States of Moovalia, while the remaining humans lose all sense of their abilities. The world produced largely replicates the previous world except with cattle replacing humans. At the end, humans are regaining confidence and control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Chthon - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Ballantine, 1967)
Dystopia describing a prison world. A sequel is Phthor. New York: Berkeley Medallion, 1975, which continues into the next generation of the family that is central to Chthon.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of Illusions - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Ace, 1967)
Dystopia. Aliens have taken over Earth. The novel is primarily concerned with the successful struggle against them. Cooperation.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1971.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Counter-Clock World - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Berkley Medallion, 1967)
The world runs backward with the dead being reborn and then getting younger until the sperm and ovary are reabsorbed into their parents' bodies. A number of subthemes are developed regarding a variety of subjects ranging from religion to black power.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979, with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-x); and New York: Vintage Books, 2002. Expanded from his "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday." Amazing Stories 40.7 (August 1966): 6-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Criminal Act" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1967)
A future dystopia in which no couple is allowed to have more than two children.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 350-62.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The Crimson Capsule - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Avalon Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia ruled by mutants.
Rev. as The Animal People. New York: Belmont Books, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Day Before Forever" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia focusing on transplants.
Rpt. in his The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 7-112; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 283-370.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ersatz" - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (396-413 with an “Introduction” (396-99) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (402-03) by the Slesar, 1967)
A brief future war dystopia in which most civilians have been killed and most things, such as food, are now made from fake materials.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Eutopia" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Flawed utopia modeled on classical Athens complete with accepted homosexuality. But the utopia has become so planned and ordered as to become dull. The story only reveals this at the end and is concerned with a member of Eutopia visiting another country where he is liable to being killed for his homosexuality.
Rpt. in his Past Times (New York: Tor, 1996), 112-39, with the "Afterword" (139-41); in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 251-68; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 334-47 with the "Afterword" entitled "Eutopia Afterword" (348-49).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Farewell to the Bomb - A[ugustus] C[aesar] Webb (1894-1985) (Vantage Press, 1967)
Dystopia established on Earth by demons. The emphasis is on the successful attempt to overcome them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Five Against Arlane - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) (Ace Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia under the control of one man, who has gained psychological control of almost the entire population. The novel emphasizes the successful revolt against it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Garbage World - Charles Platt (b. 1945) (Berkley Books, 1967)
Pleasure worlds as dystopias with one asteroid used as a garbage dump for the pleasure worlds.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Golden Acres" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Mister da V. and other Stories, 1967)
Dystopian old age home. An elderly couple moves into an old age home and quickly find that all the rules and regulations mean that their lives are completely controlled.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 51-66; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 170-90.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Happy Breed" - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Dystopia of a world without pain. The Therapeutic Environment Machines initially provide therapy, thus putting all therapists out of work, but gradually they come to control all aspects of life. They provided complete medical care, thus putting all doctors out of work. The only jobs were “Happiness Jobs--make-work invented by the Machines.” The Machines then regress everybody back to childhood. U.S. author who lived in the U.K. for about twenty years from 1966.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Eutopia based on incest, which is the one thing that people on other planets find unacceptable. See the note at 1949 Sturgeon.
Rpt. in his Case and the Dreamer (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 52-102; and in The Nail and the Oracle. Volume XI. The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007), 137-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Journal of David Q. Little - R. Daniel McMichael (d. 2013) (Arlington House, 1967)
Dystopia of a Communist takeover of the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Logan's Run - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021); George Clayton Johnson (1929-2015) (Dial, 1967)
Dystopia in which everyone is killed at 21 but those who manage to win a race get to live. See also 1977 and 1980 Nolan, which focus on, Logan, the protagonist.
Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 21-137. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lord of Light - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) (Doubleday, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia based on control of technology by a group ruling as the Hindu pantheon.
UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2006 with an "Introduction" by George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (vii-xii). Chapter 2 was previously published as "Dawn" and Chapter 3 as "Death and the Executioner." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 32.4, 6 (April, June 1967): 4-36; 4-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lords of the Starship - Mark S[ymington] Geston (b. 1946) (Ace Books, 1967)
Dystopia of militarism in a post-catastrophe world.
UK ed. London: Sphere, 1971. Rpt. in his The Books of the Wars (New York: Baen, 2009), 15-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Megan Terry's Home: or, Future Soap - Megan Terry (b. 1932) (Samuel French, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Men in the Jungle - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Doubleday, 1967)
Dystopia of militarism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nightmare" - George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-67) (White Power, 1967)
Dystopia. A takeover of the U.S. by Communists, Jews, and Blacks set in 1971. Pages 339-57 is his commentary on his fiction.
2nd ed. (Dallas, TX: Ragnarock Press, 1967), 327-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

One Million Centuries - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) (Lancer Books, 1967)
Three future societies, one of which is a primitive eutopia of sorts, one of which is a threatened innocent society, and one of which is developing science.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Polity and Custom of the Camiroi" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1967)
Eutopia that is essentially anarchist based on exceptional people with many skills. Anyone can make a law, and anyone can repeal it, but some laws become sacrosanct due to their survival. President chosen by lot for one week. Everyone must participate in running the society. Severe punishment for causing problems. See also 1966 Lafferty.
Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 37-50; in Election Day 2084; A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 233-43; and in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 51-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace - [Leonard Case] [Lewin] (1916-99) (Dell Publishing Co., 1967)
Satire on the problems that will arise if permanent peace should occur and some possible solutions.
Rpt. under the author's name. New York: Free Press, 1996 with an "Introduction" by Victor Navasky (v-xvi), an "Afterword by the Author (119-21), and "Appendixes. The Iron Mountain Affair" (123-52) of reviews and comments on the first edition and the issue of authorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Riders of the Purple Wage or the Great Gavage" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Background includes a future authoritarian and corrupt dystopia. Most people are apparently well off but without much focus or depth.
Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty & Associates 1982), 29-143; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 30-103; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 363-437.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Stranger from the Depths - Gerry Turner (1921-82) (Doubleday & Co, 1967)
A young adult novel about the discovery of an undersea technological eutopia with gender equality that predates humanity and disappeared because of a plague. This is contrasted with a dystopian community from the same time that survived. The dystopia has gender inequality, drugged citizens, and violence.
An abridged paperback version as published by New York: Scholastic, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Superstoe - William [Vickers] Borden (b. 1938) (Victor Gollancz, 1967)
Humor in which a group of brilliant men take over the U.S. and the control of the world. They bring world peace, plenty, raised intelligence, and boredom.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Throwaway Age" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1967)
In a future where there is a détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which are described as having different forms of state capitalism, a small group of U.S. people want to move in the direction of a better socio-economic system. The protagonist is the same as in the works in his series about the Soviet Union; see also 1973 Reynolds, “The Cold War . . . Continued” and 1975 Reynolds, Tomorrow Might Be Different.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Time-Hoppers - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To Open the Sky - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Ballantine Books, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia. Mass hysteria, cults, and fads in the third millennium.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Originally published in Galaxy Magazine as "Blue Fire." 23.5 (June 1965): 105-30; "The Warriors of Light." 24.2 (December 1965): 99-134; "Where the Changed Ones Go." [Journal title changed back to] Galaxy Science Fiction 24.3 (February 1966): 83-121; "Lazarus Comes Forth." 24.4 (April 1966): 82-113; and "Open the Sky." 24.5 (June 1966): 165-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Torrent of Faces - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75); Norman L[ouis] Knight (1895-1972) (Doubleday, 1967)
Earth has a very large and growing population following what they call the “Age of Waste”. This does not produce the usual dystopia because the Earth can support its population if well organized. The political system is a corporate state (the authors call it Fascism), and at the beginning of the novel it is working well, but the plot is driven by a forthcoming disaster, a meteor strike, and the system struggles to deal with it. Still, at the end the system survives. Said to be “a sequel of sorts” to Knight’s “Frontier of the Unknown.” Illus. [William Elliott] Dold (1889-1957). Astounding Stories 19.5 - 6 (July - August 1937): 8-33; 122-54; and his “Crisis in Utopia.” Astounding Science-Fiction 25.5 - 6 (July - August 1940), 9-38; 126-54.
Novelization of “The Shipwrecked Hotel.” Galaxy Magazine 23.6 (August 1965): 151-85; “The Piper of Dis.” Galaxy Science Fiction 24.6 (August 1966): 56-87; and “To Love Another.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 79.2 (April 1967): 8-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Trap" - Howard [Melvin] Fast (1914-2003) (The Hunter and the Trap, 1967)
Eutopia. A project to find and develop the next stage of humans creates an enclave where the project leaders create a community based on love, freedom, and freedom from guilt. Mostly nude, open sexuality, and mentally far beyond current humans. Develop telepathy. At the end the U.S. government decides they must all but killed, but it is not clear that that will be possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vigilante--21st Century - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Lancer, 1967)
Future dystopia in which criminals use science to control, but the good guys fight back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Why Call Them Back from Heaven? - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) (Doubleday, 1967)
The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money..
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A World Beyond - George E[rnest] Shirley (1898-2002) (Vantage Press, 1967)
Simple life eutopia taken over by Communists from the U.S.S.R., which produces a dystopia. In the eutopia there is no money, and the economy is based on barter. Rape results in jail for life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Amazon Planet" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1966)
The novel is set in Reynolds's United Planets Federation with the planet Amazonia presenting itself as ruled by a caste of women warriors with men in inferior positions. This was, in fact, the premise on which Amazonia was established, and it has been maintained as a cover for the fact that it has no army, not even a police force. While enclaves of the original vision remain, gender equality and monogamy are the norm.
Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"And Madly Teach" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1966)
Extrapolation of the dystopian effect of technology on teaching and the response of one excellent teacher who manages to overcome the negative impact of the technology.
Rpt. in The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sixteenth Series. Ed. Edward L. Ferman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 25-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Blue World - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1966)
Floating islands of vegetation support a highly developed society with a caste system based on occupation, which over time has become completely rigid changing a eutopia into a dystopia. The ocean contains dangerous predators. A rebel saves the society from itself and the predators.
Rpt. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979; and as vol. 16 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: The Vance Integral Edition, 2005. First appeared in a shorter form as "The Kragen." Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.7 (July 1964): 7-69. Rpt. in The Great SF Stories: 1964. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2001), 47-102; in Wild Thyme and Violets. Other Unpublished Works and Addenda. Vol. 44 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 115-202; and as The Kragen. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crack In Space - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1966)
Overpopulation dystopia.
UK ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. The first half was originally published as "Cantata 140." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.1 (158) (July 1964): 5-61; and rpt. as Cantata-140. London: Gollancz, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Enlightened Ones Beyond the Icebergs - Reuben Sam Shodall (b. 1889) (Exposition Press, 1966)
Those who left when Atlantis, which is depicted as an earthly paradise where nature provided, became corrupt and relocated in the Far North. The novel includes histories of Atlantis, the first settlement in the north, and a description of the eutopian society established there, including a brief period of internal disagreement. Men appear to hold all the political positions, but women are engineers and appear to be equally educated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Founder's Day" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1966)
The story begins in an overpopulation dystopia and ends with the founding of a new colony.
Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 188-212.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Giles Goat-Boy or, The Revised New Syllabus - John [Simmons] Barth (1930-2024) (Doubleday, 1966)
Complex comic novel that includes a dystopia set in a university and ruled by a computer. Giles is a boy raised as an animal who becomes a spiritual leader at New Tammany College (the U.S.).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Harrad Experiment - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (Sherburne Press, 1966)
The good life through sex, but while the emphasis is on the sex, there is a section (225-37) giving the details of a plan for reforming society and the means and stages of doing so, primarily by revamping education with some material on economics and the laws regarding marriage and divorce. Harrad is a college in which men and women are assigned as roommates with the expectation of sexual relations. The men are taught the system of birth control used in the Oneida Community under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes (1811-86). See also 1968, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1967. 25th anniversary ed. with Exciting New Material. New York: Prometheus Books, 1990. The additions include "The Harrad/Premar Solution" (252-75), an expanded "Annotated Bibliography" (277-90), and "Loving, Learning, Laughter & Ludamus: The Autobiography of Robert H. Rimmer" (291-324).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Invaded by Love" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1966)
An alien creates a religion of universal love based on pills that make everyone love each other which brings civilization to a collapse.
Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 152-75. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 119-43. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 82-102. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 173-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Make Room! Make Room!" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Impulse, 1966)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. with a brief "Afterword" (232-33). London: Penguin Books, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Monitors - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Berkley Books, 1966)
An authoritarian dystopia is imposed on Earth by superior extraterrestrials. While they provide peace, they make mistakes that lead to a planet-wide revolt. But rather than forcing the aliens out, they are hired to do for Earth some of what they had imposed.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1984. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966)
Libertarian eutopia emerges on the Moon after a struggle with an authoritarian government. Free market. New social forms, such as a wide range of forms of marriage, have developed. Slogan is TANSTAAFL--There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1996. Rpt. as vol. 33 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010. A shorter version was originally published in If 15.12 - 16.4 (December 1965 - April 1966): 8-57; 42-98, 103-47, 93-159, 111-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Of Godlike Power - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Belmont Books, 1966)
A prophet, preaching a perfect society, disrupts the current one.
Also entitled Earth Unaware. New York: Belmont, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The People: No Different Flesh - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Victor Gollancz, 1966)
More stories of “The People” similar to those in 1961 Henderson.
Stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “The Return” (148-84) 20.3 (118) (March 1961): 5-37;  rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 100-28; “Shadow on the Moon” (185-223) 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 94-129; “Deluge” (47-80) 25.4 (149) (October 1963): 24-54; “No Different Flesh” (9-46) 28.5 (168) (May 1965): 97-128; “Angels Unaware” (81-114) 30.3 (178) (March 1966): 5-35; and “Troubling of the Waters” (115-47) 31.3 (184) (September 1966): 100-28. U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1968. Collected with other related materials 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), 217-422.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

The Tenth Victim - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Ballantine Books, 1966)
Dystopia of legal hunts of humans by other humans. See also 1958 and 1960 Sheckley. His Hunter/Victim. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a prequel, and his Victim Prime. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a sequel. The film Le Decima Vittima (1965) directed by Elio Petri (1929-82) with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra (1920-2012) Giorgio Salvioni (d. 1994), Ennio Flaiano (1910-72), and Petri is based on “The Seventh Victim” and this is the novelization of the film.
U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1966. Rpt. London: Methuen, 1987. Originated as “The Seventh Victim” Galaxy Science Fiction 6.1 (April 1953): 38-51. Story rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 300-11; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 109-22; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 61-72; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 14-29 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

Beyond the Sealed World - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) (Paperback, 1965)
A dystopia of stagnant science versus a dystopia of barbarianism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Journal from Ellipsia - Hortense Calisher (1911-2009) (Little, Brown, 1965)
Complex novel with some reminders of Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland (1884) but developing a non-gendered society.
U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, l966. Excerpt published in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 197-211.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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