TY - ABST T1 - “The Blossoming” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Guglielmo Miccolupi A1 - Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Italy and focuses on a young man trying to decide his future in a society where “The Universal Basics, things like guaranteed housing, health care, education, and food, ensure that everyone has a good, dignified life no matter whether they can work at all.”

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-the-imperfect-blue-marble/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alphabet Tax Y1 - 2023 A1 - Rosa Woolf Ainley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An odd novel in which the price of a universal welfare system that appears to have created utopia is silence.

PB - Grand Iota UK CY - St. Leonards and Brighton, UK SN - 978-1-874400-88-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Finery Y1 - 2023 A1 - Rachel Grosvenor KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The Finery are the police in an authoritarian system and appear to be all-powerful until they confront a centenarian and her wolf.

PB - Fly on the Wall Press CY - New Mills, Eng. SN - 978-1-915789-51-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immechanica Y1 - 2023 A1 - E. F. Coleman KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

PB - Luminastra Press CY - London/Keizer, OR SN - 9798986063706 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Moral Hazard” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the present or near future and involves a plan to direct federal bailout money first to the homeless and the a scam to redirect it to large corporations.

JF - Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 9780262546461 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Scent of Green” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Ana Sun ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Malaysian Borneo author AB -

The story is set in a community that was established as an eco-resort but was unable to survive as a business during the collapse of the economy due to climate change. Much later, it is one of a number of settlements that survived and are learning to cooperate to solve their problems. He protagonist is a woman whose job is to move from community to community to try to find those solutions.

JF - Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1-958121313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Anomaly in the Rhythm” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Viraj Joshi ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

The story is set in a flawed utopian future London with Universal Basic Income in which all citizens wear a biomechanical glove that give them “suggestions” and monitors their behavior.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Blue Nation” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rasha Barrage ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Iraqi author AB -

The story concerns the attempt to get the world’s oceans recognized as a nation and the reasons for doing so. Two other stories in the book are connected to this one, Brian Burt, “OasIS” (102-112), and Steve Willis, “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide" (296-304). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/oceans-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book. 

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Caretaker" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Matthew Hanson-Kahn ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future as told by an old sea turtle where most coral has been bleached but reflects on a restoration project with humans commenting on the environmental changes. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/coral-planting/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Changing Man" Y1 - 2022 A1 - David Gullen ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future in which a white supremacist releases a virus that he thinks will infect people so that only white babies are born. Of course, things do not turn out as expected.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Conjugal Frape” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jamie Watt ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

A divorce case in which a wife charges her husband of fraud reveals the fundamental law of the society that the 99% do not want the 1% to know: “Economic self-interest is paramount” (24), and the 99% are manipulated to ensure the self-interest of the 1%.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Down and Out in Exile Park” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tade Thompson ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts.

JF - Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-26254-443-6 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - eden Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in eden long after the Fall, an eden that is populated by gardeners and surrounded by the real world of hard work, poverty, sickness and death. But to some in eden the outside world of freedom is appealing.

PB - Picador CY - London SN - 9781529062434 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Give You the Moon” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a depopulated but high-tech future after a slow apocalypse produced by diseases and climate change. It focuses on a man living on the African coast helping to regulate the machines that are cleaning up the oceans and living in a simple hut on the beach living off the credits he earns and his interactions with his son and others, mostly at a distance through an unexplained wireless system.

JF - Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-26254-443-6 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Naked Earth" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Tanzanian author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future where society is divided into three class, the embracers who do everything possible to personally produce power that is sent to the grid. The unshackled do as they like, and the undecided are essentially outcasts who pay a heavy price for their agnostic position. The protagonist is a young women trying to decide. 

JF - Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - ([Yokine, WA, Australia] SN - 978-1-922101-73-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Children or, Likeness Y1 - 2022 A1 - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in 2030 in Ramsgate, England, and centers on the sudden arrival of people who don’t look quite human, they are Neanderthals, sitting, nude, on the quay, followed by many more, who are dubbed the red children and their impact on the town, which is ultimately transformative. The novel is about the situation and influence of migration--history’s all about migrants” (91).

PB - Telegram/Saqi Books CY - London SN - 978-1846592133 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza” Y1 - 2022 A1 - [Julius] Masimba Musodza ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

The story takes places in a drought stricken future Africa in which the entire world system has collapsed and focuses on one group of survivors that is divided between the followers of a strong man and those of a technocrat.

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Np SN - 979-8832184425 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/the-sand-ship-builders-of-chitungwiza/ N1 -

Rpt. Illus. Little Blue Marble (October 20, 2023). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/the-sand-ship-builders-of-chitungwiza/

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Secret Source" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ben Okri (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in the future in an unidentified country with a severe water shortage and rationing. What is available appears to cause people to become “docile, amenable to all suggestions from the government” (89), and the protagonists search for answers. The author discusses the story in an interview with Deborah Treisman at https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/ben-okri-09-19-22.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 98.29 UR - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/the-secret-source N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweep of Stars Y1 - 2022 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of the Astra Black trilogy. In this volume the Muungano (Togetherness in Swahili) empire has separated from Old Earth and its wars to establish a better future for their people. But Old Earth does not want to lose its power over them. There is a Glossary on pp. 345-348. See 2020 Broaddus for a story set in the same future.

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1-250264930 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Transmissions from the Vitality Pod” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dan Coxon ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief depiction of an Earth so polluted that it is divided between those who live and work inside as much as possible, are constantly remotely monitored and treated, and venture outside, where others live short lives, only in a completely sealed hazmat suit.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trials Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dawn KIng KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The play takes place in a near future badly impacted by climate change in which three people from the previous generation is being put on trial in a trial in which children are the jurors. It premiered, with different casts, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 15, 2022 and at the Donmar Warehouse, London, August 12, 2022. See also 2011 King, Foxfinder, her rave Dystopia387 (https://www.dawn-king.com/#dystopia987), and her adaption of Brave New World (https://www.dawn-king.com/#brave-new-world).

SN - 9781839040962 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

In the story a man living in a hierarchically structured dome is outside planning to cut down the last remaining tree in “what used to be called Afrika.” Selling the wood will enable to retire and move up one level in the dome and live with the Elite. 2022 Wood “The White Necked Ravens of Camissa” is a sequel.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, VL - no. 23 UR - https://omenana.com/2022/09/24/the-umhlosinga-tree-the-fever-tree-nick-wood/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visco Y1 - 2022 A1 - David Fell KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia that develops on an island in the Thames after people refuse to leave a festival. About half the book concerns the buildup to the festival and the festival. The rest covers the emergence of Care City based on a Declaration of Care, which then becomes Visco, the strong opposition to it brought by property developers, and the success of Visco, although not without problems and the fact that the property developers have not given up. The “guiding mantra” of Care City is “Those who can, walk; those who can’t, we carry” (137).

PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1739980368 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The White Necked Ravens of Camissa” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - African author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Sequel to of 2022 Wood “The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” in which the protagonist struggles with his past in concert with friends who are trying to destroy the dome described in the first story. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine UR - https://omenana.com/2022/12/23/the-white-necked-ravens-of-camissa-nick-wood/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Acts of Defiance” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set on one of the islands of Orkney, Scotland, where the protagonist had moved to distance himself from the current regime that destroys books that meet its disapproval and kills dissidents. Having destroyed all philosophy books, it is now coming for his favorite novels.

JF - Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] SN - 978-1-914953-03-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse Cancelled Y1 - 2021 A1 - Luke Melia KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The work follows what happens after it is announced that an asteroid will hit and destroy Earth and then what happens when it misses Earth. It includes many stories, some co-authored, by the creator and editor as well as stories by other contributors.

PB - Dreamscape Books CY - Np SN - 978-1-768596699 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Arfabad” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction  Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Arisudan” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

A complex story told from the viewpoint of an Indian man as a grows up in a future India being destroyed by floods and earthquakes combined with an irresponsible corporation that is using its power to make everything worse. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology.

JF - Mithila Review VL - no. 15 UR - https://mithilareview.com/chatterjee_03_21/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Baartman" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

The story is set in South Africa in a future where corporations have  destroyed the environment while pretending to be green. A movement of Africans, led by Saartjie Baartman, has been destroying all such corporations in southern Africa and has reached the last holdout on the south coast. Sara Baartman (c. 1789-1815) was the “Hottentot Venus” exhibited in freak shows in Europe.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - No. 19 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/baartman-nick-wood/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coldness of Objects Y1 - 2021 A1 - Panayotis Cacoyannis KW - Cypriot author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in London in 2030 and is told by an aging gay man. After a pandemic that ends in 2024, the Government Party is elected on a program of complete control and constant surveillance. Much of the novel traces the man’s life and loves until he is chosen for Museum Service, where he will be encased in a plastic case where party members will be able to see him go through his daily routine.

PB - Np CY - Np SN - ‎979-8522120436 978-8560368845 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Council of Animals Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nick [Robert Nicholas] McDonell (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Given the disastrous climate change brought about by humans, wild animals hold a council to decide what to do about them.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Curing" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kristien Potgieter KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future South Africa experiencing long term drought where cacti are grown for their water, which is sold to the cities. Some hopeful signs of change.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 20 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/curing-kristien-potgieter/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cyclopedia Exotica Y1 - 2021 A1 - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel depicting a growing community of Cyclops living in the contemporary world that depicts the experiences of minorities and immigrants.

PB - Drawn & Quarterly CY - [Montréal, PQ, Canada] SN - 9781770464377 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Difference Between Me and You” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Courttia Newland (b. 1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future London in which a wall is being built to divide the city between the rich, white citizens and everyone else.

JF - Cosmogramma PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-78689-709-1 978-1-61775-978-9 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamland Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rankin-Gee, Rosa KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in near future dystopian England in which Government policies to advantage the already advantaged are even more clear cut, to the extent of building walls around to exclude the less well off. The novel explores a wide range of issues and problems in contemporary England. The book includes an Author’s Note (451-457) that discusses some of the issues raised in the novel and “Sources for Author’s Note” (459-463).

PB - Scribner/Simon & Schuster CY - London SN - 978-1-4711-9381-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of Men Y1 - 2021 A1 - Christina [Rose] Sweeney-Baird (b. 1993) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A pandemic novel set in the near future, with part located in the Independent Republic of Scotland, about the impact of a disease that, while carried by both men and women, only kills men, except for the few who are immune. The novel, which is told in multiple voices, depicts the trauma, the desperate search for a vaccine, and the growth of a successful world run by women. The focus is on the West, but one thread concerns China, which breaks apart immediately followed by a civil war that is resolved by the end of the novel. Other parts of the world are briefly mentioned, with all contact lost with much of the Middle East.

PB - Penguin Random House/G. P. Putnam’s Sons CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-32813-2 978-0-00-840792-6 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Child of Mine Y1 - 2021 A1 - Olga Gibbs KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Russian author AB -

Dystopia set in a totalitarian state from the point-of-view of a true believer.

PB - Raging Bear Publishing CY - Np SN - 978-1-9164710-7-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from the Burning Age Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The Burning Age was a past time of climate disaster and excess, and the protagonist is a keeper of the archives of that time dedicated to not revealing their secrets to avoid a repeat.

PB - Orbit/Hachette CY - London SN - 9780316498838 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Park" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adam Marx KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story concerns a supposedly temporary statue of a girl created and placed in a park by parents to memorialize the children they had lost because of the damaged environment. It became a focus for other parents and helped bring about significant changes.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/the-park/ . N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pod Tower Y1 - 2021 A1 - Pete Alexander KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The novel focus on a man trying to understand the society he lives in. Ending suggests a possible sequel.

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1-291875683 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Political and Policy Programme” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adrian Pabst KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-Fiction utopia based on a relational economy, democratic corporatism, a renewed social fabric, environmentalism, and civic nationalism.

JF - Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal PB - Polity CY - Cambridge, Eng SN - 9781509546817 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A River Called Time Y1 - 2021 A1 - Courttia Newland (b. 1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex alternative history in which colonialism and slavery had not happened but the future is still deeply divided between rich and poor, with the rich building an ark to protect themselves. Of course, it does not work out as planned. Spiritualism. Magic realism.

PB - Canongate Books CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 9781786897060 978-1-61775-926-0 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sabhu My Destination” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on an African American boy growing up in the contemporary United States and the long-lived man he becomes mostly in Africa told in stages with each stage beginning in italics with the experiences that make him who he is in the future. The story is played out in a world transformed by climate change, with much both changed and unchanged at a both a personal level and socially and politically, such as the abandonment of a base on the moon and its redevelopment by Ghana.

JF - Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-17-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sweeten the Deal" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Dan Micklethwaite KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist of the story has just moved from the depopulating countryside into a building in the city that requires every tenant to produce edible crops on the rooftop garden.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/04/09/sweeten-the-deal/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Walls of Benin City” Y1 - 2021 A1 - M[odupe].H. Ayinde KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated in conflict with the unidentified Reapers. The protagonist is a man struggling to reach the last remain bit of human civilization, Benin City, having abandoned family and friends along the way. He is rescued by an AI version of a Benin bronze.

JF - Omenana VL - no. 20 SN - 978-1-7396736-7-3 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/the-walls-of-benin-city-m-h-ayinde N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Water Runner" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon KW - African author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a drought ravaged African country in which the rich lived in a city in a city with plenty of water and outside the city the protagonist, a water runner, harvests water from the bodies of the newly deceased.

JF - Danged Black Thing PB - Transit Lounge CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia SN - 978-1-925760-84-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Water Stops” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Tanzanian author AB -

The story is first set in a village where people bleed so that the water can be separated out for use by the community and then in areas where the wealthy have everything they might want or need. The rest of the book consists of various responses to the story including poems, stories, including a number of both by Bacon, and translations of the story into French, Malay (illus.), Swahili, Cantonese, and Bengali.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 149.5/6 SN - 979-8985733662 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Fuzzed Out and Fractal” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cleden, David ED - Juliana Rew KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A world where everyone constantly wears virtual reality glasses that disguise the climate change dystopia they live in, and the response of one woman who removes hers.

JF - Gotta Wear Eclipse Glasses. Third Flatiron Anthologies Volume 9, Book 28 (Summer 2020) PB - Third Flatiron Publishing CY - [Boulder, CO/Ayr, Scotland] VL - Volume 9, Book 28 SN - 978-1-7339207-7-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present Y1 - 2020 A1 - Yanis [Ioannis Georgiou] Varoufakis (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Greek author KW - Male author AB -

The Other Now has restructured its economy to create a more egalitarian society. The novel primarily consists of debates among individuals in Our Now over the changes in the Other Now. Lots of detail, mostly over the economic system, which has made all workers equal shareholders in wherever they work and given everyone a basic income, among other changes.

PB - Bodley Head CY - London SN - 9781847925633 9781612199573 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Another Now. A Novel. New York: Melville House, 2021. 233 pp. without an index.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Attack Surface Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a loosely connected series following Little Brother (2008) and Homeland (2013). This volume follows one of the minor characters from Little Brother, a woman who, as an adult, sells her skills to a corporation that helps the dictators of the world with the woman also assisting her friends who are trying to overthrow the same people. The novel focuses on her actions after she is forced to make a choice. A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Tor.com. Illus. Yuko Shimizu. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1250757531 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blue Ticket. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which girls at puberty are chosen to have either marriage and motherhood or a career and independence.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London SN - 9780241404454 978-0-38554-563-1 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2020. 287 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Branching Out" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set on Scottish island where housing developments are being carefully planned using computer models based on plants and constant detailed surveillance of the surroundings to keep them free of any invasive species. 

JF - Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology PB - Shoreline of Infinity CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-8381268-0-3 U2 -

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bridge 108 Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A gritty future dystopia set in the same future as 2012 Charnock in which a boy who is a refugee and has been trafficked struggles to find freedom. An expansion of her The Enclave. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017. 66 pp.

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA SN - 9781542006071 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Choice" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tomas Marcantonio KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a post-nuclear war unified Korea in which supposed abortion providers are extracting the fetuses and raising them in incubators with negative impacts on the children.

JF - Metaphorosis UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2020/choice-tomas-marcantonio N1 -

Rpt. in Metaphorosis 2020. The Complete Stories. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Neskowin, OR: Metaphorosis, [2021]), 53-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

The novel depicts a future African country, similar to Nigeria, that is corrupted by greed and the desire for power. Part mystery novel. Much humor.

PB - Bookcraft CY - Ibadan, Nigeria SN - 9789785795714 978-0593320167 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. 444 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Refuge" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Indianapolis on “Original Earth,” or what remains after the rich have left to settle Mars and African Americans who can afford to have settled the moon and orbiting cities around it. Those left behind include those who can afford to ensure clean air and water by building a dome over their neighborhood and those who can’t. The viewpoint character is an African American ex-convict struggling to survive.

JF - Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789095012 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Lullaby Y1 - 2020 A1 - Polly Ho-Yen KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a future undergoing a fertility crisis, and every child born is closely monitored and removed from parents deemed unfit by OSIP (Office of Standards in Parenting) which can issue an ISIP (Insufficient Standard of Parenting) for any infraction. ISIPs accumulate until a child is removed. The novel centers on the struggles of a mother to have a child and then keep it.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789094251 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Death Aid" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Joseph Elliott-Coleman ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Croydon in South London after the Eurowars and the protagonists are all survivors, mostly from the military, dealing with injuries, PSTD, poor housing, and, for many, no purpose in life. The expanded European Union, known as Neo Euro, which includes a United Ireland, states that have broken away from Europe, and a dysfunctional United Kingdom, establishes radical new policies to deal with housing, the homeless, and health care, but the U.K. fails to introduce any of the reforms, and the story is set in a Croydon in South London, where people have taken things into their own hands. In this setting, some of the veterans are deciding whether or not to rejoin the United Nations military with the aim of suppressing the government of Myanmar, which is still killing its citizens. The story is riddled with typos. 

JF - London Centric: Tales of Future London PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-73-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exhibit E” Y1 - 2020 A1 - L. P. Melling KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An art exhibit projected on the moon shows the effects of climate change on Earth from the present to a dead planet.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 9781912950997 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/12/04/exhibit-e/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 117-19, with a note on the author on 119; and in Best of British Science Fiction 2020. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2021), 155-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Firewalkers Y1 - 2020 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in and around Achouka, Gabon, where there is an anchor to an elevator to an orbiting space station for the rich. The hotel where the rich wait requires air conditioning and clean water, which requires function solar panels, which break down and get covered with dust, and the Firewalkers are the people who risk death from the heat to clean and repair them.

PB - Solaris/Rebellion CY - Oxford, Eng: SN - 978-1-781088487 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. Part V: A Voyage To The Island of The Wolves” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Philip Palmer (b. 1960) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Gulliver is thrown off a hip and ends up on an island that at first appears to be inhabited solely by a community of mostly young vegetarians who do not wear clothes and are promiscuous. But then, in what turns out to be a yearly ceremony, a pack of clothed wolves walking on two legs appear who feed on the humans. 

JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Good Time to Be Alive” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Waverly SM KW - English author AB -

The story takes place in a future London facing constant flooding. 

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - https://reckoning.press/the-last-good-time-to-be-alive/ N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-last-good-time-to-be-alive/ (February 5, 2020). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Londonia Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kate A. Hardy KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

The novel is set in what remains of London after a series of climate-change catastrophes. It is divided between the “cincture,” a wealthy area protected from the climate, and Londonia where people get by as they can. The female protagonist wakes up in Londonia with much of her memory gone, and she makes a life for herself as a “finder” of artifacts from before the catastrophe which are traded within Londonia or sold/traded in the cincture. Uses an invented language that combines English with words derived mostly from French. There is a Glossary on 397-99. 

PB - Tartarus Press CY - Leyburn, Eng. SN - 978-1-912856-19-6 N1 -

This is a revised version of her Hoxton. Np: Lulu Publishing, 2016, which cannot be found. Hoxton is the name of the protagonist in Londonia

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lucy Jones KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The book is a science based exploration of the point made in the subtitle, but it begins with a brief “Prologue” (1-4) and ends with a brief “Epilogue” (199-200). The Prologue set in the near future our world where a girl walking outside needs a hat, goggles, and respirator and the girl’s grandmother explaining about nature and why it ended. The Epilogue is set in a future where the girl can walk outside in the woods.

PB - Allen Lane/Penguin Random House CY - London SN - 9780241441534 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paper Hearts Y1 - 2020 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

One of a set of novellas published as Robot Dreams that begins with what seems to be a series of unconnected dreams that coalesces around one Artificial Intelligence that “dreams” of taking over the world and turning it a eutopia. Whether it is a dream and whether it is a good thing are both left open.

PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] SN - 978-1-912950-53-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Samson in somnium: A Will and Testament” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The first story set in her Mundane Sovereigns world in which the singularity as occurred, and AIs, who humans call the All Knowings, have effectively enslaved humans. This story focuses on conflict among AIs that reveals that while brilliant, they are emotionally immature. The second story is “Fear of the Empty: Broken Dreams.” Illus. Jacey. Nature (January 20, 2021). nature.com/futures. 1476-4687 (web) 0028-0836 (print) https://doi 10.1038/d41586-021-00122-y and focuses on a human, a potter who makes pots ordered by an AI and tries not to remember making art. 

JF - Nature UR - https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-020-01720-y/d41586-020-01720-y.pdf U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Singular Outrage" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ian Creasey ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a post-singularity future eutopia where everyone is supposedly equal because all needs are filled, but there is fierce competition in game creation. The protagonist is a ninety-nine-year-old Native American woman who has been given her health back but is upset by the appropriation and trivialization of her heritage.

JF - Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology PB - MonstraCity Press CY - Manassas, VA SN - 978-0-9898027-4-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Swimmers Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

A climate change dystopia novel is set in a future Andalusia, where the author was born, with rapidly evolving plants and animals. The remaining humans are divided between those of Earth, which has a complex social fabric, and those in the Upper Settlement, a ring at the edge of Earth’s, with a more egalitarian social structure. Retelling of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which is, of course, related to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), with reference to Wide Sargasso Sea throughout the text. The female author was born María de los Ángeles Via Rivera in Cádiz, Spain and lives in Spain and England and writes in both in English and Spanish. Womack is her married name.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 978-1-78093213 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Twenty-Second" Y1 - 2020 A1 - C. M. Franklyn ED - Matt Bechtel KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the president for life is being kept alive by harvesting body parts from people created for that purpose. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gautam Bhatia (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

While the novel is explicitly fantasy, it is set in a walled city that has been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries that has a strictly hierarchical society and power structure reinforced by religion. One focus is on the desire to break the structure and find out what is on the other side of the wall. Presumably the first volume of a series.

PB - HarperCollins India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 9789353578350 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Water Must Fall Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

A complex novel with a number of intersecting storylines set in a future where much of the world is experiencing a drought and the corporation that control most of the water supply is all-powerful. 

PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-61-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the World Turns Wild Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nicola Penfold KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-apocalypse (disease) young adult dystopia in which two children who are immune escape from the locked down city and search for their mother in the wild lands.

PB - Stripes Publisjing CY - London SN - 9781788951524 N1 -

Excerpts were published in the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) Undiscovered Voices anthology for 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Aqueduct" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Webb, Steve ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bearmouth Y1 - 2019 A1 - Liz Hyder KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia based on the history of child labor in the Welsh coal mines moved into a future where children are kept permanently underground. The protagonist is one of the few boys in the mine learning to read and the language in the novel progresses together with his abilities. 

PB - Pushkin Press CY - London SN - 9781782692430 978-1-324-01586-4 N1 -

. U.S. ed. New York: Norton Young Readers, 2020. 251 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bigger Faraday Cages, Longer Blockchains” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dan Grace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story depicts future in which people must live inside Faraday cages to protect themselves from constant surveillance and capture.

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 13 UR - Bigger Faraday Cages! Longer Blockchains! — Big Echo ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bittersweet Building” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rachel Armstrong ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story describes an experiment in “living architecture” in which the responds to and changes the people living in it. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Call and Answer” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Langley Hyde ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. is completely controlled by fundamentalists, and bordering countries, like Canada, will not admit anyone with the U.S. passport, which separates a mother from her husband and child, with the story told in letters by the mother. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Chosen. Novella Extract” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Thomas Pitts KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Extract depicting a future in which Earth has been abandoned and people have settled in hollowed out asteroids. In the story an asteroid of Amish of various persuasions regarding technology are dealing with the problem of shortages of essential rare earths.

JF - New Welsh Reader VL - no. 122 SN - 978-19993527-9-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A City of the People, For the People, By the People” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ayona Datta ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

In the story, an Indian city noted for its corruption is taken over by Whatsapp and “is owned and managed by a commercial company for private property” (1336 [341]). All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Counting the Days” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kathy Schilbach ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

A dystopia in which at age seventy-five no further medical care is given. you then have ninety days to live. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deep Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) A1 - Daveed Diggs (b. 1982) A1 - William Hutson A1 - Jonathan Snipes KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The short novel describes the underwater eutopian society that develop when pregnant women were thrown or jumped overboard from slave ships in the middle passage. An “Afterword” by Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes (157-63) explains the evolution of the work from its origins in the techno-electro duo Drexciya and their collaborators, followed by the song “The Deep” by the band clipping. (Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes), and then the written work.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Divide Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the teachings of The Preacher as found in the Book of Certitude in which men and women from age eighteen live in different parts of the country. Both must be robed and masked when they must meet. 

PB - Drugstore Indian Press/PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Early Warning: The Power of Publication” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gilbey, John KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

After it is announced that the world will be destroyed by a solar flare, the big tech companies put all their resources into developing AI’s that will helping people to leave. As people leave, the Earth’s damaged environment slowly recovers, and the AIs announce that they can protect those who have chosen to stay.

JF - Nature VL - 575.7781 U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Frankissstein: A Love Story Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel, some of which tells the story of Mary Shelley, her husband, Byron, and their friends and the writing of Frankenstein. Another part, set in post-Brexit Britain concerns a transgender doctor, also a Shelley, and their love for an AI specialist, Victor Stein. Another main character is Ron Lord, who creates sexbots for lonely men like him. A related theme is cryrogenics, with all of it coming more or less together.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 9781784709952 978-0-8021-2949-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2019. 343 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Artist Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ben Okri (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The novel tells how the people of the country come to free themselves from the Hierarchy, a particularly vicious authoritarian dystopia told through the stories of three main characters, a boy whose grandfather has passed on the traditional myths, a man whose lover is suddenly taken by the police for speaking forbidden words, and a girl whose father is imprisoned for writing. All the old myths are rewritten to support the current situation and all other books are burned. 

PB - Head of Zeus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2020. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Hopkins KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book begins with a brief eutopia that the author says isn’t one because it still rains, and people don’t always get along. The eutopia follows its protagonist through a day in his life in a town completely transformed into a one in tune with nature and with good schooling and a town-meeting democracy that works. The rest of the book is on the ways cultivating imagination would improve life with a concluding essay entitled “What If All This Came to Pass?” (164-84, 214-16). 

PB - Chelsea Green Publishing CY - . White River Junction, VT/London SN - 978-1603589055 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Grindr City” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gavin Brown ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Grindr City starts as an app for gay and bi men to chat and meet, and it evolves into an all-consuming way of life, which then evolves into an actual city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Growing Resistance” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Juliet Kemp KW - English author KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which a small group was isolated behind a barrier, which, though no longer necessary, separates the better off and the poor, who produce most of the goods needed by those beyond the wall. 

JF - Translunar Lounge: A Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 SN - 978-1-64076-006-6 UR - https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2019/08/15/growing-resistance-kemp/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2020), 23-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Growing the New City: London 2039” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Robin Robinson (b. 1944) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

London in 2039 is becoming a sustainable city after years of demonstrations by the youth of the city. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - DLC 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Not a Number Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lisa Heathfield KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The U.K elects the Traditional Party, which promises to re-establish the country’s greatness, but it rapidly becomes a dictatorship with concentration camps. The protagonist is a young woman sent to one of the camps where she is given a number. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed discusses a future where bad government regulated combined with poorly automated private regulation of social media has badly damaged free speech. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/future-free-speech-social-media-platforms.html U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Arms" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jo Lindsay Walton (b. 1982) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex future tale with what appears to be two separate story lines (one indicated by black dots in the left margin) plus some explanation of the how the current situation evolved (indicated by red dots in the left margin). Reference to the Palace of Westminster/Wetminster in England’s green and pleasant seas suggests a climate change dystopia, but there are also suggestions of having achieved sustainability, and at for a time. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "K" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jez Noond ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story suggests rather than describes the situation, but it appears to be set in a dystopia at war where a Gleaners has collected a child to have his memory obscured (the machine used is an Obscura) and then join the military.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Keep Your Augmented Reality. Give Me a Secret Garden” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hannu [Jaakko] Rajaniemi (b. 1978) KW - English author KW - Finnish author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future in which most people wear glasses that edited out much of the reality around them. The story focuses on a young girl who takes off her glasses and discovers spaces where it is possible to be free. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/future-secret-gardens.html U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lay Low" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where the .1% control the world and people exist of allowances allocated for specific things such as water and transport. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - DLC 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letters From Nowhere" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rowan B. Fortune ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist is an elderly, terminally ill woman who begins to receive letters from her doppelganger who lives in a parallel, eutopian world that branched off our timeline in about the eleventh century. She is only one of many receiving such letters, and a picture of the other world is pieced together from the letters.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light at the Bottom of the World Y1 - 2019 A1 - London Shah KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume in a young adult duology to be followed by the Journey the Heart of the Abyss (2021). The protagonist is a young Muslim London girl, but a London that in 2099 is part of a completely submerged world. The novel focus on the girl’s search for her father, who has been arrested on false charges by the corrupt, authoritarian government. She hopes to gain his release by winning the London Marathon, which is a race of submersibles. 

PB - Disney Book Group/Hyperion CY - New York SN - 9781368036887 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Materiality" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of told from the point-of-view of young boy living in southern California in a future that is dealing with the effects of climate change. A class project at the end of middle school is to act as a model classroom in a model Twenty-first Century Town, including wearing the clothes of the time.

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 978-1-958121313 N1 -

Rpt. in Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Warner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 186-201. 978-

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Model Minority” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical dystopia on the treatment of minorities in the United States. 

JF - Radicalized [The front cover adds Four Tales of Our Present Moment and the back cover say Dystopia is now] PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Monetizing Movement” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Harrison Smith ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is in the form of a sales pitch from a company, based on Groundtruth, selling constantly updated location data by accessing phones. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Night with the Joking Clown” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Corporations have divided up the world but are in conflict over their spheres of influence. Men completely dominate women, which they divide into “slags” and “chicks.” 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction SN - 978-93-88322-05-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nový Ys” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Krzysztof Fijalkowski KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia of a dangerous, future city that slowly disappears under rising tides. 

JF - The Ashes of the Cities. Eldorado. Liber Tertius PB - Raphus Press CY - São Paulo, Brazil VL - 16 copy ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Oli Away" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Edward Davey ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story describes a trip around the world made sustainable that describes all the advances made in protecting the environment. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a steampunk alternative future America with most of its current problems, but, in the novel. they are faced and combatted. Stories in the “Pimp My Airship Universe” include “Pimp My Airship.” Apex Magazine, no. 2 (July 2009) https://www.apex-magazine.com/pimp-my-airship/; “The Problem of Trystan.” Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance. Ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Jean Rabe (New York: DAW Books, 2011), 46-63; “Steppin’ Razor.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 38.2 (457) (February 2014): 82-104; rpt. in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 87 (August 2017); “I Used to Love H.E.R. (A/K/A/ Help Engineer and Rebuild My Robot Girlfriend Roommate.” Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects. Ed. John Joseph Adams. Np: John Joseph Adams, 2014. EBook; “(120 Degrees of) Know the Ledge.” Not Our Kind. Ed. Nayad Monroe (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2015), 264-86 [Incorrect in the Table of Contents]; Buffalo Soldier. New York: Tor.com, 2017; and “All God's Chillun Got Wings.” Illus. Jenna Fowler Steampunk Universe. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 15-33. 

PB - Apex Book Co. CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009762 N1 -

An excerpt was published in Apex Magazine, no. 120 (May 2019). EJournal. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “[Pink Heart Shape]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley [Naa Norle] Lokko A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Scottish author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placation" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

In the story, the Earth requires that it be placated annually with the body part of a human and focuses on a girl who cannot decide what part of her body to sacrifice. Compare to 1948 Jackson, “The Lottery.” 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Referendum” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Registering Eve” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alison Powell ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A future city in which all interactions are through the blockchain, based on a company like Ethereum, which has many flaws, some of which are deliberately designed to overcharge.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rememberers" Y1 - 2019 A1 - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Singapore after the water came and most Singaporeans now live underground in inverted skyscrapers with “the elite few . . . who can afford homes within the last remaining gated communities aboveground” (18). The protagonist’s family was among the last to move into the underground bunkers, as she calls them, where status is reflected in how close to the surface you lived. Life is tightly controlled with high unemployment and passes checked on exiting and entering. The authors of the stories were each “assigned a specific climate event mentioned” in the 2018 UN climate report collaborating with experts recommended by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who “provide a scientific backbone” for the stories while giving the writers free rein to determine how closely they adhered to that science” (6-7). The Introduction to the volume (7-12) is by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Chief Program Officer of the NDRC.

JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Same Place as the Last” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Nina Anana ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story begins in a near future England divided, often violently, between those accepting of immigrants from countries disappearing under rising oceans. One man is badly hurt by a police attack and appears to wake up in a high-tech future cared for by the immigrants he had been trying to save.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing, 2019 CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Save the ShireTM” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jennifer Gabrys ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A technological libertarian eutopia for the extremely wealthy made possible for the wholesale harvesting of information on individuals used to undermine democracy, based on Palintir. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Scrapheap Destiny” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrew Knighton KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story takes on Destiny, one of many planets that have been environmentally damaged, that has become a dumping ground for scrap scavenged from space and other planets. A large corporation has essentially bought the planet, and while making promises of a better life for the inhabitants, or at least some of them, will destroy the livelihood and the culture that those working with the scrap have built up over generations.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 30 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Seeking Follows” Y1 - 2019 A1 - James Ash ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Silence of Sound" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mike Brooks KW - Bisexual author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set after a religious war where all books have been made to say the same things. 

JF - Translunar Lounge: A Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 UR - https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2019/08/15/the-silence-of-sound-brooks/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skin Y1 - 2019 A1 - Liam Brown (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a highly infectious pandemic in which everyone is required to stay home and focuses on the way one family deals with the issues. It was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "St. JuJu" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Set in a far-distant future, the story explicitly rejects the idea of a perfect society and explores different notions of what makes a life good.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - A trash garden is paradise and prison in Rivers Solomon’s story “St. Juju” - The Verge U2 -

Illus. Allen Laseter

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Strive City of Tomorrow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Katharine S. Willis ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A description of Strive City, which is based on combining Ebenezer Howard’s A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) and Strava Metro, a company that monetizes data sets present as a sales pitch for the city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Swipe Right to Welcome Left to Reject” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Linnet Taylor ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A description of a city that had been welcoming to immigrants and refugees but failing to integrate them partners with Welcome Tinder to pair citizens and immigrants. The relationship apparently begins successfully and then is followed for five years and it spreads across the country at the same time that more and more problems emerge. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - NP SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Data Units” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kitty-Lydia Dye ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which AI’s are used to control people. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Tales the River Told: A Glimpse of the Past” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stewart C. Baker KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia where everyone lives underground and as entertainment someone goes to the surface to follow the course of the Yellow River. 

JF - Nature VL - 571.7770 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Too Much Fulfilment” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizzie Richardson ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Food delivery has entirely taken over the food industry and effectively controls what people get to eat, based on a company like Deilveroo. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - NP SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unauthorized Bread" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point-of-view of a woman who is a refugee recently permitted to live in the U.S. as she moves through the system and focuses on the dystopia that is that system. The woman and others caught in the system fight back using their knowledge of technology. 

JF - Radicalized [The front cover adds Four Tales of Our Present Moment and the back cover say Dystopia is now] PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ungovernable Cities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a number of fantastic or just very odd cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s La città invisibili/Invisible Cities 1972/1974).

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unseen" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeremy W. Crampton A1 - Kara C. Hoover ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn’t fit the parameters. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - John [Henry] Lanchester (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which an island has completely surrounded itself by a wall to keep out the Others, those displaced by the effects of climate change. The novels protagonist is a young man enrolled as a Defender of the wall, and it follows his experiences and the doubts he had about what he was doing. 

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the River Runs Gold Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sita Brahmachari (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A climate-change dystopia in which there appear to be no bees left, and young people are lured to what are advertised as well-paid, comfortable, safe jobs to work as pollinators. The reality is closer to slavery. 

PB - Orion's Children's Books CY - London SN - 978-1510105416 U2 -

Illus. Evan Hollingdale

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Without Fire" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ben Jacobs ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background of the story is a society divided into rich and poor living in the Villas and the Warren. The protagonist works in a robotics factory with rules better suited for robots than humans, but the focus of the story is on Mini Worlds, similar to a tank for fish but here a tank for tiny humans.

JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zed. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which one which one large company takes over the surveillance state, the police, and the currency, thus controlling the entire world. The novel follows what happens as the company tries to deal with, and cover up, a flaw in the system. 

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 9780571245154 978-0-385-54547-1 N1 -

U. S. ed. Doubleday/Penguin Random House, 2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zero Bomb Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hill, M[att] A. KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel set in a future automation and surveillance dystopia in which some who oppose the system use a science fiction novel as the basis for their tactics.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 978-1789090017 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 84K Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of corporate power with universities closed, all the news outlets controlled by private corporations, and only people from corporations serve are elected to office. 

PB - Orbit CY - New York U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "AT392-Red" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Khairani Barokka (b. 1985) ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indonesian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that includes “Biodiversity Credit” that allowed that allowed the destruction of one area of the world’s environment in exchange for the supposed protection of another area. This result in a massive refugee crisis. This was followed by the introduction of “Accessibility Credits” by which improving accessibility for those with disabilities in one part of the world allowed another part of the world to eliminate accessibility. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Biggerers Y1 - 2018 A1 - Amy Lilwal KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

In the novel, very small people are created to become the playmates and pets of their owners told largely from te point of view of the new, small people. T

PB - Point Blank/Oneworld Publications CY - London SN - 978-1-78607-355-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Conclusion” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Cornell (b. 1967) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future of constant surveillance by the Company, which is everywhere.

JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. N1 -

Originally published in audio format as an Audible original.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Highway Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gregory Norminton (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is divided into three interrelated parts set in the same location. The first is in ancient Britain, the second in the twenty-first century, and the third section is a dystopia set 3000 years in the future. The dystopia is a barbarian, violent world in which children who are entirely on their own struggle to survive.

PB - 4th Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreams of the Eternal City Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mark Reece KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which, having decided that people were sleeping too much, a strict “sleep code” is established and bureaucracies set up to enforce it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Early Riser Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which most people hibernate in towers erected for that purpose and controlled by HiberTech. A few people stay awake to protect the sleepers and others, advocates of RealSleep, try to undermine the system.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. [New York]: Viking, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape Hatch" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) ED - Tom Hunter KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An entrance to an apparent eutopia appears, and the story explores the response of one woman who visited and returned. 

JF - 2001: An Odyssey in Words: Commemorating the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Birth PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2018. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019), 155-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Euphoria Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jayne Lockwood KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A transgender alien appears on Earth and develops the intention of saving it from the destruction that enveloped its planet.

PB - DSP Publications CY - Tallahassee, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eve of Man Y1 - 2018 A1 - Giovanna Fletcher (b. 1985) A1 - Tom Fletcher (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of trilogy in which the only girl born in fifty years reaches maturity and the society has planned her future. 

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Expiry Date" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eamonn Murphy ED - David F. Shultz KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian England where healthcare has been privatized and each person is given a termination date with their life insurance expiring twenty-four hours later.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fatberg and the Sinkholes: A Report on the Findings of a Journey into the United Regions of England by PostRational” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dan Gavshon Brady A1 - James Pockson ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a report on the United Regions of England, which has kicked London out and is establishing a eutopia based on communities and communication. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmith Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Feed. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nick Clark Windo KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which everyone has an implant that gives them access to all of the world’s information and social media and communicate with each other without speech. While initially, and for most of the characters in the novel, this seems eutopia, everything collapses when the system is hacked, and no one has access to even the most basic information. Even worse, the hackers can implant a new personality in an individual.

PB - Headline CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Greatest Story Ever Told Y1 - 2018 A1 - Una McCormack (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society with slavery in which some slavers escape and lead a revolt, which is defeated.

PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Man" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Teika Marija Smits ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which, with all the bees and other pollinating insects gone, the young poor are hired as pollinators. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-green-man/ (January 15, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “HR Confidential” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sim Bajwa KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopian story is told through exchanges between an employee and a human relations officer, with the employee complaining that the workers are being forced to work around the clock, and the HR person fobbing her off.

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 11 U2 -

Illus. Grace Wilson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Ecotopia" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Alberro ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Brief but fairly detailed communal anarchist eutopia with an emphasis on the environment and comparisons to the current situation. The protagonist is a woman journalist being given a tour of Anakai, with her tour guide giving her a very detailed description. Anakai is composed of “federations of autonomous, self-sufficient, yet interconnected eco-communities of around 500 inhabitants each” (103). “All children . . .are taught from early childhood the basic principles of ecology, how to live sustainably, the unique characteristics of the wonderful animal life with which we share our planet, and how the grand and complex earth systems that support life function" (104).

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng SN - 978-1-5275-1317-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Neom" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Neom is a city built on the Red Sea on the Arabis peninsula that is designed to attract high-flying tech entrepreneurs and workers with the laws that suit them rather than Saudi Arabia. It is described by a middle-aged woman cleaner as she cleans an apartment and then walks back to the district where poor support workers like her live. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.1 & 2 (516 & 517) SN - 9781912950683 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2019. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 37-45

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newsletter" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of censorship. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night of the Party Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tracey Mathias KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which Britain is controlled by a single party and everyone born outside the country is considered illegal and subject to arrest and deportation. Not reporting an illegal is itself a crime. 

PB - Scholastic CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oversleeper Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Stewart] [Ferris] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopian sleeper awakes tale in which a man who had been in a coma twice awakens to a poor, violent, depopulated future caused by a plague brought to Earth from dirt from Mars. During the man’s comas, doctors had used his sperm to create thousands of babies for local repopulation and had sold his sperm to other countries, who had used it in the same way.

PB - Accent Press CY - Cardiff, Wales SN - 9781786151834 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster ebook, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfidious Albion Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sam Byers (b. 1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A post-Brexit dystopia set in a small, previously peaceful English town and the media encourages conflict.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 9780571336296 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Public Money and Democracy” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jo[seph Churches] Walton (b. 1982) ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A combination of essay and speculative fiction that explores the interactions among value, the commons, algocracy (rule by algorithms), democracy, and complexity and unpredictability. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salvation Y1 - 2018 A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a galaxy spanning trilogy. In the first volume, one thread is that Earth is a near-utopia based on technology provided by apparently friendly aliens, who, at the end are revealed as anything but friendly. Two other threads are developed, the discovery and exploration of an enigmatic crashed alien spaceship and a far-future in which humanity is fighting against extinction by other aliens. Salvation Lost. London: Pan Macmillan; 2019; U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2019. The Saints of Salvation. London: Pan Macmillan, 2020. U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2020 is forthcoming.

PB - Pan Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shrinking, Sinking Land Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kell[ey] Cowley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which everyone is required to hibernate underground to survive the winter. Liverpool is under water and Manchester is flooded. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to hibernate. A prequel is her Last March for Planet Earth. [Chester, Eng.]: Odd Voice Out Publishing, 2018. EBook. 

PB - Odd Voice Out Publishing CY - Chester, Eng. N1 -

Developed from her “Shrinking, Sinking Land.” By Kelley Cowley. Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. Manjana Milkoreit, Meredish Martinez, and Eschrich. [Tempe: Arizona State University], 2016. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skinned" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman. 

JF - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern VL - no. 53 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Speculative Hyperstition at a Northern Further Education College” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Judy Thorne ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presented as interviews with a range of people about what they would like the world to be like in the future, which initially seem straightforward, but gradually becomes clear that the setting is a deeply depleted future after the U. K. left the European Union. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Statues of Limitations” Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Russell] [Schechter] ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia playing on the removal of Confederate statues in which statues of people currently disapproved of are being replaced by those of right-wing heroes like Rush Limbaugh and Steve Bannon. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Suicide Club: A Novel About Living Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which near-immortality is possible and death is illegal, but there are people who believe that they should have the choice of whether they live or die.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York SN - 978-147-36-7291-8 9781473672901 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Sceptre, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Synapse Sequence Y1 - 2018 A1 - Daniel Godfrey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future London where algorithms determine who gets what work and are the legal system and humans are overseen by technology.

PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 978-1785653179 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Lindsley ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Cure Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is set in what is presented as a dystopian future in which men have supposedly become literally toxic to women, and one man isolates his family, including his three daughters, on an island. It is never made clear is the toxicity actually exists. 

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U. S. edition New York: Doubleday, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman World Y1 - 2018 A1 - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future graphic novel in which all men have died. Eutopian elements with strong satirical elements. 

PB - Drawn & Quarterly CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U2 -

Color by Nikolas Ilic

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2023: A Trilogy Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bill [William Ernest] Drummond (b. 1953) A1 - Jimmy [James Francis] Cauty (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia than builds on and uses themes from to The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, particularly its libertarianism, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with some of the text written as if from 1984.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - New York U1 -

David Perch Books Presents the head of the title

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The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2084 Satoshi AD” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a world divided between those who have established a brand for themselves and the no-brand. The key to power is the blockchain. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All the Galaxies Y1 - 2017 A1 - Philip Miller (b. 1973) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

After a second failed independence referendum, Scotland has broken up into autonomous states, and a father searches for his son who disappeared after a protest. In parallel, a boy awakens in space in the afterlife where he searches for his dead mother.

PB - Freight books CY - Glasgow, Scot. SN - 9781911332190 N1 -

Rpt. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2017.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American City Y1 - 2017 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A climate-change dystopia focusing on the internal refugee crisis in the United States.

PB - Corvus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Barrette Girls” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sara Saab KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Lebanese author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where rare earths required in technology are harvested from manufactured people. 

JF - Liminal Stories VL - no. 3 UR - http://liminalstoriesmag.com/issue3/the-barrette-girls N1 -

Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5. Ed. Cristina Jurado and Lavie Tidhar ([Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2018]), 153-66. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams Before the Start of Time Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in the years from 2034 through 2120 and follows the adjustments made by individuals and families as they adjust to advances in medicine regarding fertility and birth to the point where anyone can have a child through a various of different technologies. It won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature. Female author.

PB - 47th North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Easy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Liam Hogan KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A successful environmental movement is undermined and defeated by corporate opposition.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/10/26/easy/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End We Start From Y1 - 2017 A1 - Megan Hunter (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The setting to the novel is a climate-change dystopia in which a woman has to flee flooded London with her just-born baby. 

PB - Picador CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exit West Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mohsin Hamid (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Pakistani author KW - US author AB -

Refugee dystopia in which refugees are able to move from place to place through “doors.” The novel follows two people from their homeland to the Greek island Mykonos to London to a Marin, a new city created in California. 

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fly Away, Peter" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ian Hocking (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany has become isolated from the rest of Europe and rejects all outsiders. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Frozen" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Liam Hogan ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the future each election determines who will be frozen until the next election. This, while apparently eutopian, eliminates unemployment and helps the environment to recover.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA SN - 9780998963419 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gnomon Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) ED - Nick Harkaway [pseud.] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very complex novel depicting what appears to be a flawed utopia in which constant surveillance and a police force that is able to stop crimes before they happen produces a good life for everyone, but it turns out that there are flaws in the system and unaccountable holders of power.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018

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Nick Harkaway [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Good Citizen" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which there is a daily referendum in which everyone must vote or lose what few privileges they have. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 131-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Citizens” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paula Hammond ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) becomes a monarchy that uses nuclear weapons on Iran and Mexico and is at war with China. Any one not of white, multi-generational U.S. ancestry loses their citizenship, as do gays, Jews, Muslims. Some people had escaped, many were killed. The female author has published many non-fiction books for children, mostly on scientific subjects.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - H(a)ppy Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nicola Barker (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A woman lives in a future world where “Excess of Emotion” is to be avoided; one must always be “In Balance” and is being constantly adjusted chemically to stay that way. The woman experiences a glitch in her conditioning that leads her to experience emotion, pain, and so forth. Typographically complex. The author says that the book “is best enjoyed in conjunction with Agustin Barrios: The Complete Historical Guitar Recordings 1913-1942

PB - Heinemann CY - London U1 -

Commonly cited as Happy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hold Back the Stars Y1 - 2017 A1 - Katie Khan KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is a love story that begins and ends in a catastrophe in space. But for most of the novel, it is set in a future multi-cultural European eutopia in which populations move from place to place to mix with other populations. 

PB - Doubleday CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Night of the Comet: A Sequel to H. G. Wells’ In the Days of the Comet” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Donna Scott KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1905-06 Wells in which the comet in Wells that brings a eutopia is followed some years by a second comet that produces a dystopia.

JF - Best of British Science Fiction 2017 N1 -

Originally published in the author’s blog in May 2017 (http://www.adamroberts.com/2017/05/), but it appears to be no longer accessible. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Infinite Eye" Y1 - 2017 A1 - J[ames] P. Smythe (b. 1980) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a surveillance society exploiting the poor and undocumented.

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ink Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alice Broadway KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A religious dystopia in which the major events of a person’s life are inked on their skin, which is made into a book on their death. The book is given to the family if the person has lived a good life and publicly burned if judged to have not led a good life. First volume in a trilogy. The second volume, Spark. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2018, is a standard middle volume in which the protagonist searches for answers to the questions raised in the first volume. The third volume, Scar. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2019, pulls the various threads together.

PB - Scholastic Children’s Books CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Scholastic, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Dog on Earth Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adrian J. Walker KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia (bomb) told from the points-of-view of a dog and his master. 

PB - Del Rey/Ebury Publishing CY - London U5 -

MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lowland Clearances.” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on the Highland Clearances in which the people of Glasgow are resettled in the Scottish Highlands and replaced by sheep. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8½ Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "March, April, May" Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Vince] [Haig] (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which The Space, rather like Facebook, controls the news and most human interaction.

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U3 -

Malcolm Devlin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mercury Teardrops” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) ED - Salomé Jones KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by the end of the digital age when all the enhanced bodies fail.

JF - Haunted Futures PB - Ghostwoods Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 139-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once Upon a Trump" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Timothy Carter ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The future Emperor Trump visits the current president to try to get him to fight the effects of climate change that has produced a dystopia. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jess[ica] Barber A1 - Sara Saab KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Lebanese author KW - US author AB -

The story is set mostly in Beirut, Lebanon, and takes place during a dystopian period of extreme drought. It traces the life choices of two scientists as they work to help the planet recover, and the projects they develop  that will do that. 

JF - Clarkesworld SN - 978-1-250-16463-6 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/barber-saab_09_17/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 293-316 with an editor’s note on 293.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pink Footed" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

Dystopia in which most animals, and birds in particular, have disappeared. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proof of Concept Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a dystopian overpopulated world with most people living in huge hives with their survival threatened by climate change. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Road to the Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - 9781937794750, 978-1-250-16463-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 252-57 with an editor’s note on 252; in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 175-81; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 608-14. EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - See You in September Y1 - 2017 A1 - Charity Norman KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in New Zealand where a woman joins a farming collective that is the basis for an end-of-the-world cult and follows the woman’s life in the community and her parent’s attempts to get her to leave. 

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sensing the Dust” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eliza Chan KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The background to the story is a future authoritarian dystopia set in Hong Kong. 

JF - Persisten Visions UR - https://persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/sensing-the-dust-eliza-chan U2 -

Illus. S. Bell

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shooting an Episode" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting a “reality” game that has taken over the entire society as seen through the eyes of someone working for the company producing the show. The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Priest took his title from Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant,” a work that greatly influenced his own work.

PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 978-1-4732000630 N1 -

Rpt. in his Episodes: Short Stories (London: Gollancz, 2019), 292-320, with notes “Before” on what led him to write the story (289-91) and “After” on its publication and some reflections on it (321-22).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Show Stopper Y1 - 2017 A1 - Hayley Barker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which immigrants are required to sell their children to a circus watched by the “Pures”. The novel focuses on the son of a high-ranking “Pure” who falls for one of the performers. A sequel, Show Stealer, is scheduled for late 2018. 

PB - Scholastic CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space Between the Stars Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Corlett KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A virus wipes most of the human race on Earth and on the colony worlds. A few survivors on one of the colony worlds returns to Earth, where they discover a group of survivors that are instituting a required, controlled breeding program. Some of them escape to Scotland where they live a simple life that attracts other survivors, and a community develops.

PB - Pan Macmillan CY - London N1 -

 U. S. ed. New York: Berkeley, 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Targets" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirstlands” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in a drought-stricken Africa.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - ‎ 978-1937794750 9781911143956 N1 -

Rpt. in his Learning Monkey and Crocodile (Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 129-42, with a note on the story on 177.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transition Y1 - 2017 A1 - Luke Kennard (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in what is the current dystopia for many couples, spiraling debt, landlords who constantly raise the rent, too many credit cards, all at their limit, loans, and illegality to stay afloat that can’t be paid. The Transition offers a way to avoid jail, get out of debt, and start over. It offers a mentorship in which the couple lives with a Transition couple for six months, supposedly learning how to live differently. It turns out to be just a different dystopia leading to more complete control.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Unkindness of Ghosts Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia on a multi-generation star ship organized like a slave ship with the dark-skinned on the lower decks with little support. 

PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Vade Retro Santana” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which missionaries convert the indigenous inhabitants by force as told by a missionary with doubts. 

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vermix" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Matthew Castle ED - Gavin Miller ED - Anna McFarlane KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where much knowledge has been lost to those living outside high tech archologies that have completely closed themselves off.

JF - A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction PB - Freight Books CY - Glasgow, Scot. SN - 978-1-911332-50-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walkaway Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a future authoritarian dystopia with very advanced technology in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed and abandoned and with extreme class divisions. Some people choose to walk away into the abandoned countryside hoping to create a freer society. While they are forcibly opposed by those in power and not all those who walk away are trustworthy, a freer society does emerge. The title resonates with Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973). 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday’s Savior Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bliss, Keith KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

The central focus of the novel is the belief that the second Coming of Christ has occurred, and the dystopia created by the Holy Church of the Second Coming. 

PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "75" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Abiola Oni KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future England where every must die no later than the day they turn 75. 

JF - The Guardian UR - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jun/25/abiola-oni-accounced-as-winner-of-the-4th-estate-2016-bame-short-prize ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse: An Epic Poem Y1 - 2016 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

PB - Ilium Press CY - Spokane Valley, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Apology of Arthur Tresbit Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert Thayer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the contemporary financial system in which the background, referred to throughout the book, is the dystopia brought about by the collapse of the system. Most of the book is about how it happened. 

PB - Austin Macauley CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Village Vanguard (Reflections on Blacktopia)” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses by white supremacists on an attack on the Blacktopia that has been created on the moon twenty-five years after the attack. Only a brief description of the Blacktopia. 

JF - Mothership Zeta VL - no. 5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Azanian Bridges Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

Alternative history dystopia of South Africa in which Apartheid survives. A related story is “Azania.” AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers. Ed. Ivor W. Hartmann (Np: StoryTime Press, 2012), 80-99. 

PB - New Con Press CY - Weston, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Browsing: Security Issue” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

JF - Nature VL - 533.7604 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Career Day" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nisha VyasMyall KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which projections are made on what occupations will be needed in the future, and each child has a chip inserted at birth designating their future career. Until year seven, they are given a broad general education, then their chip is read, and from then on their education is narrowly occupational. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 8 Brexit Supplement UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/career-day-brexitlit/4592954205 U2 -

Illus. Luke Spooner

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lucy Kirkwood (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian play based on the Fukushima disaster that takes place in a future England where a similar disaster has occurred. 

PB - Nick Hern Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities at Sea Y1 - 2016 A1 - Martin Simons (b. 1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where, due to global warming, much of the land has flooded, and cities have abandoned the land for huge rafts that float the seas. The cities are strictly hierarchical, there is completely free sexuality, and children are conceived and born outside the body, and are generally presented positively. But the young woman who is the protagonist is bored and chooses to move to another city to undergo changes that will give her gills that will allow her to live underwater for long periods. At the end, new cities are planned that can move both on and in the water.

PB - XLibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Woven Streets Y1 - 2016 A1 - Emmi [Elina] Itäranta (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Finnish author AB -

The novel is set in a patriarchal dystopia where most women are not permitted to read or write, and dreaming is forbidden. The female protagonist can read and write and dreams. It is set on an island that is divided into sections based on crafts, with the novel focusing on the weavers. The island is slowly being submerged as the surrounding waters rise, and by the end of the novel has mostly been abandoned.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - London N1 -

North American ed. as The Weaver. A Novel. New York: Harper Voyager, 2016. Published in Finnish as Kudottujen kujien kaupunki (2015).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Destructives Y1 - 2016 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Artificial Intelligence has developed and has made humanity passive The novel follows a number of individuals who struggle to learn about the pre-AI past and their own humanity. Connected with 2007 and 2015 De Abaitua and the ending suggests there will be a sequel, but there hasn't been.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - David [Henry Tudor] Scott (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia set on an island in the middle of the Atlantic that is roughly the size of England. Human scale; no cars and excellent public transport with much use of bicycles; no extremely large machinery. Zero-growth economy. Stress on energy conservation using water, wind, and tidal power. 

PB - Zero Books CY - Winchester, Eng. U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Elves of Antarctica” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the coastal areas of most countries are under water and many islands have disappeared. There are major engineering projects to try to save what is left and to provide places for the displaced to live. The project in Antarctica, where the story takes place, is to try to keep the Antarctic ice sheet from melting and inundating more land.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enjoyment: A Comedy Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where pleasure is required.

PB - Shoestring Press CY - Nottingham, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escaped Alone Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian play in which four old women, “They are all at least seventy,” sit in an apparently peaceful garden and discuss the horrors of the world outside the garden. 

PB - Nick Hern Books CY - [London] N1 -

U.S. ed. in her Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Two Plays. (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2016), 31-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escapology Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ren Warom KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe cyberpunk dystopia. 

PB - Titan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything Belongs to the Future Y1 - 2016 A1 - Laurie Penny (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a world where the rich can get treatment that extends their lives while the poor die young. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Final Path” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Genevieve Cogman ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (general collapse) young adult dystopia in which the young woman protagonist escapes to join other young people who have run away to an island. 

JF - Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Will Remember You” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Janet Edwards (b. 1958) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia brought about by an alien invasion with the aliens killing off all humans over thirteen days with a few survivors who will rebuild the human race. 

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Immaterial" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dan Grace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In a future world divided between the rich and poor, a poor girl who lives in a decrepit city cleaning up after others and searching for her lost sister. She also discovers a nealthier natural world outside the city.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 39 UR - The Future Fire: 2016.39 fiction immaterial U2 -

Illus. Cécile Matthey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Hambach Forst” Y1 - 2016 A1 - George F. ED - Michael DeLuca KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia about the destruction by corporations of the old growth forests in Germany, with the story focusing on the resistance but with a sense of the futility of the resistance. 

JF - Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/in-hambach-forst/ (June 12, 2017).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Industrial Growth” Y1 - 2016 A1 - David L. Clements KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of the future U.S. destroyed by scientific experiments that government encouraged to be done with no concern for safety.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 136.1 & 2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 125-61. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Love in a Lonely City 2050" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Deborah Walker ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a very high-tech future London with strong eutopian elements and is about how hard it still can be to find love. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine Society: Rich or poor. They want you to be a prisoner Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mike Brooks KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which both the rich and the poor live in isolated regions within a “security wall,” which is supposed to be protecting them from the outside. 

PB - Cosmic Egg Books CY - Winchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mandibles. A Family, 2029-2047 Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lionel Shriver (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a well-off family through the collapse of the U.S. economy, followed by extreme poverty, and the establishment of an authoritarian government that confiscated all property (they became sharecroppers). The novel ends in Nevada, which has managed to secede from the U.S. and has considerable personal freedom but also has much violent crime and other serious problems.

PB - Borough Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Montpellier” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.

JF - Galaxy's Edge VL - no. 19 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - North Country Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tajinder Singh Hayer (b. 1980) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia after a pandemic/plague has killed much of the world’s population. The novel follows the struggle to survive of three teenagers of British Asian descent, like the author, from Bradford. The book was published to coincide with the opening of the play directed by Alex Chisholm October 26, 2016, in Bradford, England in the basement of an abandoned Marks & Spencer. For an article by the director, see http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/north-country-post-apocalyptic-story-bradford/

PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One in Four" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Pandemic story told from the viewpoint of an executive of a pharmaceutical company that marketed a drug they knew did not work.

JF - RA Magazine SN - 9780062657060 N1 -

Rpt. in Madame Zero. 9 Stories London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 147-50. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 147-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Power Y1 - 2016 A1 - Naomi Alderman (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia presented as a novel within the novel written by a man in a society in which Mother Eve has replaced Adam as the central figure and women are dominant. The Power is an ability that women develop that allows them to treat men as women are treated today. The man’s novel presents a situation with strong men. Female author.

PB - Viking CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Race Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The setting of the novel is a climate change dystopia. 

PB - Titan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Radio" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cheryl Morgan KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in an alternative history dystopia in which a plague that increases testosterone levels has escaped from an English laboratory, but “Communist” Scotland or France are blamed. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 8 Bexit Supplement UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/on-the-radio-brexitlit/4592952012 U2 -

Illus. Evy Samuelsson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ravisher, The Thief” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

The story is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia. 

JF - Barcelona Tales PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosewater Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in Nigeria in 2055 and 2066. An alien invasion novel in which the alien intends to completely take over Nigeria. Sequels include The Rosewater Insurrection: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Two. London: Orbit, 2019, in which liberationists oppose the alien forces. The third volume, The Rosewater Redemption: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Three. London: Orbit, 2019, reflects the title. 

PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY N1 -

Rev. with the subtitle The Wormwood Trilogy: Book One. New York: Orbit, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ruins of Civilization Y1 - 2016 A1 - Penelope Skinner (b. 1978) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian play set in an anti-immigrant society facing climate-change. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sewing Group Y1 - 2016 A1 - E[mma] V[ictoria] Crowe (b. 1980) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - German author AB -

The play begins with three women sewing in a setting that appears to be in a village in the 18th century. A new woman joins them and insists on the others making changes in what they are doing and following her directions. This part of the play appears to represent a peaceful, simply life being disrupted, but the play gradually grows darker. At the end, though, it takes a dramatic turn that undermines everything that has gone before. First performed at the Royal Court, London, November 10, 2016, directed by Stewart Laing.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London SN - 9780571334773 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Staunch” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Paul Graham Raven ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian U.K. that has mostly disintegrated down to the county level with conflicts among the various parts. 

JF - Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow PB - Hex Publishing CY - Erie, CO N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 187-99. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stone Seeds Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jo Ely KW - Botswanan author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia depicting a village ruled by “The General” and his henchmen but ultimately successfully opposed by a few individuals who don’t fit in

PB - Urbane Publications CY - Chatham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Taking Flight" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Una McCormack (b. 1972) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on an isolated planet in a future in which genetically modified people are marked and bonded and bought and sold. 

JF - Crises and Conflicts: Celebrating the First 10 Years of NewCon Press PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] SN - 978-1-9-910395-17-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vanishing Kind" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 131.1 & 2 (726) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Cold Comes: Be Prepared” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the common cold has been turned into a bioweapon and sent by a religious dystopia to infect its enemies. 

JF - Nature VL - 534.7605 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dan Grace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A post-collapse dystopia interspersed with statements from a future history explaining why the reasons for the failure of the British system.

PB - Unsung Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wolfina” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Giselle Leeb ED - Michael DeLuca KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia set in a future with an extremely damaged environment. The government has mostly disappeared, and its only function appears to be doling out rations of the remaining gasoline. Voter turnout in the last election was 2.3%. Ocean water is deadly, and most people are dying from mercury poisoning. 

JF - Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/wolphinia/ (December 29, 2016). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadia Y1 - 2015 A1 - Iain [George] Pears (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel follows a number of different characters during the present and a dystopian future where much of world civilization has collapsed. Connected to these is the Arcadia, which has the feel of the past but initially exists only within a machine from the dystopian future.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Lie Y1 - 2015 A1 - Julie Mayhew KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in the Third Reich with a young woman, who is loyal to the Reich, faced with the conflict between that loyalty and her loyalty to another girl, her best friend, who is a radical. The book includes a “Glossary of German Words and Phrases” ([325-31]), “Historical Notes on The Big Lie” ([333-39]), “Want to know more?” [(341-47). 

PB - Hot Keys Books CY - London N1 -

. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2017.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boxes" Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future with exceptionally good medical care based in advanced technology.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U3 -

Nick Harkaway [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concentr8® Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Sutcliffe (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a new drug to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is taken away and causes a few teenagers to revolt. Satire on the overuse of Ritalin.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Defiance Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sarah Jayne [Blythe] Tanner KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Violent dystopia with deep rich versus poor divisions in which the poor can be sold to the rich so that the rich can switch bodies. The novel follows a young man who is sold but manages to free himself. 

PB - Meadimania CY - Carmarthan, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drones" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.

JF - Meeting Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Events" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stan Nicholls ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story takes place in a future after a complete economic collapse in which reading is prohibited, and the entire economy is based on the lottery for when one gets to see the regular, spectacular “events,” attendance at and approval of which is compulsory.

JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng N1 -

Originally published in Novacon 45 Souvenir Booklet. Events / Heatwave. Birmingham, Eng.: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 2015.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flamingo Land" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ruby Cowling ED - Ellah Wakatama Allfrey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family. 

JF - Flamingo Land and Other Stories PB - Freight Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - hang Y1 - 2015 A1 - debbie tucker green KW - Black author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Play that is best described as Kafkaesque in that it is a trial of sorts in which the victim considers the methods of punishing the perpetrator in her/his presence. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, June 11, 2015, directed by the author.

PB - Nick Hern Books CY - London SN - 978-1-78460-519-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Then Y1 - 2015 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which one English town is protected by the Process from the collapse of society. The Process provides everyone with exactly what they need, but it then begins to manufacture soldiers, who are fated to repeatedly fight World War I battles. Connected with 2007 and 2016 De Abaitua

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Invisible Tide” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jo [M.] Thomas KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a polluted future in Wales, where the algal blooms have destroyed fishing and an invisible tide of toxic gas forces everyone to wear protective gear.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 32 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.32 fiction invisibletide U2 -

Illus. Chris Cartwright

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Girl Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adam Nevill (b. 1969) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Pan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mother of Eden Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Beckett set in the future of the previous one, in which humanity now occupies most of the planet and two empires have emerged, both dominated by men and both claiming descent from the same woman among the early settlers.

PB - Broadway Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the Clouds Y1 - 2015 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A volume in a series with 2012 and 2013 Llewellyn in which the protagonist travels to three futures. In this volume, Earth has been devastated by the effects of the environmental policies of the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Nothing grows on the surface of the planet and only a few insects remain. Humans live in cities, called culverts, built to survive 500 kilometers per hour winds and in huge balloon-like “clouds” traveling around the planet. Scientifically and technologically advanced. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Occupied Y1 - 2015 A1 - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the occupations of Kurdistan, Palestine, and Tibet.

PB - Author CY - UK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Paragon of Knowledge” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

A flawed utopia in which everything is supposedly neatly ordered, and everyone cared for, but the old are warehoused in Sunny Senile Centres. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 33 UR - http://futurefire.net/2015.33/fiction/paragonofknowledge.html U2 -

Illus. Callum Bishop

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Radiant Vermin Y1 - 2015 A1 - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the housing crisis in the U.K. in which a young couple finds that they can get their ideal home, room by room, by murdering a homeless person. Play first performed February 27, 2015, in Bristol, with its London Opening March 10, 2015.

PB - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Scroogled” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Bryan Hurt KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

JF - Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest PB - OR Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Big Pharma releases trademarked viruses, makes huge profits from the “cures”, and becomes more powerful than any government.

JF - Reach for Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 351-65; in A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction. Ed. Gavin Miller and Anna MacFarlane (Glasgow, Scot.: Freight Books, 2017), 172-92; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 352-66. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transition Y1 - 2015 A1 - R[yan] J[ames] Tomlin KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where, in order to give everyone an even start in life, all children are taken to Nethertower at eleven and stay there until they are eighteen when, “as a complete and independent adult ready to face the outside world, they transition back. During their time there, they must work, earn credits by, among other things, riding bicycles that produce the electricity the powers everything, and rise from Recruit, to Senior, to Elite. Everything in Nethertower is controlled, apparently by technology. Health checks are regular and detailed and identified lacks like vitamins or water intake are immediately provided. This takes up the first part of the book and is mostly untrue. Most who transition die, the outside work is derelict with cannibals, zombies, and a resistance movement.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Undercover in Tanah Firdaus” Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Syamsuriatina] [Ishak] ED - Zen Cho KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author KW - US author AB -

In a future Kuala Lumpur, the city is divided horizontally between the rich and poor, who, except for those who work for the rich, are starving and without medical care. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U3 -

Tania Isaacs [pseud.]/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria. For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, “When the Levees Break.” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.

JF - Catapult Magazine UR - https://catapult.co/stories/some-mathematicians-remove-pain-some-of-us-deal-in-negative-emotions-we-all-fix-the-equation-of-a-person N1 -

Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The 1000 Year Reich” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - Nick Gevers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which three powers vie with each other, the remnant of the US, the Japanese, and the German Reich, each with a settlement on the moon. Reich refers both to the German Reich and Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957).

JF - Squirrel, Reich, and Lavender. Bonus Stories PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng].: NewCon Press, 2016), 15-34 with an author’s note on 34. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ACID Y1 - 2014 A1 - Emma Pass KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on a violent police force known as ACID or the Agency for Crime Investigation and Defence.

PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Barricade Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jon Wallace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which a continuing war has broken out between reengineered humans who were designed to create a better future and Reals, unmodified humans. Much of the world has been destroyed in the process. Sequels include Steeple. London: Gollancz, 2015 and Rig. London: Gollancz, 2016.

PB - Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Because I Prayed This Word" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alex Dally Macfarlane KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian city welcoming to lesbians discovered by an illiterate nun in a medieval convent. There are references to Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405), but the cities are different. 

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/because-i-prayed-this-word/ N1 -

Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-because-i-prayed-this-word/ Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Jean Roberta and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015), 161-73. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bloody Deluge” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) ED - David Moore KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story focuses on conflicts among survivors.

JF - Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus PB - Abbadon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -

Adrian Tchaikovsky [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bone Clocks. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A wide-ranging novel that begins in 1984 and ends in 2043 with stops in 1991, 2004, 2015, and 2025. 2025 is largely fantasy, and 2043 is a dystopia with a collapsing technology and a deeply damaged environment.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Country of Ice Cream Star Y1 - 2014 A1 - Sandra Newman (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which everyone dies by twenty. Much of the novel focuses on the search for a cure. The novel is written in a dialect. The ending implies further volumes.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elysium Or, The World After Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex post-catastrophe dystopia with an authoritarian government, eutopian enclaves, and aliens.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Europe in Autumn Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dave [David Christopher] Hutchinson (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a dystopian series known as the Fractured Europe Sequence set in an extremely fragmented future Europe. Sequels include Europe at Midnight. London: Oxford, Eng./New York: Solaris US, 2015; Europe in Winter. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2016; Europe at Dawn. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2018; and “Nightingale Floors.” London Centric: Tales of Future London. Ed. Ian [George] Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 93-121.

PB - Solaris/Solaris US CY - Oxford, Eng./New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Faith Without Teeth” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is expected to voluntarily have their teeth removed so that everyone is equal.

JF - Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-199 with an author’s note on 199. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fix" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Leonie Ross (b. 1969) ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Jamaican author AB -

Dystopia of a future with so many sexually transmitted diseases that no one has sex any longer, the World Wide Web has become aware, and it is fixing the problem by killing off the human race.

JF - The World to Come PB - Spineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Perfect. Book 1 of the Blueprint Trilogy Y1 - 2014 A1 - Katrina Mountfort KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy set in a future where everyone lives under domes and prohibits personal relationships. Men and women are both expected to develop the ideal androgynous body. The novel follows a man and woman who are attracted to each other. The second volume, Forbidden Alliance. Book 2 of the Blueprint Trilogy. Dartford, Eng.: Elsewhen Press, 2015, takes up the story sixteen years later with the couple and others with their children living outside the domes and focuses on the problems of life outside, particularly those faced by the women, who are expected to accept traditional gender roles. The third volume, Freedom’s Prisoners. Book 3 of the Blueprint Trilogy. Dartford, Eng.: Elsewhen Press, 2016 continues the story through more struggle to freedom. 

PB - Elsewhen Press CY - Dartford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gone Fishing" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jo[anne] Thomas ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in the Pacific Ocean where competing sea steading sites have been established, some associated together in a Commonwealth that includes some land-based communities. Everyone is struggling to survive in the fished-out ocean. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grasshopper’s Child Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006 Jones. This volume follows people, and one young woman in particular, who are caught up in the dystopia as they struggle, ultimately successfully, to get free. 

PB - TJoy Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - J Y1 - 2014 A1 - Howard Jacobson (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following a mass pogrom that is only referred to as “WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED.”

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Days in Eden Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and the revolution that overthrows it. The dystopia is set in a future that has been transformed by climate change.

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Lovely Way to Burn Y1 - 2014 A1 - Louise Welsh (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of the Plague Times Trilogy. This volume depicts the initial impact of a pandemic that kills almost everyone. It was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. In Death is a Welcome Space. London: John Murray, 2015, the second volume, two men escape from prison and make their way through the devastated country. No Dominion. London: John Murray, 2017, the third volume, takes place seven years later and involves the protagonist of the second volume leaving the relative safety of Orkney and return to the post-apocalyptic mainland. 

PB - John Murray CY - London SN - 9781848546516 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man Who Sold the Moon” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technology used to free people and help them freely make things for their use. 

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (Toronto, ON, Canada: CHiZine Publications, 2016), 400-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Market Forces: Paradise Revamped” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Stewart (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the afterlife, which is now a company.

JF - Nature VL - 507.7492 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Orbital Decay” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Malcolm Cross ED - David Moore KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story is set in the International Space Station where people observe the deaths on Earth. 

JF - Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus PB - Abbadon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Russell Brand Trickster Tales Y1 - 2014 A1 - Russell [Edward] Brand (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A profusely illustrated retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Hamelin presented as a dystopia of narrow-minded people. One child who had been ostracized by the town does not follow the Piper, and he helps the people to be more open-minded.

PB - Atria Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Chris Riddell (b. 1962).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rag and Bone” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nicholas P. Oakley ED - Dana Rich KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people have moved into space to escape the dangers of Earth. Living in individual space habitats is very expensive, and if someone falls behind in their mortgage payments, the habitat is simply retrieved, killing those inside. The story focuses on one of the men doing the retrieving who is sickened by his actions and starts a revolution.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of Remembrance” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paul Currion KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Punishment in the future. For the crime of manslaughter, a person is put to sleep three times for a hundred years each. After the third they are released to a society composed entirely of other released sleepers.

JF - Nature VL - 513.7517 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Watcher Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nicholas P. Oakley KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Flawed utopia presented through a coming-of age story. A relatively primitive tribal society that operates on the basis of gender equality and consensus faces an internal problem with an individual who manipulates the system and an external problem of an invader. The Watcher is an alien representing a larger universe who asks a young woman for help in dealing with the invader. 

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Is Your Problem, Agent X9?” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) ED - Dana Rich KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the human race is being eliminated seen through the eyes one of those doing the elimination who is interrogating someone seen as a traitor.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA U2 -

Illus. Blair Gauntt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wolf From the Door Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic dystopia set in middle England depicting a violent revolution in progress. The play was the 2014 Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre and premiered there September 10, 2014.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London SN - 978-1-4742-2192-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Worldmaker” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rachel Armstrong ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author JF - Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Yamada’s Armada” Y1 - 2014 A1 - [Ee Leen] [Lee] ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Singapore that has a rigidly enforced status system. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 13 Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Michael] Mike Bartlett (b. 1980) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The play takes place in an alternative England and begins with people waking up having all dreamed the same dream. England is facing the issues that the country actually faced at the time, but with different people in power and protesting. The protests coalesce around a messiah figure. It premiered at the National Theatre October 18, 2011, directed by Thea Sharrock.

PB - Methuen/Bloomsbury CY - London SN - 9781408171912 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2121: A Tale From the Next Century Y1 - 2013 A1 - Susan [Adele] Greenfield [Baroness Greenfield] (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the human race has divided into those who live a cyber dominated life of pure pleasure and those who follow a rigid rational code and what happens when they interact.

PB - Head of Zeus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adjacent Y1 - 2013 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The complex novel operates on a number of different timelines, but it begins in a near-future dystopia of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain.

PB - Orion CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Titan Books, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Tomorrow Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gillian Cross (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a violent future.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Bicycle Girl" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went. 

JF - Expanded Horizons VL - no. 40 UR - http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=3234 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cellular Level” Y1 - 2013 A1 - J. E. Bryant ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of an engineer developing drones to replace pollinators killed by various environmental changes who needs the wisdom of an old woman who has spent her life on a farm to understand the workings of nature. The technology works but the bees still know more.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Charlie’s Ant” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

High-tech farming creates a dystopia..

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 36-45. 

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Adrian Tchaikovsky [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Contraband" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Terry Martin ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Detainee: No Escape from the Punishment Y1 - 2013 A1 - Peter Liney KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent, authoritarian dystopia and survival. A sequel is Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, in which the protagonist from The Detainee escape to the mainland, only to discover that it is as bad. Sequels include Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, a typical middle volume in which things get worse; and In Constant Fear. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2015, in which, after further struggles, the people find peace.

PB - Jo Fletcher Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearances Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Malley. In this volume, two of the protagonists had escaped the city but had to return to face a new threat. See also 2013 Malley, The System.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England’s Darkness Y1 - 2013 A1 - Stephen Barber KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The collapse of the digital system results in the loss of knowledge and the end of all fossil-based fuel results in the complete collapse of England, the abandonment of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the deliberate depopulation of the north of England.

PB - Sun Vision Press CY - Np SN - 9780985762537 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Finches of Mars Y1 - 2013 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel centers on two dystopias, Earth as it is torn apart by ethnic, national, and religious conflict and the first settlement on Mars which, in addition to national tensions, produces only stillborn children. The novel ends, though, with the arrival on Mars of evolved humans from the future come back to ensure the survival of the Mars settlement. These future humans come from a eutopia that has solved gender conflict by becoming both female and male. Few other details are given.

PB - The Friday Project CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “First Foot: Everything as it should be” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which people have been enclosed in a zoo of one hundred homes, apparently by aliens, and are required to be happy and follow human holiday traditions. 

JF - Nature VL - 493.7430 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homeland Y1 - 2013 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Doctorow in which the protagonist of that novel is again threatened by the growing homeland security apparatus. A third volume in the loosely related series his Attack Surface (2029). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York SN - 9780765333698 978-1-250-77458-3 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 318-685, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Times Like These: A Fable Y1 - 2013 A1 - Maureen [Patricia] Duffy (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a disintegrating Britain with Scotland’s leaving the U.K. being followed by other parts of the country with a growing threat of parts of England becoming independent.

PB - [Jonathan Clowes] CY - [London] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Later His Ghost” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - New Statesman SN - 9780062657060 UR - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost N1 -

Also online illus. Matt Saunders and Handsome Frank. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 99-119. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 99-119.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liquid Loyalty" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Redfern Jon Barrett KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which drugs have been developed so that each person is completely devoted to one and only one other person. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 26 UR - http://futurefire.net/2013.26/fiction/liquidloyalty.html N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 57-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Long Indeed We Do Live. . .” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

In a future after an undescribed environmental catastrophe, society has developed inside domes with different arbors devoted to different trees. Presented mostly positively. While there is much fantasy in the story, it appears that human life has also adapted to life outside the domes and that here is communication between life outside and the trees inside. 

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Meet the President Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zadie Smith (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The short story takes place in an apparent future with radical divisions between those who are technologically enhance and those who are not. 

JF - The New Yorker VL - 99.24 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memory Palace Y1 - 2013 A1 - Hari [Mohan Nath] Kunzru (b. 1969) ED - Laurie Britton Newell ED - Ligaya Salazar KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book that was the basis of a Victoria and Albert Exhibition June 18 - October 20, 2013) depicted a dystopia where reading, writing, and remembering is prohibited. The book consists of the story by Kunzru illustrated by those listed (9-80), followed by a brief essay by the curators on curating a book (83-89), followed by a graphic story by Robert Hunter, “Making Memory Palace” about how the exhibit came together (91-107).

PB - V&A Publishing CY - London U2 -

Illus. Abāke, Peter Bil’ak, Alexis Deacon, Oded Ezer, Francesco Franchi, Isabel Greenberg, Hansje van Halem, Jim Kay, Johnny Kelly, Erik Kessels, Na Kim, Stuart Kolakovic, Frank Laws, Le Gun, Luke Pearson, Stefanie Posavec, Némo Tral, Henning Wagenbreth, Mario Wagner, Sam Winston.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From the Squares Y1 - 2013 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes a society in which women are dominant and the entire country is laid out in squares. Loosely a sequel to 2012 Llewellyn. See also 2015 Llewellyn.

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Quis Custodiet: Complete control” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Brian Clegg (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The flawed utopia of a “perfect” dictatorship controlled by a computer.

JF - Nature VL - 502.7469 U2 -

[Illus. Jacey]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Runners Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which there is a systematic attempt to reduce the population by eliminating people. The novel focuses on a fourteen year old boy and his four year old sister, as they try to escape.

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scotland N1 -

Originally published online in 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Season" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rebecca J. Payne ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a man trying to save his land in a near-future dystopia of climate change and rapacious industrial agriculture.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Serene Invasion Y1 - 2013 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

An alien invasion brings peace and prosperity to Earth, but some people and other aliens want a return to the conflict of the past.

PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shopocalypse Y1 - 2013 A1 - David Gullen KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Unusually climate change dystopia in which a couple travel across America in a sentient car from shopping mall to shopping mall.

PB - Monico CY - London SN - 9781909016200 Rev. ed. 978-1-912950-12-6 N1 -

Rev. ed. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The System Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third volume of the Killables Trilogy; see also 2012 Malley and 2013 Malley, The Disappearances. In this volume, one large company “owns everything and everyone” and everyone is online all the time with popularity the only real currency. But everyone must update every fifteen minutes and anyone who doesn’t is punished.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terminal City" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zoë Blade KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia with extreme rich/poor divisions and focuses on hackers who are trying to undermine the system. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 28 UR - http://futurefire.net/2013.28/fiction/terminalcity.html N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 113-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Theatre 6" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future with extremely strict restrictions on obstetricians.

JF - Madame Zero. 9 Stories PB - Faber and Faber CY - London SN - 9780062657060 UR - https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/20130816-sarah-hall-theatre-six.pdf N1 -

US ed. (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 47-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wanderer Y1 - 2013 A1 - Roger Davenport (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally damaged future. Two groups are antagonists, the City Dwellers and the Wanderers, but teenagers from both groups must cooperate. Something of a quest novel to find a better place to live.

PB - Sky Pony Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Appliances Go Green” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) ED - Katrina Archer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious. 

JF - Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media CY - Np N1 -

Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Snow Y1 - 2012 A1 - S[ophie] D. Crockett (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age.

PB - Macmillans Childrens Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Your Futures” Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Gullen ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future eutopia with no government. Major decisions are made collectively through a device that everyone wears for regular interactions that can be used for discussion and decision-making. The story concerns the arrival of a spaceship that had left Earth before the technology was developed that allowed much faster travel and what to do with it and its one surviving crew member.

JF - Arc 1.3 Afterparty Overdrive VL - 1.3 N1 -

A podcast with the title as “All Your Futures Are Belong To Us” can be found on StarShipSofa, no. 480 (April 4, 2017). http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2017/04/04/starshipsofa-no-480-david-gullen/ With that title it can be read on the author’s website at https://davidgullen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Free-Fiction-All-Your-Futures-Are-Belong-To-Us.pdf and in his Open Waters. EXAGGERATEDpress, 2013. Not found. Not in the 2009 edition of Open Waters.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Breathe Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sarah Crossan (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which oxygen depletion has destroyed the environment and killed everyone except those chosen by a lottery to live under a dome. There is a resistance movement and a belief that some areas outside the dome are still alive, and the novel focus on a quest to find those areas. First volume of two followed by Resist. New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2013. U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 in which the protagonists of Breathe are successful in finding fertile land. 

PB - Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Calculated Life Y1 - 2012 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of corporate power and genetic engineering. The protagonist is a woman who has been engineered to be first-rate mathematical modeler who can forecast events. But some of her forecast are, unusually, wrong, and the novel follows her attempts to understand why. For a sequel, see 2020 Charnock, Bridge 108.

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chair Plays Y1 - 2012 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The text includes three one act plays set in a dystopian 2077. The plays are “Have I None” (1-36), was first performed in Birmingham November 2, 2000 and published in Children and Have I None. London: Methuen Drama, 2000; 57-89; “The Under Room” (37-73), was first performed in Birmingham October 9, 2000 (Plays 8 says October 12, 2000) and published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (169-203); and “Chair” (75-112), was written for radio first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on April 7, 2000. The Chair Plays and Plays 8 says that the first staged production was at the Avignon Festival on July 18, 2006. Wikipedia says it was in Lisbon, at the Teatro da Cornucópia in June 2005 and first published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 109-144. The London premiere of the entire trilogy was at Lyric Hammersmith on April 19, 2012.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London SN - 978-1-408-17279-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Contrary Gardener” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd story in which crops are grown to be turned into ammunition in a society that has advanced AIs but that have gained consciousness. The protagonist is an exceptional gardener who does not fit in.

JF - Eclipse Online N1 -

Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 1-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Eden Y1 - 2012 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the dystopia that resulted from inbreeding after a spacecraft crashed on planet. The novel focuses on a young man who tries to break the pattern and escape the small area in which the people, known as the Family, live.  See also 2015 Beckett.

PB - Corvus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Broadway Books, 2014.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dominion Y1 - 2012 A1 - C[hristopher] J[ohn] Sansom (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Germany defeated Britain was defeated in World War 2. The novel stressed the ultimately successful resistance. Includes a “Bibliographical Note” (605-610) and a “Historical Note” (611-28). 

PB - Mantle CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2014.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Girl Y1 - 2012 A1 - Janet Edwards (b. 1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy set in 2778 in which humans have spread throughout the galaxy, but some people have an immune system that will not allow them to leave Earth. The novel is about one such girl.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Autotelia” Y1 - 2012 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd, rather indeterminate story told from the point of view of an aging woman doctor traveling from a rundown apparently contemporary London to another city, which appears to be in an alternative universe, to give medical tests to those applying to immigrate.

JF - Arc Magazine 1.1. The future always wins VL - 1.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Republic of Happiness: An Entertainment in Three Parts Y1 - 2012 A1 - Martin Crimp (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three versions of dystopia. The three parts are Destruction of the Family, The Five Essential Freedoms of the Individual, and In the Republic of Happiness. The first part takes place at a family Christmas lunch in which Uncle Bob and his wife Madeleine show up to tell the family that they are leaving forever and why Madeleine hates every member of the family. The is simply five lists of the characteristics of the supposed freedoms, which are solipsistic in the extreme. The third part has Uncle Bob and Madeleine in a large white room with windows that suggest a vague green landscape and they have a meandering conversation. The review in the Guardian, suggests, on the basis of an epigram from Dante’s Paradiso before the third act, which is the only epigram in the text, that the play is Crimp’s take on the Divine Comedy. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/dec/13/republic-of-happiness-review. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, December 6, 2012.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 978-0-571-30177-5 978-0-571-32536-8 N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays Three (London: Faber & Faber, 2015), 269-358. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Killables Y1 - 2012 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the “evil” part of people’s brains is removed. If anyone shows signs that the operation was not successful, they are labelled “K” “killable” and disappear. First volume of a series; see also 2013 Malley, The Disappearances and The System.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lips & Teeth" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jon Wallace KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future North Korea.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 239 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maggot Moon Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sally Gardner KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist, who everyone considers to be stupid, is dyslexic, which the author says she is and reflects how she was treated. 

PB - Hot Keys Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From Gardenia Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirate Cinema Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Slated Y1 - 2012 A1 - Teri [Teresa] Terry KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy in which rebellious teenagers have their memories wiped and given a new identity, or “slated.” The novel’s protagonist is a young woman who has been slated but some of whose memories come back, which puts her in danger from the leaders of the dystopia. The second volume, Fractured. London: Orchard Books, 2013. U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013, is a typical middle volume in which things get worse. In the third volume, Shattered. London: Orchard Books, 2014 U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2014, the protagonist continues to face danger but finds her family. There is also a prequel, Fated. London: Orchard Books, 2019. 

PB - Orchard Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surprises: Three Linked Romances Y1 - 2012 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three interrelated love stories set initially in what is described as the near future but one in which androids do much of the work and the class system remains. The third act is set fifty years later with must more elaborate technology. The play was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough July 17, 2012. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toxicity. A Novel of the Anarchy Y1 - 2012 A1 - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a planet that a corporation uses solely to dispose of the toxic wastes of other planets.

PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visiting Nelson" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Katherine Langrish ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult ecological dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - By Light Alone Y1 - 2011 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire focusing on the greed of the extremely wealthy with an extreme rich/poor divide and with the poor fed so inadequately, women can’t have children.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Choice" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Global warming dystopia.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 35.2 (421) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012), 2-31 with an editor's note on 1; and in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 385-423 with an author’s note on 433-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Parties Y1 - 2011 A1 - Sara Grant KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are enclosed inside the "Protectosphere" where everyone is becoming more alike and are told that nothing survives outside. The novel focuses on the ultimately successful attempt to escape.

PB - Indigo CY - London U4 -

First published in German by Pan as Neva: Roman. Berlin: Kerstin Winter, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Lands. A Deadlands Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Sarah] [Lotz] (b. 1971) A1 - [Savannah] [Lotz] KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy in which South Africa has been invaded by zombies and some teenagers, known as the Mall Rats, organize to fight both the zombies and the corrupt government. The second volume is Death of a Saint. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2012. Rpt. London: Corsair/Constable & Robinson, 2013. The third volume is The Army of the Lost. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2013. Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2014.

PB - Penguin Books (South Africa) CY - Cape Town, SA: N1 -

Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2013.

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Lily Herne [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Departure. The Owner Y1 - 2011 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a group controlling an orbiting space station keeps the station's inhabitants enslaved and is coming to control the Earth. Sequels include Zero Point: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2012 and Jupiter War: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2013, both of which are mostly adventure and war.

PB - Tor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Differences” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which any human difference is unacceptable.

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 41 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eden Paradox Y1 - 2011 A1 - Barry Kirwan KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A novel in which people from Earth, which has become a violent authoritarian dystopia hope to settle a new planet but encounter aliens. The first of four volumes followed by Eden’s Trial. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2012; Eden’s Revenge. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2013; and Eden’s Endgame. An Eden’s Paradox Novel. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2014, which includes a “Glossary” (340-46). All of the sequels are mostly adventure and war. 

PB - Summertime Publications CY - Scottsdale, AX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fear Index Y1 - 2011 A1 - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia in which a computer program designed to predict movements in the market runs out of control.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foxfinder Y1 - 2011 A1 - Dawn KIng KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The play is set in a future English countryside that is not producing, and an authoritarian government sets a quota for every farm. If not met, the farm will be taken from its owners and given to the neighboring farm that meets its quota. The play focuses on a failing farm being visited by a foxfinder who has the power to make that decision. It premiered at the Finsborough Theatre in 2011 and premiered in the West End in 2018. It won the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize and the inaugural Royal National Theatre Foundation (RNTF) Playwright award. See also 2022 King, The Trials, her rave Dystopia387 (https://www.dawn-king.com/#dystopia987), her adaption of Brave New World (https://www.dawn-king.com/#brave-new-world).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green Future: But Is It Art?" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Deborah Walker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian future London that has been overrun by vegetation and everything is covered by airborne algae. People live in favelas ruled by a matriarch.

JF - Nature VL - 471.7336 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners: Seeding a Revolution" Y1 - 2011 A1 - David L. Clements KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which commercial interests with the support of the police are destroying all plants and seeds not owned by companies. The story is continued in “Seed Dealer.” Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 25-36. 

JF - Nature VL - 469.7330 N1 -

 Rpt. without the subtitle or the illustration in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 21-23; and in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 114-17.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Y1 - 2011 A1 - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2010 [Meaney]. This volume focuses on suicide cults among teenagers.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U3 -

Thomas Blackthorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pure" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Rio Youers KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia created by a virulent disease and the restrictions used to contain it.

JF - Dark Dreams, Pale Horses PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (Toronto, ON: ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books, 2012), 154-82. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scrivener’s Moon. The Third Book in the Fever Crumb Series Y1 - 2011 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2009 and 2010 Reeve. In this volume Fever Crumb becomes part of a Northern tribe planning to attack London, her home, and she must choose sides.

PB - Scholastic CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic Press, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Silver Wind" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future, poor, violent Britain that has lost much of its technology.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 233 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Testament of Jessie Lamb Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jane Rogers (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which millions of women have died due to a deliberately spread virus.

PB - Sandstone Press CY - Dingwall, Ross-Shire, Scotland ER - TY - ABST T1 - Theme Planet. A Novel of the Anarchy Y1 - 2011 A1 - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a pleasure planet that turns violent.

PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Utopia]" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Alastair Campbell (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopia. Mostly very general and simple and a bit of a rant, but includes compulsory voting, lowering the voting age to sixteen, teaching politics and its importance and citizenship in primary schools together with how to live a healthy life. The first in an intended series of utopias written by prominent people.

UR - http://www.utopian.org/post/5930022365/utopias-vol-i-alastair-campbell. Accessed September 7, 2011. ER - TY - ABST T1 - 100 Months: The End of All Things Y1 - 2010 A1 - John Hicklenton (1967-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic dystopian graphic novel in which Earth revolts against the damage done to her.

PB - Cutting Edge Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afterlight Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Scarrow. In this volume, small communities are rebuilding in a world without oil after the catastrophe in the previous volume. But the usual problems of human greed and hunger for power threaten to overwhelm even these small steps up.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birth of Love Y1 - 2010 A1 - Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

One part is set in a dystopia in 2153 where children are born and raised in breeding centers with no contact with any family. This section of the novel focuses on a woman who is tried for illegally conceiving.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ditch Y1 - 2010 A1 - Beth Steel KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The play is set in a future England that is mostly underwater and has an authoritarian government. It takes place in a rural area where the government has placed a group of men to search for “illegals”. It was first performed as part of the High Tide Festival, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, April 30, 2010 with its London opening May 30, 2010.

PB - Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury CY - [London] SN - 9781408131381 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge Y1 - 2010 A1 - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which dueling has been legalized and violence is common. Corporate control and extreme pollution.

PB - Angry Robot CY - London U3 -

Thomas Blackthorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flood & Fire Y1 - 2010 A1 - Emily Diamand (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Diamand. In this volume, England, which is already flooded due to global warming, is also threatened with fire.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - For the Win Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel, written for young adults, has dystopian elements and uses online gaming to illustrate and the possible connections among gamers throughout the world to critique the way that powerful people can, for profit and with the cooperation of governments, control the lives of the gamers, and presents unions as the best way of fighting back. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now Is the Best Time of Your Life” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is about a transhuman teenager living in a post catastrophe (virus) dystopia.

JF - Godlike Machines PB - Science Fiction Book Club CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011), 9-106. The book also includes his “Creativity vs. Copyright” (107-21), “‘Look for the Lake’ Cory Doctorow Interviewed by Terry Bisson” (123-34), a “Bibliography) (135-36). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Johnny's New Job" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which welfare officers are regularly killed by the people if any child is harmed.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 227 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Flight to West Bay" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Roz Clarke ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed ecosystem in an overpopulated world.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legacy Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fourth volume in a series; see 2007 and 2008 Malley. See also 2010 Malley, The Returners. In this volume very few children are being born and a plague is devastating the population. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Model Army Y1 - 2010 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In a sense this is a future war novel, but it is set in a future where it has become clear that Britain is ruled by similar competing oligarchy who periodically hold an election to give themselves a spurious legitimacy. The people are fed up and an army is created that is an Artificial Intelligence that is a real democracy in which everyone helps choose what it is to do.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nina in Utopia Y1 - 2010 A1 - Miranda Miller (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Twenty-first century London as a eutopia from the perspective of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century. After she returns to her own time and is committed as insane, she also finds Bedlam a better place than the outside. First in a series followed by The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd. A Novel. London: Peter Owen, 2013 in which the protagonist meets the painter Richard Dadd (1817-86) in Bedlam where he created his famous paintings. Dadd also travels to the twenty-first, which he finds very difficult. 

PB - Peter Owen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orgasmachine Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which women are manufactured to the specifications of their owners. Two revolt and free all women.

PB - Newcon Press CY - Alconbury, Weston, Eng. N1 -

According to the author, the novel was written in the early seventies, published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. Part was published as “Custom-Built Girl.” Cybersex [Subtitle on the cover Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms]. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (London: Raven Books, 1996). U.S. ed. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 307-32.

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Published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pump House Farm" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hawkes-Reed, John ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which radical environmentalists are the bad guys who, gaining power in England, shut down most power sources, overstate potential dangers, and institute a repressive regime.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Returners Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Third volume in a series. Political intrigue and anti-immigration violence set in 2016 in a corrupt society. Not part of the trilogy of 2007, 2008, and 2010 Malley, The Legacy.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sin's Last Stand" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Chris Niles ED - Todd James Pierce ED - Jarret Keene KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which fundamentalist Christians have taken other the US, established a theocracy, closed all schools, and burned all books except the Bible. Non-believers have been moved to Las Vegas and then massacred. The story focuses on a girl who survived the massacre.

JF - Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas PB - University of Las Vegas Press CY - Reno, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Solnet Ascendency" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Technological and sustainable eutopia in Vanuatu brought about through modern technology and the ability to get political support.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spindizzy" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Colin Harvey ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a high tech, overpopulated future dominated by China and India. The story focuses on a very low-level businessman and his growing perception of the negative aspects of his society. The Spindizzies are a religious sect that are used as a scapegoat by the authorities.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Stone Cast into Stillness" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Jason Sizemore KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover of the book Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - WE Y1 - 2010 A1 - John Dickinson (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an all-controlling state.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web of Air. The Second Book of the Fever Crumb Series Y1 - 2010 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 2009 Reeve. The series is a prequel to the Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, Fever Crumb meets a young man who wants to re-introduce manned flight, which is opposed by those in power. See also 2011 Reeve.

PB - Scholastic CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York Scholastic Press, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Accord Y1 - 2009 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord.

PB - Solaris. BL Publishing CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Car Y1 - 2009 A1 - Kingsley [L.] Dennis A1 - John Urry (1946-2016) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily a discussion of the effects of the car and the desirability of eliminating it, but it also includes three brief scenarios of a carless life, "local sustainability", "local warlordism", and "digital networks of control". Only the first is eutopian.

PB - Polity CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bad Tuesdays: Twisted Symmetry Y1 - 2009 A1 - Benjamin J. Myers (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First of six volumes of a series of young adult dystopias. Thousands of children are being stolen by the Twisted Symmetry, somehow connected with its goal of immortality. It is opposed by the Committee. The three Tuesday children, who are street children and known as the Bad Tuesdays, may be a key to the situation. In the second volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Strange Energy. London: Orion, 2009, the Tuesday children help the Committee. The third volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Blood Alchemy. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2010 follows the adventures of one of the Tuesday children. The Bad Tuesdays: The Nonsuch King. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 follows the continuing adventures of all three of the Tuesday children. And in The Bad Tuesdays: A Crystal Horsemen. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 two of the Tuesday children have been captured by the Twisted Symmetry. In The Bad Tuesdays: The Spiral Horizon. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2012 all the conflicts are resolved, at least temporarily.

PB - Orion Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carbon Diaries 2017 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2008 Lloyd. This novel concerns the growing restrictions on CO2 and other pollutants but in a situation in which the rich and powerful benefit and the poor and weak continue to be exploited.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chalcot Crescent Y1 - 2009 A1 - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in 2013 with a U.K. with a collapsed economy and a National Unity Government (NUG). Rationing. Worthless currency. Gangs.

PB - Corvus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Collision" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Science fiction story which has as its background a future where there is an anti-science dystopia on Earth and advanced technology in space.

JF - When It Changed. Science Into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in her The Universe of Things: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2011), 106-20. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contact With Chaos Y1 - 2009 A1 - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A newly discovered wealthy planet becomes the focus of a conflict among the authoritarian United Nations forces of Earth, the libertarians of Freehold, and a group of do-gooders saying the people should be left alone.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Executioner" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) ED - Robey James KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which when a person is to be executed, an individual is chosen by lot to be the executioner. The story is from the point-of-view of a woman who was chosen. 

JF - Warrior Wisewoman PB - Norilana Books Science Fiction CY - Winnetka, CA VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 50-57; and in in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 296-302. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Far North Y1 - 2009 A1 - Marcel [Raymond] Theroux (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A global warming dystopia in which most of the world's civilizations have collapsed and violence is the norm.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. "in slightly different form" New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fever Crumb Y1 - 2009 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia. First volume of a series that is a prequel to his Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, a young woman named Fever Crumb lives in a society that does not consider women rational, but she is a member of the elite Engineers. See also 2010 and 2011 Reeve.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Guerilla Infrastructure HOWTO" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Hawkes-Reed, John ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story describes the beginnings of a ecological eutopia in a corporate controlled future with dystopian elements.

JF - Future Bristol PB - Swimming Kangaroo Press CY - Arlington, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Word. Writer's Block" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire in which the Ministry of Fiction controls the production of fiction. Writers work in offices at desks set in long rows and produce fiction on topics they are set.

JF - RSA Journal VL - 155.5537 N1 -

An extract was published as “Ministry of Fiction.” The Guardian Review (March 4, 2009): 5.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Long Stay" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) ED - George Mann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Luton-Stansted car park stretches for twenty-six miles between the two airports with crops growing among the cars. The story focuses on people who got stuck in the car park and have ended up living there permanently.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

 Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-99 with an author’s note on 199. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Makers Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A high-tech eutopia begins to transform the U.S., but then the economy collapses producing a dystopia. Various eutopian and dystopian scenarios follow.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Requiem of the Human Soul Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jeremy R. Lent (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which all unaltered humans are being considered for elimination. 

PB - Libros Libertad Publishing CY - Surrey, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia set in Chromatica where status is determined by the range of colors that a person can see, and lower status people are subservient to the higher status. Life is determined by “The Rules”, which the protagonist discovers to be more controlling than he had thought. For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.

PB - Viking CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Both carry the 2010 copyright, but the U.S. ed. was published in December 2009 and the U.K. ed. in January 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shop Talk" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) ED - Robey James KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which has elements of humor and fantasy, is set on a future Earth that had colonized space but had become extremely insular and tried to keep everyone in the town in which they were born.

JF - Warrior Wisewoman PB - Norilana Books Science Fiction CY - Winnetka, CA VL - No. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomas Y1 - 2009 A1 - James [Rudolph] Palumbo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. Tomas = There's Only Money and Sex. Much fantasy. The dominant media network is SHIT-TV, and life is a meaningless round of false pleasure. On the French Riviera, women have such large breasts that they have to support them on mobile trolleys. Extreme corruption. Violence. A time machine hidden in a fairground allows visits to the near and far future. The protagonist, Tomas, is something of a Messiah bent on changing this world.

PB - Quartet CY - London U2 -

Illus. Neal Murren

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - X Isle Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steve [Andre] Augarde (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which children are essentially prisoners on an island where they had expected to find a better life. At the end of the novel, they revolt and kill their captors.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House/Fickling, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “1968: A ShortSpan Snackfood. Valid for Year 7 Student Use. Calories: 231” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) ED - Nicholas Royle KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A “eutopia” where one can take pills to learn or have the information slowly entered into a persons brain. All the information is validated as accurate.

JF - ’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution PB - Salt CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blonde Roots Y1 - 2008 A1 - Bernardine [Anne Mobolaji] Evaristo (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in an alternative history in which “whyte Europanes” are captured and enslaved by “blak Aphrikans,” with two of the three sections in the voice of Doris Scagglethorpe (given the slave name Omorenomwara) with the middle section in the voice of Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, who brands his slaves with his initials, KKK. 

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London SN - 9780241143858 978-1-59448-863-4 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. 269 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Butt: An Exit Strategy Y1 - 2008 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire using an imaginary country to skewer the modern world.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carbon Diaries. 2015 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of global warming and the attempt in Britain, and only Britain, to reduce the burning of carbon. See also 2009 Lloyd.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Collateral Damage” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jaine Fenn ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society with deep divisions between rich and poor with the poor hired and given perks to kill anyone the leader considers to pose a problem.

JF - Subterfuge PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fifty-First State Y1 - 2008 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Near future poor Britain controlled by the U.S.

PB - Severn House CY - Sutton, Surrey, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gone-Away World Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a postwar world divided between a livable zone and the rest.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 2008.

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Nick Harkaway [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Greenland" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Global warming dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 218 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grid Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeremy Reed (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which London has merged with Tokyo under a Commissar. Background to a novel about the Elizabethans and the murder of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93).

PB - Peter Owen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Half Healed Y1 - 2008 A1 - Michael Symmons Roberts (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A sequence of poems, many previously published or broadcast, depicting the dystopia of contemporary violence. “Last Words” which appears twelve different poems throughout the text, are abbreviated telephone calls on 9/11 and were commission by BBC Radio 4 to mark the anniversary of the attacks.

PB - Cape Poetry CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Knife of Never Letting Go. Chaos Walking: Book One Y1 - 2008 A1 - Patrick Ness (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a dystopian series. People had settled on a new planet and lost a war with the indigenous inhabitants, who had released a germ that made the thoughts of all humans and animals constantly audible. Quiet is discovered, but at the end of this volume, the world is taken over by the authoritarian leaders of the remaining humans. The Ask and the Answer. Chaos Walking: Book Two. London: Walker Books, 2009, the second volume, stresses the struggle against the authoritarian leaders who gained power at the end of the previous volume. In the third volume, Monsters of Men. Chaos Walking: Book Three. London: Walker Books, 2010. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, [2011], the two protagonists are forced to choose sides.  

PB - Walker Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Candlewick Press, 2009.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Brother Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia of U.S. Home Security targeting San Francisco because the administration sees it as too liberal. Home Security is fought by a group of teenage hackers with some success and ends with the administration freeing those responsible and the hackers continuing their opposition. The title refers to “Big Brother” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. First volume in a loosely connected series; see also his Homeland (2013) and Attack Surface (2020). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York SN - 9780765319852 978-1-250-77458-3 N1 -

Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 11-317, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man of the Strong Arm" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with elements of satire on SF. The dystopia is a male chauvinist society that honors the strongest man and keeps most men in ignorance. Women are essentially slaves, but there is a strong women's underground.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Martin Martin's on the Other Side Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mark Wernham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Most people are employed by the state and spend their lives paying off their student loans. Pornography and recreational drugs are freely available.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reaver's Ransom Y1 - 2008 A1 - Emily Diamand (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-apocalyptic young adult dystopia set in twenty-third century England experiencing the effects of global warming. See also 2010 Diamand.

PB - Chicken House UK CY - Frome, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. as Flood Child. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House, 2009. U.S. ed. as Raider's Ransom. New York: Chicken House Scholastic, 2009. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Resistance Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Malley in which the young protagonists of that novel continue to fight the authoritarian dystopia. See also 2010 Malley, The Legacy and The Returners.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Web Y1 - 2008 A1 - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Alternative history set in London in which the Cold War produced an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat: An Epic Cycle of Short Plays Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Sixteen very short plays plus an Appendix that publishes the revised radio version of one of the plays. Many of the plays are explicitly dystopian focusing on violence and war; others depict authoritarian dystopias. 

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia seen through the eyes of someone who has been a secular monk living inside a walled compound for sixteen years who has to go out into the world of an authoritarian dystopia where everyone must conform to unstated rules.

UR - http://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/ N1 -

Rpt. in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 202-46 with an editors' note on 201; in Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download. Ed. Rich Horton ([Stirling, NJ]: Wyrm Publishing, 2009), 256-95; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 197-228.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tinderbox Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lucy Kirkwood (b. 1984) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in Bradford in a future England that has become separated from Scotland by rising tides. The focus is on a butcher shop in which the butcher grinds up anyone he can get his hands on to keep the supply of meat coming. Play first performed April 23, 2008, at the Bush Theatre directed by Josie Rourke.

PB - Nick Hern Books in association with the Bush Theatre, London CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Man Y1 - 2007 A1 - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Adventure story set against an Earth that has finally achieved a decent balance.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Thirteen. New York: Del Rey, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blind Faith Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which climate-change has produced immense flooding, a backlash against science, and a religious revival in which everyone is expected to share everything about themselves online all the time. The protagonist values his privacy.

PB - Bantam Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carhullan Army Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A woman escapes from an authoritarian dystopia and joins an opposing army, which is ultimately defeated. Related stories include 2013 Hall and “Case Study 2: Recognition of the Self.” Illus. Klone Yourself. Vice The Fiction Issue (2013). https://www.vice.com/en/article/4wqjzd/case-study-2-recognition-of-the-self. Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017). US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 29-46.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Daughters of the Earth. A Novel. New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cherry Heaven Y1 - 2007 A1 - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Adlington in which the girl whose diary was discovered in that novel escapes from a factory prison and, with other girls, leads a movement to free others of the lowest caste and establish a better society.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cleft Y1 - 2007 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other. 

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cowboy Angels Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel of various eutopian and dystopian Americas.

PB - Orion/Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Declaration Y1 - 2007 A1 - Gemma Malley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. First volume in a series. Overpopulation due to longevity drugs leads to a no child requirement except for those willing to die. "Surplus" children or those born who shouldn't have been are raised as servants with no rights. See also 2008 Malley, 2010 Malley, The Legacy and 2010 Malley, The Returners.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Distillation of Grace" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - George Mann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Story about a religion that develops around producing a perfect genetic specimen by only allowing one child per family and controlling the gender so that equal numbers are born. Ultimately, this will reduce the generations to one person.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divergence Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Ballantyne. This novel is concerned with the division between humans and altered humans.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Tor U.K., 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["E-Mails from the Future"] Y1 - 2007 ED - Sarah Bunker ED - Chris Coates ED - Jonathan How KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Eight e-mails of one page or less in which various contributors to the volume report from the future. None are long enough to be called a utopia, but most are concerned with environmental issues, and a few include considerable detail. They are "Report from Outpost SK572/698" by Chris Coates (also in Esperanto) (16); "When I'm 64. . ." by Bunk (30); "Song of the Saltmarsh" by William Morris (48); "Aotearoa calling" by Lucy Sargisson (66); "We told you so!" by Jonathan How (80); "Ant Farm" by Pam Dowling (88), which comes very close to presenting a fully realized utopia in one page; "We Cannot Eat Fuel!" by Vivian Griffiths (112); and "Season's Greetings" by Bill Metcalf (126). Sargisson and Metcalf present quite positive pictures; Dowling presents a utopian community in a dystopian setting; the rest are environmental dystopias.

JF - Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009 PB - Diggers and Dreamers Publications+ CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape from Genopolis Y1 - 2007 A1 - T[amasin (known as Tess)] E[lizabeth] Berry-Hart KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a society deeply divided between those “Naturals” who were poor and unmodified and the “Citizens”, who led a protected life. First volume of a series. The second volume, which is a standard middle volume with the protagonists in even more trouble, is Fearless. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2009. Female author.

PB - Scholastic Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fearless Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Lott (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia describing a school for girls, the City Community Faith School for Retraining, Opportunity and Hope, which is actually a sweat shop forcing a thousand girls to do the city's laundry.

PB - Walker Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Future Vision"] Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nick Spencer A1 - Robert White KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief positive "vision" of what the changes in daily life might be like as sustainable living becomes the norm. Reformist rather than radical.

JF - Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living PB - SPCK CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - HARM Y1 - 2007 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two related dystopias, one created by the war on terrorism and the other created on a distant planet by people with a similar mindset. HARM refers to the Hostile Activities Research Ministry.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kill or Cure Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rebecca Levene KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of various plagues that cause insanity and the search for a cure. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Np: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 263-437.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land of the Headless: A Simple Story Y1 - 2007 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of religious fundamentalism.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Light Y1 - 2007 A1 - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by halting global oil production followed by economic and social collapse. See also 2010 Scarrow.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Art Y1 - 2007 A1 - Simon Morden KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe religious dystopia. The central focus of the novel is on a young man who is a member of a religious order that guards the scientific knowledge of the past to keep it from being misused again.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Principle" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious satire. The original golden plates of the Book of Mormon are rediscovered, and it turns out that they require polygamous, gay marriage.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prison Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul Western (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a huge prison that describes each of its divisions and follows one individual through them.

PB - [Ptd. by Lightning Source UK Ltd.] CY - [Milton Keynes, Eng.] UR - http://www.prison-novel.co.uk. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Recoper: Breathing life into the revolution" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting of the story is one in which all unhealthy foods have been outlawed; everyone works for the state and can be hired out to private businesses; and the government spies on everyone.

JF - Nature VL - 450.7172 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Men Y1 - 2007 A1 - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Drugs for every situation. The Red Men are personalities uploaded into simulacra that take on a life of their own. Redtown is a simulation of a British town to replace democracy, Parliament, and politics. It all goes badly. Connected with 2015 and 2016 De Abaitua.

PB - Snowbooks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rocket Boy” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story starts in the dystopia of an Earth destroyed in war and under a dictatorship, but, given the conceit of the volume in which it first appeared, a boy is given an intelligent weapon and uses it to overthrow the dictatorship and become a new dictator.

JF - Future Weapons of War PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, New York N1 -

Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 313-29 with an author’s note on 432. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sea Change" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Una McCormack (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between rich and poor. Gays and lesbians have lost rights previously gained. Machine-teaching.

JF - Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction VL - 36.100 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone Gods Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A future where the world is divided among three authoritarian regimes, the Central Power, which is corporate controlled; the Easter Caliphate, which is Islamist; and the SinoMosco Pact. World has been environmentally damaged. Another war breaks out, and there is another dystopia following it.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Succession: A Radical Solution" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Steve Longworth KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Doctors retrain to kill people to solve the population problem created by better sanitation and health care.

JF - Nature VL - 448.7155 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Un Lun Dun Y1 - 2007 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel set in London and Un Lun Dun (Un-London). The latter is being attacked by the Smog and its supporters in both cities but is defeated.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The African Origins of UFOs Y1 - 2006 A1 - Anthony Joseph KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

In the novel slaves travel to a future eutopian pre-colonial Africa. The novel, organized around twenty-four chapters, reflects Timothy Leary's (1920-96) twenty-four stages of the evolution of human consciousness modified by Ornette Coleman's (b. 1930) sense of musical progression. Much use of dialect.

PB - Salt Publishing CY - Cambridge, Eng. N1 -

Parts were originally published as “The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel).” Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 312-18; and as “Hummingbird”, “The ‛doption”, “On Kunu Morn”, and “She Swan in Heaven.” Hambone, no. 18 (2006): 149-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future Y1 - 2006 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd future with both eutopian and dystopian elements based on the notebooks of a twentieth century London taxi driver.

PB - Viking CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Check Elastic Before Jumping: Paralysis to senses, temporarily" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A future of corporate dominance mostly presented positively.

JF - Nature VL - 441.7096 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 30-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conflagration Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2004 Farren with the fantasy elements and the conflict emphasized.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Culled Y1 - 2006 A1 - Simon Spurrier (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The first volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. This volume describes the immediate effects of a plague that kills most of the world's population. This is a complex series with multiple authors who take the series in different directions from this origin. For other volumes, see 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 5-261.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cut" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The play concerns a surgery, known as “the cut,” that is never defined that is used on dissidents, sick people, and those who choose to have it. It begins in the office of a practitioner who is conflicted about the practice trying to talk a healthy man out of having the surgery. In the second part, the practitioner, who has never told his wife what he does, having a confrontation with her. In the third part, a new government has outlawed “the cut” and the practitioner is in jail. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, February 23, 2006.

JF - The Cut and Product PB - Methuen CY - London SN - 978-0-413-77574-0 978-1-4081-0679-2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: 2. (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Rain Y1 - 2006 A1 - Conor Corderoy (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future ecological dystopia . The rich (Domers), the middle (Dry), and the poor (Wets) are divided by their ability to live out of constant rain. The Domers are using the possibility of an alien invasion as a means of maintaining the current hierarchy.

PB - Macmillan New Writing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fat Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rob Grant KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which being fat is made illegal.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fledging of Az Gabrielson. The Clouded World: Book I Y1 - 2006 A1 - [James Matthew Herbert] [Lovegrove] [(b. 1965)] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Describes two groups on a planet, the sky dwellers, who live in immensely tall cities and have developed wings, and those who live on the ground. The first group is described in eutopian terms and the second in dystopian terms. The book ends with the beginnings of a reconciliation, but Pirates of the Relentless Desert has the Groundlings attacked by the Airborn. The last two volumes continue the various stage of conflict and reconciliation.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U3 -

Jay Amory [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genetopia Y1 - 2006 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where all plants and animals have been engineered to fulfill some purpose, and some characteristics people can be infected with new genes. Those who consider themselves True humans determine which of their offspring are Lost; i.e. not human, and must be exposed in the Wildlands or sold. The novel concerns a girl who is sold by her father, and her brother searches for her and what they discover. The novel ends with the brother, who has wandered for years in the Wildlands, learning about the many communities that have grown up, finding his sister, living in a community that has become her home.

PB - Pyr/Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY SN - 1-59102-333-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glasshouse Y1 - 2006 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. A future experimental polity ruled by the experimenters as one aspect of a novel about conflict in a high-tech future.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav and Hav of the Myrmidons Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author KW - Welsh author AB -

Reprints 1985 Morris (1-187) and adds "Hav of the Myrmidons: Six Days in 2005" (189-297) plus a "Preface" (vii-viii) and an "Epilogue" (299-301). In the added material, the country of 1985 Morris has experienced an overthrow of its institutions, which have generally been replaced by more dystopian ones. The author says that this is designed to reflect September 11, 2001.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, [2011] with an "Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (vii-xi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Here Comes the Flood" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of official state terrorism.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High John the Conqueror Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jim Younger KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex dystopia in which the British monarchy is now Roman Catholic, the U.S. has petitioned the monarch to become its leader, a coup d'état in Britain has overthrown the "Christian Coalition Socialists", and there is an underground group of "paramilitary sadomasochist flagellants".

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Windows" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Multiple dystopias. A form of slavery is permitted, and sexual slavery is described.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://www.strangehorizons.com ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Just Do It!" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Heather Lindsley KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which companies hire snipers to shoot a chemical into people that produces an insatiable desire for their product.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111.1 (652) N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best SF 12. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2007), 74-88; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 357-67; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 357-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingdom Come Y1 - 2006 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Contemporary dystopia of consumerism focused on a large mall in the suburbs and the violence and racism that surrounds it.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Messiah of Morris Avenue Y1 - 2006 A1 - Tony Hendra (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future U.S. as a religious dystopia.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of complete surveillance.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peace Criminal" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Vaughan Stanger (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which a Nazi regime had been established in Britain.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Poundbury 2030" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Dennis Hardy (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief, eutopian description of the town of Poundbury, England twenty-five years in the future.

JF - Poundbury: The Town that Charles Built PB - Town and Country Planning Association CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Printcrime" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the use of a 3-D printer is a crime.

JF - Nature VL - 439.7073 N1 -

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2, which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen Camilla Y1 - 2006 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set in a dystopian England that is an extremely poor part of the United States and crime is so bad that the elderly feared to leave their homes after dark and children were not allowed to play outside at any time. To save money on pensions, the old were encouraged to commit suicide. Some council estates had been converted to Exclusion Zones were various misfits from criminals to the morbidly obese were sent, could not leave, and had to wear ankle braces. The Royal Family were among those sent to an Exclusion Zone, and much of the novel is about the relations among the various members. At the end of the novel, the Queen has abdicated, the monarchy has been restored, although must earn its keep, and Charles and Camilla’s son born when they were sixteen and eighteen has been relegated to a mental hospital in France.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Racists Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kunal Basu (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian experiment in which a black and a white child are raised on a barren island cared for only by a mute nurse.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rainbow Bridge Y1 - 2006 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005 Jones. Fantasy, dystopia, and a struggle to create a eutopia. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - She's Alone Y1 - 2006 A1 - Richard Bruce Clay KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. All women but one have been exterminated.

PB - Poetry Monthly Press CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surveillance Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jonathan Raban (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on the war on terrorism and the potential for a surveillance society.

PB - Picador CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whitby Jets" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jacey Bedford ED - Sue Thomason ED - Liz Williams KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The setting for the story is a theocracy trying to eliminate British folk culture.

JF - Fabulous Whitby PB - Fabulous Albion CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Band of Gypsys Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001, 2002, and 2003 Jones. This volume is concerned with the establishment of a dystopia in England with slave labor camps. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bloodsong# Y1 - 2005 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Related to 1999 Burgess. This novel, based very loosely on the Norse Volsunga Saga, is set in a future politically corrupt Britain that is in decline.

PB - Andersen Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blown Away Y1 - 2005 A1 - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about in northern and western Europe by global warming. Some hope held out of the human spirit overcoming conditions. Related to 2004 Cave.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - British Front Y1 - 2005 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young Adult dystopia. No blacks or Asians left in 2055 Britain. Military rule.

PB - Barrington Stoke CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Capacity Y1 - 2005 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Digital age where artificial intelligences are supposed to have solved the world's problems. See his Recursion. London: Tor, 2004 for background. See also 2007 Ballantyne.

PB - Tor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deep Blue Sea" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Peter Hobbs ED - Toby Litt ED - Ali Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Picador New Writing PB - Picador in association with the British Council and Arts Council England CY - London VL - 13 N1 -

Rpt. in his I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), 7-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diary of Pelly D Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in the form of a girl’s diary found by a young man on a work gang salvaging material from ruins. One’s position in society is supposed to be based on genetic differences. See also 2007 Adlington. Female author.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow, 2005.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divided Kingdom Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The U.K. is divided into four districts reflecting personality types based on the idea of dominant humours.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extinction Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne Y1 - 2005 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Jules Verne (1828-1905) travels into both the past and the future. In the future, he first visits an authoritarian dystopia that has so weakened the sun as to bring about a new ice age. Much further into the future, he visits a eutopia of peace and plenty with the sun restored with the assistance of visiting aliens.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High in the Clouds Y1 - 2005 A1 - [James] Paul McCartney (b. 1942) A1 - Geoff Dunbar A1 - Philip Ardagh KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's eutopia depicting Animalia, a tropical island where all animals live happily together. Contrasted with the dangers of Megatropolis.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hunted Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alex Shearer (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which most people look youthful and live long lives and few children are born. The few children are consider prize possessions and are bought and sold or stolen.

PB - Macmillan's Children Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "i, robot" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology.

JF - Infinite Matrix UR - http://www.infinitematrix.net. N1 -

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Power. A Philosophical Adventure Story Y1 - 2005 A1 - Philip Allott KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is designed to show how it might be possible to bring about a eutopia. A sequel is Invisible Power 2. A Metaphysical Adventure Story. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2008. A third volume, Invisible Power 3. A Political Adventure Story, was announced but not published. Nonfiction explanations of the same ideas can be found in his Eunomia: New Order for a New World. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; and Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. Cheltenham, Eng./Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jack" Y1 - 2005 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the same city as 2000, 2002, and 2004 Miéville. This is the story of a "Robin Hood" figure in the city.

JF - Looking for Jake: Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Janus Effect Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alan Cash KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian eugenic dystopia set in 2040.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mercury Fur Y1 - 2005 A1 - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian play set in future largely destroyed London, where many people are addicted to a drug that causes memory loss. The play focuses on a group of boys in the East End who earn money selling the drug and putting on parties in which wealthy people pay to live out their fantasies. In the part that is the focus of the play, that is the murder of a child.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piccadilly Circus" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future ruined, depopulated London.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 198 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), 244-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Signal Red Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia set in a future India that is one of the most advanced countries scientifically. The government controls all science and scientists, who live in compounds which neither they or their families can leave. 

PB - Penguin Books CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weapon Y1 - 2005 A1 - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a war and adventure story, but the setting is a future dystopia of a Fascist earth.

PB - Baen CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Affinity Trap Y1 - 2004 A1 - Martin Sketchley (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia, but the emphasis is on adventure. Collapsed social order and environmental degradation has forced people to live inside large towers. Military dictatorship.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Basilisk Y1 - 2004 A1 - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel presents two dystopian societies and the successful result of a combined revolt. Marketed in the U.S. as a Young Adult title.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Belonging Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jeannie Baker (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's wordless picture book depicting community as eutopia.

PB - Walker Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed as Home. [New York]: Greenwillow Books, 2004. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Church Invisible: A Journey into the Future of the UK Church Y1 - 2004 A1 - Nick Page (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. In fifty years, the church has disappeared in the U.K.

PB - Zondervan CY - Grand Rapids, MI N1 -

Part originally published as "Invisible Church." Christianity and Renewal (July - May 2002): 40-43; 30-32; 28-30; 28-30; 36-38; 46-48; 46-48; 48-49, 50; 42-43; 36-38; 22-23, 25.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cloud Atlas Y1 - 2004 A1 - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A large novel with multiple story lines ranging from the past to the future, including a future authoritarian dystopia, "An Orison of Sonmi~451" (185-245). Sonmi~451 is the name of a "fabricant" or clone created to work in a fast food restaurant. The clones are drugged to sleep and wake on schedule and to keep their intelligence low and are indoctrinated into complete obedience. Sonmi~451 becomes part of a botched experiment on raising the intelligence of fabricants and experiences the world outside the restaurant. The names and the language used suggests that this part of the novel is set in a future North Korea. Part of the novel is set in the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. 

PB - Sceptre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Colonizing of Tharle" Y1 - 2004 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in which an invading force tries and fails to find a government with which to negotiate. The invasion is foiled through simple non-cooperation.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 485-509.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flood Y1 - 2004 A1 - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Apocalyptic novel with dystopian elements and a brief heaven at the end.

PB - Saqi CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Footvote" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a planet named New Suffolk that can be reached through a wormhole. New Suffolk is a purified, and white only, U.K., and some of its rules are spelled out throughout the story.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 552-66.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freehold Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia describing an authoritarian government and a libertarian enclave primarily concerned with conflict. First volume in a long series with a sub-series. Other volumes include The Weapon. New York: Baen, 2005; Contact with Chaos. New York: Baen, 2009; Rogue. New York: Baen, 2011; and Angeleyes. New York: Baen, 2016. The Ripple Creek subseries includes Better to Forgiveness. New York: Baen, 2007; Do Unto Others. New York: Baen, 2010; and When Diplomacy Fails. New York: Baen, 2012. There are also three anthologies edited by Williamson with contributions by him and others Forged in Blood. New York: Baen, 2017  Freehold Resistance. New York: Baen, 2019; and Freehold Defiance. New York: Baen, 2019.

PB - Baen CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Iron Council Y1 - 2004 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Set in New Crobuzon, the city that plays a role in both 2000 and 2002 Miéville but set earlier than in those novels. Iron Council is a train that is a socialist society constantly moving, picking up the track behind it and laying it in front to go wherever the inhabitants choose. The leaders of New Crobuzon are set on destroying it, and various threads of the novel following characters involved on both sides. See also 2005 Miéville.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kindling Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a fragmented world with an authoritarian religious dystopia in conflict with the remaining areas of freedom. Much fantasy. English author best-known as a musician.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Love Story: A fairytale of the day after tomorrow Y1 - 2004 A1 - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

City divided between a brutal, religious dystopia and a wealthy, free eutopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the desire and attempt to escape from one to the other. A note by the author (256) refers to the divisions of Germany and Korea and the beginnings of the wall between Israel and Palestine.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Malachi Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bestwick, Simon KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of near future racist Britain with National Socialists killing Jews and anyone racially mixing. 

JF - A Hazy Shade of Winter PB - Ash-Tree Press CY - Ashcroft, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Never Again. Ed. Allyson Bird and Joel Lane ([Wyke, Eng.]: Gray Friar Press, 2010), 272-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Market Forces Y1 - 2004 A1 - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future dystopia where companies hire out to kill.

PB - Gollancz CY - London SN - 0-575-07512-0 0345457749 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 441 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nectar" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.1 (336) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Keith Sutherland KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction proposal for government without political parties, which will produce a eutopia. Somewhat revised as A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic. Bound back to back with Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. A Citizen Legislature. O

PB - Imprint Academic CY - Exeter, England N1 -

Somewhat revised as A People’s Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 1985. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Service and Appeals Court Y1 - 2004 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. Complex depiction of a future world and the thousands of inhabited areas in space around it. Many different cultures on Earth. Focus on technology.

PB - The Coppervale Company CY - Silvertown, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sancho's Golden Age Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robin [John] Chapman (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the plan of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to re-establish the Age of Gold is attempted by Sancho. The middle volume of a trilogy between the Duchess’s Diary. London : Boudicca Books of Battersea, 1980; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1985; and Oxford, Eng.: Aris & Phillips, and Pasamonte’s Life. Oxford, Eng.: Aris & Phillips, 2008.  Neither of the other volumes are utopian.

PB - Aris & Phillips CY - Oxford, Eng. U1 -

The half title page adds A sequel to Don Quixote's history.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sharp North Y1 - 2004 A1 - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by global warming, genetic manipulation, and cloning. Some hope held out for the human spirit overcoming conditions. See also 2005 Cave.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Siberia Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Gwyneth Ann] [Jones] (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian and environmental dystopia.

PB - Orion Children's Books CY - London U3 -

Ann Halam [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Society of Others Y1 - 2004 A1 - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background to part of the novel is a dystopia set in an exaggerated contemporary East European country.

PB - Doubleday CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Tis the Season" Y1 - 2004 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Christmas has been sold to companies.

JF - Socialist Review VL - no. 291 N1 -

Rpt. in his Looking for Jake: Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005), 183-97.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clone Rangers Y1 - 2003 A1 - Laybourn, Emma KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with cloned animals. Children's book.

PB - Anderson Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coalescent: Destiny's Children Book One Y1 - 2003 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume in a series that includes an isolated religious sect that has survived from Roman times and created a eutopian community. See also Exultant. Destiny’s Children 2. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004; Transcendent: Destiny’s Children 3. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 which has two parallel stories, one of an earth deeply affected by global warming and another set in the far future with a young woman being prepared to join the “Transcendence”, the next step beyond the limits of humanity (during which she visits a Coalescent planet, which is reminiscent of Wells’s 1901 First Men in the Moon), but the Transcendence is rejected and dies; and Resplendent: Destiny's Children: Book 4. London: Gollancz, 2006, which is a linked set of stories illustrating aspects of the series. The stories, all revised, are: “Cadre Siblings.” Interzone, no. 153 (March 2000): 6-18. Resplendent (5-19; Paper ed. 5-20), which gives a bit of the dystopia created on Earth by an alien invasion; “Conurbation 2473.” Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 58-69. Resplendent (20-31; Paper ed. 21-33) which begins with more detail of the dystopia but shifts immediately to the dystopias created by humans in the overthrow of that dystopia and the imposition of their own, which is overthrown and another human dystopia created, and so on; Reality Dust. Leeds, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2000. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2002 bound with Paul McAuley, Making History. The items are bound back-to-back and separately paged. Resplendent (32-80; Paper ed. 34-86), which continues the conflict among humans and the dystopia they have created; “All in a Blaze.” Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Ed. Janis Ian and Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (New York: DAW Books, 2003), 292-301. Resplendent (81-90; Paper ed. 87-97), in which humans prepare to travel outside the solar system; “Silver Ghost.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24.9 (296) (September 2000): 84-95. Resplendent (93-106; Paper ed. 101-15) on alien contact; “The Cold Sink.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.8 (307) (August 2001): 36-45. Resplendent (107-17; Paper ed. 116-27) on war; “On the Orion Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24. 10 & 11 (297 & 298) (October/November 2000): 62-86. Resplendent (118-51; Paper ed. 128-63) on war; “Ghost Wars.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.1 (360) (January 2006): 98-126. Resplendent (152-89; Paper ed. 164-204) on war; “The Ghost Pit.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 62-73. Resplendent (190-204; Paper ed. 205-20) on war; “Lakes of Light.” Constellations: The Best of New British SF. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2005), 57-77. Resplendent (207-23; Paper ed. 223-41) on the discovery of a sun inhabited by posthumans who have a simple agricultural society, which is implied to be eutopian but with no real detail; “Breeding Ground.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.2 (325) (February 2003): 10-27. Resplendent (224-47; Paper ed. 242-67) on war; “The Dreaming Mould.” Interzone, no. 179 (May 2002): 16-20. Resplendent (248-60; Paper ed. 268-81) on war; “The Great Game.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.3 (326) (March 2003): 58-71. Resplendent (261-79; Paper ed. 282-301) on war; “The Chop Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.12 (335) (December 2003): 70-91. Resplendent (283-312; Paper ed. 305-36) on war; “In the Un-Black.” Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Al Sarrantonio (New York: ROC, 2001), 201-17. Resplendent (313-30; Paper ed. 337-56), which is a dystopia of the Coalescent style; Riding the Rock. Harrogate, England: PS Publishing, 2002. Resplendent (331-74; Paper ed. 357-404) on war; Mayflower II. Harrogate, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2004. Resplendent (377-438); Paper ed. 407-73); rpt. in The Year’s Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005), 405-49 with an editor’s introduction on 404, which describes a multi-generation starship evolving a number of societies over thousands of years, from the initially eutopian gradually in a more and more dystopian direction; “Between Worlds.” Between Worlds. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Science Fiction Book Club, 2004), 1-59. Resplendent (439-94; Paper ed. 474-533) about post-humans; and “The Siege of Earth.” Previously unpublished. Resplendent (497-546; Paper ed. 537-90) about post-humans.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous eutopia and dystopia where people live in Disney World, which has been maintained as it was but is now part of a world without death or scarcity. But other people take it over and use its displays, enhanced and changed, to control people.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hard Choices Y1 - 2003 A1 - Carole Hayman (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian near future which functions as an attack on New Labour. 

PB - Aurora Metro Press CY - London N1 -

In 2002 it was posted on the web at http://www.hardchoices.co.uk claiming that it could not find a publisher due to political pressure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Machine Y1 - 2003 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technological dystopia set in a future of religious conflict, both between religions and between the religious, some of whom established a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the U.S., and the non-religious. There is also a robot messiah which is worshipped.

PB - Cosmos Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Incompetence: A Novel of the Far Too Near Future Y1 - 2003 A1 - Rob Grant KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where incompetence is a protected category along with gender, race, etc.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U1 -

Title page has Incompentence set backwards. Cover has the subtitle Bad is the new Good.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midnight Lamp Y1 - 2003 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001 and 2002 Jones. In this volume, the Green Nazi's have been defeated and the action moves to Mexico and North America. Mostly fantasy. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Milan Y1 - 2003 A1 - Nick Sturley (b. 1967) KW - Deaf author KW - English author KW - US author AB -

In 2030, with signing a recognized language, a deaf teacher of history in the London Model Deaf School, is teaching his last class before retirement. In it he tells a story about the struggle against oralism, an attempt to impose oralism, the requirement that the deaf speak and cannot sign. In the novel, the story is fantasy and science fiction, but it was inspired by the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The delegates from Great Britain and the United States voted against the resolutions. There was only one deaf delegate to the conference. Signing was banned in many schools for the deaf and deaf teachers lost their jobs. Some schools chose to keep signing, and, of course, many deaf students continued to sign among themselves. The novel ends with the suggest that attempts to impose oralism will continue. There is a “Visual Glossary” illus. Adam Hoy on 212-33 of “Key Characters” (214-21) and Architectural Features (223-33).

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada SN - 9781412013505 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but includes a future in which houses are grown from seed. The story is set in Canada and the author is Canadian.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 27.6 (329) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rule of Terror" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Dominic Green (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence, mass suicide, environmental degradation, and state terror.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 189 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Singularity Sky Y1 - 2003 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is Iron Sunrise. New York: Ace Books, 2004.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Untied Kingdom Y1 - 2003 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A disintegrating future U.K. with small communities using ancient traditions to try to maintain cohesion and stability with, at the end after many problems, the central community begins to revive.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Big Brother Iron" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Sequel to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which modern technology is used to successfully revolt.

JF - Toast and other rusted futures PB - Cosmos Books CY - Holicong, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Castles Made of Sand Y1 - 2002 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2001 Jones. Much fantasy, but this volume follows the disintegration of the U.K. Environmental activists, labeled Green Nazis, are fighting to correct major damage. See also 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2014 Jones.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Ararat Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, The Omega Expedition. This volume is about the settlement of a colony planet.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Boy Y1 - 2002 A1 - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel with children shifting between two worlds, the present and a polluted, overpopulated dystopia. Environmental concerns.

PB - Margaret K. McElderry Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Bodley Head, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Omega Expedition Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. See 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, Dark Ararat. This volume is a sequel to 2000 Stableford and is about the life of the man who developed the technology that made immensely long life possible.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scar Y1 - 2002 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the same world as 2000 Miéville. In this novel, people fleeing New Crobuzon are captured by the piates of the floating dystopian city of Armada, which is made up of thousands of ships, and is planning to invade New Crobuzon. The Scar is a place where reality breaks down. See also 2004 and 2005 Miéville.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scheme for Full Employment Y1 - 2002 A1 - Magnus Mills (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a full employment scheme which collapsed due to internal conflict and because too many, from workers through supervisors, tried to manipulate it for their own benefit.

PB - Flamingo CY - London SN - 0-312-42163-X 0007151322 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Flamingo, 2003. Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2004. 256 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the rich and powerful in a future European Union.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Swiftly" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Swift's Gulliver's Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his "Eleanor", which was first published in Swiftly (167-247).

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted April 3, 2002. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in his Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bold As Love. A Near Future Fantasy Y1 - 2001 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel takes place against the backdrop of the United Kingdom dissolving back into its constituent units. Northern Ireland is already part of a Federated Ireland. Elements of fantasy. Sequels are Castles Made of Sand (2002), Midnight Lamp (2003), Band of Gypsys (2005), Rainbow Bridge (2006), and The Grasshoppers's Child (2014). A story with the same characters is her “Big Cat.” Interzone, no. 209 (April 2007): 32-40. Rpt. in her Big Cat & Other Stories 2007 - 2019 (Alconbury, Weston, Eng.: Newcon Press, 2019), 7-32. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Emergence Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate thriller set in the near future, which has dystopian elements.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eyre Affair. A Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume of the alternative history Thursday Next series that has both utopian and dystopia elements throughout the series, which currently includes six additional books. In the world in which Thursday Next, the female protagonist, lives England is a republic, Wales is the independent “Socialist Republic of Wales,” and genetic engineering has brought back extinct species, such as the dodo a Neanderthals. Subsequent volumes are Lost in a Good Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002; US. ed. New York Viking, 2003; The Well of Lost Plots. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004; and Something Rotten. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004. Second series: First Among Sequels. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; US. ed. New York Viking, 2007; One of Our Thursdays Is Missing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011; US. ed. New York Viking, 2011; and The Woman Who Died a Lot. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012; US. ed. New York Viking, 2012.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Frankenberg Process" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Complete control of history with all record of those who get on the wrong side of the authorities deleted. The story stresses the betrayal of friends by those committed to the system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gray's Anatomy Y1 - 2001 A1 - Rachel Armstrong KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel satirically explores various issues (sex and gender, the media, power, etc.) through contact among alien societies and with humans. Although one alien society (the telepathic Grays) is eutopian initially, it is negatively affected by the alien contact.

PB - Serpent's Tail CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mappa Mundi Y1 - 2001 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly a science fiction adventure novel/thriller, but the invention central to the action leads to a eutopia/dystopia in which people can program their own perceptions and modify themselves and their relations with "reality", which can be dystopian. A related story is "The Girl Hero's Mirror Says He's Not the One." Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 41-54. PSt

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marcher" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A story in which there are various time lines that people can switch through. The one in which the story is set has interned all its welfare cases in large, isolated camps. A non-utopian sequel is "Watching the Sea." Interzone, no. 173 (November 2001): 40-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mortal Engines Y1 - 2001 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. First volume of four young adult novels set in a future of “urban Darwinism” in which roving cities compete for survival and dominance. Sequels are Predator’s Gold. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2003. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003; Infernal Devices. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2005. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005; and A Darkling Plain. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2006. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2006. A collection of three related stories is Reeve, Night Flights. Illus. Ian McCue. Nw York: Scholastic, 2018. For an illustrated guide to the four novels, see Reeve and Jeremy Levett, The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines. Illus. London: Scholastic UK, 2018. See 2009 Reeve, Fever Crumb for the first volume of a series that is a prequel to this series. A film directed by Christian Rivers with a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson released in December 2018.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noughts and Crosses Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) KW - English author AB -

Noughts, who are considered inferior and suppressed. The novel concerns a young couple who fall in love across this divide. Sequels include An Eye for an Eye. London: Corgi Books, 2003, which is a short piece originally published for World Book Day 2003 set in a time between her 2001 Noughts & Crosses and 2004 Knife Edge.  Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 447-78; Knife Edge. London: Doubleday,2004. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007; and Checkmate. London: Doubleday, 2005.

PB - Doubleday CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 7-443.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Park Polar Y1 - 2001 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological and corporate dystopia.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Leeds, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Heart Y1 - 2001 A1 - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Children’s dystopia set in the aftermath of global warming.

PB - Viking CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terra Farma Y1 - 2001 A1 - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to the 2001 rev. ed. of her 1992 Galax-Arena in which some children have escaped from Galax-Arena. In trying to help other children, they get captured and taken to Terra-Farma, a cloning facility, which the ultimately managed to destroy. A third volume, Universercus, was planned but does not appear to have been published. 

PB - Viking Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ultraviolet Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lesley Howarth (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a society living underground as a result of becoming too hot and most people spending most of their time in virtual reality. One girl undertakes a quest to go outside.

PB - Puffin Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whole Wide World Y1 - 2001 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A mystery novel with a dystopian future of constant surveillance on both the streets and the internet as the background.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Appendix. Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'" Y1 - 2000 A1 - David [W.] Harvey (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Appendix to his book on the power of the utopian imagination in which he sketches out his own utopian vision. The collapse of the world economy is followed by a period of harsh repression by the military and a revolution. After the revolution a eutopian society is created centered on a federal system that begins at the "hearth" or a small collective living arrangement. Environmentally conscious but using new technologies where possible. For a design research project inspired by Edilia, see Ifea Troiani, “Eco-topia: ‘Living with Nature’ in Edilia, Iceland.” Illus. Journal of Architectural Education 67.1 (2013): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.767129.

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U.S. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 257-81.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bad Dream" Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the European Union in twenty years still dealing with British nationalism, with Britain fighting for and winning independence.

JF - Spectrum SF VL - 4 - 6 U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Better Job" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A new Garden City, much more radical and egalitarian than the previous ones, is established in defiance of the government of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).

JF - The Coming Day and Other Stories PB - Enitharmon Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bikini Planet Y1 - 2000 A1 - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Mostly dystopian with the standard naive visitor from our day to the future, but there are some eutopian possibilities suggested. A sequel is Space Wasters. London: Orbit, 2001. 339 pp., and it begins in what appears to be a paradise in which the protagonist makes the mistake of finding it boring and hopes something happens. The rest is mostly intrigue and adventure.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Coming Day" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia presented through a number of episodes that illustrate corporate and political corruption.

JF - The Coming Day and Other Stories PB - Enitharmon Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cyberskin Y1 - 2000 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. 

PB - Hybrid Publishers CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eye of the Heart" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. All married women are blinded after the honeymoon so that they will only remember their husbands as loving men.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction VL - 98.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Far Away Y1 - 2000 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Brief ecological dystopia in which everything in the entire world, including animals and plants, is at war with each other.

PB - Nick Hern Books in association with the Royal Court Theatre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Floodland Y1 - 2000 A1 - Marcus Sedgwick (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's book about the degradation of the environment that leads to widespread flooding. A girl trying to find her parents comes across a 1954 Golding Lord of the Flies type dystopia.

PB - Dolphin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dell Yearling, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Foreigners Y1 - 2000 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A murder mystery that takes place in a deeply flawed utopia in which aliens have provided Earth with technology that replaces its polluting power sources, but the aliens act like Earth’s sex tourists (the author’s comparison) exploiting human singers for their own pleasure.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fountains of Youth Y1 - 2000 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998, 1999 and 2002 Stableford (2). This volume describes the life of a man who is five hundred years old, could live much longer, and is an historian of that generally obsolete phenomenon called death.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Mortimer Gray's History of Death." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 254-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex: Ghosts Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1998 and 1999 Lassiter. In this volume, those carrying the gene giving direct access to computers share it with others and the ending suggests that a eutopia will develop.

PB - Macmillan Children's Books, 2000 CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 449-669. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Junk DNA Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tania Glyde KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia produced by genetic engineering.

PB - Codex CY - Hove, Eng. SN - 978-1899598199 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mind's Eye" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia set in a city built so that the poor live at the bottom and the rich and powerful live at the top. The story is about a young girl leaving the bottom and her experiences at the top.

JF - Spectrum SF VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New City. A Novel Y1 - 2000 A1 - Stephen Amidon (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ideal suburban community is created that is specifically designed for racial harmony, but over time the usual personality conflicts and differing needs and desires reveals it to be a better society albeit a flawed utopia. Set in 1973 and based on Columbia, MD, where the author once lived. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable Y1 - 2000 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Satire. The creation of a truly independent Wales in an alternative history of World War II, which Germany won. The supposed puppet leader chosen by the Germans works to get the Americans and others, who had not fought in the war, to attack and defeat Germany.

PB - Gomer Press CY - Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradox Y1 - 2000 A1 - John Meaney (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent dystopia. Sequels are Context: Book Two of the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2002; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2005; and Resolution: Book Three in the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2005; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2006.

PB - Bantam Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perdido Street Station Y1 - 2000 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian set in the polluted, rundown city of New Crobuzon where humans and other beings live under a vicious regime. Fantasy with surrealistic elements. See also 2002, 2004, and 2005 Miéville.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rat Squad Y1 - 2000 A1 - Nick Warburton (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's flawed utopia. In Grace City everyone appears to be happy, safe, and free, but there is a deliberate policy to allow rats to kill people as a means of population control and creating a common enemy.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Y1 - 2000 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

2000 Roberts, Adam [Charles] (b. 1965). Salt. London: Gollancz. PU 

The novel beings on a spaceship on its way to establishing a colony. A difference in cultures or ideologies emerges and continues after the settle with one faction a military dictatorship and the other an anarchist society.

PB - Golancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super-Cannes Y1 - 2000 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Flamingo CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Picador, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 'Tomorrow Town" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) ED - Keith Brooks ED - Nick Gevers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Humor. A town designed to be the eutopian city of the future fails to work as intended as a result of relying too heavily on an advanced computer.

JF - Infinity Plus One PB - PS Publishing CY - Leeds, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man from the Diogenes Club (Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain Books, 2006), 59-82. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Singer Y1 - 2000 A1 - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a dystopian fantasy trilogy for young adults set in a city where advancement is based on success in examinations. A girl revolts against the system and, with her twin brother, sets out to find the Singers. In the second volume, Slaves of the Mastery. An Adventure. Book Two of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Mammoth. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001, the twins, separated for the first time, separately fight against a new enemy. In the final volume, FiresongAn Adventure. Book Three of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Egmont. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002, after further problems, the secret of the Singers is found, the people are freed, and the twins find the eutopia, but the girl has to die.

PB - Mammoth CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Egmont, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2099: A Eutopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia which is partially a technological eutopia that both provides all and his quite controlling. The other aspect of the eutopia is on improved human relations in communities. Some history of the development to the eutopia is given.

PB - Thames & Hudson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Architects of Emortality Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. In this volume people generally live three hundred years and some live much longer. Includes characters named Holmes and Watson, who are policemen, and an amateur detective called Oscar Wilde.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Les Fleurs du Mal." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.11 (221) (October 1994): 104-61. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 627-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bloodtide Y1 - 1999 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia set in a gang ruled London. See also 2005 Burgess.

PB - Andersen Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crime of the Twenty-First Century Y1 - 1999 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a desolate landscape and ruins that appear to be the result of some sort of catastrophe.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: 7 (London: Methuen Drama, 2003), 217-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crowlings Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel in which a traditional society has to deal with people from space coming to their planet. The novel is concerned with the conflicts, both personal and societal, regarding the temptations of modern civilization.

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Collins, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dawnings" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Zelda Curtis (1923-2012) ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia set in the U.K. in 2010 seen from the perspective of an old woman who had gone through the transition. The protagonist describes her flat in a collectively owned and managed building with a large communal space and a computer room. Adjacent buildings have different amenities such as a swimming pool, gym, art studio, music room, or meeting room. Clinic on site as is a nursery and crèche. Employment is arranged so that “no one has to work more than a three-day shift for a wage sufficient for their needs” (102). Equal pay for all. Cheap public transport. 

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Archipelago Y1 - 1999 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Dream Archipelago is made of thousands of islands in an ocean belt around the middle of a planet with a large continent to the north, with many countries regularly at war, wars that are fought on the continent to the south, which is sparsely populated. Various islanders tell stories, some eutopian, some dystopian, and some with elements of fantasy about their islands. Two further volumes are set in the Dream Archipelago. The first is The Islanders. London: Victor Gollancz, 2011, which as short descriptions of many islands. An excerpt from “The Drone” (150-87) was published as “Fireflies.” Celebration: An anthology of short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: New Con Press, 2008), 207-14. “The Trace of Him” is rpt. from his 2009 The Dream Archipelago retitled “The Trace” (235-43). The second is The Gradual. London: Gollancz, 2016; rpt. London: Titan Books, 2016, in which a composer, who is from a fascist dystopia, twice tours the Dream Archipelago.

PB - Earthlight CY - London N1 -

Includes the first publication of “The Equatorial Moment” (1-6); “The Negation” (7-48) originally published in Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 55-86; “Whores” (49-) originally published in New Dimensions 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 27-40; “The Cremation” (71-114) originally in Andromeda 3. Ed. Paul Weston (London: Futura, 1978); “The Miraculous Cairn” (115-85) originally published in New Terrors #2. Ed. Ramsey Campbell (London: Pan, 1980), 11-55; and “The Watched” (186-264) originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 54.4 (323) (April 1978): 124-60. Book rpt. London: Gollancz, 2009 with “The Equatorial Moment” (1-5); “The Negation” (6-44); “Whores” (45-65); “The Miraculous Cairn” (74-140); “The Cremation” (141-81); and “The Watched” (182-255-) and two additional stories, “The Trace of Him” (66-73) originally published in Interzone, no. 214 (February 2008): 36-38; and “The Discharge” (256-301) which was originally published in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted February 13, 2002. No longer available online, but it was rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2002. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (Np: ibooks, 2003), 156-210. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex: Shadows Y1 - 1999 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1998 Lassiter. In this volume, the gene giving direct access to computers has supposedly been eliminated and the people killed, but some of them survive. See also 2000 Lassiter. 

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 241-448. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Horse Latitudes Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jay Merrick KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Set in an area of a future England that is severely polluted and inhabited by the poor who have been pushed out of safe areas.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mara and Dann: An Adventure Y1 - 1999 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Monster Mission Y1 - 1999 A1 - Eva [Maria Charlotte Michelle] Ibbotson (1925-2010) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel in which children are kidnapped to an isolated island to help care for unusual sea creatures.

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London U1 -

U.S. ed. as The Island of the Aunts

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from the 21st Century" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Vanessa Baird (b. 1955) ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Short news reports from a future of much greater equality, particularly gender equality.

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phallicide Y1 - 1999 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a polygamous religious sect that does not practice birth control and mates girls at thirteen. 

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 7.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 383-410 with an editor’s note on 383. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plato Papers Y1 - 1999 A1 - Peter [Warwick] Ackroyd (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Description of our time, known as Mouldwarp, from the point of view of a far future society (after A.D. 3700), that has a very imperfect understanding of the past. In that society, Plato, described as “the great orator of London,” presents wildly inaccurate public orations describing Mouldwarp but when he gains a more accurate picture of the past, he is persecuted.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Plato Papers. A Prophesy [Prophecy on the dust jacket]. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tod in Biker City Y1 - 1999 A1 - Anthony [Richard] Masters (1940-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's dystopia. An extended drought brings conflict over water supplies and a young boy has to deal with an outlaw gang of bikers.

PB - Barrington Stoke CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U2 -

Illus. Harriet Buckley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vienna Blood Y1 - 1999 A1 - Adrian Mathews (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

Murder mystery set in a technologically advanced, mildly dystopian 2026 Vienna.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) A1 - Roger Penrose (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..

PB - Little, Brown CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "17" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a destroyed future worlds with people struggling to survive salvaging toxic wastes and a young woman’s struggle to get out.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 22.6 (270) N1 -

Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 211-24 with an author’s note on 429-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 51st State Y1 - 1998 A1 - Peter Preston (1938-2018) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A rather unlikely political novel by the long-time Editor of The Guardian in which England joins the United States as the 51st state.

PB - Viking CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Day Y1 - 1998 A1 - Michael Cronin (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young Adult dystopia of a Nazi occupied Britain and the struggle against it. Sequels include Through the Night. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002; and In the Morning. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2005.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All the Birds of Hell” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia brought on by a new ice age.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 95.4&5 (567) N1 -

 Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 209-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Chance of Safety Y1 - 1998 A1 - Henrietta [Diana Primrose Longstaff] Branford (1946-99) KW - English author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between the rich and the poor. Children escape to a more primitive society which is set to replace the dystopia.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Computopia Y1 - 1998 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting for the novel is a high tech eutopia that has solved the Earth’s environmental problems, but the action of the novel focuses on a man who tries to use the web to gain power. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1997 Brown, Untouchable. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2028 (London: Millennium, 1999), 219-324. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cythera Y1 - 1998 A1 - Richard Calder (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England, England Y1 - 1998 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. An England theme park is built on the Isle of Wight with all of the attractions of England available. It becomes an independent state, and England collapses into a medieval society called Anglia that can be read as eutopian or dystopian.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia where some people are genetically modified to have direct access to all computers, which gives them immense power. See also 1998 and 2000 Lassiter. The three volumes have been published together as Void (2011).

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 1-240. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ice People Y1 - 1998 A1 - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Depicts the collapse of civilization as a new ice age takes hold. Various dystopian scenarios develop in the process.

PB - Richard Cohen Books CY - London N1 -

Rev. London: Telegram Books, 2008.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inherit the Earth Y1 - 1998 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Background to a complex adventure is a society the people call the New Utopia. A post-catastrophe society which has extended life spans significantly and in which most people are fairly well off, but in which there is still poverty and life-extension is expensive. See also 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford (2). 

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

A different, shorter version originally published as "Inherit the Earth" Analog Science Fiction and Fact 115.8 & 9 (July 1995): 122-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Off the Road Y1 - 1998 A1 - Nina Bawden (1925-2012) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel set in 2040 contrasting a highly organized, sterile, supposed eutopia with largely traditional country life. Country life is marred by wandering gangs; the eutopia is based on regulating consumption by removing all to Nostalgia homes at age 65.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pesthouse Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia that includes a religious intentional community called The Blessed Ark.

PB - Picador CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2007.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Psylicon Beach Y1 - 1998 A1 - Philip Gross (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia stressing pollution, poverty versus wealth, and corrupt authority. Described as for Young Adults.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tea From An Empty Cup Y1 - 1998 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. See also 2000 Cadigan.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ThigMOO Y1 - 1998 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A satirical take on university life and technology in which faculty and students at a third-rate British university establish a Museum of the Mind online by creating fictional electronic characters with the histories and personalities of characters from the past. The escape from the Museum and go through many battles among themselves but ultimately produce a socialist eutopia.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U,K. ed. London: Earthlight, 1999. Part originally published as "ThigMOO." Interzone, no. 120 (June 1997): 40-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tough Girls Don't Dream" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a world where sleep is illegal.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 74.16 N1 -

Rpt. as "Disappearance I." In The World and Other Places (London: Jonathan Cape, 1998), 101-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 101-15.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trajectories Y1 - 1998 A1 - Julian Rathbone (1935-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Britain has collapsed into various small city-states of various sizes. The largest, centered on Birmingham, is essentially governed by a secret service. The rich live in enclaves which they rarely if ever leave. The poor, many suffering from radiation sickness, are kept under control by a powerful police force.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth About Weena" Y1 - 1998 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

On a different time line from that described in 1895 Wells, the Eloi woman Weena is brought back from the future and becomes a political activist, leading to a better society. See 1977 Lake and the note there.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After Henderson” Y1 - 1997 A1 - David Gullen KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of war among the parts of the previous United Kingdom. 

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 14 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back in the USSA Y1 - 1997 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history. United States had a Communist revolution and formed the United Socialist States of America; Russia had no such revolution.

PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Parts published as "In the Air" [Cover adds "In Al Capone's Communist America"]. Interzone, no. 43 (January 1991): 6-30; "Ten Days That Shook the World." Interzone, no. 48 (June 1991): 48-63; "Tom Joad." Interzone, no. 65 (November 1992): 6-21; and "Teddy Bears' Picnic." Interzone, nos. 122 - 123 (August - September 1997): 6-21; 36-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glass Earth, Inc." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) ED - Stephen McClelland KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia in which a murder is committed in a London in which it is possible for the police to view the incident as it was happening and from all angles.

JF - Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications PB - Horizon House Publications CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Phase Space (London: HarperCollins/Voyager, 2002), 48-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliverzone Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

GulliverZone is a virtual reality theme park based on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and, on World Peace Day, it is freely open to everyone, even children. But GulliverZone is a dystopia with real Lilliputians being dominated by an evil woman. 

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 1-102. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - K Y1 - 1997 A1 - [Denis M.] [MacEoin] (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia of the Ku Klux Klan, called the Aryan Alliance, in power in the U.S. Extremely violent against African Americans, Jews, and all dissidents. The novel focuses on the successful resistance to the regime. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U3 -

Daniel Easterman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Man's Land Y1 - 1997 A1 - Barry England (1932-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Violent struggle to survive by a small group of people after the collapse of civilization.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Novel of Queen the Eye Y1 - 1997 A1 - Paul Darrow (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Based on the computer game "Queen the Eye."

PB - Boxtree CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nymphomation Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian future society focused on a lottery that is controlled and manipulated by a corporation.

PB - Doubleday CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Scientific Romance Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ronald Wright (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - English author AB -

A man uses the time machine from 1895 Wells to visit the future and arrives in a future that the author entitles "After London" following 1885 Jefferies. This future appears to be completely without humans until the protagonist reaches Scotland where there are a few survivors.

PB - Transworld CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transmetropolitan Y1 - 1997 A1 - Warren G[irard] Ellis (b. 1968) A1 - Darick W. Robertson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel set in a violent, corrupt dystopia and the fight against it.

PB - DC Comics CY - Burbank, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Untouchable Y1 - 1997 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

This short novel includes two dystopias. The first is a version of contemporary India from the perspective of a Dalit (Untouchable) girl. The second is a version of virtual reality where children kidnapped from the streets of Delhi. But within virtual reality there are also eutopian spaces where the girl is treated as an equal. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1998 Lovegrove. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997)Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999). 

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 195-285. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - '48 Y1 - 1996 A1 - James [John] Herbert (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in an alternative history dystopia in which, just as he was being defeated, Hitler fired rockets into London containing deadly diseases that wipes out much of the world’s population. The focus is on one of the few healthy survivors who is being sought so his blood can be used to cure the leader of the local Blackshirts.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Babel Tower Y1 - 1996 A1 - A[ntonia] S[usan] Byatt ( 1936-2023) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third volume of a family history begun in The Virgin in the Garden. London: Chatto & Windus, 1978 and continued in Still Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. The series is concluded in A Whistling Woman. London: Chatto and Windus, 2002. This volume contains a novel within the novel by one of the characters about the establishment and history of an attempt to establish a utopia. 

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 1997.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beach Y1 - 1996 A1 - Alex[ander Medawar] Garland (b. 1970) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Idyllic life on an isolated beach in Thailand contrasted with the dystopian realities of contemporary life in the area.

PB - Viking CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Building Babel Y1 - 1996 A1 - Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Feminist fairy tale in which a number of women from fables and fairy tales build various versions of Babel. Throughout, but particularly at the end, a variety of utopian motifs are employed.

PB - Spinifex Press CY - North Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Downtime With the Virtual Dead” Y1 - 1996 A1 - Mike O’Driscoll KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk set in a future dystopian Europe under the rule of a degenerate Islam.

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 11 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream-Weaver Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel set as colonists from Earth prepare to land on a planet inhabited by people with what appears to be little technology. But the people of the planet have mental powers that allow contact to be made with a member of the Earth crew who comes to see the low-tech planet in eutopian terms. 

PB - Clarion Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fremder Y1 - 1996 A1 - Russell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel of personal identity with a dystopian background.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Higher Education. A Jupiter™ Novel Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World divided into the very rich and the very poor. Right wing take on problems of U.S. 

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Includes material first published in Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 227-94. Rpt. rev. in How To Save the World. Ed. Charles Sheffield (New York: Tor, 1995), 275-346; and as “Higher Education.” Illus. George H. Krauter. Analog Science Fiction and Fact 116.3 - 6 (February - May 1996): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-32, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-48, 50-60; 108-144, 104-144, 102-122.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keepers Y1 - 1996 A1 - Pauline Kirk KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a future England.

PB - Virago CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 4: The Burning Forest Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The fourth volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1995 Mann. In this volume, Rome decides to burn the British forests to use the land for agriculture and a struggle between rational, scientific, technological Rome and the myth-based British ensues.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Making History Y1 - 1996 A1 - Stephen [John] Fry (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history with various dystopias.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Arrow Books, 2004. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paths to Otherwhere Y1 - 1996 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of totalitarian states with a wide variety of alternative futures available.

PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Protektor Y1 - 1996 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future computer controlled eutopia that develops flaws.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spares Y1 - 1996 A1 - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopian thriller about people bred as "spares."

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Age of Innocence" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. With longevity greatly increased, the old become infantile and must be cared for by the young.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.7 (232) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Comedy of Ideas Y1 - 1995 A1 - Steven Lukes (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A modern version of Voltaire's (1694-1778) Candide ou, L'Optimisme (1759) by a U.K. political theorist.

PB - Verso CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. [Cover says exp. new ed. but the only additions appear to be an "Introduction" (vii-ix) and "Further Readings" (261-62)] as The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Novel of Ideas. London: Verso, 2009. Includes an Errata slip.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fairyland Y1 - 1995 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society divided into rich (based on advanced technology) and extremely poor. 

PB - VGSF CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2007; and London: Victor Gollancz, 2015 with an “Introduction” by Stephen Baxter (v-vii). U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1995. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hotwire Y1 - 1995 A1 - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes Book 3: The Dragon Wakes Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The third volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mann. In this volume,  Rome  is preparing to conquer those parts of  Britain  it does not control.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mink! Y1 - 1995 A1 - Peter Chippindale (1945-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mink organize to escape from a mink farm while the “Concerned Woodland Guardians,” which is led by rabbits is trying to protect their habitat. When the mink escape, they prey on the other woodland animals until the two groups have to combine to fend off the more dangerous humans.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of Touch" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Immortality and the problems of those not qualifying. The focus of the story of a man who was born to early, but mention is made of people from the Third World and others who were not eligible for the treatment. The immortals live in a high tech eutopia that for most is an enclosed virtual world.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.11 (236) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 33-61 with a note on 33-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Playing the Game Y1 - 1995 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Graphic novel depicting an urban dystopia and attempts to escape it. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Slow River Y1 - 1995 A1 - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future with a deep rich-poor divide and focuses on a woman from the top who is stripped of her identity and her adjustment to living at the bottom. 

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thief! Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl is falsely accused of being a thief and, running away, is caught in a storm that projects her into her town’s dystopian future where she meets her classmates now middle aged.

PB - Doubleday CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Ships Y1 - 1995 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authorized sequel to Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) with the one branch of the Morlocks an advanced eutopian race and the Eloi depend on them for their food and clothing. The Time Traveler saves Weena from being killed, as she was in the original novel, and encourages the Eloi to become independent of the Morlocks. A variety of alternative futures are described. There are many references to works of Wells throughout the text.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U2 -

Illus. Lee Edwards

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arts & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a vaguely dystopian future. 

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crime Studio Y1 - 1994 A1 - Steve Aylett (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first of several volumes and stories set in the dystopian city Beerlight. See also his Slaughtermatic. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows/London: Phoenix House, 1998; and Atom. London: Phoenix House, 2000. U.S. ed. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Additional stories are “The Siri Gun.” Crime Time England (1999); rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 45-52; “Shifa.” BritPulp. Ed. Tony White (London: Sceptre, 1999), 105-10. Rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 42-45; and “Fiasco.” Why2K: Anthology for a New Era. Ed. Stephen Howard (London: Booth Clibborn Editions, 2000); rpt in his Toxicology (London: Gollancz, 2001), 102-05. L, O

PB - Serif CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Fall Walls Eight Windows, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disinherited Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Begins with a dystopia of poverty and violence with rigid class divisions in Wales. Ends with the beginnings of a rural utopian community. Classified as Young Adult.

PB - The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Patchwork People. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

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Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eat Reecebread" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Graham Joyce (1954-2014) A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting the prejudiced response against a growing number of hermaphrodites.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 N1 -

Rpt. in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 177-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia but with some hope of improvement. A future world deeply divided between the rich and the poor but with positive change taking place.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Golden Swan" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Leigh Kennedy (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

World with few children and its effects.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 79 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jazamine in the Green Wood" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Women dominant portrayed as a dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Justice City Y1 - 1994 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Thriller set in a dystopian penal system of the future.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 2: Stand Alone Stan Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The second volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1993, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, the three young Romans are forced to flee the security of the village in the forests where they found refuge in the first volume. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Retreat Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Nazis rule Britain.

PB - Sinclair-Stevenson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only Forward Y1 - 1994 A1 - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surreal dystopia set in a U.K. that is a sprawl of neighborhoods composing the City, which covers the entire country. Each neighborhood is inhabited by a different group of people. Considerable conflict among the groups. Some are eutopian, some dystopian, and some just very odd. Mostly adventure.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: HarperCollins, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2000; and Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Professionals" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of corporate dominance.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rama Revealed Y1 - 1994 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) A1 - [Bert] Gentry Lee (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Inside an alien artifact traveling through space, humans intending to create a good society actually create a dictatorship. Ultimately this is overcome. This is the last volume of the co-authored trilogy, although written mostly by Lee, and follows Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama. London Gollacnz, 1973; Collector’s Edition illus. Bob Eggleton with an “Introduction” by George Zebrowski (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. The other volumes are Rama II. London Gollancz, 1989 and The Garden of Rama. London: Gollancz, 1991, which includes, in the second half, anti-utopianism typical of Clarke’s work. In addition, Lee wrote Bright Messengers. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, which is set before Rama II.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Skriker Y1 - 1994 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian fantasy which includes a polluted underground.

PB - Nick Hern CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Slow News Day" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which  Germany  won World War II, and there is a Fascist  Britain.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Supremacist" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Damien Jones A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence. The rich live high in buildings above the extreme pollution found at street level. The poor live violent lives but are also preyed upon by the rich for sadistic entertainment.

JF - Revelation Magazine (Perth, WA, Australia) VL - no. 9 N1 -

Rpt. in Paul [A.] Collins. The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 149-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wallace Report Y1 - 1994 A1 - Roy V[ictor] Wallace (1927-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Pamphlet outlining a eutopia based around small communities. See also 1980 Wallace. 

PB - Down to Earth CY - Spring Hill, QLD, Australia SN - 9780646173177 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ammonite Y1 - 1993 A1 - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel set on a fairly primitive planet inhabited only by women that includes a lesbian, feminist eutopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Baby and Fly Pie Y1 - 1993 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult future dystopia of extreme poverty.

PB - Anderson Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Convoy Y1 - 1993 A1 - Chola Mahes KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe (nuclear war initiated by the U.S. against Iran) survivors searching for a better life while crossing the country. Mostly dystopian with a stress on violence. There is a Glossary of the terms used in the book (266-74). 

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Woman Y1 - 1993 A1 - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-pollution story with a eutopian ending. Sequel to 1968 Hughes.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 1: Escape to the Wild Wood Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1994, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, three young Romans flee to the forests and discover the older Britain. The novel stresses the cold rationality of the Romans in contrast to the more feeling British. See the note at 1982 Mann.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Machynlleth Triad/Triawd Machynlleth Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author KW - Welsh author AB -

The book is divided into three parts, The Past: Y Gorfennol, The Present: Y Presennol, and The Future: Y Dyfodol, with the English and Welsh reversed in the part titles in the Welsh half of the book, with all three in the town of Machynlleth. The past is the early fifteenth century, the present is 1993, and the future is sometime in the first half of the twenty-first century in which Machynlleth is the capital of an independent Welsh republic within the European Confederation and a founding member of the League of Neutrals. The future Wales is a utopia, albeit not without problems, based on the “Principle of Simplicity” or “Egwyddor Symlrwydd,” “a commitment to restraint in all things” (64), which is enshrined in the constitution. The section on the future is present as a tour and description of Machynlleth Triad of the Saint David’s Day or Republic Day when Wales is celebrating twenty-five years of independence.

PB - Gwasg Gregynog CY - Newtown, Powys, Wales VL - 400 copy edition SN - 9780948714542 9780670854790 9780140236125 N1 -

Rpt. with the Welsh text. New York/London: Viking, 1994; and London: Penguin, 1995.

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Illus. Brenda Berman

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mindstar Rising Y1 - 1993 A1 - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of global warming and corporate domination.

PB - Pan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nomansland Y1 - 1993 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--a society which is getting rid of men by ensuring that there are no boy babies.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rose on the Ash-Heap" Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) ED - Jeanne Clayton Hunter ED - Thomas Kranidas KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of control through providing people with bread and circuses.

JF - A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield PB - State University of New York Press CY - Albany U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sing the Body Electric: A Novel in Five Movements Y1 - 1993 A1 - Adam Lively (b. 1961) KW - English author AB -

Novel set in a future that has tried to create enclaves that incorporate past ways of life. Part of the novel reads as if it were set in one of those pasts.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Other Eden Y1 - 1993 A1 - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous take on the end of the world.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vurt Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in Manchester, England. Vurt is a drug that creates almost a virtual reality.

PB - Ringpull Press CY - Littleborough, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Welfare Man" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Class-based dystopia with welfare recipients walled off from the others.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 74 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another World Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elaine O'Reilly (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s flawed utopia. A reader designed for beginners set in the underground Eden City, where everyone has a number, is under twenty-five, and the law requires that everyone be very happy. As a test of his suitability for leadership, one man is introduced to the contrasting real world of dirt, aging, and poverty. While it is not explained, at twenty-five everyone enters the Long Dream, although the last line of the text suggests it may be yet another world. 

PB - Addison Wesley Longman CY - Harlow, England SN - 9780582064188 978-1-4058-5055-1 9781405852067 N1 -

New ed. Harlow, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000. 44 pp. Rpt. Harlow, Eng.: Penguin Education, 2007. 44 pp. The new ed. has a CD.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadia Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A wealthy man decides to replace a local marketplace with Arcadia, described as a modern utopia of glass and greenery. He succeeds. Set in the future.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother to Dragons Y1 - 1992 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia. Extreme class differences with a powerful elite. Serious environmental problems.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Careperson" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Graham Joyce (1954-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Social work, now called “care work” “because nobody cares” (39), in a dystopian future. 

JF - Interzone VL - no. 58 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children of Men Y1 - 1992 A1 - P[hyllis] D[orothy] James (1920-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. No children are born and the population ages. A Warden and Council establish an authoritarian government, kill off the incompetent, establish the Isle of Man as a prison camp, and treat refugees from other countries as slaves. At the end of the novel the Warden is killed, and a baby is born. 

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Lucky April Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

One hundred years after the plague described in her Plague 99. London: Methuen Teens, 1989. Rpt. London: Octopus, 1989; London: Teens Mandarin, 1991; and Oxford: Heinemann New Windmills, 1993. U.S. ed as Plague. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Contrasts two societies, one dominated by men and identified with the problems of the past and one in which women hold power and male aggression has been eliminated. While the latter is generally better than the former, it is still trying to find the right balance. The struggle to reunite the communities is described in her Watchers at the Shrine. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1994. 

PB - Methuen Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as After the Plague. London: Teens Mandarin, 1993; and London: Mammoth, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Girls Y1 - 1992 A1 - Richard Calder (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. Continued in his Dead Boys.  London : HarperCollins, 1994; and Dead Things.  London : HarperCollins, 1996. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Graphic novel ed. by Calder with Pencils, Colours & letters by Leonardo M. Girton as The Dead Girls: The Graphic Novel. [UK]: The House of Murky Depths, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecotopia Revisited" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Peter H. Marshall (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction description of an ecological society.

JF - Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth (New York: Paragon House, 1994), 448-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fatherland Y1 - 1992 A1 - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Hitler won.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as the 20th Anniversary Edition. London: Arrow Books, 2012 with “Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition of Fatherland” by the author (xi-xvi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fools Y1 - 1992 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia with people able to create new personalities for both themselves and others and others stealing memories.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fragment from the Future" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Barbara Goodwin (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Introductory chapter to a treatise in political theory that presents a eutopian society in which all major decisions are made by lot. The author is a well-known scholar of utopian social theory and uses many examples from utopian literature throughout the book.

JF - Justice by Lottery PB - Harvester/Wheatsheaf CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. (Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 2005), 3-28.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Galax-Arena Y1 - 1992 A1 - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which children are kidnapped by aliens to entertain them by doing dangerous acts. Some hope held out as the children begin to cooperate with each other. See also her 2001 Terra Farma.   

PB - Hyland House CY - South Yarra, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 1994. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1993. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995. Rev. ed. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horse Meat" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 65 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Multiplex Man Y1 - 1992 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-technology dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Place to Scream Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in 2015 in which the stress of making a living means that the elderly are dumped on the highway because they are too expensive to keep, teenage beggars crowd the streets, and unemployment is standard. The protagonist is a sixteen year old girl who has a job and a home but dreams of a better life for herself and her sick grandfather.

PB - Doubleday CY - London SN - 9780552526166 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen and I Y1 - 1992 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. The U.K. becomes a republic, and the Queen is given a pensioner's flat where she lives with her family. See also 2006 Townsend.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Part republished as The Queen in Hell Close. London: Penguin, 2005. Theatre version as The Queen and I: The Play With Songs. London: Methuen Drama in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 1994 [Songs by Ian Dury and Mickey Gallagher]. Rev. and re-written as The Queen and I: A Play. London: Samuel French, 1996. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrections From the Dustbin of History. A Political Fantasy Y1 - 1992 A1 - Simon Louvish (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia beginning in 1968 when Leon Trotsky, who has led the U.S.S.R. for forty-four years, dies. Benito Mussolini still rules Italy, and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are U.S. politicians. Racial conflict in the U.S.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Resurrections: A Novel. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revengers Y1 - 1992 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-nuclear catastrophe dystopian series focusing on the experiences five boys. Sequels include, in order, Beyond the Grave. London: Bantam, 1992; The Horned God. London: Bantam, 1992; and The Plague. London: Bantam, 1992. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virtuous Reality" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulated world requiring licenses to have a child. Families tend to be eight to ten parents and one child. Man wants monogamy in a world of multiple partners both serially and living together at the same time. No passion.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 55 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Invisible Country" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an extreme division between the rich and the poor where gangs run the poor areas and violence is common. A biological agent that makes people caring is spread around the world and the dystopia is being replaced with a better society.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Invisible Country (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996), 13-34, with an "Afterword" on 35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jago Y1 - 1991 A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia with elements of a horror novel centered on a small religious community that is based on an actual English community, Agapemone (meaning the Abode of Love), established in England in the mid-nineteenth century whose last member died in the mid-twentieth century.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Journey South" Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Depopulated future and its problems and prophets. Appears to be eutopian but not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 44 U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Maze of Stars Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Tour of worlds seeded by humans showing their development. Most are dystopian; a few have eutopian elements.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "SEAQ and Destroy." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) ED - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Humorous satire of a capitalist Cold War with Russian corporations attacking stock markets in London with the U.S. under President Michael Jackson (1958-2009) cooperating with the Russia capitalists to take over Europe.

JF - There Won't Be War PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Synners Y1 - 1991 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia with computer viruses and designer drugs. Synners are human synthesizers who take images from people’s brains and package them for consumption by others. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1991. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991. Chap. 14 was also published in The South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (Fall 1993): 669-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Fall of Night Y1 - 1990 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1953 Clarke, which is rpt. as the “Part I” (14-145). Part II (146-298), by Benford, is set far in the future where there are highly evolved beings, enhanced humans, and others at various stages of enhancement. Much of the story is about the reemergence of some who seek power over others and are willing to go to war to further their ambitions See the “Afterword” to 2004 Benford for the relationship among the three books.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darcy's Utopia Y1 - 1990 A1 - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel includes the description of a utopian vision of a “the multiracial, unicultural, secular society” (17).

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daz 4 Zoe Y1 - 1990 A1 - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult dystopia in the near future in which society is divided into the affluent and the poor. Two teenagers bridge the gap and leave to find a better life.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: Pearson Education, 2000, with analysis and notes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Extraordinary Reign of King Ludd: An Historical Tease Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Ernest Michael] Roy Lewis (1913-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical alternative history in which socialism won in the revolutions of 1848 followed, at the end of the novel, by a counter-revolution in the 1940s that establishes the rule of the market.

PB - The Patten Press CY - Penzance, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Furniture of Life’s Ambition” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a William Morris of the future who is bound to a company producing fact versions of food but then he establishes a firm to produce high-tech furniture.

JF - Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hope Y1 - 1990 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia develops on a ship that was intended to take people to a new life, but which is still traveling after five years.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sceptre, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Inheritors” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The story is set in a future Wales experiencing the effects of climate change and with a failed economy and a non-functioning government. The story focuses on a small community that has become successfully self-supporting with the help of an astral being from another planet. 

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Keepers of the Peace Y1 - 1990 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Much adventure but includes a dystopia of warring nations on a future Earth.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land Beyond Y1 - 1990 A1 - Gill[ian] Alderman (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Anthropological science fiction presenting a remnant of the people of the far north who are kept in city in the ice working for their captives. The arrival of the Democratic Travelling Circus brings ferment.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Grafton, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mackenna’s Patch” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia with extreme rich versus poor divisions.

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Many Lives Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Claud] Geoffrey [Rowden] Chavasse (1920-1995) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Mostly romance and political novel but set in a future New Zealand of racial harmony and good Asian relations that is dealing successfully with its environmental problems.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Matter of Survival" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Separation of the sexes as dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 40 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Threads" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Barry Hines (1939-2016) ED - Michael Mangan KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting in detail the effects of nuclear war on Sheffield, England. The television film with a running time of 112 minutes was first broadcast on BBC 2 on September 23, 1984, produced and directed by Mick Jackson. It was nominated for five BAFTA awards and won five of them.

JF - Threads and Other Sheffield Plays PB - Sheffield Academic Press CY - Sheffield, Eng. SN - 9781850751403 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Y1 - 1990 A1 - Louis De Bernières (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Consistently listed as a utopia (e.g., DLC lists it as a utopia under subject), but no actual fictional utopia is described. A potentially eutopian community begins to emerge at the end of the novel, but it is not developed in any detail. His Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1991. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 and his The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1992. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 include some more mention of the potentially eutopian community. The dystopian reality of recent South American history is depicted.

PB - Martin Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998. U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Armageddon Crazy Y1 - 1989 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future United States religious dystopia.

PB - del Rey CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Thunder Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with a low birthrate because most men are infertile, and the development of children with unusual talents who could lead to a solution.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story a man wakes up in a new version of Heaven where everyone gets the Heaven they want. The Old Heaven was found to be out of date, and Hell had never existed but been invented as a useful rhetorical device. Now Hell exists only for those who want it to exist and is an obvious fake. Bored after a few centuries of getting just what he wants, the man decides to want to dream that he wakes up alive again and does.

JF - A History of the World in 10½ Chapters PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 279-307. Rpt. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 298-307.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of This Day's Business Y1 - 1989 A1 - Katharine Penelope [Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia. Sex role reversal, but more complex than most. Women in power and intelligent; men are strong, immature, and kept uneducated because male violence in the twentieth century brought about the situation that required the women to take power. One woman decides to tell her son why this situation came about. 

PB - Feminist Press of the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Eye in Paradise" Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Raymond] Brosnan (1947-2005) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World divided between the extremely rich who can create their own eutopias and the poor who live in a polluted, overpopulated world with rampant inflation.

JF - Interzone (Brighton, Eng.) VL - no. 27 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Free Zone: Volume One of the Epic Unilogy Y1 - 1989 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex, humorous eutopia and dystopia.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Island Paradise Y1 - 1989 A1 - Kathy Page (b. 1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A future in which war has been averted, rigid controls on population growth have been put in place, and people are required to die on schedule.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Minerva, 1990. The chapter entitled "The Lens" was originally published as "From Two Women in a Boat (Work in Progress)." Writing Women 4.3 ([1988?]): 8-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Travails of Jane Saint" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1980 Saxton in which men are again dominant.

JF - The Consciousness Machine. Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Adventures of Jane Saint PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Dollar. A Novel Y1 - 1989 A1 - Marianne Wiggins (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel has some resonances with 1954 Golding except with girls rather than boys, with the girls on an isolated after an earthquake destroys the boats they arrived on and kills the adults, except for one man who is badly injured and paralyzed. 

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Perennial Library, 1990. U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Largest Theme Park in the World Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on European union. When the single currency is created all Europeans move to the Mediterranean resorts and refuse to return until non-Europeans start to move in to their abandoned properties.

JF - The Guardian N1 -

Rpt. in his War Fever (London: William Collins Sons, 1990), 73-80; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1139-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love in a Colder Climate" Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, sex is made compulsory as part of national service for virgins.

JF - Interview Magazine N1 -

Rpt. as “Love in a Cold Climate.” Observer Magazine (July 16, 1989): 36-37, 39, 40; as “Love in a Colder Climate.” In his War Fever (London: Collins, 1990): 65-72; and in The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1124-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Men's Room" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal story.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 29 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mirror Maze Y1 - 1989 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and struggle to create a eutopia of freedom. Irish author.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mothers of Maya Dip Y1 - 1989 A1 - Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Matriarchy with problems. Feminist humor.

PB - Women's Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mr Smith's privatised penis" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The concluding chapter of an attack on the failure to fully implement the welfare state and the bureaucratic inefficiencies of what was put into place. A dystopia showing how privatization would be worse.

JF - Mr. Bevan's Dream PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London VL - Chatto Counterblast No. 9 U1 -

On cover Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophers Y1 - 1989 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia that is contemporary Britain.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skreemer Y1 - 1989 A1 - Peter Milligan (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Graphic novel dystopia of gangsters and terrorists set thirty-eight years after the fall of New York City.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in six issues in 1989.

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Illus. Brett Ewins (1955-2015) and Steve Dillon (1962-2016). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stark Y1 - 1989 A1 - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia set mostly in Australia. In a future of environmental collapse, the rich are shipping goods into space so that they can leave the Earth and the poor who cannot leave.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Transfer Station Y1 - 1989 A1 - Russell Haley (1934-2016) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A connected series of short stories presenting an ecological dystopia. A part of the coast has been destroyed for the convenience of a refuse station, which pumps waste into the sea, which has killed all marine life, and the fumes from the station have killed most of the plant life in the area. France controls New Zealand, and New Zealanders are expected to speak French. Youth despair and the suicide rate is high.

PB - Nagare Press CY - Palmerston North N1 -

Rpt. with minor corrections in A Spider-Web Season & The Transfer Station: Two Story Sequences (Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2000), 126-86. Three of the stories were previously published--“Ash.” Landfall 167 42.3 (September 1988): 232-33; “Out on the Coast.” Metro 9.91 (January 1989): 106-07, 109; and “The Preacher.” Landfall 167 42.3 (September 1988): 228-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Undermining the Central Line Y1 - 1989 A1 - Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) A1 - Colin Ward (1924-2010) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The first chapter (1-8) is a decentralized eutopia set in 2051 emphasizing the revival of village life. The other chapters reinforce the eutopia by looking at various examples of successful decentralization with considerable discussion of the bad examples of centralism that currently exist.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London VL - Chatto CounterBlasts no. 7 SN - 0-7011-3598-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopian Y1 - 1989 A1 - Michael Westlake (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future tale of a new age, sexually free eutopia. The novel presents the eutopia through the point-of-view of someone living in the eutopia and the point-of-view of his psychotherapist, who sees the eutopia as a reflection of mental illness.

PB - Carcanet Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - WHOM Y1 - 1989 A1 - Matthew Francis (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

WHOM is the gigantic computer system that dominates and completely controls the activities of the White House. Surreal dystopia.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abandonati Y1 - 1988 A1 - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future tale of cities given over to the homeless.

PB - Unwin Hyman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atlantis: Centre international culturel, scientifique, politique et économique a Tenerife Islas Canarias/International Centre for Culture, the Sciences, Politics and Economics at Tenerife Islas Canarias Y1 - 1988 A1 - Léon Krier (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Architectural eutopia which includes designs and commentary plus essays by Maurice Culot, "Une ile/An Island" (5-14); Demetri Porphyrios, "The Meaning of Atlantis et sa signification" (15-16, 20-22); and Frank Werner, "Atlantis une nouvelle culture en gestation/Atlantis a new Urban Culture in Gestation" (87-90, 91).

PB - Archives d'Architecture Moderne CY - Bruxelles, Belgium U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Homogenous to Honey." Y1 - 1988 A1 - Neil [Richard] Gaiman (b. 1960) ED - Alan Moore KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Graphic story depicting the destruction of difference, particularly differences in sexual preference, and the creation of sameness, with all people alike.

JF - AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia) PB - Mad Love CY - Northhampton, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Future Is Queer. Ed. Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006), 112-15; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 107-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genesis: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1988 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about the terraforming of Mars and the conflicts it engenders with a mild dystopia as background.

PB - Saybrook Publishing Co CY - Dallas, TX ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greenland Y1 - 1988 A1 - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two act play. The first act presents contemporary Britain almost as a dystopia. The second act is set seven hundred years in the future in an apparently anarchist eutopia. The author describes it as the culmination of his attempts to create a utopia on the stage, preceded by Sore Throats (first performed in 1978 at the Royal Shakespear Company's Warehouse Theatre in London), available in his Sore Throats & Sonnets of Love and Opposition (London: Eyre Methuen, 1979), 5-31; and with the subtitle "An Intimate Play in Two Acts" in his Plays: One (London: Methuen, 1986), 337-90; and Bloody Poetry. London: Methuen, 1985 (first performed in 1984 at the Foco Novo Theatre in Hampstead, England).

PB - Methuen in association with the Royal Court Theatre CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Happiness Y1 - 1988 A1 - Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A satirical tour of a modern Heaven by a young woman, her dog, and her pet cockroach, who immediately escapes. Heaven is overcrowded and full of people who had hoped for more from Heaven. The young woman, Sumdy (Somebody) interviews many of the occupants in search of her guardian angel. Includes extended satires of universities and other institutions and social practices. 

PB - Collins Harvill CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henceforward. . . Y1 - 1988 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Offstage in the background is a near-future dystopia of violence. Most of London is dangerous and people live with armed security guards and some of London are "no-go" areas controlled by local gangs.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kairos Y1 - 1988 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Corporate dystopia--U.K. Ltd. Pollution.

PB - Unwin Hyman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Orbit Y1 - 1988 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex future dystopia where many people lived fantasy lives and robots did their work for them. The novel focuses on a man who lived the fantasy of being a detective in the 1940s but is hired to be a detective in the real world of corporate conflict.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Exit Funtopia. London: Sphere, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scudder's Game Y1 - 1988 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Radical reduction in population based on a device that weakened sperm while giving control over one’s orgasm. Behind the eutopia created is a dystopia that controls the social system.

PB - Kerosina Books CY - Worcester Park, Surrey, Eng. U2 -

Illus. Keith Roberts

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sykaos Papers: Being An Account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim in the Seventeenth Galaxy; of his Mission to the Planet Sykaos; of his First Cruel Captivity; of his Travels about its Surface; of the Manners and Customs of its Beastly People; of his Second Captivity; and of his Return to Oitar. To which are added many passages from the Poet's Journal, documents in Sykotic script, and other curious matters. Selected and Edited by Q, Vice-Provost of the College of Adjusters Y1 - 1988 A1 - E[dward] P[almer] Thompson (1924-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rational dystopia contrasted to dystopian earth. While the latter is generally preferable, it destroys itself.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War Against Chaos Y1 - 1988 A1 - Anita [Frances] Mason (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia. An authoritarian company in growing conflict with an authoritarian government. There are also Marginals who live outside the system.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Woman Who Was God Y1 - 1988 A1 - Francis [Henry] King (1923-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction about a religious intentional community depicting the conflicts taking place within it. 

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy 1989-2000 Y1 - 1987 A1 - Peter Jay (b. 1937) A1 - Michael [James] Stewart (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian future history showing the effects of poor policy choices made in all the major countries into the collapsing world that they produce. There is an index..

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Balmoral Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The 1917 revolution had taken place in Britain rather than Russia and now, in 1937, Britain is a Soviet Republic. The play is set in Balmoral Castle, which is now a State Home for Writers.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Mrs. Noah Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michèle [Brigitte] Roberts (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopian fantasy that also includes a future dystopian chapter. A modern woman brings the Ark into existence and undertakes a voyage in which five sybils each create different worlds for themselves and tell stories about women of the past, and the woman who brought the Ark into existence visits islands that reflect on the human condition. The Ark is also visit by a man who says he is the voice of God and expects the women to listen to him.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Minerva, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Brazil" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Terry Gilliam (b. 1940) A1 - Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) A1 - Charles McKeown (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Screenplay of the famous 1985 dystopian film directed by Terry Gilliam.

JF - The Battle of Brazil PB - Crown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Budspy Y1 - 1987 A1 - David Dvorkin (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternate future in which the Nazis won World War 2.

PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Child In Time Y1 - 1987 A1 - Ian [Russell] McEwan (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia as a background.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crying in the Rain” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) ED - Christopher [D.] Evans (b. 1951) ED - Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which, as a result of pollution, few people life beyond twenty-five and girls are bred at an early age.

JF - Other Edens PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 887-96 with an editors’ note on 886.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Wall Y1 - 1987 A1 - Graham Dunston Martin (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Soviet controlled Britain as a dystopia.

PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of Leaving Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian, isolated small town as a dystopia.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Endgame Enigma Y1 - 1987 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Soviet space colony seemingly a utopian experiment.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Expecting Someone Taller Y1 - 1987 A1 - Tom [Thomas Charles Louis] Holt (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An innocent Englishman gets the ring and the Tarnhelm of the Niebelung (the magic helmet in Wagner’s Ring) and controls the world. He produces a eutopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Macmillan, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Her Story Y1 - 1987 A1 - Dan Jacobson (1929-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

The bulk of the novel is set in Biblical times, but the frame is set in a future Britain that is a conservative Islamic country presented as not particularly good or bad. There is also a section on a future dystopian religious intentional community.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London U5 -

PPIU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King Awakes Y1 - 1987 A1 - Janice Elliott (1931-95) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Arthurian sword and sorcery set within a post-nuclear war dystopia. A sequel is The Empty Throne. Illus. Grahame Baker. London: Walker Books, 1988 in which the protagonist of the first volume travels, with his family and Arthur, to the Isles of the Blest.

PB - Walker Books CY - London U2 -

Illus. Grahame Baker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kisses of the Enemy Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia. Much of the novel follows the political career of the first President of the Republic of Australia, who seems to be primarily interested in power for its own sake. Wealth dominates Australia. Corruption. Drugs. Other strands follow individuals, including the President's wife and child, those political dependent on him, a growing opposition movement, and figures from Australia's past.

PB - Penguin Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Knights of God Y1 - 1987 A1 - Richard [Fairhurst] Cooper (1930-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a failed Britain where the economy has ground to a halt. There is a dictator whose rule is enforced by the Knights of God. There is a growing movement against the dictatorship and much of the novel is concerned with that. 

PB - Lions CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Makers Y1 - 1987 A1 - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which children are taken to a castle, called the Keep, and trained as warriors.

PB - Viking Kestrel assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mind Players Y1 - 1987 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which one can enliven one's life by acquiring neuroses or even a whole new personality but being actually insane requires a license. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Includes her “Variations on a Man.” Omni 6.4 (January 1984): 68-70, 110-12, 114-16. Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 769-81 with an editors’ note on 768. U.K. edition as Mindplayers. London: Victor Gollancz, 1988. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1989.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night Walk" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Capitalist dystopia in an England occupied by an unidentified foreign power with reactionary policies. Some discussion of resistance/revolutionary tactics.

JF - The Night Walk and Other Stories PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reparations Y1 - 1987 A1 - Gordon Wardman (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future Britain generally in collapse.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to Shangri-La Y1 - 1987 A1 - [Robert James] Leslie Halliwell (1929-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A sequel to 1933 Hilton that is mostly adventure but with a search for and discovery of Shangri-la, which is presented as a eutopia in much the same terms as in the original. 

PB - Grafton CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rules of Life Y1 - 1987 A1 - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Near future satire. New religion can communicate with the dead.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sanctity" Y1 - 1987 A1 - R. M. Lamming ED - Christopher [D.] Evans (b. 1951) ED - Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia controlling all aspects of life that the protagonists believed had stopped enforcing its laws. 

JF - Other Edens PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sexual Chemistry" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Developments in biochemistry aimed at sexual prowess result in a vaguely described eutopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 20 N1 -

Rpt. as “A Career in Sexual Chemistry.” In his Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution (London: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 21-41. 

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Temporary King” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story a mother is telling her child about growing up in an enclave established by the Marginal Cultures Council (MCC) which was a traditional agricultural community with traditional gender roles and no technology. None of the inhabitants (three generations are depicted) know that there is an advanced technological society nearby. After it is revealed, many leave for the city.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 72.1 (428) N1 -

Rev. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 23-49 with an author’s note on 425. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Fingers in Utopia" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Philip Sidney Jennings ED - Trevor Jones ED - George P. Townsend KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Eutopia of love and ease is maintained by individuals experiencing a dream of past ugliness.

JF - Dream Magazine VL - no. 11 N1 -

Rpt. in A Book of Dreams: An Anthology of the best SF from ‘DREAM’ and ‘NEW MOON’ 1985-1987. Ed. Trevor Jones and George P. Townsend (Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambs., Eng.: Weller Publications, 1990), 38-44. 

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C, CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Torch Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jill Paton Walsh (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which most civilizations have disappeared, and people live in small settlements scratching a living. The novel focuses on two young people forced to marry who are passed on the last Olympic torch and try to return to its home. 

PB - Viking Kestrel CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winston Three Three Three Y1 - 1987 A1 - Dennis [Malcolm] Barker (1929-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2089. The Imperial Russian Empire rules Britain.

PB - Grafton CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Before Yesterday Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history including a fascist Britain.

PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Contains his “The Impossible Smile” first published in a different form under the pseudonym Jael Craken in Science Fantasy 23 - 24.72 - 73 (May – June 1965): 5-43, 5-44. Rpt. in SF Reprise 6 (1966): 5-43, 5-44; and “Equator” first published in New Worlds Science Fiction 25.75 - 76 (September - October 1958): 4-41; 80-121; and as Vanguard from Alpha. New York: Ace Books, 1959. Ace Double bound with Kenneth Bulmer’s The Changeling Worlds

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HRC, Merril, MoSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And He Not Busy Being Born. . . ." Y1 - 1986 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian/dystopian society of the future. Virtually immortal people remain children physically, know no difficulties. Story is about a man from the past who is revived.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 16 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019. A Day In the Life of the 21st Century Y1 - 1986 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke ed. [written by] (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although Clarke gives credit to a number of people for their contributions, this is not an edited collection. Presented as a series of predictions, but the general effect is so positive that it can be called a eutopia.

PB - Grafton Books CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ballad of Halo Jones Y1 - 1986 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - Ian Gibson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cartoon series. Includes a dystopia near New York where all the unemployed are sent.

PB - Titan Books CY - London VL - 3 vols. U2 -

Ian Gibson

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Corpse Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia. Corporate control with corporations fiercely competitive, to the extent of putting arranging to have competitors killed. Large scale permanent unemployment. Lots of violence, conflict among groups struggling for power.

PB - New English Library CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Vickers. New York: Ace Books, 1988.

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U.S. ed. as Vickers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape Plans Y1 - 1986 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia for elites; effectively slavery for the rest. See also 1985 Jones.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last War Y1 - 1986 A1 - Martyn Godfrey (1949-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set after a nuclear war. 

PB - Collier Macmillan CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada N1 -

US ed. Illus. Greg Ruhl. New York: Collier Books/Macmillan, 1989. 91. pp. 

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Illus. Greg Ruhl

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MiDW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Less Than Human Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Charles] [Platt] (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor set in a future New York City dystopia. The main character is a flawed robot.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U3 -

Robert Clarke [pseud.]

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MoU-St, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man for the Job Y1 - 1986 A1 - Laurie Graham (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Humor. Future dystopia of violence and human degeneration as the setting.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin, 1988.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reichs-Peace" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) ED - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Germany wins World War II, but Eva Hitler survives and moderates its aggressiveness.

JF - Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II PB - Garland CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 172-90. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Settlement Y1 - 1986 A1 - Russell Haley (1934-2016) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. New Zealand being taken over by its military. The novel focuses on an old man living in a hospital complex and observing the activities around him; thus, the developing dystopia is largely in the background except for times when it directly affects his life.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Part originally published as "The Middle of the Mere." Landfall, no. 155 (39.3) (September 1985): 269-88.

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ATL, IU, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Songs of Distant Earth Y1 - 1986 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a description of a eutopia of abundance.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

The first version of what became the novel was published as “The Songs of Distant Earth.” If. Worlds of Science Fiction 8.4 (June 1958): 6-29. This was rpt. in Science Fantasy 12.35 (June 1959): 99-128; in his The Other Side of the Sky (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1958), 207-45; and in his From the Ocean, From the Stars (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962), 295-320. A second version was published as a short movie outline in Omni 12.3 (September 1981): 77-79, 132; and rpt. exp. with an introduction (291-93) in his The Sentinel: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy Illus. Lebbeus Woods (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 295-99 and illus. on 294. 

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Staring at the Sun Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel traces the life of a woman from her childhood to old age (99), much of it in her own voice. The last section (139-97) is set in a future that has seen a revolt of old people demanding respect after a spate of Old People’s Suicides taking place outside the official voluntary euthanasia system. This is a very small part of the novel, with most of the third section reflections on death and religion through the eyes of her son, who is in conversation with the General Purpose Computer, then the supposedly more advanced, The Absolute Truth computer.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 0224024140 0-394-55821-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 197 pp. 

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taronga Y1 - 1986 A1 - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in Australia. The catastrophe, which is not described, has left people fighting to survive and turning to cannibalism. Taronga, which is the Sydney zoo, looks like a food source to some but others protect the animals. At the end, after an epic battle, the animals are freed and move out into the countryside as do the central characters, a girl and a boy.

PB - Viking Kestral CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988.

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L, NZ, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time-Slip Y1 - 1986 A1 - Graham Dunston Martin (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dystopia.

PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Triad Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Some elements of a gender-role reversal as background to the novel.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watchmen Y1 - 1986 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - Dave [David Chester] Gibbons (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based around the actual events of the period but with superheroes being suppressed by the government but also used by the it. A film, Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, directed by Zach Snyder, was released in 2009. An HBO series  created by Damon Lindelof (b. 1973) was broadcast in nine episodes beginning October 20, 2019.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York VL - nos. 1-12 N1 -

Rpt. in one vol. New York: DC Comics, 1987; and as Watchman. The Deluxe Edition. New York: DC Comics, 2013.

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Dave [David Chester] Gibbons (b. 1949), illustrator.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wickwyn: A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1986 A1 - Robert Van de Weyer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A religious eutopia based on revived village life. The book presents the history of England up to the 1980s and then projects a future in which, while technology made it possible to eliminate economic insecurity, automation put people out of work. This led to a movement to the countryside and the revitalization of village life. 

PB - SPCK CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Baaa Y1 - 1985 A1 - David Macaulay (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A picture book that describes the world after all humans have disappeared and sheep wander into town and gradually take on all the characteristics of humans with dystopian results. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between the Strokes of Night Y1 - 1985 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In 2010 the human race on Earth has been killed off in nuclear war and survives only in small colonies in space, but these humans expand further into space. The second part of the novel is set in 27,698 and deals with the colonized planets, particularly Pentecost, which comes into contact with a race of space-faring immortals with a faster than light drive, and much of the novel is hard SF concerned with the technology.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broad Sunlit Uplands" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Technological advances make it easier for the government to control people, but there is also a culture of violence that attracts people and requires a large police and private security presence.

JF - New Outlook (New Zealand) VL - no. 16 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Dust Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult post-nuclear war novel and the revival of human communities.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Government in Exile" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) ED - David King ED - Russell [Kenneth] Blackford KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence and class division. A completely collapsed system in which everyone has quit trying, and the unemployed are killed for sport and food. 

JF - Urban Fantasies PB - Ebony Books CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 25-36; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 326-34.

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A, ATL, M, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infinity's Web Y1 - 1985 A1 - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

One woman at different times and places including the present world, a world of apparent sexual freedom, a dystopian world of great scarcity, and a dystopia in which the Third Reich rules where the woman is a sorceress.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inside Babel Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Andrew James] Wilson (1948-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Wilson with the emphasis on the humor and various failed projects to control people and technology.

PB - Chatto & Windus. The Hogarth Press CY - London U3 -

Snoo Wilson [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intersection" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) ED - Jen Green ED - Sarah Lefanu KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia which the protagonist sees as an ideal world. The author calls this story a preview of her 1986 Jones.

JF - Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind; An Anthology of Original Stories PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kool Running" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Revolt against a world dominated by computers. See the note at 1980 Collins.

JF - Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - [no. 26] N1 -

Rpt. in SF International (also called International Science Fiction) (Los Angeles, CA), no. 1 (January 1987): 47-54; and in his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 39-48.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Letters from Hav Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jan Morris (1926-2020) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Description of a visit to an imaginary country, which the author says was intended to reflect her lack of understanding of the countries she had visited and the changes they were undergoing. The country has both eutopian and dystopian elements.

PB - Viking CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in her Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav and Hav of the Myrmidons (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), 1-187.

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lover from Beyond the Dawn of Time" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Begins with a highly organized eutopia,but shifts to a horror story.

JF - The Power of Time PB - Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Maggot Y1 - 1985 A1 - John [Robert] Fowles (1926-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a fictional background of the parentage of Ann Lee (1736-84) of the Shakers but includes a short description of heaven as a eutopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1986.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New World: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1985 A1 - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe eutopia/dystopia set 400 years in the future in which both fossil and nuclear fuels have been exhausted, many people have been killed in pogroms aimed at the middle class and others have left Earth altogether. The U.S. has divided into old cities that dominate the remaining suburbs, whose inhabitants are slaves, fundamentalist religious areas, and the Free Counties, which are under attack. 

PB - Princeton University Press CY - Princeton, NJ SN - 0-691-06641-8 N1 -

An excerpt was published in Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias. Ed. Kim Stanley Robinson (New York: Tor, 1994), 215-28.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Outlines for Urban Fantasies" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Michael Wilding (b. 1942) ED - David King ED - Russell [Kenneth] Blackford KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia presented in a series of vignettes about a future of fear and violence.

JF - Urban Fantasies PB - Ebony Books CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Silence in Having Words: Purple" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that tries to control all aspects of life.

JF - The Power of Time PB - Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Millennium: A History of the World: AD 2000-3000 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) A1 - David [Rowland] Langford (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

History of the future that reads as a technological eutopia after the period of crisis between 2000 and 2180.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War Plays. A Trilogy Y1 - 1985 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following a nuclear war in which, in the first two plays, life becomes violent and dangerous with people generally isolated. In the third play a small beginning is made toward rebuilding human contact.

PB - Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 2024 Report; A Concise History of the Future 1974-2024 Y1 - 1984 A1 - Norman [Alastair Duncan] Macrae (1923-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Christian, libertarian, technological eutopia that traces the process of change from the present to the eutopia. The changes and the impact of the eutopia is shown through biographies. 

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The 2025 Report: A Concise History of the Future 1974-2025. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1985. x + 258 pp.

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother in the Land Y1 - 1984 A1 - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-nuclear war dystopia designed to demonstrate to the readers that such circumstances will be truly horrifying.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. with an "Afterword" by the author. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1986. U.S. ed. New York: Holiday, 1985.

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Greening of Mars Y1 - 1984 A1 - Michael Allaby (b. 1933) A1 - James [Ephraim] Lovelock (1919-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly about the terraforming of Mars, the trip to Mars by immigrants, and their initial adjustment to the new planet, but the main protagonist,  briefly presents Mars in eutopian terms. All manual work performed by robots. Everyone is vegetarian. Every book and article ever published on Earth is available electronically. Growing social diversity. No guns. Very limited crime. Lovelock was the founder of the Gaia theory that Earth is a living entity.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984.

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L, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Amazon Y1 - 1984 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1968 Chandler in which women are born and Amazons emerge on the planet New Sparta that was originally all men. John Grimes is instrumental in defeating the Amazons. Graham Stone in his Australian Science Fiction Bibliography (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 2004), 11 says that its working title was Find the Lady.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Natfact 7 Y1 - 1984 A1 - John [Kimberley] Tully (b. 1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although originally published as for young adults, this is a fairly standard dystopia and revolt. In this case the dystopia turns out to be better than the goal of the revolt.

PB - Methuen Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. [London]: Magnet, 1987.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Protectorate Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a deep division between the rich and the poor but with all under aliens.

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spaceache Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Andrew James] Wilson (1948-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor describing the dystopia of a collapsing economy and corruption brought about by the technology for freezing people. See also 1985 Wilson.

PB - Chatto & Windus. The Hogarth Press CY - London U3 -

Snoo Wilson [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Theatre of Timesmiths Y1 - 1984 A1 - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. City frozen in ice controlled by a small group of authoritarian leaders. The novel is about the ultimately successful struggle to escape.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trauma 2020: Book 1 Urban Prey Y1 - 1984 A1 - Peter Beere (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence with constant war in Europe. The second volume Trauma 2020: Book 2 The Crucifixion Squad. London: Arrow Books, 1984 is a dystopia of violence in a collapsed future Britain. The third volume Trauma 2020: Book 3 Silent Slaughter. London: Arrow, 1985 continues the same themes.

PB - Arrow Books CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The True Story of Lilli Stubeck Y1 - 1984 A1 - James [Harold Edward] Aldridge (1918-2015) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel that discusses a character's belief in utopia and its effects on him and his friends. 

PB - Hyland House CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin, 1985.

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vail Y1 - 1984 A1 - Trevor Hoyle (b. 1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia in which toxic waste is deliberately dumped by the government on the overpopulated areas of England. London is an enclave for the rich and powerful.

PB - John Calder/Riverrun Press CY - London/New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Abacus, 1989.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What To Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide Y1 - 1984 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) A1 - Jon Manchip White (1925-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Cataloged in libraries as non-fiction, and while that is clearly what the authors intend, it depicts the dystopia that would ensue after a successful Soviet invasion of the United States as it would impact the day-to day-lives of Americans. The last bit of advice is that such an invasion occurs is BURN THIS BOOK.

PB - Stein and Day CY - New York SN - 0-8128-2985-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Byrds" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which is about people who use technology, such as anti-gravity belts, to emulate birds, is set in a future with restrictions on population size that encourages the elderly to be euthanized. The Department of Rest establishes how much the population has to fall and sends out a monthly brochure Your Choice for Peace to senior citizens with a form in which that are asked to “describe all that is good about their life, and a few of the things which bug them. At the end of the form is a box in which the oldster indicates his preference for Life or Peace. If he does not check the box, or if he fails to complete the form, it is assumed that he has chosen Peace, and the send the Wagon for him” (189). This is a very small part of the story. 

JF - Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis. An Anthology of Speculative Fiction About Startling Metamorphoses, Both Psychological and Physical PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 188-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calling all Gumdrops" Y1 - 1983 A1 - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sixties adults become children while Seventies and Eighties children and advanced computers take on adult roles. Presented generally positively.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Y1 - 1983 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The last of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 (2) and 1982 Lessing. This volume is a satire on the power of emotion, particularly as reflected in speech, to overwhelm reason. A Canopean is infected with "undulant Rhetoric" and treated in the Hospital for Rhetorical Diseases. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Futuretrack 5 Y1 - 1983 A1 - Robert Westall (1929-93) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of a highly computerized system run by an elite. The dystopia is controlled by the Techs with a middle class desperate to avoid even the slightest hint of dissent, and a lower class living in extreme poverty and violence. The novel ends with the computer discovering ethics and morality.

PB - Kestrel CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. London: Collins Voyager, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1983?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Golden Witchbreed Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mary [Rosalyn] Gentle (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Although mostly an adventure novel, it includes one society that can be called eutopian that lives in telestre or a group of 50 to 500 living together on the land and supporting themselves.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, O, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Harvest of Wolves" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Mary [Rosalyn] Gentle (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia of fundamentalist religious suppression that chooses whether someone can live with limited government support or is transferred to a Welfare Camp, where they are unlikely to live long. 

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.12 (72) N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 114-22.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ice Belt Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Stephen] [Gallagher] (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to his 1978 Dying of Paradise. This novel continues the dystopia of the previous one, but it focuses on an alien invasion. 

PB - Sphere CY - London U3 -

Stephen Couper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kelly Country Y1 - 1983 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history describing an Australian war of independence that followed from the Australian icon Ned Kelly not being killed. Eutopia and dystopia with Australian ending up being successfully invaded by various countries.

PB - Penguin Books with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

The stories “Kelly Country.” Void Science Fiction and Fantasy (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), [no. 3 (1976)]: 63-73; and “The Way It Was.” Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 2] (March/April 1981): 54-57; 125-27 are the basis of the novel. “Kelly Country” has been rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 166-80. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1984), 166-180. “The Way It Was” has been rpt. as “A New Dimension.” In his Up to the Sky in Ships (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1982), 69-86, which is bound with Lee Hoffman, In and Out of Quandry (1982). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night Operation Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia set in the 22nd century in which people have fled underground into the sewer system to escape from terrorist attacks. Rock is played constantly over loudspeakers. The people have forgotten history and focus almost entirely on their biological lives with the Three Rs replaced with the Three Es (ejaculation, defecation, and eructation). Language has lost many words. No marriage or the family. 

JF - Towards VL - 2.4 - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Jeanne Clayton Hunter and Thomas Kranidas with an afterword by Owen Barfield (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 129-72; and separately as Night Operation. [Shinfield, Eng.]: Barfield Press UK, 2008. 2nd ed. [San Raphael, CA: Barfield Press, 2009. The book has a hagiographic “Introduction” by Jane Hipolito (ix-xii). 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rape of Shavi Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Florence Onye] Buchi Emechta (1944-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The novel portrays the conflict between a eutopian tribal society and the first white people they come into contact with. The eutopia is destroyed.

PB - Ogwugwu Afor Co., Ltd./Umuezeokolo CY - London/Ibuza, Nigeria N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: George Braziller, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rates of Exchange Y1 - 1983 A1 - Malcolm [Stanley] Bradbury (1932-2000) KW - English author AB -

Satire on contemporary Eastern Europe through the imaginary country of Slaka. Continued in his Why Come to Slaka? London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1986; rpt. London: Arena, 1987, which is a guidebook to Slaka.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Arena, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Albion Y1 - 1982 A1 - Brenda Vale KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A post-catastrophe eutopia focusing on village life with limited power sources, the revival of crafts, a rebuilt and extended canal system, and community decision-making. Not romanticized, but generally a good life. One emphasis is the sustainable architecture. 

PB - Spindlewood CY - Barnstaple, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Our Tomorrows Y1 - 1982 A1 - Ted [Theodore Edward le Bourthillier] Allbeury (1917-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a Russian occupied Britain. People choose the system to correct the faults of the current situation, which includes daily violence, and to avoid the collapse of the country. Some resistance.

PB - Granada CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Y1 - 1982 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The fourth of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also, 1979, 1980 (2) and 1983 Lessing. This novel presents the coming destruction of Planet 8 as it enters a terminal ice age and the positive way the people respond to the crisis. An opera with music by Philip Glass was created based on the novel and premiered in Houston, TX in July 1988. The libretto was published as Philip Glass and Doris Lessing, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. An Opera in Three Acts. Based on the Novel by Doris Lessing. [Bryn Mawr, PA]: Dunvagen Music Publishers, 1988.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eye of the Queen Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Describes a very complex, truly alien society that is in some ways eutopian. The residents of Pe-Ellia are asexual, telepathic, and live in a world in which the whole planet is alive. They go through seven stages of development, each of which produces new markings on their skin. The goal is to achieve symmetry in the last stage. They reproduce through the Queen, who appears to be an alien from a different world, and they also return to her in death.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jenny Ewing Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atomic war and shelter dystopia.

PB - Centaur CY - Fontwell, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. as Jenny, My Diary. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manshape Y1 - 1982 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An Interstellar Bridge connects all the human worlds that had up to that point been isolated, but one world, Azrael, initially refuses to be connected. It has a unique social organization that does not value existence, and when connected it tries to export its beliefs to other worlds.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version originally published as "Bridge to Azrael." Amazing Stories 38.2 (February 1964): 6-78. Rpt. as Endless Shadow. New York: Ace Books, 1964. Ace Double bound with Gardner F. Fox, The Arsenal of Miracles (1964). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Tapestry of Time Y1 - 1982 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship. See also 1978 and 1981 Murry. This volume resolves issues of the previous two and leads to the recognition of interdependence.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Futura, 1986. 

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Heinz Jakov] [Landwirth] (1927-2007) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents a satire on the present in the form of a weird, fantastic, imaginary country. It begins on a dystopian ship crewed by murderers and psychopaths where the passengers are required to do all the work and are robbed and murdered. Then the ship sinks, and the protagonist makes it to the island of the Enu, who seem to be half human and half baboon in apparently separate species and have a odd affinity for birds that occupy nests on men's heads.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London U3 -

Jakov Lind [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - V for Vendetta Y1 - 1982 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - David Lloyd (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Graphic novel depicting a corrupt, totalitarian regime in England being resisted by a superhero.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York N1 -

Books 1 and 2 “Vertigo” and “Vincent” published in the U.K. in Warrior in 1982 and 1983. Published in U.S. as V for Vendetta, nos. 1-10 (1987-1988). Collected ed. New York: DC Comics, 1989. Rev. exp. ed. New York: DC Comics, 1990. Rpt. New York: DC Comics, 2005.

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Illus. David Lloyd.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Very British Coup Y1 - 1982 A1 - Chris[topher John] Mullin (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The left wins an election, and the establishment works to overthrow it. A sequel is The Friends of Harry Perkins. London: Scribner, 2019 that is primarily a political novel set in the dystopia that Brexit has produced with a potential war between China and the U. S. in the background.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Corgi, 1988; and London: Politicos, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voyage From Yesteryear Y1 - 1982 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth had established colonies of children in the Alpha Centuri system and decades later sent adult colonists and an army to take control. The first group and established a libertarian eutopia and had no intention of being taken over by the new one. The book won the Prometheus Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Baen, 1999. U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1984.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anarch Lords Y1 - 1981 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel shows the attempt to bring law and order to an anarchist (in its negative sense) world.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Castaways of Tanagar Y1 - 1981 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A planetary eutopia that freezes its outcasts (criminals and dissidents). With the rediscovery of Earth and the plan to explore it, the outcasts become necessary and so some are brought back to life. The eutopia, Tanager, is composed of Intellectuals, who dominate, Hedonists, and Pragmatists, who occupy a middle ground between the other two.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Control of Violence by mass tranquillisation 1981-2001" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Paul Western (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mass tranquillization is used by the Riot Protection Squad to control and prevent violence. Presented positively. At the end it is suggested that the next step will be introducing mood improving drugs into the water to reduce tension, and specifically to improve race relations. Won the British Association of Young Scientists/New Scientist essay competition for 1981.

JF - New Scientist VL - 91.1268 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Kinship Y1 - 1981 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship. See also 1978 and 1982 Murry. In this volume, the secular power tries to destroy the religious heresy known as Kinship, but a new age is developing.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U. S. New York Pocket Books, 1981.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Entropy Tango: A Comic Romance Y1 - 1981 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia and suggestions of eutopia. Alternative history using some characters from the Russian Revolution, like Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein 1879-1940) and Nestor Makhno (1889-1935).

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

MoSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gor Saga Y1 - 1981 A1 - Maureen [Patricia] Duffy (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about a boy whose mother was a gorilla set in a class divided dystopia controlled by computers.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hello America Y1 - 1981 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The United States had collapsed in the past and an expedition of rediscovery finds it inhabited with a wide variety of dystopian societies.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Islanders Y1 - 1981 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which an isolated island with a rule that no outsiders will be allowed has to deal with the disruption caused by two young people saving the lives of two other young people from outside.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng.: N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1981.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Loved Morlocks: A Sequel to 'The Time Machine' As Narrated By the Time Traveller Y1 - 1981 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

H.G. Wells's time traveler returns to the future and discovers a people descended from the Morlocks. They have created a society similar to ancient Sparta, where he chooses to stay. On his first trip he had inadvertently killed most of the Eloi and the original Morlocks, who had no immunity to diseases he carried. Includes a report by the Morlocks on the first trip. 

PB - Hyland Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U2 -

Illus. Steph Campbell

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Song of Phaid the Gambler Y1 - 1981 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Complex future fantasy with dystopian elements.

PB - New English Library CY - London N1 -

U.S. edition in two vols. as Phaid the Gambler. New York: Ace Books, 1986; and Citizen Phaid. New York: Ace Books, 1987. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sons of Light Y1 - 1981 A1 - [James] David Rudkin (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian play set on an isolated island in the Atlantic where there have been experiments on humans.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Market, to market" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of cannibalism.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 95-96. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - While there's HOPE Y1 - 1981 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Plan to achieve world peace through the voluntary exchange of hostages.

PB - Keepsake Press CY - Richmond, Surrey, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ¡Abracadabra! Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Cyril] Wolf Mankowitz (1924-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of a depressing welfare state and its mistreatment of the elderly as background to a novel about alchemy and magic.

PB - Gill and Macmillan CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ashkenazia” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Clive [John]] Sinclair KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on culture and politics. Yiddish is the national language of Ashkenazia, but all the authors are desperate to be translated into English, The point-of-view character is one of those authors. Corrupt politics, and the Prime Minister is desperate to conclude a deal with Hitler for Ashkenazia’s uranium deposits. Much of the action takes place at a writers’ conference.

JF - Encounter VL - 55.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Bedbugs (London: Alison & Busby, 1982), 113-22; rpt. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 113-22. and in his For Good or Evil: Collected Stories (London: Penguin, 1991, 238-248.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp" Y1 - 1980 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) ED - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a technological world which tries and fails to make humans feel useful.

JF - Interfaces PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The second of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume cross zone marriages bring together opposites. An opera with music by Philip Glass (b. 1937) was created based on the novel with the libretto by Lessing. The first performance was in German in Heidelberg May 10, 1997, trans. Saskia M. Wesnigk. The first performance in English was June 7, 2001, in Chicago. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments. The Report by Ambian II, of the Five Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume Ambian II, a Sirian bureaucrat, is used by the Canopeans to introduce the Sirians, who believe themselves the superior beings, to higher ways. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daymare Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Sir] [Thomas Willes] [Chitty] [3rd Baronet] (1926-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Britain collapses and produces a dystopia, which the novel shows in its effect on a village.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U3 -

Thomas Hinde [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gardens of Delight Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia based on the Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) painting, The Gardens of Earthly Delights, which is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The novel has three sections similar to the triptych, the Gardens, which open and close the novel. Hell, and Eden. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Timescape, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island. A Male Chauvinist Comedy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - James Saunders (1925-2004) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Men seemed to have died out and women reproduce without them. Three young sisters have been placed on an idyllic isolated island to live a new and better life. They long for something they can't identify, and then some men show up.

JF - Bye Bye Blues and Other Plays PB - Amber Lane Press CY - Ambergate, Derby, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Philosophy of Love Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Roy Victor] [Wallace] (1927-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia called Many Waters of about 2,000 people based on agriculture and light industry. Calls it a commune. Common meals. Has its own school. A lot of New Age healing. The second edition is illustrated. The author says that an alternative title could be The Way to Utopia.

PB - Author CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia SN - 9780959368017 9780959368000 N1 -

Rev. ed. illus. Fold-out map. Brisbane, QLD: Love Publications, 1982. 61 pp.

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Roy Victor Love [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Hair Y1 - 1980 A1 - [David] [Higginbottom] (1923-2016) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia. A future population bred to be peaceful cannot themselves have children and a breeding program using people stolen from the past is started.

PB - Kestrel CY - London U3 -

Nicholas Fisk [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riddley Walker Y1 - 1980 A1 - Russell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia describing the society that has developed in England, which is presented as a primitive but complex society. The novel is presented as written by a member of the society, Riddley Walker, and is in the language that is used by the society.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Summit Books, 1980. Exp. ed. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998, with two illus., an “Afterword” (223-27), “Notes” (229-31), and a “Glossary” (233-35) by the author. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Russian Hide-and-Seek; A Melodrama Y1 - 1980 A1 - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the U.K. overrun by the U.S.S.R.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tetrarch Y1 - 1980 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory/fantasy depicting a number of eutopias and dystopias based loosely on various mythologies and William Blake (1757-1827) in particular. Verula is an evil city with high technology and a repressive culture and represents the contemporary world. The central eutopia, Los, is a sexually free, cooperative society. There are appendices of "The Losian Religion As Expounded by William Blake," Losian Grammar, examples of the Losian Script, and a Losian Vocabulary. 

PB - Shambala/Random House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That's No Way to Treat a Fairy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Fitzgerald, Luchia KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia. The Leprechauns ruled the small people enslaving some their own people, the workers, and the fairies, and the women were treated worst of all. A women's revolution brings about communities of mixed men and women, all men, and all women, which is presented as a eutopia within the post-revolutionary eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Travails of Jane Saint Y1 - 1980 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins with Jane Saint being sentenced to total reprogramming in an isolation chamber for being a revolutionary, which, in the context, means an advocate for women’s liberation. The novel then follows her “experiences” during the period she is in the chamber, experiences that center around a quest to free women. Much fantasy, with talking dogs, one of whom is named Merleau-Ponty, after the French philosopher; a friendly, supportive demon; a witch; a shaman; and so forth. See also 1989 Saxton, which is a sequel.

PB - Virgin Books CY - London N1 -

Part previously published as "Jane Saint's Travails." Amazons! Ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson (New York: DAW Books, 1979), 107-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under Plum Lake Y1 - 1980 A1 - Lionel Davidson (1922-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian fantasy set in Egon, a world under the sea that evolved separately from the world above and has advanced further both technically and psychologically. The protagonist is a thirteen year old boy.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

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Illus. Muriel Nasser.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk on the Wild Side" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence set in Sydney.

JF - Ad Astra (London) VL - no. 13 (3.13) N1 -

Rpt. as “A Walk on the Wild Side.”in The Cygnus Chronicler: An Australian Review of Science Fiction and Fantasy (West Ryde, NSW, Australia) 3.1 (7) (December 1980): 4-5; and as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81. Ed. Alan Lawson (Toowoomea, QLD, Australia: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1982), 98-104; as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC. Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 1-11.

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Rpt. as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Govern ment in Exile and other stories.

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Trans. as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24;

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Benefits Y1 - 1979 A1 - Zoë Fairbairns (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist dystopia. Government encourages and then forces women to stay home and care for their families. It then tries to control conception by requiring contraception and later putting a contraceptive in the water. This causes major fetal damage and creates the beginnings of a backlash.

PB - Virago CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an "Introduction" by the author (i-iv) Nottingham, Eng.: Five Leaves, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brats. A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1979 A1 - R[onald Henry Glynn] Chetwynd-Hayes (1919-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. The Brats are the sub-human creatures who hunt in packs, kill everything, and are the dominant life form.

PB - William Kimber CY - London U5 -

Merril, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. Re: Colonised Planet 5. Shikasta. Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days Y1 - 1979 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The first of five volumes detailing the history and future of earth and other zones. See also 1980 (2), 1982, and 1983 Lessing. The Canopeans are the most advance beings and watch over others, interfering from time to time, not always successfully. Colonised Planet 5 appears to be Earth. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fight for Manod Y1 - 1979 A1 - Raymond [Henry] Williams (1921-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the novel, which is the part excerpted by Milner, describes a plan to transform an area of Wales from a backwater into a substantial, thriving community. The rest of the novel concerns the difficulties of doing that.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

London" Hogarth Press, 1988. An excerpt was published in Tenses of the Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia. Ed. Andrew Milner. Ralahine Utopian Studies 4 (Oxford, Eng,: Peter Lang, 2010), 215-30, with an editor’s introduction (215-16). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love Siege Y1 - 1979 A1 - Tom [Donald] Wakefield (1935-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future authoritarian dystopia. In 1983 "political" meetings of any sort are forbidden, with even school staff meetings having to have a government official in attendance. Nonconformists are killed. But there is successful resistance.

PB - Routledge & Kegan Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Utopia Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter [Christopher] Milward [S.J.] (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia structured like More's Utopia with two parts. The first part is a factual journal of his trip with Japanese friends to Bruges, Belgium to visit the area where More was when he began writing Utopia. The second part (40-68) is a eutopia that contrasts the real Japan with a eutopian version that centers on religion and simplicity.

PB - Aratake Shuppan CY - [Tokyo] N1 -

The first two parts were published as In Search of Historic Britain. [Tokyo, Japan]: Aratake Shuppan, 1978; and In Search of More's England. [Tokyo, Japan]: Aratake Shuppan, 1978.

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The cover adds Journal of a Journey: Part III.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the City of the Sun Y1 - 1979 A1 - Isabel [Diana] Colegate (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about the history of an intentional community from the 1930s to 1970s. The members have divergent views of what eutopia will be like and how to bring it about.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Lady of Desperation" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. After a revolution in the U.K. in which the Civil Service becomes dominant a four class system is established. Class A (the Civil Service and other powerful people) pays no taxes and classes B and C pay taxes at the rate of 60 and 70 percent respectively. Class D, the focus of the story and composed "anybody on whom the suspicion of creativity falls" (21) is supposed to pay at the 70% rate, but an error in the law allows them to make considerable incomes. In response the government assigns a minder to every individual in Class D to oversee all their activities.

JF - Ladies From Hell PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out There Where The Big Ships Go" Y1 - 1979 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through a galactic game that was brought back to a ravaged Earth from a distant eutopian planet. Having reached the planet humans were then allowed to play the Game, which was the route to the next step in human evolution.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 57.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Out There Where The Big Ships Go (New York: Pocket Books, 1980), 9-37; and in The 1980 Annual World's Best SF. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha (New York: DAW Books, 1980), 217-45.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution Island Y1 - 1979 A1 - Julian [Charles] Fane (1927-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialists take power and establish an authoritarian dystopia. The novel ends with a the dystopia being overthrown. Anti-socialist and anti-trade union.

PB - Hamish Hamilton and St. George's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sixth Winter Y1 - 1979 A1 - Douglas Orgill (b. 1922) A1 - John Gribbin KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change (new ice age) dystopia. 

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

PPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unlimited Dream Company Y1 - 1979 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly fantasy but the setting has utopian elements.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web Y1 - 1979 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is primarily science fiction, but it focuses on a planned utopian community to be established on an island in the South Pacific.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U3 -

John Wyndham [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windows Y1 - 1979 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1974 Compton which begins with the final words of the previous book. The reporter, who blinded himself in the previous book as the only way to stop broadcasting, becomes involved in a plot, which is ultimately defeated, to overthrow governments.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1985 Y1 - 1978 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the book (13-102) is an analysis of Nineteen Eighty-four. The rest (103-219) is a fairly typical anti-labor dystopia--Tucland [TUC = Trades Union Congress]--but including an attack on Arab interests in the U.K. The book also includes "A note on Worker's English" (221-26/499-504 in the reprint) and "Epilogue: an interview" (227-40/505-18 in the reprint).

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 283-518 and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

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Anthony Burgess [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Sensation." Y1 - 1978 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Alice Laurence KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Far future dystopia. Humans spend life drugged and dreaming, being fed experiences in pill form. They are maintained by aliens, and apparently humans had already chosen this way of life before the aliens arrived to colonize the planet.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on a Biological Communism that has created Homo Uniformis (Man Alike Throughout). They live in a flawed utopia (no passion, violence, or doubt) and meet primitive descendants of Homo Sapiens on the planet Lysenka II, named after Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Joseph Stalin's director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1981. A story entitled "Enemies of the System" was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 54.6 (325) (June 1978): 5-65. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ennead Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jan Mark (1943-2006) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel set on a desolate planet where the human race is creating a new dystopia. At the end there is a revival of hope.

PB - Kestrel CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Crowell, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Feelies Y1 - 1978 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future where the rich spend their lives in electronic private fantasies or "feelies" as described in Huxley's Brave New World (1932). The poor drink, drug and watch TV. The danger for the rich is that the feelies can break down.

PB - Big O Publishing CY - London N1 -

Rev. ed. New York: del Rey, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King of Hell Y1 - 1978 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A penal colony planet controlled by an apparently eutopian world (Elysium) is a dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Rose of Summer Y1 - 1978 A1 - Stephen Gallagher (b. 1954 KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with governmental control through computers that provided everything to the people except freedom. See also 1983 Gallagher.

PB - Corgi Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Long Walk to Wimbledon Y1 - 1978 A1 - H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating (1926-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which extensive fighting has broken out in London, which lays in ruins as the conflicts continue. The novel focuses on one man who must navigate his way across the devastated city.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Motel Architecture" Y1 - 1978 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where everyone lives isolated from each other. Machines do most work, with TV repair one exception.

JF - Bananas VL - no. 12 N1 -

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 178-94; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 989-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Sexual Containment Act. Chairman: Michael Schofield. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales by Command of Her Majesty, October 1984 Y1 - 1978 A1 - Michael [George] Schofield (1919-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia under a law to control "excessive" sexual activity. Members of the Committee include Mr. Leopold Bloom and Mrs. Winston Smith.

PB - Davis-Poynter CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road to Corlay Y1 - 1978 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia set in a post-catastrophe future with the beginnings of both a new Enlightenment and a reformed religion. First volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship; see also 1981 and 1982 Murry.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York N1 -

The "Prologue. Piper at the Gates of Dawn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 50.3 (298) (March 1976): 4-51 is rpt. in the U.S. editions (11-73) (Book Club ed. 1-58), but not in the U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1978.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - SS-GB: Nazi-occupied Britain 1941 Y1 - 1978 A1 - Len [Leonard Cyril] Deighton (b. 1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background of the novel is the Nazi dystopia as reflected in the title.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 978-0241505526 N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2021. U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Suicide of Man" Y1 - 1978 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia proves only a staging ground to an apparently higher existence.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of John Brunner (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 239-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Ways" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Men (no women were on the ship) return to Earth after a long trip to find it entirely under five dystopias. After a new ice age and two nuclear wars, most people live underground and there are constant wars among the dystopias, Corporatia, Socdemaria, Communia, Neutralia, and Third World. Widespread poverty and few human rights. The men end up in different countries, but their situations are much the same, except for one who moves to Zealandia, a colony of Australia, where he becomes a colonial boss. The others return to space.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his New Arrivals, Old Encounters: Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 25-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Awakening Water Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Geoffrey Robins] [Crosher] (1911-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which people are kept in line with drugs. A young man escapes to a democratic eutopia.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Hastings House, 1979.

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G. R. Kesteven [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colossus and the Crab Y1 - 1977 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Last volume of the Colossus series. See 1966 and 1974 Jones. In this volume the Martians propose to remove half of Earth's oxygen to use on Mars. After many adventures a reactivated Colossus produces a better plan acceptable to both Earth and Mars.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Confessions of Josef Baisz Y1 - 1977 A1 - Dan Jacobson (1929-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Standard totalitarian dystopia as background to a autobiography of a man living in the dystopia and successfully rising within it.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Tower" Y1 - 1977 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) ED - Walter Hooper KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia of an evil society. Posthumously published incomplete story in which Ransom of the space trilogy appears. See 1938, 1943, and 1945 Lewis. 

JF - The Dark Tower and Other Stories PB - Collins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Wessex Y1 - 1977 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents a future (2135-37) after a series of earthquakes has destroyed much of Britain, and it is a Soviet state, generally presented neutrally. Wessex is an island off the coast that is a holiday resort where many of the rules of the mainland do not apply and, as a result, it attracts many tourists from the Islamic North America. The focus of the novel is on two individuals projected to the future Wessex from the mid-1980s who choose to stay there.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drinking Sapphire Wine Y1 - 1977 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A group leave the domed cities described in 1976 Lee and establish a community in the desert. Initially attacked by the cities, they are eventually left alone and begin the process of living a life without robots, body and sex changes, and with the possibility of permanent death.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 169-370.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earth Again Redeemed. May 26 to July 1, 1984 on this earth of ours and its alter ego. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - Martin [Burgess] Green (1927-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two alternative future dystopias set in 1984. One is post-nuclear catastrophe and the other is a world of seventeenth century colonial attitudes facing a religious war in Africa. Contact occurs between the two and both are changed.

PB - Basic Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the second subtitle. London: Sphere Books, 1979.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empty World Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult pandemic dystopia.

PB - Hamilton CY - London SN - 0241897513 0-525-29250-0 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. 134 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horsemen" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A simple, agricultural eutopia is destroyed by people from Earth. The people are closely in tune with their planet, vegetarian, live in marriage groups, and have rich inner lives. The arriving Earth ship releases the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death) on the planet.

JF - Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. as "New Arrivals, Old Encounters." In his New Arrivals, Old Encounters. Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 9-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intensive Care Unit" Y1 - 1977 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all live isolated, meeting in person is illegal, with meetings of families particularly prohibited, and all communication is by television. The story focuses on a man who chooses to meet his wife and children in person, and they kill each other.

JF - Ambit VL - no.71 N1 -

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 195-205; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 946-52; and in a separately paged section entitled “P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . .” (1-18) at the end of the reprint of his High-Rise (London: Harper Perennial, 2006), 2-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Molly Zero" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which all children are raised together in single sex groups. One girl revolts, escapes, and experiences life on the outside.

JF - Triax: Three Original Novellas by James Gunn, Keith Roberts, Jack Vance PB - Pinnacle Books CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Expanded into his Molly Zero. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nightwatch Y1 - 1977 A1 - Andrew M[ichael] Stephenson (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and intrigue. Authoritarian dystopia set in 2006 with the Earth near collapse and aliens arriving.

PB - Futura CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dell, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Passion of New Eve Y1 - 1977 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a man's travel across a disintegrating U.S., beginning with a violent New York City where African Americans blow up Columbia University and are building a wall around Harlem and women are attacking men. In the West he is captured by a women's group, who surgically turn him into a woman. Escaping he is captured and mistreated by various groups.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Please Don't Shoot the Trees" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) ED - Giles Gordon KW - English author KW - US author AB -

Horror tale based around a future of extreme pollution in which the cities have been abandoned to the poor. Nature fights back.

JF - A Book of Contemporary Nightmares PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Realms of Tartarus Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A technological eutopia built above a polluted earth and the dystopia on the surface where humans, animals, and plants had evolved into a myriad of new species.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

The first section had originally been published as The Face of Heaven. The Realms of Tartarus Volume One. London: Quartet, 1976 as the first of an intended three volumes. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Right Hand of Dextra Y1 - 1977 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Background of dystopian Puritan society but includes a eutopia of humans transformed into centaurs. A non-utopian sequel is The Wildings of Westron. New York: DAW Books, 1977.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shack at Great Cross Halt" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia focusing on an isolated group of people living next to a major highway but completely disconnected from the larger world. The focus characters had escaped from the dystopia, and the story ends with the beginning of a fight back against the dystopia.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 30 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 54-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Good Between Us Y1 - 1977 A1 - Howard Barker (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia created in the U.K. by a Labour government.

JF - Gambit: International Theatre Review VL - 8.31 N1 -

Rpt. in That Good Between Us. Credentials of a Sympathizer (London: John Calder, 1980), 1-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - They: A Sequence of Unease Y1 - 1977 A1 - Kay [Kathleen Elsie] Dick (1915-2001) KW - English author KW - Lesbian author KW - Swiss author AB -

The unnamed narrator lives on the Sussex Coast in an undefined future and describes life as everyone is menaced by a mysterious “they” who are enforcing conformity and the erasure of cultural memory by destroying books and art and killing those who resist. Anyone living alone, “they” see as reflecting an individualism that must be eliminated. “They” approve of children’s cruelty.

PB - Allan Lane CY - London SN - 9780571370863 978-1946022288 N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber, 2022, with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. 107 pp. U.S. ed. New York: McNally Editions, 2022, with an Afterword by Lucy Scholes (103-112), parts of which originally appeared as “A Lost Dystopian Masterpiece” in The Paris Review (August 13, 2020). https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08/13/a-lost-dystopian-masterpiece/ 112 pp.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ulster and Its Future After the Troubles Y1 - 1977 A1 - Michael [Steven] Sheane (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Non-fiction that ends with a chapter "Postscript Ulster: Its Future After the Troubles" (153-72) that projects the situation in 2000 after Britain has withdrawn from Northern Ireland and a federal Ireland is established. Quite modest in its ideas.

PB - Highfield Press CY - Stockport, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds for the Grabbing Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brenda Pearce (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

As befits the title, the novel is about the corrupt system of colonization and the exploitation of other planets. The main character has too-high ethical standards for the system.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London SN - 9780234720400 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alteration Y1 - 1976 A1 - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia. Alternative history set in 1976 in which a Pope rules England from his seat in Yorkshire. No Reformation. No science.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Collector’s Edition illus. Debbie Hughes with an “Introduction” by Brian W. Aldiss (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Rpt. New York: New York Review of Books, 2013 with an “Introduction” by William Gibson (vii-x).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anarchy Pedlars Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Christopher John] [Portway] (1923-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia created by the future revival of a cult of assassins.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

John October [pseud.]

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Merril, NLS, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Eden Y1 - 1976 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in the overpopulation dystopia of Earth, and then moves to a planet being settled to offload population. The people have been told that it is Edenic, but it is in fact extremely dangerous, and then the aliens attack.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Broken October: New Zealand 1985 Y1 - 1976 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The New Zealand government in 1985 is a military dictatorship, which violently puts down a revolt. New Zealand, in cooperation with the South African authorities, institutes a pass system for Maori. The U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the U.S. government are involved to ensure access to New Zealand's mineral wealth and the use of New Zealand troops as needed. See also his plays Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and "Whites of Their Eyes" (1975), both of which came from this novel as it developed but before it was published.

PB - A. H. & A. W. Reed CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Concrete Horizon Y1 - 1976 A1 - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--future over-organized urban monads are failing. Pressure grows from agricultural complexes. Disaster.

PB - Millington Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Decibels." Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) ED - Alan Durband KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia where noise is a constant. To have a child, someone must die with voluntary euthanasia encouraged, and there are regulations on how much space a person can occupy.

JF - Prompt Three: Five short modern plays PB - Hutchinson of London CY - London U5 -

AzU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don't Bite the Sun Y1 - 1976 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about being a teenager in a future world designed to be eutopian with robots doing the work in domed cities and where you can die and be brought back and change your body type and your sex at will. The teenagers see the eutopia as deeply flawed. See also 1977 Lee.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1987; and in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 1-167.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Florians Y1 - 1976 A1 - Brian M[ichael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First of the six volume Daedalus Mission series in which the purpose of the Daedalus is to contact colony planets to find out what has happened and help if needed. The first planet contact, Floria, appears idyllic society, but the Planners have created an unequal society by limiting knowledge. The second volume is Critical Threshold. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 160 pp. In it, a colony that should have thrived has collapsed. The third volume is Wildeblood's Empire. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 192 pp. This colony, originally called Poseidon, has become an apparently thriving empire named after leader. Of course, the reality is different, and it is actually an authoritarian dystopia. The fourth volume, set on the planet Arcadia is The City of the Sun. New York: DAW Books, 1978. 189 pp. U.K. ed. London: Hamlyn 1980 had modelled its system on Tommaso Campanella’s (1568-1639) La Città del Sole (1611) but with changes that made it more dystopian than eutopian.  The fifth book is set on the planet Attica Balance of Power. New York DAW Books, 1979. 173 pp. and concerns a failing human colony, and its interactions with an alien colony also on the planet. The final volume, Paradox of the Sets. New York: DAW Books, 1979. 176 pp. is set on the Planet Geb where humans have enslaved what appears to be a semi-intelligent native population. All volumes are concerned with both the ecology of the planets and the forms of society established.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hotel De Dream Y1 - 1976 A1 - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A series of conflicting dreams by people living in a boarding house take on reality and merge. Some of the dreams are eutopian or dystopian; e.g., one is of an ideal city and one is of Amazonian women. Also, the characters in a novel being written by one of the tenants come to life.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man With Two Memories Y1 - 1976 A1 - J[ohn] B[urdon] S[anderson] Haldane (1892-1964) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with a stress on psychoanalysis and drugs to control both the mind and body. Two-thirds of the children are clones who are chosen by the society for desirable characteristics with the other third being normal births.

PB - Merlin Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missa Privata" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist dominated Britain. Poor, dull, drab, and with a dominant military. White party members are fairly free.

JF - New Worlds PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 173-98.

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SFF, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vision 1-6" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist utopia described in six illustrations with brief notes and some with captions. The visions are of a collectivised garden, a basement workshop, an autonomous village, an autonomous terrace, a community workshop, and a community media centre. Strikingly, the only people shown working are women, and Colin Ward comments on this saying, “Note that the last male chauvinist is sulking in the corner. The women have taken over the shop” (133/Why Work 153). 

JF - Undercurrents. Radical Technology PB - Wildwood House CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1976), 48-49, 94-85, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29. Rpt. in a different order as foldout plates in Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. Ed. Vernon Richards (London: Freedom Press, 1983), 149-54, with commentary by Colin Ward  rather than the original description.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Young Tom" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which one can get a "life credit" permitting the birth of a child on the death of a relative.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (29) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Comet Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Jane Francis] [Brady] (1934-85) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. After a catastrophe, there has been a growth of violence and an authoritarian system. Population severely depleted. Books banned. Domestic animals have become wild.

PB - Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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Jane White [pseud]

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GU, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electronic Lullaby Meat Market Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Barry] Spencer (1944-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Authoritarian dystopia with brainwashing through musak.

PB - Quartet Books CY - London U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - End Product Y1 - 1975 A1 - Barry [Leslie] Norman (1933-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A grim satire on race relations in which a black, African hominid becomes an edible herd animal.

PB - Quartet Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Freeway: A Play in Two Acts Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Nichols (b. 1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia which the author says should not be compared to the classic dystopias, involving a massive traffic jam where people have to live for an extended period in their cars and motor homes. Set in a violent future where roads other than the freeways are not safe. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rev. in his Plays: One (London: Methuen Drama, 1991), 407-510, with an introduction by the author (409-11); and London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grimus Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Something of a metaphysical adventure novel with science fiction elements. The main society described is labeled "utopian" (186) because it functions on a basis of rough equality and with no money.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heavens Below: Fifteen Utopias" Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Series of short utopias gone wrong. Some are jokes rather than serious comment.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - High-Rise Y1 - 1975 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence within an apartment block.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2006 with an added, separately paged section at the end entitled "P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . ." (1-18), which includes 1977 Ballard (2-10).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch Y1 - 1975 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Society where personal slavery has replaced imprisonment for certain crimes.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.

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U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Creature Come Y1 - 1975 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Borderline young adult novel in which society is divided into Persons, who rule and are indulged, and Creatures, who revolt with the assistance of two young people from the colony of Persons.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Creatures. New York: J.B. Lippincott. 1980.

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U.S. ed. as The Creatures.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ministry of Children" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The negative effects of the establishment of large, general schools in Britain. Violence, illiteracy. The setting is an overpopulated future but that is not a focus.

JF - New Worlds PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 86-126. SFF,

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morrow's Ants Y1 - 1975 A1 - Edward [Solomon] Hyams (1910-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. An industrialist applies his knowledge of ant colonies to human workers and develops a new community on the same principles. Set in Wales.

PB - Allen Lane CY - London U5 -

DLC PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Multiface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Picture of a controlled society of the future that is presented as a eutopia, albeit with problems. See also 1971 and 1972 Adlard.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pessimist Utopia Y1 - 1975 A1 - Theo Crosby (1925-94) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A plea for small is beautiful, individuality.

JF - Pentagram Papers 2 PB - Pentagram Design CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to the Gate Y1 - 1975 A1 - William Corlett (1938-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

1975 Corlett, William [Harold] (1938-2005). Return to the Gate. London: Hamish Hamilton. U.S. ed. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1977. NZ

A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Settling the World" Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd utopia in which god has been found behind the moon and brought back to Earth, where what appears to be a eutopia of peace, plenty, and security develops. But god is an immense beetle, which no one notices, and beetles are replacing humans in positions of authority.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Best SF: 75. The Ninth Annual. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), 126-53; and in his The Ice Monkey and other stories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 59-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shockwave Rider Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex dystopia that has an embedded eutopia opposed to the dystopia. The focus of the dystopia is on a program to identify geniuses, particularly among orphans and other children who can be taken without being noticed. They are then educated and trained (brainwashed and conditioned) to develop their particular bent so as to be most useful to the system. One man uses his talent with computer systems to escape, although much of the novel follows him as his memories are searched after he is captured. The eutopia, called Precipice, is a small town with advanced, ecologically sensitive architecture, a radically decentralized political system, and an egalitarian population. The man, who again escapes, uses his talents to save Precipice from attack by the government.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day Y1 - 1975 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The military takes over New Zealand after a revolt by young Māori against both pākehā and their elders who have accommodated to a system based on prejudice and discrimination. The politicians dither and conspire against each other, and the U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) offers “its usual support” to the military dictator, who will shortly be replaced in a coup by younger officers. See also his 1975 “The Whites of Their Eyes” and his Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1976). 

PB - A. H. & A. W. Reed CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1981. 

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ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Get For Your Dollar" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whites of Their Eyes" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future violent conflict between Māori  and Pākehā. See also his Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1985).

JF - Act VL - no. 26 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wooden Centauri: A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - Paul [Raymond] Drennan (1949-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A far future authoritarian dystopia in which many planets are under one government with a law that prohibits any knowledge of the past. Two people from the past arrive and change begins to take place.

PB - Elmfield CY - Morley, Eng. U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "You Get Lots of Yesterdays, Lots of Tomorrows, and Only One Today" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all everyone sleeps except for one supposedly perfect day.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (26) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Albion! Albion! Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Reginald Charles] [Hill] (1936-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence. England without a Parliament and with football/soccer hooligans in control. The country has been broken up into four districts representing four football/soccer clubs.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 1986. Rpt. under the author's name as Singleton's Law. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 1997.

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Rpt. under the author's name as Singleton's Law

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Dick Morland [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bitter Pill Y1 - 1974 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of generational conflict in which individuals are classified as a "Senior Citizen" at 45 and given the "choice" of voluntary euthanasia or working in an Australian forced labour camp or a Martian penal colony. Mars is being developed to take Earth's excess population. A revolt on Mars frees the people to build a new life there with no compulsory retirement, but the ending suggests that Mars faces an uncertain future of conflicts over power.

PB - Wren CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Developed from his "The Bitter Pill." Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.9 (June 1970): 52-63.

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centauri Device Y1 - 1974 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The world is divided between the Israeli World Government and the Union of Arab Socialist Republics, with the Earth destroyed at the end. A contrasting anarchist planet is presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Churchill Play, As it will be performed in the winter of 1984 by the internees of Churchill Camp somewhere in England Y1 - 1974 A1 - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

England as an authoritarian dystopia in 1984 with a concentration camp.

PB - Eyre & Methuen CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Class War Comik Number 1 New Times Y1 - 1974 A1 - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Intended to be the first of six issues, but no more were published. In this issue, the people in a rural anarchist intentional community are completely disengaged from politics and only interested in themselves as individuals so that little work gets done, and the work that gets done is not necessarily what is needed.

PB - Epic Publications CY - London N1 -

New ed. as Class War Comix No. 1.  Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Enterprises, 1979.

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MiU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Y1 - 1974 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Media dystopia in which a reporter has his eyes replaced with TV cameras which transmits everything he sees. His first assignment is to film Katherine Mortenhoe’s death in a world where disease no longer exists, and the title of the TV series is “The Unsleeping Eye”. A film entitled Death Watch directed by Bernard Tavernier (b. 1941) was produced in 1980.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an "Introduction" by Susan Wood (v-xix); as Death Watch. London: Magnum Books, 1981. U.S. ed. as The Unsleeping Eye. New York: DAW Books, 1974. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1980; and under the original title New York: New York Review Books, 2016 with an “Introduction” by Jeff Vandermeer (vii-xii). .

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of Colossus Y1 - 1974 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Sequel to 1966 Jones. See also 1977 Jones. In this volume the computer Colossus has ended war but uses its power to control all human activity. A successful conspiracy disables Colossus with help from Mars.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

New York G.P. Putnam's Sons_

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inverted World. A Novel Y1 - 1974 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily a science-oriented science fiction novel, but the social setting is an authoritarian, controlling dystopia.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: New York Review Books, 2008 with an “Afterword” by John Clute (315-22). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Country House Murders Y1 - 1974 A1 - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memoirs of a Survivor Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

PB - The Octagon Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noah’s Castle Y1 - 1974 A1 - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world with a collapsing economy with extreme inflation, based on Post-World War I Germany. The novel focus on a man who hoards non-perishable goods to protect his family while causing problems for others.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pale Invaders Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Geoffrey Robins] [Crosher] (1911-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe novel presenting a simple, agricultural society in eutopian terms. When girls are of an age to have children, they enter the "Parent's House" together with the boy of their choice, as long as he agrees. The Pale Invaders are outsiders who are searching for coal to use in re-starting the technology that brought about the catastrophe. The novel ends with the notion that this time it can be done better.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1976.

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G. R. Kesteven [pseud.]

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Game Y1 - 1974 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The planet Pharos is a paradise with no conflict, and the novel focuses on the conflict between those who want to package it for profit or conserve it. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1976. 158 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Simple, Edenic eutopia as setting for the sexual coming-of-age of twins.

JF - Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces PB - Quartet Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her The Collected Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats. Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995), 58-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ramparts" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A pastoral eutopia that is vegetarian, democratic, and completely peaceful has always sent its eccentrics and antisocial people into the surrounding forests and forgotten them. The forest people return and kill the inhabitants one of the towns.

JF - Universe PB - Random House CY - New York VL - 5 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, 1976), 165-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rats Y1 - 1974 A1 - James [John] Herbert (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which rats destroy civilization but ultimately appear to be defeated. His Lair. London: New English Library, 1979. U.S. ed. New York: New American Library, 1979 (PSt) is a sequel where the rats return. His Domain. New York: Signet, 1985 is a post-nuclear war story where the survivors have to fight rats that thrive on radiation (CU-Riv).

PB - New English Library CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: New American Library, 1975. A graphic novel version is The City: The Rats Saga Continues.... London: Pan Books, 1994. Ellipses in the original. Illus. by Ian Miller. Lettered by Judy Balchin. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web of Everywhere Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia based on instant transportation to anyplace. The novel focuses on a man who visits places he is not supposed to visit.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1977.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Jack Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel set in 23rd century England in which an authoritarian dystopia is contrasted with an outlaw culture.

PB - Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

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John Christopher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter's Children Y1 - 1974 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a new ice age in a small community threatened by cannibals and telepathic Pads controlled by a single man.

PB - Gollancz CY - London SN - 0-575-01851-8 N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere Books, [1976].

Parts originally published as “Discover a Latent Moses.” Illus. Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) Galaxy Science Fiction 30.1 (April 1970): 32-53, 158; and “The Snow Princess.” Illus. Uncredited. Galaxy Science Fiction 31.2 (January 1971): 28-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aftermath 15 Y1 - 1973 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia after a nuclear war with the U.S. divided into red, blue, and white zones based on exposure to radiation. Those released from the red to the blue become slaves as do those released from the blue to the white. The white zone includes a huge city, over a mile high which is an overpopulation dystopia except for those at the top. Outside the city is a gold zone for the elite of the elite. Described as the first volume of a trilogy and ends in a manner that requires a continuation, but no evidence can be found of later volumes.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anti-Zota Y1 - 1973 A1 - Eric [Alexander] Burgess (1912-95) A1 - Arthur [Henry] Friggens (b. 1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia for some, dystopia for others. Long-lifers versus short-lifers.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cloud Walker Y1 - 1973 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe society that has abolished machinery and has achieved a good life. Story of a boy who dreams of flying and invents an air ship that brings the eutopian world closer together.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

GU, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crash Y1 - 1973 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--sex and technology.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Triad/Panther, 1985. This ed. includes Ballard's "Introduction to the French Edition of Crash (1974)" (5-9). U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Friends Come in Boxes Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with control of access to immortality. The dystopia that is produced by an usual means of achieving immortality that requires the brains of the immortals to be kept in boxes until the body of a baby is available to receive it. But, with immortality available, few babies are born. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Wall of Mexico" Y1 - 1973 A1 - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. 1971 Waskow is probably the basis for this.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York SN - 06-011046-5 N1 -

U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-58. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Gene Y1 - 1973 A1 - Peter [Malcolm de Brissac] Dickinson (1927-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia in which Apartheid has been designed to exclude all Celts, who are literally green. The humor is directed both at the English and at the Celts and the Irish in particular.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon, 1973. Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart Clock Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Reginald Charles] [Hill] (1936-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which life expectancy is controlled by the government depending on what the economy can bear.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. under the author's name as Matlock's System. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 1996.

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Rpt. under the author's name as Matlock's System

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Dick Morland [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Square Root of MC" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes, briefly, a eutopia of peace and plenty on Earth brought about by aliens.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (22) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone That Never Came Down Y1 - 1973 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia with very strict rules regarding behavior that is also racist. The novel focuses on the spread of a drug that radically improves sense impressions and raises awareness that undermines the dystopia and sets the stage for a better society.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweet Dreams Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. A typical, upwardly mobile middle-class man dies and goes to a typical, upwardly mobile middle-class heaven.

PB - William Collins Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1986. U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Planet. A Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. The novel begins with Earth near death from pollution and war. Mars is to be the next center of human civilization, but it experiences the same problems as Earth. Far in the future the remnant of humanity exists in a society of 10,000 underground on the tenth planet where it is under a static, religious, but benevolent dictatorship that provides a good life for its inhabitants but severely restricts change. A man from the time of the dying Earth is cloned and becomes the focus of conflict and encourages conflict. At the end, he and some others leave to see if Earth can be revived.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Texts of Festival Y1 - 1973 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the remaining civilized community is surrounded by barbarians. The civilized community's gods are past rock stars.

PB - Hart-Davis, MacGibbon CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Alien Heat Y1 - 1972 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World where each individual has control over matter which produces a eutopia of a balanced, loving society. Continued in The Hollow Lands. New York: Harper & Row, 1974; U.K. ed. London: Hart Davis MacGibbon, 1975, which is not a utopia. Other non-utopian titles in the series are The End of All Songs. London: Harper & Row, 1976; Legends from the End of Time. New York: Harper & Row, 1976; U.K. ed. London: W.H. Allen, 1977; and The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. London: W.H. Allen, 1977; U.S. ed. as A Messiah at the End of Time or the Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. New York: DAW Books, 1977. A story was published as "Ancient Shadows: A Tale of the Dancers at the End of Time." New Worlds 9. Ed. Hilary Bailey (London: Corgi Books, 1975), 48-119.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London VL - Vol. 1 of The Dancers at the End of Time. N1 -

Rpt. as part of the Michael Moorcock Collection. Ed. John Davey. With The Beginning at the head of the title. London: Gollancz, 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Century of the Manikin Y1 - 1972 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society that is non-violent, and has heavy drug use and free sexuality, but there is underground sadism.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Millington, 1975.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empire of Two Worlds Y1 - 1972 A1 - Barrington J. Bayley KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of changeless authority as background. U.K. author.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1974. Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1979.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of His Tether Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Martin] [Fehr] (1905-78) KW - English author KW - German author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people, with major genetic damage, fall back into a very simple, poor life. Partially set in Australia, which has survived marginally better than Europe and is rebuilding faster.

PB - Janay Publishing Co. CY - [Chichester, Eng.] U3 -

J. Martin-Fehr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fugue for a Darkening Island Y1 - 1972 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of racial war.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. entitled Darkening Island. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

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U.S. ed. entitled Darkening Island

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genius Unlimited Y1 - 1972 A1 - John T[homas] Phillifent (1916-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of geniuses where everyone who works independently has problems, and the people have to learn both to work together and be practical.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Y1 - 1972 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia in which a man destabilizes reality, thus producing many fantastic events. Much violence including violent sex. The novel describes one man's successful attempt to find the source of the problem and defeat it. In the course of his search, he comes across a number of small societies, all of them ultimately dystopian.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

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U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams

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L, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lear Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Lear as a vicious, paranoid autocrat who tries to keep out imaginary enemies by building a wall. Sometimes called the most violent play ever staged.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: Two (London: Methuen Drama, 1989), 1-102.

U.S. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mistress of Downing Street Y1 - 1972 A1 - Walter Harris (b. 1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a woman, who is 25 and voluptuous, becomes Prime Minister after her husband is murdered. She tries to revitalize an authoritarian corporate world that is controlled by an individual capitalist through his control of all the world's robots, which have replaced all workers..

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Perplexities of John Forstice" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell (1872-1970) ED - Barry Feinberg KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Discussion of the nature of the good life modeled on 1877 Mallock. In his The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. New York/London: Century, 1923, written in collaboration with his then wife Dora Russell (1894-1986), he lays out a few of the basic principles that he contends are necessary for a good life. Fundamental to his vision is “The greatest possible amount of free development of individuals” (279), which requires “a compromise between justice and freedom” (279). And he goes on to say that “In a just world, no one will inherit money, no one will own more land than he can cultivate himself, no one will be supported in idleness if he is physically fit to work” and “no one will be allowed to starve” (280). Standing in the way  are “Greed, the lust for power, and the tyranny of custom” (287).

JF - The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Resurrection of Roger Diment Y1 - 1972 A1 - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia in which from birth to death no one grew old or ugly and everyone lived a life of pleasure but did not die natural deaths.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rule Britannia Y1 - 1972 A1 - Daphne Du Maurier (1907-89) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. "protecting" Britain. Britain and the U.S. merge, and the U.S. becomes all Disneyland.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 1972. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sheep Look Up Y1 - 1972 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A pollution dystopia that presents a world of the near future in which it is necessary to always wear a filter mask whenever one is outside, most food has been contaminated by chemicals used in fertilizers, etc., the water is unsafe for drinking without boiling, etc. Added to this is the leaking of poison gas buried in mountains in Colorado into the water supply and into the food factory and the effects on those who eat the food. Widespread disease, unemployment, and starvation. The corrupt U.S. government is attempting to control the world economy for the benefit of U.S. corporations, and those trying to change the government are under attack. No man between sixteen and sixty can get a visa to leave the country unless they have served in the military or have a medical exemption. The main opposition group lives in an intentional community in Colorado. At the end of the year covered by the book, revolts are occurring throughout the U.S. and many cities are on fire.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2003, with a brief "Introduction" by David Brin (xiii-xiv) and an "Afterword" by James John Bell (369-88) on the books environmental message; and Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009. 300 copy ed. illus. Dan J. O’Driscoll and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson (7-11), “John Brunner A Short Autobiography” (409-35) by Brunner, “John Brunner Interviewed by Ian Covell” (437-55), and “Noise Level” (457-59) by Brunner reprinted from Science Fiction Review, no. 29 (January-February 1979): 15-16. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Volteface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1972 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1971 Adlard describing an authoritarian overpopulation dystopia in which the population is manipulated by a small group of executives. In this novel the executives decide to reintroduce work and intentionally appoint incompetent people to management positions because this will reproduce twentieth century business. See also 1975 Adlard.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weihnachtabend" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with Nazi Germany in control of Britain.

JF - New Worlds PB - Sphere CY - London VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in Best SF: 1972, Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), 55-94

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Needs Men? Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where men are no longer biologically required because of cloning and parthenogenesis. The few remaining men are being exterminated. Love and desire enters and complicates the situation.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide. New York: Ace Books, 1973.

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U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Dot Y1 - 1972 A1 - [John Newton] [Chance] (1911-83) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Machine, authoritarian dystopia. Civilization is destroyed when machines stop. Stonehenge is one of the remains.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U3 -

John Lymington [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Andra Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an authoritarian underground city and a revolt by the young people.

PB - William Collins CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Call of Utopia Y1 - 1971 A1 - Eric C[yril] Williams (1918-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in an authoritarian dystopia set in 2060 in which criminals are surgically altered to live in underwater prisons. One such prisoner, driven by his desire to find a eutopia in Brazil, escapes and finds his eutopia which stresses variety, few laws, and limited work.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

O, TCD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Discontent Contingency" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Benevolent dictatorship which uses a happiness generator to control the people. This results in there being no creativity.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 19 U3 -

 Vincent King [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Horizon Alpha Y1 - 1971 A1 - Douglas [Rankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a future rigid city as it breaks down.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Interface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1971 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First of a series about Stahlnex (the only building material) Corp. which controls the world. A few genetically enhanced executives live in splendor and isolation while others live in an overpopulation dystopia. Creativity has mostly disappeared. The novel ends with a revolt against the corporation and its power. See also 1972 and 1975 Adlard.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London U5 -

IU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Dog's Day. A Novel Y1 - 1971 A1 - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia and an anti-bureaucratic movement.

PB - Allison & Busby CY - London U5 -

CaTU, InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mind Prison" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. People had lived in a building originally built as a fall-out shelter and expanded as population grew. Fear of the outside, encouraged by the male leaders, keeps people inside long after it is no longer necessary.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 19 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strong Man Y1 - 1971 A1 - H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating (1926-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Political novel describing the struggle against a dictator who uses religion to manipulate people. The replacement is not much better.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, OAkU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terminus Y1 - 1971 A1 - Leonard [John] Daventry (1915-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where radioactive fallout from the bomb tests of the forties and fifties had caused cancers in babies and young children that led to a drop in the birthrate. Most people carry guns. Another society, the Terminus of the title, is a world without and disparaging of ideals; it is society that results from an upheaval in the original dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale & Co. CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels in Nihilon Y1 - 1971 A1 - Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on anarchism (nihilism).

PB - W. H. Allen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warlord of the Air; A Scientific Romance Y1 - 1971 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative future histories. Describes some eutopian and some dystopian societies but not in much detail. The same approach is continued in two sequels The Land Leviathan. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. U.K. ed. with subtitle A New Scientific Romance. London: Quartet, 1974. Rpt. in his The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 157-302. Rev. with the subtitle For Mongazi Feza, who demanded justice. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 157-297. U.S. ed. as The Second Adventure The Land Leviathan (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 147-276; and The Steel Tsar. New York: DAW Books, 1981. U.K. ed. with the subtitle Third Volume in the Oswald Bastable Trilogy. London: Granada, 1981. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 303-441. Rev. with the subtitle To the memory of Michael Cornelius Dempsey, who died, as he had lived, a captain of his own ship. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 299-457. U.S. ed. as The Third Adventure The Steel Tsar (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 277-423.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: NEL, 1971. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 1-155. Rev. with the subtitle For Colin Ward and the international anarchist conspiracy. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 1-154. U.S. ed. as The First Adventure The Warlord of the Air (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 1-146.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bodyguard Y1 - 1970 A1 - Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence focusing on one ambitious man and what he does to succeed within the dystopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Doomsday Show. A Cabaret" Y1 - 1970 A1 - George Macbeth A1 - J. S. Bingham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopian play set in an authoritarian society that evolved in caves among the few survivors of a nuclear war.

JF - New English Dramatists PB - Penguin CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. VL - 14 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earthjacket Y1 - 1970 A1 - Jon Hartridge (b. 1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia based on technology that has destroyed most of the natural environment. A successful attempt to undermine the imposed order results in the destruction of the society.

PB - Macdonald CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Crocodile Y1 - 1970 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with constant surveillance. Almost everyone is bugged, and people have to use jammers to have a private conversation.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile. New York: Ace Books, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Guardians Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overcrowded cities for the proletariat. Rural life for the aristocracy. Maintained by psychological conditioning and brain surgery.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hunter at His Ease." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future world constantly at war and "Progress" gradually destroying the environment.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Nooks CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Indoctrinaire Y1 - 1970 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist eutopia set in Brazil 200 years in the future. There is no government. All simple decisions are left to individuals, but they are expected to consult on more complex ones, and there is a social hierarchy based on merit that may be consulted.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. [Rev. ed.] London: Pan, 1979 with an "Afterword" by the author (191-92). Part originally published as "The Interrogator." New Writings in S-F 15. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (London: Dennis Dobson, 1969), 45-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Piece of Resistance Y1 - 1970 A1 - Clive [Frederick William] Egleton (1927-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a Communist Britain. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are Last Post of a Partisan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971; and The Judas Mandate. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972. Rpt. as The Last Refuge. London: Severn House, 2006 with a foreword by the author. U.S. ed. as The Judas Mandate. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagan, 1972.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Never Surrender. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "R26/5/PSY and I" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia where few people have jobs and food is strictly rationed. Many people come to be completely apathetic and never leave their rooms. The story is about therapy to overcome this condition.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 16 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seven Steps to the Sun Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Sir] Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) A1 - Geoffrey Hoyle (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an authoritarian decentralized political system.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. ed. Barbara Hoyle. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1981. U.S. ed. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Show Must Go On" Y1 - 1970 A1 - David I[rvine] Masson (1915-2007) ED - [Oswyn Robert Tregonnel] [Hay] KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of overpopulation and violence.

JF - The Disappearing Future PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Son of Kronk Y1 - 1970 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of pollution and violence, but a new venereal disease develops that limits aggression.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Kronk. London: Coronet, 1972. U.S. ed. as Kronk. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A State of Denmark or a Warning to the Incurious Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Robert William Arthur] [Cook] (1931-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in an England that has deported all non-whites.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt as by Derek Raymond [pseud.]. London: Serpent's Tale, 1994; and London: Serpent's Tale, 2007. 

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Robin Cook [pseud.]

Derek Raymond [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth Worth of Ruth Villiers" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the welfare system. Individuals are each valued, and all services provided are based upon their credit worth.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dobson CY - London VL - 17 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Well Lost Y1 - 1970 A1 - [John Kempton] [Aiken] (1913-90) KW - English author KW - US author AB -

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.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. under the author's name. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

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John Paget [pseud.]

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GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Atrocity Exhibition Y1 - 1969 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Wide-ranging dystopia with the violence of the contemporary world the primary focus.

PB - Jonathan Cape. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-60;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968), rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969. Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968) [Not Found}, rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969. 

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U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Babel Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Burns (1929-2013) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Experimental novel with hundreds of characters, including well-known people, and no discernible plot that depicts contemporary life as dystopia and returning time and again to the war in Vietnam.

PB - Calder & Boyars CY - London N1 -

An excerpt appeared in New Worlds, 191 (June 1969): 24-27.

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Corridor Y1 - 1969 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia as the context for the story line.

PB - Ace CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Sailing To Utopia (London: Millennium, 1993), 183-314. Rpt. in The Michael Moorcock Collection under the title Travelling to Utopia. Ed. John Davey (London: Gollancz, 2014), 355-505. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Seymour (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia describing an extremely violent race war in the United States that leads to its destruction.

PB - Souvenir Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1971.

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DLC, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Four-Gated City Y1 - 1969 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

The "Appendix" (560-614) presents a future, post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Telepathy.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Give-and-Take Utopia" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Brien (1925-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A personal view of eutopia, which he calls a "half-way utopia" and a "more-or-less Merry England". It will be planned but not predictable, permissive but not lawless, safe but not dull, and patriotic but not racist. Among other things, there will be a limit on income, and everyone must work.

JF - New Statesman VL - 78.2006 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heroes and Villains Y1 - 1969 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) dystopian novel presenting a contrast between civilization (rational) and barbarians (irrational). Isolated fortified villages divided among the hereditary Professor, Soldiers, and Workers with various other groups outside the social structure. 

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1981; and London: Penguin Books, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Robert Coover (vii-ix). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jagged Orbit Y1 - 1969 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence in which it is necessary to be armed on the street.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kark Y1 - 1969 A1 - [James] [Pattinson] (1915-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 21st century London. The powerful Ministry of Internal Security and the police are more concerned with political opposition than crime and, as a result, criminals rule the streets.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

James Ryder [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Continent Y1 - 1969 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Advanced blacks from Mars return to Earth and find primitive whites in a tropical Antarctica. Interracial conflict and interracial love.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. Rpt. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 1971.

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CNoS, CU-Riv, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light a Last Candle Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of alien invaders who have created mutated humans. The few normal people are outlaws. The focus of the novel is on the struggle.

PB - Rapp & Whiting CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971

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Vincent King [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World by Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships. Wherein the Author returns and finds a New State of Liberal Horses and Revolting Yahoos Y1 - 1969 A1 - Matthew [John Caldwell] Hodgart ed. [written by] (1916-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on the Sixties using 1726 Swift.

PB - Duckworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Man: A Black and White Farce Y1 - 1969 A1 - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of racial turmoil. Constant conventional war by international agreement to keep economies going.

PB - Rapp and Whiting CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perspective Process Y1 - 1969 A1 - Cyril Donson (1919-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with women in power in The Harmony of World States. Population controlled, long life, no disease, and safety.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Residence Afresh Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Mrs.] [Arthur E.] [Towle] (1889-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Domestic heaven.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Margery Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Therapy 2000" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulated but the focus is on constant TV and constant noise. One man chooses to be deaf.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 15 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ulcer Culture Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that is divided between the Uppers and the workers with the workers controlled through the distribution of Joy Juice (hallucinogenic drugs), but someone has been tampering with the drugs.

PB - Macdonald Science Fiction CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Stained Glass World. London: New English Library, 1976

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weisman Experiment Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Douglas Rankine] [Mason] (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by "The Meritocracy" trying to suppress an early experiment that suggested the importance of liberty and equality.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London U3 -

John Rankine [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Year of the Sex Olympics" Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Thomas] Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire focusing on the power of television, which is used to encourage apathy and keep people from producing more children in the overpopulated world by broadcasting sexual athletics to suggest to people that since they cannot perform that well, they should give up sex.

JF - The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other TV Plays PB - Ferret Fantasy CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carder's Paradise Y1 - 1968 A1 - Malcolm Levene (1937-1973) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel includes two dystopias. In one, a computer dominated world, there is no work because it might upset the economy. As a result, people have too much leisure and degenerate. The second, which is the focus of the novel, is an island prison, and the two main characters are a prisoner, Carder, who wants to take over the prison, and the mentally ill prison governor.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1969.

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DLC, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of the Coastwatch Y1 - 1968 A1 - Philip McCutchan (1920-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of the New Socialist State. Leaving is illegal, thus the coastwatch.

PB - Harrap CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Divided House" Y1 - 1968 A1 - [John Thomas] [Phillifent] (1916-76) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A world of dreamers versus doers. The doers are in power and logic controls. The dreamers are serfs.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 13 U3 -

 John Rackham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Men Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in a future U.S. where fear of nuclear war has led to the collapse of most cities and people live spread across the landscape served by machines. One city remains as a center of pleasure, but seemingly mindless violence erupts.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Curtis Books/Modern Literary Editions, nd. U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Shorter version in If 15.11 (November 1965): 102-59

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DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fistful of Digits Y1 - 1968 A1 - Christopher [Glazebrook] Hodder-Williams (1926-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer-dominated authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

ViU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five to Twelve Y1 - 1968 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sex-role reversal dystopia brought about by the popularity of birth control. The novel focuses on a man who is constantly in conflict with the system. 

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Helmet of Hades" Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on a planet where a drink that makes everyone blind is distilled from a plant. One man follows the old adage that in the land of the bind the one eyed man is king and blind everyone except a few acolytes and enslaves the blind. The protagonist is a man sent to the planet that had not been heard from recently and is blinded but rebels and violently overthrows the regime and frees the one man who had previously rebelled. The result is the opposite of what he expected.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 11 U3 -

Jack Wodhams [pseud.]

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NSW, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights Y1 - 1968 A1 - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Book written for children in which a giant made of iron defeats a space monster, who then circles the Earth singing. The experience unifies the world and brings peace. See also 1993 Hughes. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle illus. by George Adamson. London: Faber and Faber, 1971; and illus. by Andrew Davidson. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Rpt. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Another U.S. ed. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. Illus. Dirk Zimmer (1943-2008). New York: Harper & Row, 1988. 

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Illus. George Adamson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keeper Y1 - 1968 A1 - Audrey [Louise] Laski (1931-2003) KW - English author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a religious intentional community in which a group of Puritans were left on an isolated island whose descendants return to England in 1950 and establish a community in Wales.

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Keeper. A Novel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1968.

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U.S. ed. as The Keeper. A Novel

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IEdS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pavane Y1 - 1968 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history. Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the 20th century.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York Ace Books, 1968; rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1984. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Abr. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Rpt. London: Panther, 1970. First published as a series of stories--“Pavane.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 127-60; “Pavane: The Lady Anne.” Impulse 1.2 (April 1966): 4-47; rev. as “The Lady Margaret” in the rev. ed. and rpt. under that title in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 637-43; with an editor’s note on 637; “Brother John.” Impulse 1.3 (May 1966): 47-81; “Pavane: Lords and Ladies.” Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 70-101; “Pavane: Corfe Gate.” Impulse 1.5 (July 1966): 7-68; and “Pavane: The White Boat.” New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 169 ([December 1966]): 73-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pendulum Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian religious dystopia develops out of a collapsing British economy and dysfunctional government.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ring of Violence Y1 - 1968 A1 - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shellbreak Y1 - 1968 A1 - John William Groves (1910-70) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2505. An enclosed world cut off from the outside.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spartan Planet" Y1 - 1968 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Militaristic dystopia on New Sparta that is all male. Children born in a Birth Machine. Same sex relations are the norm. See also 1984 Chandler.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction--Fantasy VL - 17.4 - 5 N1 -

Rpt. as False Fatherland. London: Horwitz Publications, 1968. U.S. ed. as Spartan Planet. New York: Dell, 1969. 

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Rpt. as False Fatherland

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A, M, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stand on Zanzibar Y1 - 1968 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel that takes place in a future overpopulation and corporate dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Orb, 2011 with a new “Foreword The Happening World” (vii-xiv) by Bruce Sterling; as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Vincent DiFate and with an “Introduction” (unpaged) by David Brin; as 300 copy ed. illus. Jacob McMurray and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson” (9-13 misnumbered 7 in the Table of Contents) and “Viewpoint. Childless Couples and Delinquent Children” (549-56 misnumbered 543 in the Table of Contents) by Brunner rpt. from Science and Public Policy 12.3 (June 1985): 149-52. Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009; and as New York: Tor Essentials, 2021, with the foreword “The Happening World” by Bruce Sterling from the Orb 2011 ed. (v-xii). Extracts were published in New Worlds Science Fiction 51.177 (November 1967): 34-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Total Environment" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. An experiment called the Ultra High Density Research Establishment (UHRDE) or the Total Environment is set up by the UN and the Indian government to test whether or not extreme crowding produces telepathy. The conditions inside the experiment, which is completely cut off from the outside world except for the anonymous provision of food and electronic monitoring, become horrifying but also produce the desired results.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.3 N1 -

Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1969. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 287-331; and 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), 109-51. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tunc. A Novel Y1 - 1968 A1 - Lawrence [George] Durrell (1912-1990) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The background to the novel is a dystopia where one company is gaining control of the world. Tunc in Latin means “then,” “next,” or “next in succession”. Continued with somewhat less of the dystopia in Nunquam. A Novel. London: Faber and Faber. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged. Nunquam means “never” in Latin.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1969. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Very Private Life Y1 - 1968 A1 - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technology brings isolation of people from each other. The rich live inside and have connection with each other only through television, telephone systems. There are a few who have to do some work outside, which is badly polluted.

PB - Collins CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Criminal Act" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopia in which no couple is allowed to have more than two children.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 78.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 350-62.

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Illus. Kelly Freas

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Is a Dream Y1 - 1967 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future world with the knowledge of previous reincarnations. Extreme laissez-faire capitalism. Selfishness.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Garbage World Y1 - 1967 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pleasure worlds as dystopias with one asteroid used as a garbage dump for the pleasure worlds.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Happy Breed" Y1 - 1967 A1 - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ice Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Helen Emily] [Woods] (1901-68) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age. Surrealistic novel in which the unnamed narrator searches through the ice fields for a woman held captive by a man known as the Warden. The ice is also generally interpreted as a metaphor for the author’s addition to heroin. The English female author was born in France; her first six books were published as by Helen Ferguson, after which she used Anna Kavan for all her books and in her personal life and changed her name legally. She was also known as Helen Woods Edmond.

PB - Peter Owen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Picador, 1970; London: Peter Owen, 1997; London: Peter Owen, 2006 with a foreword by Christopher Priest (unpaged); in My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan. Ed. Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (London: Picador, 1990), 199-318; and as The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2017, with a “Foreword” by Jonathan Lethem (vii-x) and an “Afterword” by Kate Zambreno (183-93). 

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Anna Kavan [pseud.]

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Implosion Y1 - 1967 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A fall in the birthrate produces dystopia.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix. A Novel Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia followed by its collapse and the descent into a primitive society.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. 

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quicksand Y1 - 1967 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Dictatorship of immortals. Sex as a drug. Neutered women act as sexual experts.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riot '71 Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Peter] [Brent] (1931-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An economic depression leads to blaming colored immigrants and a fascist, racist dystopia called the Nordic Union. 

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker and Co., 1967. 

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Ludovic Peters [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Station HR972” Y1 - 1967 A1 - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about the car, with a 32-lane highway with minimum speeds of 125 to 150 miles an hour.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 4.3 (22) N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 91-103; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 62-75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “There is a Crooked Man” Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on crime in the future with criminals confounding the legal system with new crimes. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 78.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 115-65. 

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Illus. Kelly Freas

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Mountains Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy, followed by The City of Gold and Lead. New York: Macmillan and The Pool of Fire. New York: Macmillan, 1968. The trilogy is concerned with the dystopia created by alien invaders and the successful fight against them, and the dystopia of mental and physical control occurs throughout the trilogy.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Whosaw Whatsa” Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on sex changes. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 80.4 U2 -

Illus. Kelly Freas

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Jack Wodhams [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colossus Y1 - 1966 A1 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia set in the United States of North America in which large computer called Colossus is given complete control over the USNA's nuclear weapons and the U.S.S.R. does the same with their great computer called Guardian and their nuclear weapons. The two computers are linked with predictable results. See also 1974 and 1977 Jones. 

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Danger: Religion!" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Parallel history presenting a religious dystopia.

JF - The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (London: Sphere, 1968), 89-131; and in Mervyn Peake, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss. Inner Landscape (London: Allison & Busby, 1969), 101-51. Earlier version as “Matrix.” Science Fantasy 19.55 ([October] 1962): 2-39. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell, Earth's Bliss Y1 - 1966 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with Mars as a penal colony.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flame Y1 - 1966 A1 - Jim Hunter (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Right wing dystopia brought about by a charismatic religious leader and his Christian New Vigour Movement.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Carthage Then I Came Y1 - 1966 A1 - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia brought about by a new ice age with everyone living in domes. At the end a new colony is about to be founded as technology provides a way to defeat the ice in defined areas.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

UK ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Also entitled Eight Against Utopia. New York: Paperbook Library, 1967.

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Also entitled Eight Against Utopia

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inner Circle Y1 - 1966 A1 - Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1916-2007) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -

A weird ritualized, overpopulation dystopia set in the far future.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U2 -

Illus. F.N. Souza

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Refuge Y1 - 1966 A1 - John Petty (1919-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The countryside has been paved over, and private homes have been replaced with huge apartment blocks.

PB - Ronald Whiting & Wheaton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mad Metropolis Y1 - 1966 A1 - Philip E[mpson] High (1914-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer eutopia that is actually a dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as Double Illusion. London: Dennis Dobson, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Other Gods But Me" Y1 - 1966 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia in which adepts keep people at the level of earl agriculture with no technology.

JF - No Other Gods But Me PB - Compact Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Entry to Elsewhen (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 91-172; rpt. with a different cover in October 1972. Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Return of Arthur Y1 - 1966 A1 - Martyn Skinner (1906-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Epic poem most of which is concerned with the dystopia of the modern age, particularly that of Communism. The work ends though with the reestablishment of the best of the past and a eutopia.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Parts originally published as Merlin or the Return of Arthur. A Satiric Epic. Part One. London: Frederick Muller, 1951; The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. London: Chapman & Hall, 1955; and The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. Part Two. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. The utopia is only found in the 1966 version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Richest Corpse in Show Business Y1 - 1966 A1 - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of organized human hunts. Some humor.

PB - Compact Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Minus X Y1 - 1966 A1 - [Stanley Bennett] [Hough] (1917-1998) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia which is believed to be the Perfect World in which no change is needed faced with a space explorer returning from space after two hundred years.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Paw of God. London: Anthony Gibbs Library 33 Ltd., 1967. Rpt. London: Tandem, 1967.

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U. K. ed. as The Paw of God

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Rex Gordon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Atrophy" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Ernest Hill (1915-2003) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Machines allow humans to atrophy then the machines break down.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 6 N1 -

U.S. ed. of the book as New Writings in SF-6. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 117-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earthworks Y1 - 1965 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting is a future England has been devasted by an ecological disaster fueled by overpopulation that left the countryside poisoned and the cities disease-ridden.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966. 154 pp.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fable IV" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Fred Uhlman (1901-85) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Bored young people of the future try out various possibilities for entertainment and remain bored. Everyone has a holiday of six months and is looking for excitement. No monogamy. Modern art criticized. Religion emasculated. Commit suicide.

JF - The Aylesford Review VL - 7.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Man of Double Deed Y1 - 1965 A1 - Leonard [John] Daventry (1915-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2090 with an "Atomic Disaster" having occurred in 1990. Division between an orientation to pleasure and the existence of youth gangs killing at random. Telepathy. Polygamy is standard with the main character thought of as odd because he limited himself to two women.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody Axed You" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which violence is normal and the top-rated TV programs show people being killed.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 48.150 N1 -

Rpt. in his Time-Jump (New York: Dell, 1973), 130-60.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Dust Y1 - 1965 A1 - Bee [Beatrice Lillian] Baldwin (b. 1920) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author AB -

A pandemic is brought about by spores, the red dust, from Antarctica and most of the world's population dies. In New Zealand a survivor briefly establishes an authoritarian dystopia, but is finally overthrown by some survivors who are immune to the disease. The Immunes are changed by the spores both physically and morally and the possibility of a future eutopia is held out.

PB - Robert Hale/Whitcombe & Tombs CY - London/[Christchurch, New Zealand] N1 -

Also published London: Robert Hale, 1965.

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ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smallcreep's Day Y1 - 1965 A1 - Peter Currell Brown (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopia that is factory system seen through the eyes of one man who spends a day wandering around a huge factory.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Squares of the City Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a newly built, intended to be ideal, city in a South American dictatorship. The novel is modeled on a game of chess and deals with a power struggle between the dictator and his main opponent.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visa for Avalon Y1 - 1965 A1 - [Annie Winifred] [Ellerman] (1894-1983) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel takes place just as England is being taken over by an authoritarian movement that is already producing a dystopia. People escape to Avalon, but it is reached in the last sentence of the book and not described.

PB - Harcourt, Brace & World CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2004.

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Bryher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wasted on the Young" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society with wealth for all in return for work. The young may borrow against future earnings. Story is about a young man who tries to beat the system and fails.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 23.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his From This Day Forward (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 63-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aristos; A Self-Portrait in Ideas Y1 - 1964 A1 - John [Robert] Fowles (1926-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly commentary on contemporary life, but a eutopia is suggested in the last two sections, "A New Education" (183-223) and "The Aristos" (234-39). The revised edition is a significantly different book but includes the same themes, with "A New Education" (141-83), and "The Aristos in the Individual" (212-14).

PB - Little Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 1968. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1970. [4th] rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Switch Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Violet] Muriel Box (1905-91) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal in which women have created a eutopia after an accidental atomic war.

PB - Macdonald CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Burning World Y1 - 1964 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia.

PB - Berkley Medallion/Berkley Publishing Co CY - New York N1 -

Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. 

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Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Escape" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Marsh Haris (1936-93) ED - James Ramp KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is destroyed and five people set off to a new planet, which turns out to be a eutopia inhabited entirely by homosexual men. The women from Earth die within hours.

JF - Overture in G Minor and Other Stories, Photographs and Drawings PB - Pan-Graphic CY - San Francisco, CA VL - Dorian Vignettes 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Evening Fool Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Arthur L.] [Greenaway] (1927-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Communal eutopia established on an island in the Pacific and its problems. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says “almost certainly the working name of UK lawyer, actor, scriptwriter and author Arthur Greenaway” with the birth year as 1927 (Wikipedia gives 1929). For various pieces of information that support both the name and the birth date, see https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/06/peter-van-greenaway.html.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

Peter Van Greenaway [pseud.]

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L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which Germany has won World War II and England is being run down (no water, gas, electricity, etc.) under German rule.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 48.143 N1 -

Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merrill (New York: Dell, 1968), 94-126; in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), 132-64; and in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II. Ed. Gregory [Albert] Benford and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Garland, 1986), 53-81. U.K. ed. (London: Grafton, 1988), 83-123.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Man on Bridge" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the unintelligent rule the intelligent, who are kept in camps where they do all the menial work.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 1 N1 -

Repub. in his Who Can Replace a Man? (New York: New American Library, 1965), 82-98. UK ed. as Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), 96-115; rev. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), 56-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mandrake Y1 - 1964 A1 - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are required to live in the district in which they are born; movement around the country is restricted; the main cities are re-walled; and immigration is eliminated. The country is under the control of the Ministry of Planning.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only Lovers Left Alive Y1 - 1964 A1 - Dave [David Capadose] Wallis (1917-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of teenage gangs and a high suicide rate. Finally, a new clan system develops as a good society.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Man: A Novel Based on His Play for Television Y1 - 1964 A1 - Giles Cooper (1918-66) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia of a National Socialist Britain.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out Y1 - 1964 A1 - Christine [Frances Evelyn] Brooke-Rose (1923-2012) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

Dystopia in which light skinned people are suppressed.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stars Came Down Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Joseph Laurence] [Morrissey] (1905-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A man returns to Earth five thousand years after he left and finds the people far advanced beyond his expectations. No governments. Extremely long-lived (600 is middle age); no children to keep control over population growth. No wild animals; all are tame. Cities abandoned; all Earth is inhabitable and people live in small groups or alone.

PB - World Distributors CY - London U3 -

Richard Saxon [pseud.]

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Leeds

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A State of Mind Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Elaine Kidner] [Dakers] (1905-1978) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by the Brotherhood after an atomic war. Forced nationalization of people to create “one big family, whose head is the State.” People, though, are not equal. The State provides all and controls everything, but “recognizes that some require more than others. . .” (11). No gods and no religious people allowed with Christians banished the Hebrides. Both voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia, with permission required for voluntary. Suicide without permission is opposed. Criminals euthanized. “Compulsory birth-control and State-elimination prevented overpopulation” (12). 

PB - Frederick Muller CY - London U3 -

Jane Lane [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Angry Rabbit Y1 - 1964 A1 - Russell [Reading] Braddon (1921-95) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which Australian scientists discover a biological weapon that the Prime Minister uses to force world peace and Australian economic and political dominance of the world. 

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1965. Partially serialized in Australian Women's Weekly 32.21 - 23 (October 21 - November 4, 1964): 19, 55, 59-60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 92-99; 33, 38, 46, 48-49, 51, 53-58, 66, 69-72, 74; 38, 47, 51, 55, 63, 65-66, 68-71, 77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Mind" Y1 - 1963 A1 - [Derek Ivor] Colin Kapp (1928-2007) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of corporate control and corrupt government as the background.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 46.136 - 38 N1 -

Repub. London: Transworld, 1965. U.S. ed. as Transfinite Man. New York: Berkley, 1964.

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U.S. ed. as Transfinite Man. New York: Berkley, 1964.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreaming Earth Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia and the problems that arise from a drug induced euphoria that leads people to completely drop out. But the dropouts are actually dropping in to new, empty worlds presented as simple eutopias.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Dreaming Earth. Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972.

Originally serialized as “Put Down the Earth.” New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 107 -109 (June - August 1961): 4-47, 81-122, 77-127.

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Originally serialized as “Put Down the Earth.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Planet Y1 - 1963 A1 - Joan B. Clarke (b. 1921) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's post-catastrophe novel. Earth, the Happy Planet, had supposedly been destroyed by a meteor with some of Earth's population established on the planet Tuan, which had no plants or animals and was heavily regimented. An expedition discovers an inhabitable world, and after various conflicts people begin to rebuild.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jack Fell Down” Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

While the novella focuses on interplanetary politics, Earth is presented as a technological eutopia that had been brought about largely by the drop in population resulting from colonization.

JF - Science Fiction Adventures (UK) VL - 6.31 N1 -

Rpt. in Crime Prevention in the 30th Century. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (New York: Walker and Co., 1969), 1-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Living Gem Y1 - 1963 A1 - Paul [Samuel] Charkin (1907-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a Health Police. There is a small free love sect.

PB - Brown, Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sands of Time Y1 - 1963 A1 - [Frank James] [Pinchin] (1925-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Revolt against rule by computer.

PB - Brown, Watson CY - London U3 -

Peter Dagmar [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Subliminal Man" Y1 - 1963 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which subliminal advertising makes the population continually consume.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 42.126 N1 -

Rpt. in In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 58-80; in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 158-77; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 213-30; in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 117-34; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 171-88; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 412-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Whites Went Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert [Moyes Carruthers] Bateman (1922-73) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia followed by the suggestion of a better future. Almost all whites disappear, and, after many problems, blacks discover cooperation.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Digit, 1964. U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 1963. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cage of Sand" Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where Florida is now. Mostly sand dunes, and people trying to live there are captured by wardens.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction (London) VL - 40.119 N1 -

Rpt. in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 137-59; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 355-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clockwork Orange Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence, drugs, and youth gangs who speak Nadsat, an argot based on Russian. One theme that appears throughout Burgess’s works is opposition to state action, here reflected in the state’s attempts to reform the protagonist. The chapter missing from the U.S. edition and left out of the film depicts the redemption of the protagonist.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with significant differences. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963; rev. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987, with “Introduction: A Clockwork Orange Resucked” (v-xi) and with an added last chapter that was in the original U.K. edition but not in the U.S. edition or in Stanley Kubrick’s film. Critical ed. based on the Heinemann ed. as A Clockwork Orange: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism. Ed. Mark Rawlinson (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 1-121, with “Notes on the Text” (122) and “A Glossary of Nadsat Terms” (123-27). 50th anniversary edition with a “restored text.” Ed. Andrew Biswell. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012, with an “Introduction by the editor (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (205-12), “Annotated Pages from Anthony Burgess’s 1961 Typescript (213-20, “The Clockwork Condition” 221-238), and “EPILOGUE: ‘A Malenky Govoreet about the Molodoy’ Anthony Burgess, 1987” (239-46). Rpt. illus. Ben Jones. London: The Folio Society, 2014, with an “Introduction by Irvine Welsh (xi-xix) and “A Note on the Restored Edition” (xxi-xxii), “Notes” (201-10), and “Nadsat Glossary” (211-14) by Andrew Biswell. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Copper Cow Y1 - 1962 A1 - Tom Chetwynd (1938-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd authoritarian dystopia with much fear and violence.

PB - Anthony Blond CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drowned World Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A Ballardian version of a climate change/global warming dystopia set in 2145 in a tropical, abandoned, and flooded London.

PB - Berkley Medallion CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. rpt. in The Drowned World and The Wind from Nowhere. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. U.K. ed. rpt. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1983; and, with minor changes. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an Introduction by Will Self (xi-xviii) and Illus. By James Boswell. Expanded from “The Drowned World.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.24 (January 1962).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Explosion Y1 - 1962 A1 - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Earth sends groups of people into space to practice their own beliefs, and three societies of the far future are described. The first is the result of a planet peopled by transported criminals. They develop into a series of isolated strongholds adept at war and opposed to labor and includes a group of nomadic Romany or Gypsies. The second, Hygeia, was settled by Naturists, is inhabited by healthy people, and is a eutopia. The third, Gands, was founded on Gandhian principles and is  an anarchist eutopia. Important slogans are F-I.W. (Freedom-I Won’t) and Myob (Mind your own business). 

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Distributed by Dodd, Mead, 1962. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1975. Part originally published as " . . . And Then There Were None." Astounding Science Fiction 47.4 (June 1951): 7-65; story rpt. in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 14 - 17 (1983 - 84): 2-13; 2-15; 2- 14; 2-10; in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 24-75; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 291-381; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 233-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Insane Ones" Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all psychological intervention is illegal, being insane is a protected category, suicide is legal, and it is a crime to interfere with a suicide attempt.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 36.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction, no. 7 ([1967]): 95-105; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 289-97.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Island Y1 - 1962 A1 - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Free love, psychedelic drugs, science, and religion bring eutopia.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Times Without Number Y1 - 1962 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which England did not defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588, and England became the center on the Spanish empire after Spain was re-conquered by Muslims.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as “The Word Not Written.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.26 [vol. 5 on cover] (May 1962): 62-100; “Spoil of Yesterday.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.25 [vol. 5 on cover] ([March] 1962): 2-40; and “The Fullness of Time.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.27 [vol. 5 on cover] ([July] 1962): 2-41. Rev. and exp. ed. of the book New York: Ace Books, 1969; rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. UK ed. London: Elmfield Press, 1974. The original stories, never before reprinted, can be found in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 13-165, with “Spoil of Yesterday” on 13-63, “The Word Not Written” on 65-114, and “The Fullness of Time” on 115-165.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanting Seed Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which homosexuality is encouraged to keep down population growth. Various methods were being used to keep population down including a fake war (called Extermination Sessions) and State condoned infanticide.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. U.K. ed. rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983 with "A Foreword" by the author comparing A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed; and in his Future Imperfect: The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 1-282, which reprints the 1983 foreword (ix-xii) and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind of Liberty Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which corporations rule. Rebels.

PB - Digit Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Analysts" Y1 - 1961 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the story concerns a “visualizer” trying to understand the purpose of a proposed building with internal staircases and corridors that end in blank walls. It turns out that if someone continues, they emerge in a future that is trying to atone for the way humans responded to discovering many peaceful, advanced civilizations, which was to attack rather than try to understand.

JF - Science Fantasy VL - 16.48 SN - 978-0-7123-5382-3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 239-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Billenium" Y1 - 1961 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia presenting extreme overcrowding.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 38.112 N1 -

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 7-21; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 92-107; and in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 137-51; and as “Billennium” in his The Terminal Beach (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964), 175-91; in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 50-65; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 3-23; 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), 94-109; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 136-51; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 125-40; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 286-301; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 267-78; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 113-25; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 113-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Out to Play Y1 - 1961 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the effect of science on the world. Scientists recognize that the repression of sexuality or the sexual passions is one of the central roadblocks to human betterment and discover how to release the superego. The suggestion is clear that if such repression is overcome a much better life will be possible. 

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Crown, 1975 with unpaged notes from the publisher and the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Berkshire. A Novel Y1 - 1961 A1 - H[ugh] C[ecil] Asterley (1902-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a post-nuclear war England and the earlies beginnings of re-building.

PB - Pall Mall Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mark Gable Foundation" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which freezing oneself in order to be able to experience the future becomes a fad and threatens to destroy civilization.

JF - The Voice of the Dolphin and Other Stories PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 117-30. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72). This story was written in 1948, and a copy of that version exists among Szilard's papers at the University of California, San Diego, but there is no evidence of earlier publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Old Men at the Zoo Y1 - 1961 A1 - Angus [Frank Johnstone] Wilson (1913-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 1971-73. Much of the novel is concerned with bureaucratic infighting at London Zoo, but the background includes the threat of war, even nuclear war, between England and France and Germany. The Greenbelt around London had been abolished in 1964.

PB - Viking CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Primal Urge Y1 - 1961 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia of the effects of a device that allows everyone to know the sexual desires of people vis-a-vis each other.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sphere, 1967. Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Put Down This Earth" Y1 - 1961 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulated, authoritarian dystopia. People escape through a drug that ultimately takes them to a new world.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - nos. 107 - 109 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unsleep Y1 - 1961 A1 - Diana [Pleasance Tikva Case] Gillon (b. 1915) A1 - Meir [Selig] Gillon (b. 1907-89) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia caused by no longer needing to sleep and the desperate need to fill time.

PB - Barrie & Rockliff CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Verwoerd--The End; A look-back from the Future Y1 - 1961 A1 - [Ernest George] [Alligan] (1898-1978) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Apartheid as eutopia presented as the history of South Africa from 1960 to 1985.

PB - T.V. Broadman CY - London U3 -

Garry Allighan [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Voice of the Dolphins" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin's ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war.

JF - The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chronopolis" Y1 - 1960 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which people had been too concerned with time, and there were clocks everywhere. It was made illegal to have a watch or a clock because timed people could be made to work faster, but with all clocks gone nothing works very well, and the city is almost abandoned. The story focuses on a boy growing up who is fascinated with clocks.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 32.95 N1 -

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 117-39; in his The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963), 184-208; in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 152-74; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 43-66; in his The Voices of Time (London: J.M. Dent, 1984), 173-97; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 150-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Facial Justice Y1 - 1960 A1 - L[eslie] P[oles] Hartley (1895-1972). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Extreme egalitarianism and people are encouraged to have plastic surgery if they are too attractive.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1987. U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - He Owned the World Y1 - 1960 A1 - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of immortals on Mars who revive a long dead astronaut who inherits Earth and is a tool in Mars's war with Earth.

PB - Avalon Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. entitled The Man Who Owned the World. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961.

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UK ed. entitled The Man Who Owned the World.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Smell of Burning: A Comedy of Menace Y1 - 1960 A1 - David Campton (1924-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. With a revolt taking place offstage, a couple at breakfast listen to a very off stage radio broadcast until the radio goes off the air, talk at cross purposes, and sit quietly as a town official murders a neighbor and then the wife.

PB - Samuel French CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 3-20. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Then . . . Y1 - 1960 A1 - David Campton (1924-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic humor. Two people who have survived the destruction of most people by, as they believe, putting paper bags over their heads, meet.

PB - David Campton CY - [London] N1 -

Rp.t in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 21-38. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "X for Exploitation" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Earth is a colony. According to a note by Aldiss, the book is designed to show the dystopian nature of imperialism.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 31.92 - 32.94 N1 -

Repub. as Bow Down to Nul. New York: Ace Books, 1960. UK ed. as The Interpreter. London: Brown, Watson, 1961. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mad MacMullochs Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Edgar Austin] [Mittelhölzer] (1909-65) KW - English author KW - Guyanese author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set on Barbados, and while much of it concerns a love story, three of the women involved live on a plantation with white, colored, and black members living equally under a set of chosen rules.

PB - Peter Owen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. under the author’s name London: Peter Owen, 1961.

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H. Austin Woodsley [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Offshore Island: A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1959 A1 - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post catastrophe dystopia following nuclear war. It focuses on a family who survived the war and shows them ten years later. 

PB - Cresset Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: May Fair, 1961

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ossian's Ride Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Sir] Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A golden land of youth that had exploited technology fully, particularly nuclear technology. Set in Ireland.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Four Square, 1961; U.S. ed. New York: Berkley, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Providence Island: An Archaeological Tale Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopian elements in a primitive society which has developed psychic powers.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Rain Y1 - 1958 A1 - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia (flooding). A play, with significant differences from the novel, was adapted by the author was based on the novel. After the Rain: A Play in Three Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1967 with production photographs. There is a note in the U.K. ed. ([9]) detailing tree objections that the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Cobbold, then censor, objected to that had to be changed in performance. First performed at the Hampstead Theatre Club on September 1, 1966 directed by Vivian Matalon. As originally performed, the play was innovative in that the audience was seated so as to be part of the play. When transferred to the Duchess Theatre and then to New York, the seating was as usual. The Library of Congress holds the Playbill 4.10 (October 1967) for the production at the John Golden Theatre in New York City, which starred Alec McCowen (1925-2017), who had also played the role in London. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Debt of Lassor” Y1 - 1958 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future Earth where the people have accepted being completely oppressed. The story is about the colonizers struggling to get the people to recover their humanity. 

JF - Nebula Science Fiction VL - no. 33 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 23-37; and in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 64-84. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forty Years On Y1 - 1958 A1 - Doreen [Dora Eileen Agnew] Wallace (1897-1989) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

After an atomic war a surviving British village creates a decent life which is, on some dimensions, better than the previous one.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Matriarchy of Renok” Y1 - 1958 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) ED - Toby Burrows KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A matriarchy that keeps men in their “proper” role as slaves is visited by a man from Earth. which leads the all-powerful Galactic Empire. The man is crass in the extreme and assumes that the women will fall for him. They don’t. 

JF - Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming PB - Hilliard Press CY - Nedlands, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Non-Stop Y1 - 1958 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A multi-generation spacecraft that has developed an authoritarian religion and government as well as biological changes returns to earth, where the people decide to keep it in permanent orbit.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989. Repub. as Starship. New York: Criterion Books, 1959. There are textual differences between the editions. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: An Essay on Education and Equality Y1 - 1958 A1 - Michael [Dunlop] Young (1915-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book has been read as both a eutopia and a dystopia with the author characterizing it as the latter. Development of a class system based on I.Q.

PB - Thames and Hudson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1961. U.S. ed. as The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: The New Elite of Our Social Revolution. New York: Random House, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of ZI Y1 - 1958 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of aliens dominating earth with a revolt by the humans.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

 Rev. ed. as The Patient Dark. London: Robert Hale, 1969.

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Rev. ed. as The Patient Dark.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tide Went Out Y1 - 1958 A1 - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which atomic testing opens fissures in the earth and the oceans drain into them, causing worldwide drought, and the collapse of civilization.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Thirst! London: Sphere Books, 1977; and as The Tide Went Out. London: The British Library 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1959. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow's Gift" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a four-class society based on I.Q. and H.Q. (Happiness Quotient). The classes are administrators, technicians, prefrontals (having failed in one of the top classes), and illiterates.

JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tomorrow's Gift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 7-15. U.K. ed. (London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, [1958]), 5-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Uncertain Midnight Y1 - 1958 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia of a machine eutopia that is actually a dystopia.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U1 -

U.S. title Deadly Image.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Men Y1 - 1958 A1 - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a society without men and the effect on it of the creation of one. The all female society is presented negatively, and it is at least initially made worse by the creation of the man. In the revised version, the women gradually adjust to the experience of heterosexual love and sex.

PB - Ace Books, with the name on the spine as Eric Maine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Digit, 1963. Rev. as Alph. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1972.

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Charles Eric Maine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Worlds Tears" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia after a catastrophe. All whites are gone. Hatred and toughness are honored, and there is no love.

JF - Nebula Science Fiction VL - no. 21 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Canopy of Time (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), 25-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - On the Beach Y1 - 1957 A1 - Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Most of the world has been destroyed in a nuclear war, and Australians are waiting for the radiation to reach them.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Pan, 1966. Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC: Heinemann, 1957. There was a 1959 film directed by Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) and a 2000 TV remake directed by Russell Mulachy (b. 1953).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Build-Up" Y1 - 1957 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. The entire world is one city, and no one knows that the world is round.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 19.55 N1 -

Rpt. in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 175-93. Rpt. as “The Concentration City.” In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 33-57; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 1-20; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 23-38. 

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Rpt. as "The Concentration City.” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Took Us Y1 - 1957 A1 - [David Storr] [Unwin] (1918-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's dystopia. Destroyed future world dominated by religion with an underground city ruled by mathematicians trying to take over.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Puffin, 1962.

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David Severn [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven Knows Where. A Novel Y1 - 1957 A1 - D[ennis] J[oseph] Enright (1920-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous eutopia set on a South Seas island where the people are "born anarchists".

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hothouse. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which humans have devolved into small, but still intelligent, creatures living in a world dominated by plants.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976, with an “Introduction” by Joseph Milicia (v-xvii). Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth. New York: Signet/New American Library, 1962, which had originally been serialized in slightly different form in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as “Hothouse.” 20.2 (117) (February 1961): 5-35; “Nomansland.” 20.4 (119) (April 1961): 99-129; “Undergrowth.” 21.1 (122) (July 1961): 84-130; “Timberline.” 21.3 (144) (September 1961): 99-129; and “Evergreen.” 21.6 (127) (December 1961): 82-128

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Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962) 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for 'Eros Y1 - 1957 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) A1 - J[ohn] B[arclay] Pick (1921-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Primarily humor. Satire on a British movement to root out "subversives" similar to that of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-57) in the U.S. that was known as McCarthyism.

PB - Arco CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mary's Country Y1 - 1957 A1 - Harold [Charles Hugh] Mead (1910-1997) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia called the Tote State. Some children bred for the Guardian class of future leaders are raised in the central nursery and then in a junior dormitory with no affection, no privacy, and no free time. There is a Cold War between the Tote State and the Democratic Union.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Half of the World Y1 - 1957 A1 - James Barlow (1921-73) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a postwar authoritarian dystopia where Britain, having lost the war, is occupied. The novel follows a British member of Internal Security as he comes to question his loyalty of the occupiers.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shubshub Race" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire that includes a planet called Upotia, the Health planet, which has a constant pleasant climate, but this is a minor part of the story.

JF - Space, Time and Nathaniel (Presciences) PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Evil Y1 - 1957 A1 - Jane Gaskell (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia that leads a fairly simple life and represents good is under attack by evil forces.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1958.

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NIC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "There's No Business" Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all film and TV is banned.

JF - Nebula (Glasgow, Scot.) VL - no. 25 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Second Earth" Y1 - 1957 A1 - [John Stephen] [Glasby] (1928-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia after an atomic war that obliterated most of the world's cities. A "Homo Superior" is produced by the radioactivity and must be fought by the surviving humans while they try to create the basis for a new civilization. The normal humans win, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - John Spencer & Co. Cobra Books CY - London U3 -

R. L. Bowers [pseud.]

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MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - You'll See: Report from the Future Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Egon] [Lehrburger] (1904-90) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia set in 1982 described as a projection, and the author includes an “Appendix: Some Facts” that lists developments that exist or are being developed that he uses in the text (170-76). There is phone shopping and pneumatic tube delivery with a few shops with old-fashioned personal service. Food is delivered by tube right into the refrigerator. Three types of food are available, “old-fashioned,” “short-diet” or tablet food, and “new-food,” which is primarily produced from plankton and algae. Weather control with rain announced in advance. Central London is pedestrianized with walkways lined with trees, flowers, and grass and most transport underground and helicopters landing on rooftops. Outside London roads had been built above railroads. London is ethnically and racially mixed with over half the population originating overseas. Everybody works, and there are no class distinctions. India has industrialized using nuclear power. 

PB - Rider CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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Egon Larsen [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consider Her Ways" Y1 - 1956 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia in which mothers are kept for breeding. They are grotesquely fat and stupid.

JF - Sometime, Never PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1967), 61-125; in his Consider Her Ways and Others (London: Michael Joseph, 1961), 7-87; and in his The Infinite Moment (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 7-65.

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John Wyndham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Grass Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Violence, breakdown of communities, and the struggle to survive.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Death of Grass. A Novel. Penguin, 2009 with an “Introduction” by Robert Macfarlane (v-xii). U.S. edition as No Blade of Grass. A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Avon, 1967. A film was made under the U.S. title and directed by Cornel Wilde (Cornelius Louis Wilde 1912-89) (1970) with a screenplay by Sean Forestal and Wilde writing as Jefferson Pascal. PSt

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John Christopher [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Venus Y1 - 1956 A1 - S[tanley] Makepeace Lott (1920-1991) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia of an authoritarian flawed utopia on Venus.

PB - Rich and Cowan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Further Outlook Y1 - 1956 A1 - W[illiam] Grey Walter (1910-77) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia brought about through the development of cheap and abundant energy and a perfect form of contraception. Eugenics. This produces a society based as much on leisure as work.

PB - Gerald Duckworth CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1957. US ed. as The Curve of the Snowflake. New York: W.W. Norton, 1956.

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US ed. as The Curve of the Snowflake. New York: W.W. Norton, 1956.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Into the Tenth Millennium Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian, somewhat nomadic eutopia, some of which is technically primitive (balloon transport, semaphores for communication) but is socially advanced. A catastrophe caused all metal to become useless; while this made war impossible, there was a widespread famine which produced a dramatic fall in world population. In the future population is controlled. Everyone is wealthy and self-assured. There is no government or belief in a god. Free love and one worldwide language. Initial education is with the mother (fathers are not identified) with no formal education until age forty. The author also wrote a utopian trilogy; see 1950, 1952, and 1954 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Refuge Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Bertram] John Boland (1913-1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia located at the bottom of a crater in central north Greenland. Good life but authoritarian under control of doctors and scientists. Lower birth rate and higher standard of living. No disease. No marriage with children raised by the state.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pursuit Through Time: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1956 A1 - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

In the novel a man is sent back into the past to stop the creation of an authoritarian dystopia. He succeeds and, in doing, so creates the possibility of a better society in the future.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, nd.

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Jonathan Burke [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow of Authority Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert [Ferns] Waller (1913-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical bureaucratic dystopia. A National Publishing Authority is established to control the publication of literature.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Trap" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Kem[ys Deverell] Deverell] Bennett (1919-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Aliens appear on Earth and abduct people from various countries around the world. One returns temporarily and explains that no one else wants to return from the alien planet, which is a cockaigne-like eutopia.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 229.28 N1 -

Rpt. in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 173-88; Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. [Rev. ed.]. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 173-88 with an editor’s note on 174; and Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space. Ed. Phyllis R. Fenner (New York: William Morrow, 1980), 147-63. 

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Illus.

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PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angelo's Moon Y1 - 1955 A1 - Alec [John Charles] Brown (1900-62) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the degeneration of the human race and the failure of a utopia called Hypoltania based on science but dependent on the labor of what were called morons. Primitivia or old Britain survives.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Before Dawn Y1 - 1955 A1 - Hanbury Pawle (1886-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is about the conflict between Christianity and Communism and the efforts of one man to save the world from Communism.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bright Phoenix Y1 - 1955 A1 - Harold [Charles Hugh] Mead (1910-1997) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with an emphasis on eugenics.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Transworld Publishers, 1960.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chrysalids Y1 - 1955 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-nuclear war future. Religious dystopia set in Canada (Labrador). Emphasis on the traditional physical form of human beings. All plants and animals that mutate are killed. Mutant humans are killed or sterilized. Telepathic mutants develop and are discovered by a telepathic eutopian civilization that has developed in New Zealand.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: New York Review of Books, 2008 with an “Introduction” (vii-xiii) by Christopher Priest. Some differences between editions. U.S. ed. as Re-Birth. By John Wyndham [pseud.]. New York: Ballantine, 1955. Rpt. as “Re-Birth.” In A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 9-35.

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U.S. ed. as Re-Birth. New York: Ballantine, 1955. 

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John Wyndham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep Freeze Y1 - 1955 A1 - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Only women and children are left on the planet, and a feminist eutopia is established. Conflict develops as the boys grow up.

PB - Hamilton CY - London U3 -

Jonathan Burke [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forbidden Kingdom Y1 - 1955 A1 - Elleston Trevor (1920-95) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s story where there is a high technology enclave, but the story is mostly intrigue and adventure. 

PB - Lutterworth CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man With Only One Head Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Douglas Norton] [Buttrey] (1918-1994) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the fact that after a nuclear catastrophe only one man is fertile, but, in a twist on the usual plot, he is condemned for impregnating a woman.

PB - Rich and Cowan CY - London U3 -

Densil Neve Barr [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panel Game" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with society organized around a consumption band, which reflects income. Television, which cannot be turned off and is primarily a means of reminding consumers of the products they are required to buy, is organized by these bands.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 14.42 N1 -

Rpt. in his Space, Time and Nathaniel (presciences) (London: Faber and Faber, 1957), 187-99. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Private Volcano: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lance[lot de Giberne] Sieveking (1896-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An abundance of gold brings misery followed by prosperity and world peace.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sign of the Times Y1 - 1955 A1 - Robert Kee (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future authoritarian dystopia focusing on the Inter-Governmental Regroupment Agency for Maladjusted Persons which decides who is maladjusted and "cures" them. Much humor.

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Star Ship" Y1 - 1955 A1 - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a multi-generation spaceship. All must die by age forty. Dueling is used to eliminate the unfit, for room, and so forth.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction (London) VL - 12.34 - 36 N1 -

Repub. as The Space-Born. New York: Ace, 1956. Ace Double bound with Philip K[indred] Dick's The Man Who Japed (1956).

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Repub. as The Space-Born.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Revealed Y1 - 1955 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor about the future based on fiction. Send up of utopians, among others.

PB - Neville Spearman CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia 239 Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Stanley Bennett] [Hough] (1917-1998) KW - English author AB -

The novel begins in the dystopia of the 1950s Cold War and the control of scientific research. During that time, people began to establish small communities called Utopia 1, 2, 3, and so forth. Utopia 239 is a future scientifically advanced flawed utopia of complete freedom, which appears dystopian to travelers from the outside world and some of its own members. The latter establish their version of a better society in New Zealand with government, law, the military, and so forth, creating another flawed utopia.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U3 -

Rex Gordon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vespers" Y1 - 1955 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Contrasts an Arcadia and a Utopian.

JF - Encounter VL - 4.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Shield of Achilles (New York: Random House, 1955), 77-80. U.K. ed. (London: Faber and Faber, 1955), 74-77; his Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 227-229; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 439-441, with a Textual Note on 968-969.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Moon Died Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Ivan] [Roe] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. World Technocracy is a world government that governs through six scientific committees. The belief that it is a utopia meant that little new was approved. There is no central government. Believe only in the useful and live only in the present. Music only for babies and the "unsound". Servants for the upper classes all had genetic defects and were not educated.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, [1963].

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Richard Savage [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World of Difference: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparent eutopia is threatened by the government's use of technology to control people psychologically.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (although specially labeled "not a reprint") without the subtitle New York: Ballantine Books, 1964.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Comet Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A corporate dystopia with the world divided into companies rather than nations.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Planet in Peril. New York: Avon, 1959.

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John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crusoe Warburton Y1 - 1954 A1 - Victor Wallace Germains (b. 1888) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first section of the novel is a Robinsonade in which a shipwrecked sailor uses the material from the ship (rather more extensive and luxurious than in the 1719 Defoe original) to create a home for himself on an isolated island. He then rescues a small group of people of a lost race who, in the classic lost race scenario, had been expelled from their island by an evil prince. Then he conquers the island they had come from, is established as a god-king, and plans to create an empire. 

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York U5 -

InFwA, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down to Earth Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Last volume of a trilogy. See 1950 and 1952 Capon. This volume focuses on the struggle to return to Earth and attempts by people on Earth to exploit the planet. The author wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enterprise 2115 Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Edwin Charles] [Tubb] (1919-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia in which civilization has become too rigid from relying too much on the computers.

PB - Merit Books CY - London N1 -

US ed. under the author's name as The Mechanical Monarch. New York: Ace Books, 1958. Ace Double bound with Charles L. Fontenay, Twice Upon a Time.

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Charles Grey [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Way Back Y1 - 1954 A1 - Margot M. Bennett (1912-80) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia of science in Africa whose explorers discover primitive life in Britain.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of the Flies Y1 - 1954 A1 - William Golding (1911-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Children left alone on a island revert to a violent, primitive existence showing that civilization is only a veneer.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. Rpt. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999. 50th anniversary ed. New York: Berkley, 2004. Rpt. New York: Penguin Books, 2016 with a “Foreword” by Lois Lowry (xi-xv), an “Introduction” by Stephen King (xvii-xxii) rpt. from the London: Faber & Faber, 2011 edition, “On Reading and Teaching Lord of the Flies” by Jennifer Buehler (263-76), “Suggestions for Further Exploration” by Jennifer Buehler (277-93), “Introduction to the 1962 Edition” by E.M. Forster (295-300), and “Notes on Lord of the Flies from the 1959 Edition” by E[dmund] L. Epstein (301-07). Films in 1963 directed and with a screenplay by Peter Brook (b. 1925) and in 1990 directed by Harry Hook with the screenplay by Jay [Jacqueline] Presson Allen (1932-2006) writing as Sara Schiff [pseud.]. A TV takeoff on the book appeared as on “Das Bus.” The Simpsons. Season 9, Episode 14 (February 15, 1998), written by David S. Cohen in which Bart, Lisa and other children from Springfield Elementary School are stranded on an island and are forced to work together. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Once Upon a Space Y1 - 1954 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia where people degenerate. There are some rebels.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stand Fast Beloved City Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Martha Edith von] Almedingen (1898-1971) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Russian author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a small, isolated city. A small group of people, fourteen men and fourteen women, who are known as the Centre, control everything.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

E.M. Almedingen [pseud.]

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L, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zahatopolk" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell (1872-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - Nightmares of Eminent Persons PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell. Comp and ed. Barry Feinberg (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972), 2-110.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Fall of Night Y1 - 1953 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A city that has stagnated regains contact with a rural, telepathic utopia that has also stagnated. Cross-fertilization helps both. See also 1990 Clarke and Benford, where Against the Fall of Night is rpt. as Part I (14-145) and 2004 Benford where the relationship among the three volumes is explained in an “Afterword.”

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Part I (14-145) in Clarke and Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941). Beyond the Fall of Night. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990; and New York: iBooks, 2005. Both the advertising and the back cover say that the book includes the added short story “Jupiter Five,” which was first published in If Worlds of Science Fiction (Buffalo, NY) 2.2 (May 1953): 4-28, 75 and has nothing to do with the novel, but there is no such story in the book. Exp. version of “Against the Fall of Night.” Startling Stories (Kokomo, IN) 18 (November 1948): 11-70. Rev. version entitled The City and The Stars. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956; rpt. New York: Signet Books, 1957.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Space--Another Time Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that limits scientific activity through the SS (Science Security), which oversees all scientific work and decides on its usefulness. But in the novel, the science goes wrong and opens Earth to the possibility of an alien invasion, and the SS agents are the good guys.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brain Ultimate Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. An interplanetary union is controlled by an Interplanetary Dictator and its rules are enforced ruthlessly. In the novel scientific advances in brain power enable contact with others in the universe and the dictatorship ends in cooperation with others.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Childhood's End Y1 - 1953 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

1953 Clarke, Arthur C[harles] (1917-2008). Childhood’s End. New York: Ballantine. Exp. version of “Guardian Angel.” Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Chicago, IL) 1.4 (April 1950): 98-112, 127-29. The London: Pan, 1990 edition has a revised first chapter and a new “Foreword” (i-iv) by Clarke. DLC, HRC, L

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [John Stephen] [Glasby] (1928-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a domed city with an upper and an underclass and strict controls on knowledge. The protagonist discovers a way out.

JF - Tales of Tomorrow VL - no 7 U3 -

Randall Conway [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Boundaries Y1 - 1953 A1 - [William Henry Fleming] [Bird] (1896-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world divided into Normals and Intelligentsia.

PB - Curtis Warren CY - London U3 -

Paul Lorraine [pseud.]

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GU, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grim Tomorrow Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Kathleen] [Lindsay] (1903-73) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Future war from the perspective of a briefly described eutopia created by the survivors after the war. An author's note says that while fiction it is intended as a warning of what will happen unless people come together to oppose war.

PB - Wright & Brown CY - London U3 -

Mary Richmond [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - House of Entropy Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Herbert James] [Campbell] (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which an entire planet's population is controlled by a gigantic "brain" or computer.

PB - Panther CY - London U3 -

Roy Sheldon [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Wet Y1 - 1953 A1 - Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist eutopia. Future of the British Commonwealth. In a note the author says that he tried to imagine the Commonwealth in thirty years. Following an economic crash in the 1970s, in the 1980s Britain is poor, becoming depopulated, and socialist. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are rich, growing, and capitalist. Socialism is described as appropriate to British conditions, but conservatives had left the country in large numbers and added to the growth of the Commonwealth countries.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U3 -

Nevil Shute [pseud.]

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A, ATL, ICU, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Limbo" Y1 - 1953 A1 - William F[rederick] Temple (1914-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of National Socialists ruling Earth.

JF - Nebula (Glasgow, Scot.) VL - 1.3 U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Valley Y1 - 1953 A1 - Hector Hawton (1901-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Adventure novel with elements similar to 1933 Hilton.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love Among the Ruins; A Romance of the Near Future. With decorations by varying eminent hands including the author's Y1 - 1953 A1 - Evelyn [Arthur St. John] Waugh (1903-66) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a dreary dingy life in the welfare state. Reformatories are the best place to live and within them the best places go to murderers followed by sex offenders.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Very slightly shorter version illustrated by Mervyn Peake published in Lilliput 32.6 (May-June 1953): 73-96.

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Professor Mmaa’s Lecture Y1 - 1953 A1 - Stefan Themerson (1910-88) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -

Satire on human relations through the depiction of relations in a termite hill and the senses of the termites as they try to understand humans through exploring a dead body and literally digesting written works. 

PB - Gaberbocchus Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1984 with the "Preface" unpaged.

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Illus. Franciszka Themerson

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L, PScU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space-Time Task Force Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Harold Ernest] [Kelly] (1899-1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with an invasion from space aliens. It is set on an Earth that is divided into two societies, the Primitives (humans) and one based on specialized, synthetic beings. Cooperation between the two societies defeats the aliens, and the possibility of more far-reaching cooperation in the future is suggested.

PB - Hector Kelly Ltd CY - London U3 -

Preston Yorke [pseud.]. 

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unborn Tomorrow. A Last Story Y1 - 1953 A1 - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a eutopia. The world in the 50th century has become Roman Catholic and monarchical. Jews have converted and Protestants and Orthodox Christians have returned to the Roman Catholic Church. Very few separate nations remain. Monopolies. Chivalry. Hierarchy. No democracy. No trial by jury. Eugenics. Capitalist.

PB - MacDonald CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unites" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dull dystopia of equality with a revolution being prepared.

JF - Fables PB - Cresset Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. of the book as A Woman As Great as the World and Other Fables (New York: Random House, 1953), 97-179. 

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "You Can't Stop a Spaceman" Y1 - 1953 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Men from another planet who had explored space return to their own planet, only to discover that thousands of years had passed, and it had become a completely organized dystopia that plans to colonize Earth.

JF - Action Monthly Magazine (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 12 N1 -

Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 155-70.

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Monash, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cokaygne Fantasy" Y1 - 1952 A1 - A[rthur] L[eslie] Morton (1903-1987) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. A brief modern cokaygne.

JF - The English Utopia PB - Lawrence & Wishart CY - London U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cybernetic Controller Y1 - 1952 A1 - A[ubrey] V[incent] Clarke (1922-98) A1 - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone is placed in a particular status at birth by the "cybernetic controller" or computer and stays there for life. A successful revolt produces a society that will use the technology more intelligently.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Metal Y1 - 1952 A1 - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The disappearance of all metal brings, after a period of disruption and difficulty, a return to a simpler and better life.

PB - Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press CY - London U2 -

Illus. William Stobbs.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Earth Our New Eden" Y1 - 1952 A1 - F[rancis] G[eorge] Rayer (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and revolt. Factory cities underground.

JF - Authentic Science Fiction Monthly VL - no. 20 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Adam Y1 - 1952 A1 - Ronald [Frederick Henry] Duncan (1914-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of being the last man, but the last man finds the last woman. He chooses not to repopulate the world.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Offshore Light Y1 - 1952 A1 - Pamela [Sydney] Frankau (1908-67) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a simple, fairly authoritarian, ordered life, and craftsmanship. No money. The novel is divided into sections taking place on The Island and sections taking place in The World followed by a section posing the question "The World or the Island?" and ending on The Island.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: White Lion, 1977. US ed. as by Eliot Naylor [pseud.]. New York: Buell, Sloan & Pearce/Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1953.

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US ed. as by Eliot Naylor [pseud.]. 

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DLC, L, NLS, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Half of the Planet: A Sequel to "The Other Side of the Sun" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1950 Capon. Authoritarian dystopia set on the other side of the planet that had not been visited in the first volume. The inhabitants of the dystopia are described as savages who hope to enslave or kill the protagonists, who ultimately escape back to the civilized side of the planet. The focus is on the struggle of the space explorers to survive. See also 1954 Capon. The author wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sound of His Horn Y1 - 1952 A1 - [John William] [Wall] (1910-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the success of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and National Socialism one hundred and two years into the Reich. Breeding humans for blood sport.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960, with an “Introduction by Kingsley Amis (5-12); in his The Sound of His Horn and The King of the Lake (Horam, East Sussex, Eng.: Tartarus Press, 1999), 1-102 with a biographical “Introduction” by an unidentified author (vii-xii); and in The Sarban Omnibus (Np: Blackmask, 2008), 117-214, with “Forward” by Kingsley Amis (119-24).

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"Sarban" [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Station 7 Y1 - 1952 A1 - [John William] [Jennison] (1911-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the novel concerns a matriarchal dystopia with workers treated as if they were slaves.

PB - Curtis, Brown Limited CY - London U3 -

Gill Hunt [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Longing Y1 - 1951 A1 - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in the mid-1950s when a successful U.S.S.R., now known as the “Commonwealth of Freedomloving People” or “Free Commonwealth,” has taken over most of Western Europe and is waiting for the right moment to take France. 

PB - The Macmillan Co. CY - New York U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Amazons of the Asteroids" Y1 - 1951 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire in which Amazons riding flying are horses found in the asteroid belt. They hate men and keep them subservient.

JF - Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 17 N1 -

Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 314-30. 

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A, M., PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Again Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Mary Rose] [Coulton] (1906-2002) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Historical novel with an Australian setting featuring a character like William Lane (1861-1917), the Australian labour leader), the Australian labour leader and founder of the New Australia and Cosme communities in Paraguay.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U3 -

Sarah Campion [pseud.]

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ATL, A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape to Paradise" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Alan Geoffrey] [Yates] (1923-85) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia following atomic wars. The dystopia is enforced by the Bureau of Collective Freedom. The main characters escape the dystopia to a planet teeming with dinosaurs, which is where the story ends.

JF - Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 10 U3 -

Paul Valdez [pseud.]

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Late Final Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Joseph Walter] [Cove] (b. 1891) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the human race has relapsed into barbarianism.

PB - J.M. Dent CY - London U3 -

Lewis Gibbs [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Sky at Night Y1 - 1951 A1 - Ronald [de Couves] Matthews (1903-67) KW - English author AB -

Communist dystopia overcome by religion with the stress on the battle.

PB - Hollis & Carter CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Richardson Story Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Edward] Francis Williams (1903-70) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the effects of subliminal manipulation of the populace.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as It Happened Tomorrow. New York: Abelard Press, 1952.

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U.S. ed. as It Happened Tomorrow. New York: Abelard Press, 1952.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sonnet in the Bottle Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) KW - Egyptian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A lost race novel depicted a city of surviving Incas positively.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

J. C. Fennessy [pseud.].

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Sometimes Comes Y1 - 1951 A1 - F[rancis] G[eorge] Rayer (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post atomic war conflict between mutants produced by the radiation and “normal” humans. A central computer becomes the focus of the conflict. The machine was developed in his “The Peacemaker.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 6.17 (September 1952): 51-65; and “Ephemeral This City.” New Worlds Science Fiction (London) 11.33 (March 1955): 94-118.

PB - Home & Van Thal CY - London N1 -

Parts published earlier as “Deus Ex Machina.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 3.8 (Winter 1950): 30-40.

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L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2,000 Years On Y1 - 1950 A1 - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man is resurrected in the future, and he is told he owns the world, which is being administered by an elite. The man sides with the non-elite.

PB - Scion CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bandersnatch Y1 - 1950 A1 - T[homas] E[van] Ryves (1895-1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which scientists rule. Society is highly structured with “Instigators” the ruling scientists, the “Influencers” directing everyone’s life, and the “Operatives,” or manufactured automata, that do all the work. The independent minded cannot become citizens. 

PB - The Grey Walls Press CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Furious Evangelist: Being the Memoirs of Richard Civet during a Time of Moral Breakdown and now at last set forth and edited by Hugh Hickling Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Reginald] Hugh Hickling, ed. [written by] (1920-2007) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia stressing party politics and the dangers of a leader with too much power and no scruples about how to use it. Defeated in the end.

PB - Alvin Redman CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Forgotten Women Y1 - 1950 A1 - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian lost race matriarchy that practices human sacrifice.

PB - Skeffington and Son CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Micro Men Y1 - 1950 A1 - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A scientist invents a ray that can make people very small or very large, and it is used by others to create and control "micro men".

PB - Scion Press CY - London U3 -

Vargo Statten [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Side of the Sun. A Novel Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on custom. Advanced technology came slowly, and society had time to adjust. Vegetarian. No killing. First volumer in a trilogy; see also 1952 and 1954 Capon. The author also wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Plagiarist" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Peter Phillips (1920-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future that has rejects anything that is not quantifiable. A young boy still has an imagination that keeps getting him in trouble. Some undeveloped suggestions of significant social changes.

JF - New Worlds VL - 3.7 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 3-44.

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Illus. [Bob (Robert Allen) Clothier (1921-99)

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prison Planet" Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Sydney J.] [Bounds] (1920-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia describing various exploitations of prisoners.

JF - Futuristic Science Stories VL - no. 3 U3 -

Roger Carne [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rural District Council of Utopia Y1 - 1950 A1 - Neville Hobson M.C., J.P. KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A short pamphlet fictionally presenting an ideal Rural District Council.

PB - Ptd. Archibold & Johnsons CY - Hull, Eng. U5 -

Nott, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summer Day's Dream: A Play in Two Acts" Y1 - 1950 A1 - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The play is set in midsummer 1975 after an atomic catastrophe which has resulted in England reverting to a simple agrarian life that is presented as a eutopia.

JF - The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "U-Turn" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Science fiction story with a eutopian background of a society that allows its citizens the freedom to choose death.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 45.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Somewhere a Voice (London: Dennis Dobson, 1965), 63-76. Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1968), 65-79.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moment of Truth Y1 - 1949 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Shortly after World War II the U.K. entered a new war with Germany and lost. The novel concerns the internal relations among a group of people waiting for the last plane to evacuate them to the U.S., and the dystopia is very much in the background.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan. 1949.

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MoSW, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Eighty-Four Y1 - 1949 A1 - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic repressive totalitarian dystopia. The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. A novel on Orwell writing Nineteen Eighty-Four is Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe. New York: Overlook Press, 2017.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davison. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with a "Textual Note (327-41). US ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949. Edition With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1984 with the "Introduction" (1-154), the "Annotations to the Text" (429-49), and an "Index to Orwell's Text" (456-60). Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (iii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Centennial edition. New York: Harcourt Brace, 2003, with a “Foreword” by Thomas Pynchon (vii-xxvi) and an “Afterword” by Erich Fromm (324-37) originally published in 1984 (New York: Signet Classics, 1961) 257-67. A dramatized version was published as George Orwell's 1984. A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, Jr. and William A. Miles, Jr. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing, Inc., 1963. A graphic novel version illustrated by Fido Nesti was published in Brazil as 1984 in 2020, as Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel. London: Penguin, 2020; and as 1984: The Graphic Novel. Boston, MA/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. See also Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Ed. Peter Davison. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich/Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1984.

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The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. While many editions and reprints have the title in numbers, he insisted that it be spelled out.

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George Orwell [pseud.]

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DLC, HRC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watch the North Wind Rise Y1 - 1949 A1 - Robert [Von Ranke] Graves (1895-1985) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future medieval eutopia, which is a world of witches and warlocks ruled by the White Goddess.

PB - Creative Age Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. Rpt. under the U.K. title Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1983. The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by about six months.

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U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. 

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L, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ape and Essence Y1 - 1948 A1 - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-atomic war dystopia. Barbarianism. Eugenic rules are in place due to mutations, and babies outside certain parameters are killed. Love is not allowed, and there are sexual orgies at specified times. Worship of the Devil. It was adapted for TV by John Finch and directed by David Benedictus, it aired as an episode of the Wednesday Play on BBC on May 18, 1966. Huxley wrote a dramatization that remain unpublished until 2019 when it appeared in the Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, no. 19 (2019): 19-91, accompanied by James Sexton and Bernfried Nugel, “Aldous Huxley’s Unpublished Dramatization of Ape and Essence (1-12); their “Note on the Text” (13), and some pages of the manuscript (14-17).

PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1958; and London: Flamingo, 1994.

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DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bowl of Light Y1 - 1948 A1 - Edward [J.] Liston (1900-86) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia set in South America with advanced, rational people.

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Coward McCann, 1950.

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L, WaE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concluding Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Henry] [Yorke] (1905-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as background. Little detail on the dystopia, but it appears to be heavily bureaucratic.

PB - Hogarth Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970; London: Hogarth Press, 1978; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000; and New York: New Directions, 2017, with “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination” by Eudora Welty (v-xxi), which is rpt. from The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays & Reviews by Eudora Welty (London: Penguin Random House, 1961). 

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Henry Green [pseud.]

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LLL, MoU-St, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Domesday Village Y1 - 1948 A1 - Ian [Goodhope] Colvin (1912-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian eutopia existing outside a deeply flawed socialist utopia that is inefficient and bureaucratic, and while it is supposed to be based on merit, it is actually an aristocracy based on heredity. The eutopia is a small town that had been missed in the reorganization and had succeeded very well using traditional methods.

PB - The Falcon Press CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hail Bolonia! Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Digby George] [Gerahty] (1898-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on attempts to modernize an agrarian eutopia. The modernization fails, and the eutopia of a happy, simple life continues.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U3 -

Stephen Lister [pseud.]

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Late Night Final" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 42.4 N1 -

Rpt in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 287-313.

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Twilight Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Arthur John] [Pelham-Groom] (1906-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mars is inhabited by an advanced but dwindling people due to an anti-marriage ideology that saw marriage as being only to men's advantage. Telepathy.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

Pelham Groom [pseud.]. 

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spurious Sun Y1 - 1948 A1 - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author AB -

A novel in which the world initially appears to have created a eutopia in which nations disarm and those countries with food feed those whose people are underfed, but then war ensues, including nuclear war. The war is ended by the youth of the world cooperating, and after the war they oust the old diplomats who stood in the way of long-term peace, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.

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Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.

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George Borodin [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tory Heaven; or Thunder on the Right Y1 - 1948 A1 - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on class--"The whole population has been formally divided into the five classes that it naturally comprises" (53). Everything is provided for the highest class. No mixing among classes. Strikes illegal. Women not allowed to work.

PB - Cresset Press CY - London SN - 9781910263181 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Toasted English. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. Rpt. from the U.S. edition but with the original title and with a new preface by David Kynaston (v-xii). London: Persephone Books, 2018.

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U.S. ed. as Toasted English

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to the Future Y1 - 1947 A1 - Meaburn [Francis] Staniland (1914-92) KW - English author AB -

Authoritarian, bureaucratic, conformist dystopia.

PB - Nicholas Vane CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dry Deluge Y1 - 1947 A1 - Kathleen [Cecilia] Nott (1905-99) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly disaster but includes some dystopia.

PB - Hogarth Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End, A Projection, not a Prophecy Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Claude] [Van Zeller] (1905-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set in 2045 at the end of 100 years of peace. Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - Douglas Organ CY - London N1 -

US ed. Buffalo, NY: Desmond & Stapledon, 1948.

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Hugh Venning [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masterless Swords: Variations on a Theme Y1 - 1947 A1 - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily dystopian but suggests the possibility of a eutopia. In the first part, "Portrait of a King" (11-88), is about Alexander the Great (356-23 BCE); the second, "The Lovely Voyage" (89-173), is about Sir Francis Drake (c1540-96). The third section, "Woman In a Red Turban" (174-251) is set in the far future and is about a woman named Cahhna who leads women in a movement for perpetual peace but is opposed by men and ultimately betrayed by women. 

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace in Our Time": A Play in Two Acts and Eight Scenes Y1 - 1947 A1 - Noel [Pierce] Coward (1899-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Britain under Germany occupation.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sealed Entrance. A Novel Y1 - 1947 A1 - C[onrad Lyddon] Voss-Bark (1913-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of evolved morality set in an isolated religious community in the mountains of Albania.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Teetotalitarian State Y1 - 1947 A1 - Somerset [Streuben] De Chair (1911-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor in which the coming of British socialism changes nothing.

PB - Falcon Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death into Life Y1 - 1946 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to other works by Stapledon in that it projects humanity into both the relatively near and very far future, to a time beyond humanity. This relatively short (159 pp) version follows "the spirit of man" from death during World War II to a period in which humans inhabit eight planets to the development of a "cosmic consciousness" into which humanity is absorbed. On the copyright page there is an author's note saying, "This fantasy is not a novel." 

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 91-251.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epilogue Y1 - 1946 A1 - [Patrick] Beresford Egan (1905-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in post-war Britain. Includes ludicrously detailed government regulation, e.g. permission is required to laugh.

PB - The Fortune Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Imperfect Y1 - 1946 A1 - Bridget [Walsh] Chetwynd (1910-70) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Humorous gender-role reversal novel in which British men are disenfranchised in 1965 with their approval.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Forbidden to Man Y1 - 1946 A1 - Muriel [Florence] Hine (ca. 1874-1949) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A community of women inhabit an island and forbid men to land. For a time, it appears to be a feminist eutopia, but various conflicts emerge with some of the younger women wanting to marry. The community survives as a community but with men as well as women

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Living Lies" Y1 - 1946 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Racial dystopia on Venus where there are many different skin colors.

JF - New Worlds: A Science Fiction Magazine of the Future VL - no. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in Other Worlds Science Stories 2.4 (8) (November 1950): 96-130.

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John Beynon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mistress Masham's Repose Y1 - 1946 A1 - T[erence] H[anbury] White (1906-64) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult Gulliveriana. Gulliver brought some Lilliputians back with him, and they have settled on an island in a lake in a neglected estate. They are befriended by a young girl.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Fritz Eichenberg.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visit of the Princess: A Romance of the Nineteen-sixties Y1 - 1946 A1 - R[alph] H[ale] Mottram (1883-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia seen through a romance in what appears to be a dull, egalitarian dystopia but is also a society giving much better life chances to children.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Farrar Saw Y1 - 1946 A1 - James Hanley (1901-85) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia as a fantasy of post-war Britain with clogged highways and difficult class relations.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his What Farrar Saw and Other Stories (London: André Deutsch, 1984), 1-204.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animal Farm; A Fairy Story Y1 - 1945 A1 - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic story of totalitarianism. See also 1964 Bond.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as vol. 8 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davision. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with Appendix I “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm” (97-108); Appendix II “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm” (109-14); Appendix III “Orwell’s Radio Adaptation of Animal Farm” (115-95); and “Textual Note” (197-203). U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1946. First illustrated edition, with illustrations by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. Rpt. with drawings by Quentin Blake. London: The Folio Society, 1984; and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson (iii-x) and one illus. by Frank Kelly Freas. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. 50th Anniversary Edition with illustrations by Ralph Steadman. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995, which includes “Orwell’s Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (159-71) and “Orwell’s Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm (173-80). The National Theatre produced a dramatization available as George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Adapted by Peter Hall with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell and music by Richard Peaslee. London: Methuen, 1985. A film was directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas (1955). A theatre version by Ian Wooldridge was adapted by Ivan Heng for Wild Rice (Singapore). As Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel. Illus. by Odyr [Bernardi] (b. 1967). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019. Originally published in Portuguese as A Revolução dos Bichos. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Schwarcz S.A., 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Turning Y1 - 1945 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as taking place in Dreamland, which is a eutopia. Primarily concerned with religion. Discussions with Jesus who attacks Christianity and Paul in particular. Says he did not die and spent the rest of his life as a carpenter.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Last Books of H.G. Wells. The Happy Turning and Mind at the End of its Tether. Ed. G.P. Wells ([London]: H.G. Wells Society, 1982), 19-52 with an “Appendix The Writing of the Last Books” by the editor (79-80). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Government; or, Do You Really Like It? A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups Y1 - 1945 A1 - Jiri Weiss (1913-2004) KW - Czech author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. After World War II a government in exile returns, finds that the people have taken over and have no need for them, and leaves.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Missed the War Y1 - 1945 A1 - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race authoritarian dystopia that practices human sacrifice set in a temperate area of Antarctica with a battle rather like Armageddon (See Revelation 16) at the end.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds Far From Here (London: Hutchinson, [1954]), 334-743; and separately London: Arrow Books, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Hideous Strength, A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown Ups Y1 - 1945 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy about the struggle between the forces of good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16). Traditional marriage with the woman obedient is stressed. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1943 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. 

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Abr. as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts Y1 - 1945 A1 - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author AB -

Classic body-eutopia. According to the “Author’s Note” (6-7) it was written in 1933 in Russia and lost; he rewrote it in 1944. Both versions were “escape[s] from the pressure of reality” (7).

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Dawn Y1 - 1944 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

In the dystopia of the post-war world most countries had been destroyed, but a world confederation begins to be formed led by the Anglo-Saxon Confederation.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fly Envious Time Y1 - 1944 A1 - Lou[ise Olga Elisabeth] King-Hall (b. 1897) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The first part describes the middle class before World War II. This is followed by two stages of the future. In 1979 an authoritarian society exists that stresses science and eugenics. Tablet food. In 1999 there is an emphasis on art, but World War III starts.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homes or Hovels: The Housing Problem and Its Solution Y1 - 1944 A1 - George Woodcock (1912-95) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An anarchist approach to housing. The author rejects what he says are overly detailed utopias, but then goes on to give a detailed description of housing, which will mostly apartments/flats, an emphasis on neighborhoods, and few large cities. 

PB - Freedom Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lights Were Going Out Y1 - 1944 A1 - Arthur Guirdham (1905-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia that will follow peace without victory with the National Socialists gaining influence over Britain and the U.S.

PB - Quality Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Old Man in New World Y1 - 1944 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia that encourages diversity and individuality as seen by an old revolutionist who is not entirely comfortable in the world the revolution created. World federation. 

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 253-82; and in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 42-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Outward Urge. A Novel Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Alec] Richard Lea (1907-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Starts with an authoritarian dystopia with various forms of direct control and London something like a concentration camp. By the end of the novel, the worst of the dystopia is gone and, while not a eutopia, there is a good society in contrast with the recent past.

PB - Rich & Cowan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peace in Nobody's Time Y1 - 1944 A1 - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author AB -

Satire. Dictatorship with some socialist elements like the abolition of money and the introduction of labor coupons. The stress is on going to extremes to cure social ills. Nudists were required to be nude all the time, which stopped them from being nudists. Marriage was abolished, and the people demanded its reinstatement. Pornography was legalized and disappeared.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

George Borodin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Riddle of the Tower Y1 - 1944 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) A1 - Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

A number of past and future societies are presented from an anti-utopian perspective. The focus of the novel is on the horrors of communalism.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 1946 Ms Y1 - 1943 A1 - Robin [Robert Cecil Romer] Maugham [2nd Viscount Maugham] (1916-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Describes the origins and development of a military dictatorship in England that becomes a fascist dystopia. On the last page the author says that the dictators do not exist and, "This story was written so that they never will exist and so that Britons never will be slaves".

PB - War Facts Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of The Better World Y1 - 1943 A1 - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alice in Wonderland fantasy discussion of plans for and problems of post-war Britain. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements with the plans of the Labour Party presented most positively.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U2 -

Illus. Mervyn Peake (1911-68)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities of the Plain: A Democratic Melodrama Y1 - 1943 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist dystopia and revolt. A one act play showing a town run for profit with no concern for the workers who, mining radium, will die to provide a profit for the owners. 

PB - Grey Walls Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Mechanistic or a Human Society? Y1 - 1943 A1 - Wilfred Wellock (1879-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A pamphlet that decries the dominance of machines and the machine-mentality they produce. The author calls for a simpler life based on traditional English agriculture and decentralization to the village level or a “land-based democracy” (15). Cooperation. Regionalism. In his “Introduction” to the U.S. ed. Tamplin argues for the use of machines “more on the behalf of freeing and benefiting man” (2) and says, “Our society is itself a great mechanistic structure” (3). He says he is sure Wellock would agree.

PB - [Ptd. by The Hereford Times for Wilfred Wellock, Quinton, Birmingham] CY - [Hereford, Eng.] N1 -

U.S. ed. [New York: Decentralist Press, 1945]], with an “Introduction” (2-3) by Richard T. Tamplin.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Mirakel Y1 - 1943 A1 - E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim (1886-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A small enclave during World War II that survives Earth's revolt against war. Very upper class eutopia.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1943

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perelandra Y1 - 1943 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Second volume of a trilogy on the battle between good and evil. Re-enactment of the Adam and Eve myth on Venus but with no Fall. Stresses closeness to animals. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. 

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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 Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “They Came to a City. A Play in Two Acts” Y1 - 1943 A1 - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The eutopia that might be possible in post-war Britain as seen through the eyes of characters representative of contemporary Britain. Only some see it positively.

JF - Three Plays PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his Four Plays (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), 151-221. Rpt. as “They Came to a City: A Play in Two Acts.” In The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III (London: William Heinemann, 1950), 139-201 with a brief note by Priestley on xi. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Was I Killed? A Dramatic Dialogue Y1 - 1943 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dead soldier asks the question, which is discussed by seven people, with the soldier observing the discussion and the stages of each individual’s past that led them to take the position they do. In one chapter, “The New Order” (92-111), the soldier observes life under the Nazi regime and in a concentration camp.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christianity and Social Order Y1 - 1942 A1 - William Temple Archbishop of York (1881-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction that lays out of the principles for a Christian democratic socialist eutopia after the war.

PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and the Light Y1 - 1942 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia presented as two alternative future histories. The dystopia is extrapolated from the situation as it existed in 1942. In the eutopia that situation is overcome and for a time a eutopia based on villages develops. Following that, the human race goes through periods of decline and advance until a new and higher human type develops. 

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 28-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grand Canyon Y1 - 1942 A1 - V[ictoria Mary] Sackville-West (1892-1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. Germany wins World War II and Japan is defeated by the U.S., but peace last only briefly until Germany and Japan attack the U.S. During the attack a few people escape to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they create a good, cooperative society.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am the World. A Romance Y1 - 1942 A1 - Peter Vansittart (1920-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Imaginary country in which a young man plans to overthrow the monarchy and become dictator. Conflict, love, and religion.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I, James Blunt Y1 - 1942 A1 - H[enry Canova] V[ollom] Morton (1892-1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II and sets about destroying Britain.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Dodd, Mead, 1942.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Order" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) ED - John Lehmann Editor KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief description of the dystopia that develops as the result of loss in a war with some suggestion of the development of resistance.

JF - The Penguin New Writing PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. VL - No. 14 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Railway Accident and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1969), 220-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Then We Shall Hear Singing; A Fantasy in C Major Y1 - 1942 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fascist dystopia set in a country that has experienced many invasions and has a tradition of resistance. The people are not allowed to sing, and the native language is prohibited in schools. The dictator approves a program of medical experiments on the people of the country intended to eliminate resistance by removing part of the brain.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1942. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Unknown Land Y1 - 1942 A1 - Viscount [Herbert Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An explorer comes to believe that Belsalem, the country described in Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) must exist and searches for, and discovers, it. Here the basis for the utopia is a treatment that enlarges the brain, and in addition to the science and technology central to the New Atlantis, there is great stress on health and mental activity. All knowledge had been sifted for truth. Work consists mostly of overseeing machines. No money. The family is sacrosanct and birth control produces a stable population. Little government need; some administration. The book concludes with two appendices. The first is “A Note on the Changing Shape of the Skull” (215-216) that consists of abstracts from Sir Janes Frazer’s the Golden Bough. Vol. 2 The Magic Art, 297. The second is “Scientific Discoveries” (217-221) and presents more information on three points in the book, the Nature of Light, Positive and negative electricity, and the Mental Ambience.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aerodrome: A Love Story Y1 - 1941 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a military leader imposes his very restrictive version of military discipline on a rapidly expanding airfield and the area around it. He plans to take over all of Britain. He argues that women should be used sexually by the airmen as long as no children are born, and no long-term attachment develops.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1982, with an “Introduction” by Anthony Burgess (9-12); London: Vintage books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by Michael [John] Moorcock ([ix-xx]). U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, [1946]. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. London: John Lane, 1944; and as New ed. with the subtitle A Novel. London: John Lane, 1946; U.S. Ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1946. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel and the “Introduction” by Burgess (9-12). London: The Bodley Head, 1982. Rpt. with the original subtitle London: The Bodley Head, 1966, with an “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (9-11); U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Co., 1966, with the “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (9-11); rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969, with the “Introduction” by Angus Wilson (xi-xiii). Most of the many have the original subtitle.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Atlantis" Y1 - 1941 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The struggle to reach utopia, particularly the diversions on the way.

JF - Christianity and Society VL - 6.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 20-22; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 202-204; Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 116-118; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 232-234, with a Textual Note on 873.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The British Countryside in 1951" Y1 - 1941 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very brief eutopia based on Germany being defeated in the war, the air coming under the control of a world authority, the establishment of world law based on a Declaration of Rights (included in the book 49-54), and the adoption of socialism. Some of the countryside has been allowed to return to its natural state and areas have been reforested. Villages have more amenities. Children from the cities will spend much time in the country. The old stately homes have been turned into country clubs and hotels. In “Future Cities” (96-97), he says that in this essay and “Uprooted People” (94-95), he was “trying to Imagine the face of the world in 1951, if civilisation wins the war” (92).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Common Enemy Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins with a world-wide disaster brought about by an object passing through the solar system that throws the Earth's orbit off, causing massive storms and world-wide shifts in land, and moving Earth closer to the sun. This ends World War II because most of Germany is flooded. In Britain, led by a man who recognizes that the disaster provides a common enemy that pulls people together, the rebuilding process slowly produces a socialist eutopia. Democracy rejected at the national level, but local democracy is being created. At the end of the novel, although the U.S. is recreating competitive capitalism, Europeans are in the process of creating similar cooperative systems.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eden Island. A Novel Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

While most of the novel is the story of the life of an heiress, there are utopian elements both in the good works she undertakes and in her creation of Eden Island, which she establishes to provide a home for a refugee orchestra and others.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U3 -

J. C. Fennessy [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newtopia; The World We Want Y1 - 1941 A1 - Philip Whitewell Wilson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Newtopians are average people who are mostly focused on their homes. Most of the book is on current conditions and the war in particular. The eutopian aspects of the book focus on the conditions that will allow people to lead a decent life. International unity is one such condition, and the author refers to 1939 Streit. Reformed capitalism. Christian but more generally religious.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sanity Island. A Novel Y1 - 1941 A1 - Adrian [Richard] Alington (1895-1958) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Humorous rearmament. People must laugh at themselves more and, in particular, laugh at the ridiculousness of their political leaders.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Uprooted Peoples” Y1 - 1941 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopia of a post-war “Britain in a federal world, completely socialist and sharing a common freedom of all mankind. . .” while there remains a clear continuity with the past, but with what he calls “nomadism” (94). “In a federated world, political forms will cease to be territorial, will be subordinated [95] to world unionism and professionalism” (94-95). In the next essay, “Future Cities” (96-97), he says that in “The British Countryside in 1951” (92-93) and this essay, he was “trying to Imagine the face of the world in 1951, if civilisation wins the war” (92).

JF - Guide to the New World: A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Dreams May Come..." Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth's but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience. In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness at Noon Y1 - 1940 A1 - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author AB -

A famous work describing the Show Trials in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) that has been called a dystopia and has been very influential on dystopian literature. 

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: The Folio Society, 1980 with an “Introduction” (7-15) by Vladimir Bukovsky. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1941. Because the original manuscript was assumed to have been lost, all publications of the novel, including German ones, were based on this translation, but it was discovered in 2015, and a new translation by Philip Boehm based on that manuscript has been published. London: Vintage Classics, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Scribner, 2019. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elizabeth in Africa Y1 - 1940 A1 - Florence A[ntoinette] Kilpatrick (1888-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous lost race novel with all the usual plot lines. 

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U2 -

Illus. Leonard Boden.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hopousia; or The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society Y1 - 1940 A1 - J[ohn] D[aniel] Unwin (1895-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed nonfictional eutopia with the emphasis on its sexual and economic foundations, but the whole is presented as an experiment. The author argues that a good society needs very energetic people and that will require reformed sexual and economic systems. Sexually energy comes from restraint, and he proposes two types of marriage, one that is strictly monogamous and one that is not, although with the possibility of moving between the two. Economically, capitalism must be eliminated together with private ownership of land and replaced with a form of guild socialism. The word "Hopousia" is derived from the Greek for where. There is an "Introduction" (13-29) by Aldous Huxley, who argues that while the basic institutions are sound, the approach is overly simple.

PB - George Allen and Unwin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: O. Piest, 1940. An extract was published as Our Economic Problems and Their Solution. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1944. 148 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manna Y1 - 1940 A1 - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Manna (a plant that provides complete nourishment) grows wild. A reformation of social and political institutions begins and is suppressed. Manna is destroyed by governments.

PB - Cassell and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arrogant History of White Ben Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Winifred] [Ashton] (1888-1965) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Allegory on the rise of National Socialism. A scarecrow comes to life dedicated to eliminating all crows and leads a campaign to exterminate them.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Portway, Bath, Eng.: Cedric Chivers, 1971.

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Clemence Dane [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death Guard Y1 - 1939 A1 - Philip George Chadwick (1893-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Creation of artificial life leads to a dystopia.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Roc, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enchanted Wood Y1 - 1939 A1 - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s fantasy with three children exploring the Enchanted Wood and discovering the Faraway Tree that leads them to many unusual places where they meet a variety of characters including some from fairy tales.  Includes Cockaigne episodes together with other adventures. Continued in her The Magic Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1943; The Folk of the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1946; and Up the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1951, all of which is composed of illustrations with captions and have a similar format. The first part of Up the Faraway Tree was originally published in Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories Magazine (1948). 

PB - George Newes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Deanes, 2012

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Illus. Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Terror Y1 - 1939 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents the dystopia of the contemporary world and the difficult process of creating a eutopia. The eutopia is Wells's world state, which is brought into being through something very like his "open conspiracy" (see 1928 Wells). Here Wells presents an unusual, deeply flawed man leading the human race towards a good life who also develops dictatorial tendencies, has a mental breakdown, and is murdered. 

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hopkins Manuscript Y1 - 1939 A1 - R[obert] C[edric] Sherriff (1896-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel concerns the run up to and results of the moon crashing into the Earth and lodging in the Atlantic Ocean with the focus on the survivors in Britain as described in a manuscript found by explorers from Abyssinia. Most of the manuscript is concerned with the disaster, but it includes the emergence of a system of mostly small towns described positively followed by the emergence of a power-hungry dictator.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London/New York: Scribner, 2023. 387 pp. Also entitled The Cataclysm. London: Pan, 1958.

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Also entitled The Cataclysm. London: Pan, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Impromptu in Moribundia Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Anthony Walter] Patrick Hamilton (1904-62) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the caste/class system. Moribundia is England. People always behave correctly as defined by their class, and there are physical distinctions among the classes/castes.

PB - Constable and Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Nottingham, Eng.: Trent Editions, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Innocent at Oxford Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Christopher] Richard [Sandford] Buckle (1916-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Adventures in a reformed Oxford (no industry, no suburbs) that has replaced London as the center of English life.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unknown Citizen" Y1 - 1939 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing a bureaucratic dystopia that honors a man who is "normal in every way."

JF - The Listener (London) VL - 22.551 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 142-143; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 146-147; in Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 85-86; in The Hedgehog Review (Charlottesville, VA) 10.3 (Fall 2008): 38-39; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume I 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 368-369, with a Textual Note on 767-768.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visit to Utopia Y1 - 1939 A1 - J[ohn] Howard Whitehouse (1873-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. One emphasis is on the beauty of the place. Another is on technology; for example, mining has been so improved that work underground is no longer needed. No unemployment. No war; hence no need for arms. Equal opportunity for higher education.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Band of Brothers Y1 - 1939 A1 - [George Cecil] [Foster] (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by Germany winning World War 2.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

Seaforth [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Not Now? A British Islander's Dream Y1 - 1939 A1 - Arthur St. John (1862-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. London is transformed, and the Thames is clean and a center of activity. More simple life stressing families and neighborhoods then districts or towns, countries, continents, and the world.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Wyndham Smith Y1 - 1938 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Machine dystopia with a few rebels. “Original Sin” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Efforts of Chance Y1 - 1938 A1 - M[ontefiore] Follick (1887-1958) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Mostly adventure but describes a model town.

PB - Serjeant's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glorious Morning; A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1938 A1 - Norman MacOwan (1877-1961) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia in a fictional Eastern European country. Unsuccessful rebellion.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939 with photographs from the play. The novel is based on a play with the same title first produced at the Duchess Theatre, London, May 26, 1938. The play was published as "Glorious Morning: A Play in Three Acts." In Famous Plays 1938-1939 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1939), 337-453; and as the Acting ed. London: Samuel French Ltd., 1939.

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1939 ed. has photographs from the play.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hidden Tribe Y1 - 1938 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race authoritarian dystopia in the Sahara following the practice of Egyptian pharaohs of marrying their sisters. The community has successfully practiced a eugenic program to enhance both physique and intelligence.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out of the Silent Planet Y1 - 1938 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

First volume of a trilogy on the struggle between good and evil. Presents a eutopia as a sub-theme in which the eutopia is given by God. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1943 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. The name of the indigenous inhabitants, the Hrossa, is also used by Judith Moffett in Pennterra (1987).

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an “Introduction” (viii-xxvi) and “Notes” (175-94) by David Elloway. London: Longmans, 1966; and New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Chapter 16 is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 90-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pagan City Y1 - 1938 A1 - W[illiam] N[oel] Chaplin (1892-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Ancient Rome as a dystopia that continues to exist inside the earth. In an Epilogue the author says that he was trying to demonstrate what a benefit the introduction of Christianity had been.

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Professor. A Novel Y1 - 1938 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia derived from National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, [1944]. U.S. ed. as The Professor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Island Y1 - 1938 A1 - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Three children who believe their parents are dead and are mistreated by the aunt and uncle and a boy who has been abandoned by his grandfather un away to an island in the middle of a large lack. Seen through their eyes, it is a utopia.

PB - Basil Blackwell CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. illus. Dudley Wynne. Worksop, Eng.: Award Publications Limited, 2009. 190 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Woman Reigns Y1 - 1938 A1 - [Reginald William Malyon] [Gibbs] (1878-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia based on the rule of women set in the future in the Himalayas. All ferocious animals and vermin eliminated after a detailed classification and research program, called the War of Human Supremacy. No disease. Sexual men do not work but are adopted by women as consorts. Children vote. Votes for dogs being considered. Thorough censorship. Civil Service based on detailed examinations after twenty years of study.

PB - Pen-in-Hand Pub. Co CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -

August Anson [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World-Birth Y1 - 1938 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Education. Cooperative system with production for use not profit.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Year Nine" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903-74) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Short authoritarian dystopia particularly concerned with censorship. Humor.

JF - The New Statesman and Nation (London) VL - 15.362 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Condemned Playground. Essays: 1927-1944 (London: Routledge, 1945), 154-59. Rpt. (New York: Macmillan, 1946), 154-159; (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 154-59; and in The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly. Volume Two: The Two Natures. Ed. Matthew Connolly (London: Picador, 2002), 322-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hobbit or There and Back Again Y1 - 1937 A1 - J[ohn] R[onald] R[eul] Tolkien (1897-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic children's fantasy novel. Hobbiton-across-the-Water is an arcadia.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

2nd. ed. 1951; 3rd ed. 1966; 4th ed. 1978; [50th] anniversary ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987 with a “Foreword” by Christopher Tolkien (i-xvi); 75th Anniversary Edition. London: Harper Collins, 2011, with a “Preface” that is excerpts from the 50th ed. “Foreword” (v-xiv). For further information see The Annotated Hobbit. Rev. and exp. ed. annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Illus. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 2002. It includes “The Quest of Erebor” [“Gandalf’s explanation of how arranged Bilbo’s adventure”] (367-77); “On Runes” (368-69); and a bibliography that includes, among other things, an extensive list of editions of The Hobbit.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Act (A.D. 1995)” Y1 - 1937 A1 - F[rank] L[aurence] Lucas (1894-1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the world is divided between those nations subservient to Japan (Asia to the Urals and Australasia) and Germany (Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa), with the Pan-American Union between them. The story details the dystopia as it exists in the areas controlled by Germany and ends with the human race destroyed.

JF - The Woman Clothed With the Sun and Other Stories PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morwyn or the Vengeance of God Y1 - 1937 A1 - John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Hell as dystopia.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Old Goat: A fantasia on a theme of Blackmail and Sudden Death Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Theodore] Edwin Greenwood (1895-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A novel that includes a description of a proto-fascist authoritarian intentional community and the plan for a future authoritarian order. Considerable humor.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Under the Fig Leaf. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. 

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U.S. ed. as Under the Fig Leaf. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rhubarb Tree Y1 - 1937 A1 - Kenneth [Cyril Bruce] Allott (1912-73) A1 - Stephen Tait KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which one focus is a fascist dystopia.

PB - The Cresset Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia Y1 - 1937 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the belief that cosmic rays are causing positive mutations in humans and producing more rational people who will, over time, bring about a better world. Chapter 9 includes some eutopian material including better education, world peace and world citizenship with complete freedom of movement, abundance, the world turned into a garden, and individuality. Chapter 9 is 169-85 (C&W); 186-202 (Viking); 124-33 (WUP); London Mercury 36.212 (June 1937): 166-72.

JF - London Mercury PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London VL - 35 - 36.210 - 212 N1 -

Repub. London: Chatto & Windus. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1937. Both U.K. and U.S. eds. published in June. Rpt. ed. John Huntington. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star-Maker Y1 - 1937 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One of Stapledon's visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon. Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 221-412; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 221-412; as The Star Maker. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1961; in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 247-438; Bath, Eng.: Lythway Press, 1974; and ed. Patrick McCarthy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004 with a “Foreword” by Freeman Dyson (xi-xv) and an “Introduction” by the editor (xix-xxxiii). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 22-28. An earlier version was discovered and published as Nebula Maker. Hayes, Middlesex, Eng.: Bran's Head Books, 1976. Rpt. in Nebula Maker & Four Encounters with illustrations by Jim Starlin (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983), 1-124 with an "Introduction" by Arthur C. Clarke (vii-x).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sugar in the Air: A Romance Y1 - 1937 A1 - E[rnest] C[harles] Large (1902-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on capitalism and big business. See his Asleep in the Afternoon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008, which is a novel about the writing of Sugar in the Air.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Swastika Night Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia where there has been five hundred years of Nazi rule, and the Nazi creed has become transmuted into a religion which directly supports the current power structure of the future Germany. There is still a single Führer who rules with the blessing of Hitler and God the Thunderer over a clearly defined hierarchy that is nationalist, racist, sexist, with love only between men and women kept separate and only for breeding, and anti-Christian. Much of the book is about one of the German Knights who knows the truth of the past and works to preserve that knowledge the future. Female author.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Left Book Club Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940; and by Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michael Dirda (1-4); and under the author's real name Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985  with an “Introduction” iii-xv) by Daphne Patai; and London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michel Dirda (1-4).

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Murray Constantine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wild Goose Chase Y1 - 1937 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three brothers separately set out on a search for the wild goose and find a town that is a dystopia with the people slaves and an extraordinarily corrupt and decadent government. The youngest of the brothers leads a successful revolution. Much on revolutionary strategy and tactics.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Uniform Edition. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944, 442 pp. and London: Merlin Press, 1990, with an “Introduction by Andrew Cramp (vii-xvii). xvii + 442 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 454 pp.

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Trans. into Italian as La caccia all’Oca selvatica. [Torino]: Einaudi, 1953

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Ends Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Margaret Storm] [Jameson] (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Massive earthquakes have been occurring in Europe, and one destroys most of England. In the novel, only one simple, farming family and the sophisticated protagonist author from London are depicted as surviving. Overwhelmingly dystopian, but the protagonist ultimately finds happiness in the simple life on the farm. 

PB - J. M. Dent and Sons CY - London U2 -

Illus. John Farleigh

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William Lamb [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young Men Are Coming! Y1 - 1937 A1 - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) KW - Creole author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Montserrat British West Indies author AB -

Includes a fascist attempt to take over Britain.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1937. 375 pp.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Us or The World as it might be Y1 - 1936 A1 - J[ohn] P[ercy] Lockhart-Mummery (1875-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A rational anti-socialist eutopia written as a projection for AD 2536. Advanced technology. Eugenics. Genetically engineered food. Reason.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blackshirt the Adventurer Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Graham Montague] [Jeffries] (1900-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Cave world (World of the Secret People) inhabited by criminals, and the criminals are slaves of the overlords.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hutchinson, 1945.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hesperides: A Looking-Glass Fugue Y1 - 1936 A1 - John [Leslie] Palmer (1885-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Art and imagination discouraged. No emotions. Eating and sleeping completely private and are considered impolite.

PB - Martin Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home Life in A.D. 2000" Y1 - 1936 A1 - E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on overzealous law making.

JF - Life, Law & Letters PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Second Year Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set after World War I. The inability of governments to deal with post-war economic problems combined with communist agitation leads to the rise of a strong man. Labour and Training Camps are established, the former for the unemployed, the latter to punish dissidents. The novel traces three months under the regime as seen by an outsider.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Ed. Stan Smith. Nottingham, Eng.: Trent Editions, 2004 with "Notes on the Text" (216-26).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine Stops Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Victor] [Bayley] (1880-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Disaster dystopia in which all metal disintegrates.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Wayland Smith [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Could Still Laugh (A Story of the Future) Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Charles Houghton] [Oldfield] (1889-1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on totalitarianism that sees laughter as the best defense.

PB - Bantam Books/Todd Publishing Co. CY - London N1 -

Originally published in Prague newspaper (not found) and then Candide

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopia: Address to the Cosmopolitan Club of the London School of Economics and Political Science (23rd October 1934)" Y1 - 1936 A1 - William H[enry] Beveridge, [Baron Beveridge] (1879-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A world eutopia is presented based on variety. A specific eutopia located in Scotland (now known as Econ) is based on an economic system that is fundamentally capitalist but that ensures the maintenance of all basic physical and psychological needs by providing publicly for everything related to education broadly defined plus housing, transport, and the maintenance of the countryside (134-26, 138). Stress on variety (137-38) with an educational system designed to reflect the variety of human needs and interests (138-40). Both individual and collective family systems exist in Econ. The world eutopia is based on the introduction of birth control and the resultant fall in population (133). London is thus depicted as emptier and greener. Immigration anywhere in the world is open to all, but national differences remain (134, 136). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nobody Talks Politics; A Satire with an Appendix on Our Political Intelligentsia Y1 - 1936 A1 - Geoffrey [Edgar Solomon] Gorer (1905-85) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which fascism is brought about by a lack of concern. Satire on the political awakening of the middle class.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Owl of Athene Y1 - 1936 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Story told by the owl about the gods' concern with human conflict. The gods produce conflict between humans and crabs which forces the human race to work together. A vaguely described eutopia results.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America) Y1 - 1936 A1 - C[harles] Wicksteed Armstrong F.R.G.S. (1871-ca 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia describing a eugenic colony in Brazil called Eugenia. Relatively few laws. The natural position of women is child-rearing and domestic labor while that of men is combat and work. Sexual freedom for the unmarried but self-control is stressed. Voluntary euthanasia. Defective children killed. The author had previously made a proposal for such a colony; see his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review (London) 25.2 (n.s. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97. See also 1892 Armstrong, The Yorl of the Northmen; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.

PB - John Bale, Sons & Danielsson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Comet: A Tale of Travel in the U S S R Y1 - 1936 A1 - Geoffrey Trease (1909-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children’s book that depicts the Soviet Union as a eutopia seen through the eyes of two children from the United States who are able to fly around the country. Particular emphasis on the Soviet children. An author’s note at the end says that it is based on his own travels around the country in 1935.

PB - Co-operative publishing society of foreign workers in the U.S.S.R. CY - Moscow N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1937. U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1937. Both the U.K. and U.S. eds. were printed in Moscow.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Retreat from Armageddon Y1 - 1936 A1 - Muriel Jaeger (1894-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Set in a house-party waiting for the coming of war. Each guest is asked to speak. One (a biologist) presents a eugenic eutopia; the next (an artist) presents a critique of the eugenic eutopia which stresses that it will become a dystopia.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sell England? Y1 - 1936 A1 - [John Percy Vyvian] Dacre Balsdon (1901-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on 20th Century England set in the future when Africa is the center of civilization.

PB - Eyre and Spottiswoode CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of the Future Y1 - 1936 A1 - John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Twenty-four prophecies of the future, mostly fairly short term but with others extending to 4000 A.D. Both eutopian and dystopian projections.

PB - George Routledge & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Found Atlantis Y1 - 1936 A1 - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia. The Azores are the peaks of the mountains of the submerged Atlantis. Most of the book is concerned with its discovery.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1936. Rpt. in his Worlds Far From Here (London: Hutchinson, [1954]), 745-1120.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fraudulent Conversion. A Romance of the Gold Standard Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Matilda Angela Antonia] [Hunter] (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A wealthy man sets out to reform England and fights for reform against fascists. Gaining control of newspapers and the bank were essential to his success. He buys freedom for prisoners of dictators. Slum clearance and medical reform.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U3 -

George Lancing [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Child: A Romance Y1 - 1935 A1 - Herbert [Edward] Read (1893-1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two imaginary countries. The first is located in South America and is a benevolent dictatorship. The second is under England, and, in it, mental perfection is the goal of life.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle London: Grey Walls Press, 1945 with illustrations by Felix Kelley; New York: New Directions, 1935 with an introduction by Graham Green, which is rpt. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1969.

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Grey Walls Press, ed. illus. Felix Kelley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - H[ugh] R[ichard] L[awrie] Sheppard (1880-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Proposals for church reform, although most of the book is criticism of the current churches. The proposed reforms include cooperation among denominations, the recognition of others than the Church of England by the state, and the pooling of church endowments. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Charles] Vernon [Olldfield] Bartlett (1894-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Benevolent dictatorship and its failures. Series of reforms. Tolerance. Eliminate the arms trade and replace the military with a League of Nations militia. Eliminate single family homes and replace them with apartment houses with facilities for interaction. Open up the countryside. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator. From a Speech delivered at Blackpool on May 24th 1935 Y1 - 1935 A1 - The Right Hon. Sir Herbert [Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Outlines the policies of Liberalism at the time. Remove trade restrictions; stabilize currencies; limit armaments; stimulate employment; reduce taxation; extend social reforms; develop industrial self-government; and enhance liberty and equality.

PB - Liberal Publication Department CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Martha Brown M.P.; A Girl of To-Morrow Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Annie Sophie ("Vivian")] [Cory] (1868-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London N1 -

Cheap ed. London: T Werner Laurie, [1936]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest Y1 - 1935 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Advanced human beings and the society they create. The eutopia is a small part of the work. Stapledon wrote many utopias.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Wendy Snow-Lang and with a brief "Introduction" (unpaged) by Alfred Bester. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. Rpt. as Odd John: THE Masterpiece of the Superhuman Race that May Replace Humanity Sooner than You Think! New York: Galaxy, 1936. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 8. U.S. ed. rpt. with the original title in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 413-569. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 413-569; as Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Ernest [sic]. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1965; and in Odd John & Sirius: Two Science Fiction Novels (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), 1-157.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect World" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Benson Herbert (1912-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World inside a planet with perfect physical surroundings.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.5 - 7.7 N1 -

Abridged as Crisis! 1992. London: Grant Richards, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple Plague; A Tale of Love and Revolution Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Archibald] Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia on a ship where people have had to live for years as a result of the purple plague.

PB - Sampson, Low & Marston CY - London N1 -

Rewritten as Red Liner: A Novel in TV Form. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Shroud as Well as a Shirt Y1 - 1935 A1 - Shamus [James Ian Arbuthnot] Frazer (1912-66) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a near future fascist takeover in England.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soul of Man in the Age of Leisure Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Non-fiction but projects a better future society based on leisure. The pamphlet series is a Social Credit series, but this one does not mention Social Credit.

PB - Stanley Nott CY - London VL - No. 13 of Pamphlets on the New Economics. N1 -

Rpt. in The Social Credit Pamphleteer by Various Hands being Numbers 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 17 of the Listed material opposite [A full list of the Pamphlets on the New Economics] (London: Stanley Nott, 1935). Items separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sun Shall Rise Y1 - 1935 A1 - Richard Heron Ward (1910-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fascist dystopia.

PB - Ivor Nicholson & Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Yvonne Was Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - Elsie [Elizabeth] Kay Gresswell (1877-1944) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A woman becomes a benevolent dictator after the mass suicide of the unemployed and the failure of three parties to form a government. She ends unemployment and brings about a number of other reforms, particularly in the area of gender equality.

PB - John Heritage CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - With the Lid Off Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Eliza Louise] [Cooke] (1883-1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A benevolent dictatorship transforms England. Nationalization with people forced to work. if necessary, eugenics, required exercise, and slum clearance. Most of the novel is on the battle for success.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

Joan Conquest [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Alive Y1 - 1935 A1 - Susan Ertz (1887-1985) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

War and a disease it produced left only one woman alive. Drama of convincing her to marry and start again. Suggests that eutopia will be possible.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1936. Also published as "One Woman Alive." The Delineator 128.3 - 5 (March - May 1936): 4, 6, 7, 42-44, 46-47; 16-19, 21, 47-50; 24-25, 56-58, 60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Triumphant: A Comedy Y1 - 1935 A1 - Hugh [Oswald] Blaker (1873-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Women get the vote in 1928 and come to dominate men. The novel describes a men's liberation movement.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black August. A Novel Y1 - 1934 A1 - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The depression of the thirties brings about the collapse of governments and, in Britain, the emergence of a Communist dictatorship.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blind Mouths Y1 - 1934 A1 - Thomas [Frederick] Tweed (1890-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Federation of Danubian States rejects a Christ figure.

PB - Arthur Barker, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. by T[homas] F[rederick] Tweed, Destiny’s Man. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Confound Their Politics Y1 - 1934 A1 - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary politics by describing a number of imaginary countries. The main foci of criticism are nationalism, the idea that humans are economical determined, the idea that dictatorship is better than democracy, and the rejection of internationalism.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Workers' Government or New Times for Henry Dubb Y1 - 1934 A1 - G[ilbert] R[ichard] Mitchison (1894-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1934 A1 - Julian Huxley (1887-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed reform. Application of the scientific method to the problems of dictatorship. Based on scientific humanism and an experimental outlook and support for scientific research. Planned society with a Central Planning Council. Freedom of belief. Support public art. Reform marriage and divorce with trial marriage and sex education. Civic conscription for both men and women eighteen to twenty. Reorganize government. Industrial corporations such as steel, coal, building, and milk. Ownership, management, and labor equally represented on the central council of each corporation, which has significant self-government..

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Excerpts published as "If I Were Dictator." Harper's Monthly Magazine 169 (October 1934): 529-39. Much expanded version New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1934 A1 - Lord [Fitzroy Richard Somerset] Raglan (1885-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a eutopia based on a number of reforms, including a limit on freedom of the press, various means of encouraging trade and industry while protecting workers from exploitation, compulsory sterilization of those deemed unfit, abolition of the jury system, and harsh punishment for hardened criminals

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Landslide Y1 - 1934 A1 - Monica [Mary] Curtis (1892-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Political novel set in an alternative future in which nothing was done after World War I to support the peace and another brief war followed that united Europe as the Confederation of Western Powers, which continued after the war under a leader who became a dictator.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost City of Light Y1 - 1934 A1 - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is about the quest by a descendant of the Templars for a lost Christian city, during which he is captured and taken to a dystopian Chinese city that has enslaved the Christians, who are allowed, at night, to live in their own city and govern themselves. He leads them to freedom.

PB - Frederick Warne CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manifesto: Being the Book of The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals Y1 - 1934 A1 - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) A1 - Allan Young A1 - W[illiam Edward] Arnold-Forster A1 - Francis Meynell A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) A1 - Janet Chance A1 - D[ennis] N[owell] Pritt A1 - Clough Williams-Ellis A1 - G[eoffrey] M[axwell] Boumphrey A1 - Archibald Robertson A1 - J[ohn] C[arl] Flugel ED - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to 1912 The Great State in that the essays collectively describe a vision of a future eutopia that is, in essence, a socialist world state. See also Plan for World Order and Progress: A Constructive Review (The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals) 1.1 - 1.9 (April - September 1934), which published a review of the Manifesto by Aldous Huxley in 1.4 (July 1934): 7, 15.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future Y1 - 1934 A1 - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Predictions of a eutopian future with considerable satire. Much science and technology, but includes family life, religion, etc. One stress is on the changed society that will be brought about by real equality for women. The first chapter asks, “Can the Future Be Foretold?” and argues for a Ministry of the Future (17-19). Chapters: Men and Women, Sources of power, Air Travel, Interplanetary travel, Motors and Motoring, Radio and Television, Crooks and Detectives stressing technology and says  that education in science will eliminate criminals with children realizing that “crime in unscientific and non-technical” (113), The Future Law is primarily concerned with science and technology in law courts, The Next Wars, Doctors and Surgeons, Sports and Amusements, The Religion of Tomorrow is compatible with science, Education [No writing; no out of date subjects including drawing and divinity, use numbers rather than names for everything. “The object of all instructions in schools will not be so much to give people knowledge, but to teach him how to acquire knowledge himself” (186)]. Clothes and Food (no high heels, electrically warmed head gear, people will eat less food with most food as pills, no alcohol The Supernatural, The Family, The Weather (controlled), The Robot Age, Cities, Synthesis (“most foods, fuels, clothes and chemical . . . will be synthesized from air, water, and vegetable matter” [275]), Government (essentially replaced by science), End of It All, Summary. See also 1925 Low, The Future.

PB - Ward, Lock & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proud Man Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Complex satire on contemporary Britain from the point of view of a future human visiting in a dream. The future is a eutopia in which the people appear to be hermaphrodites, and there are no national governments and no class structure. Calls contemporary people sub-human.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press, 1993 with a “Foreword (ix-xxiv) and an “Afterword” (319-50) by Daphne Patai.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strange Invaders Y1 - 1934 A1 - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

After a world war and a new ice age had devastated the world population, a tribal society in what had been the Soviet Union has created a new religion out of what had been Soviet Communism with Marx, Lenin, and Stalin as saints. The Strange Invaders are giant alien lizards.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Upon Women; A Topical Drama Y1 - 1934 A1 - Maboth Mosely (1906-75) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. England with a dictator and war with an emphasis on the impact of war on women.

PB - Hutchison CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Acorned Hog Y1 - 1933 A1 - Shamus [James Ian Arbuthnot] Frazer (1912-66) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical novel about two dystopias, a socialist that closes universities and forces the students into low-level jobs followed by a revived monarchy that turns England back into an agricultural country by destroying its industries and shipping the industries, cities, and people to the United States.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Astonishing Island; Being a Veracious Record of the Experience, Undergone by Robinson Lippingtree Mackintosh from Tristan Da Cunha during an Accidental Visit to Unknown Territory in the Year of Grace MCMXXX---? Y1 - 1933 A1 - Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on English customs.

PB - Lovat Dickson CY - London N1 -

Part originally published as "Freedom of Speech." Radio Times 38.489 (February 10, 1933): 321.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Australia, 1999" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Helen [de Guerry] Simpson (1897-1940) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia as the third part of three stories representing the history of religion. Mrs. Emma Jordan Sopwith (a thinly disguised Aimee Semple Macpherson--1890-1944), the Antichrist, becomes world ruler through conversion and violent suppression of all opposition. All books are burnt except Mrs. Sopwith’s writings and her version of the Bible, Rome is bombed, Ireland depopulated, privacy abolished, and thought is controlled. Australia is the only holdout, although the entire population has become nomadic to avoid assault. End of the world. 

JF - The Woman on the Beast, Viewed from Three Angles PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

(U.S. ed Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Banking (being a chapter from the History of the 1935 Socialist Government, written in 1970) Y1 - 1933 A1 - G[ilbert] R[ichard] Mitchison (1894-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A detailed description of what the author thought the Labour Party should do regarding banking once in power, mostly on the specific actions immediately after election in 1935, with some on the long-term effects. The establishment of many municipal savings banks, the closure of superfluous banks, and the improvement in the conditions of bank workers. An “Appendix” (18-29 includes the “Emergency Powers (Financial) Act, 1935” (18-21) and the “Banking Act, 1935” (21-29). See also 1934 Mitchison.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Rocks the Cradle. A Strange Tale Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. An over-concern with health leads to an authoritarian dystopia. Those who get sick are permanently removed to a penal settlement, where all their descendants must remain. The penal settlement is itself a flawed utopia. There is no work required because technology does most of it. No buying and selling. No money. One meal per day has to be eaten communally in one of the many restaurants. A electrical fence surrounds each city. Children are named by the state, taken from their parents at birth, and raised in crèches without contact with their parents. Compulsory regular medical examinations. Lots of hospitals in penal settlements; none outside.

PB - Collins CY - London U3 -

Paul Martens [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life in the Year 2106” Y1 - 1933 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief but detailed eutopia.

JF - The Rotarian VL - 43 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Arthur's History of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1933 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Transition to a world state. Satire both on failed experiments and on the uniformity of the future world state. 

PB - J.M. Dent & Sons CY - London N1 -

Parts originally published in Time and Tide 14.6 - 12 (February 11 - March 19, 1933): 141-43; 174-76; 210-12; 243-45; 283-85; 314-16; 351-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Horizon Y1 - 1933 A1 - James Hilton (1900-54) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic lost race eutopia set in Tibet. Longevity.

PB - William Morrow & Co CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. Films directed by Frank Capra (1937) and Charles Jarrott (1973).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Pleasure Y1 - 1933 A1 - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with the introduction of a substance that enhances the power of smell and its effects. The novel ends with the eutopia that is produced in which cities have been replaced by gardens, and the world is unified.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Power Y1 - 1933 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the possession of a weapon that could destroy entire areas and the story of the rise and fall of the dictatorship that the man who controlled it produced. 

PB - Jarrolds CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rinehard: A Melodrama of the Nineteen-Thirties Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Thomas Frederic] [Tweed] (1890-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Political novel with a touch of the supernatural but includes a reformed U.S. and peace in the world.

PB - Arthur Barker CY - London N1 -

 U.S. ed. as Gabriel Over the White House; A Novel of the Presidency. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Also published under the U. S title. London: Cherry Tree Books, 1952.

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 U.S. ed. as Gabriel Over the White House; A Novel of the Presidency. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saint on Holiday Y1 - 1933 A1 - Geoffrey Dearmer (1893-1996) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the Ministry of Grace--consumer advocates, government critics, and others like them--gain power.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution Y1 - 1933 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed future world state. More than half the book is concerned with the old world up to 1933 and much of the description of the future is concerned with the difficulties of the transition to the eutopia. 

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Ed. John Hammond. London: J.M. Dent, 1993. Chronology by John Lawton (xi-xxix) "Introduction" by Hammond (xxxi-xxxix), "Notes" (419-23), "H.G. Wells and His Critics" (425-28), "Further Reading" (429-30), and "Text Summary" (431-33); and London: Gollancz, 2011. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Macmillan, 1945. A film was produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies as Things to Come (1936) with the screenplay by Wells; see Things to Come: A Film Story Based on the Material Contained in His History of the Future "The Shape of Things to Come". London: The Cresset Press, 1935. Serialized as "Things to Come." Evening Standard (November 18 - 30, 1935): 22-23; 22-23; 22-23; 26-27; 22-23; 17-18; 23-24; 22-23; 22-23; 19, 22; 22-23; 17-18. Illus. with drawings and stills from the film. A short version was published as "Things To Come: The Story of the Film." The New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine 96.509 (October 1935): 107-14, 116-18, 120-28. Book rpt. Things to Come. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction" by Allan Asherman (vii-xiv), cast and credits (xv-xvi), stills (xvii-xxxii), and an "Introduction" by George Zebrowski (xxxiii-xxxix). For related material, see Leon Stover, The Prophetic Soul: A Reading of H.G. Wells's "Things to Come" Together with His Film Treatment, "Whither Mankind?" and the Postproduction Script (Both Never Before Published). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1987. See also Things to Come. A Critical Text of the 1935 London First Edition with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. The Annotated H.G. Wells. Volume 9. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tom's A-Cold Y1 - 1933 A1 - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. England has reverted to a savage state as a result of war and famine and consists of marauding bands. The novel focuses on one such band, with memories of better times.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

US ed. entitled Full Circle. New York: D. Appleton, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unborn Tomorrow Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Margaret Maud] [Brash] (1880-1965) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Anti-Communist dystopia.

PB - W. Collins & Co CY - London U3 -

John Kendall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the Crash Comes; A Play In Three Acts and a Prologue" Y1 - 1933 A1 - [John] Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist takeover of Britain.

JF - Failures: Three Plays PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Approaching Storm Y1 - 1932 A1 - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist dictatorship in Britain. See also 1930 Tillyard, Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Awakening Y1 - 1932 A1 - Geo[rge] C[ecil] Foster (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a romance but includes a few pages describing a conservative eutopia set in 1981. Monarchies have been restored in most of the world. Low taxes. Cars abolished.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Rim Y1 - 1932 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race religious dystopia set in Antarctica based on a group of seventeenth century English Protestants who had been shipwrecked.

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brave New World Y1 - 1932 A1 - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic authoritarian dystopia with drugs, behavior modification, and promiscuity. Huxley later argued that the world depicted in this novel was approaching much faster than he had expected. 

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cosmopolis Y1 - 1932 A1 - Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A supposedly perfect school, called the Institut Utopia, starts the movement toward eutopia but fails. The novel is mostly about the personal dynamics among the people.

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York, L. MacVeagh, Dial Press, Inc., 1933. 323 pp. Rev. as The White Mountain. London: Falcon Press, 1949 325 pp. with a note that the original 1932 issue was withdrawn within a week of being issued. Rpt. London: White Lion Publishers, 1975. There are no obvious differences between the two editions. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Isle of Men Y1 - 1932 A1 - Volk, Gordon KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure but includes a well-ordered, balanced eutopia on a Pacific island. Everyone in the community contributes.

PB - Skeffington & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Men in London Y1 - 1932 A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Loosely related to 1930 Stapledon, Last and First Men, but, even though it begins with a message from the last humans of two thousand million years in the future, the book is more restricted in scope. The people of this future have both evolved and re-designed themselves to live on Neptune. Children spend their first thousand years in a children's club, which they run, and which includes basic education. The second thousand years is spent on a separate continent, the Land of the Young. There are 96 sub-sexes. Telepathic. More leisure than work with each person specializing. Most of the book is then concerned with the modern world before, during, and after World War I. It then ends back on Neptune and with an "Epilogue" by Stapledon.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1934. There do not appear to be any differences in the editions. First ed. rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an "Introduction" by Curtis C. Smith and Harvey J. Satty (v-xiv). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 11-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Liberalism and the Revolutionary Spirit. Address to the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, July 1932” Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World state and the Open Conspiracy (see 1928 Wells), called the X Society and elaborated in the footnote. 

JF - Forward View The Young Liberal’s’ Paper VL - 7.67 N1 -

Rpt. in his After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation (London: Watts & Co., 1932), 1-28. A badly cut version appeared in The Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1932): 393. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Gods Lead Y1 - 1932 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of stories, mostly linked by a concern with science, and eugenics in particular, from a dystopian point of view. “Justice” is concerned with a relaxation of penalties for killing old people in automobile accidents. “This Night” and “P.N. 40” are concerned with the manipulation of the laws so that rich, old men could have access to the most beautiful, young women. “Brain” describes a scientists’ government that eliminates democracy. “Proof” is concerned with the elimination of the unfit, and the problems that develop. “Original Sin” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race. 

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

Enlarged as The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, IA: Arkham House, 1949, with the addition of two stories, “The Temperature of Gehenna Sue”, originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 135-48; and rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 170-79; and “Original Sin” [see 1938 Wright], which was written in 1936 and originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 166-76, rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 13 (1950): 68-73; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 180-87. Parts were originally published as “Justice.” Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine 86.451 (December 1930): 26-29, 102, 104; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 24-36; “P.N. 40--and Love.” Britannia and Eve 1.4 (August 1929): 45-48, 160-163; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 96-120 [also pub. as “Love in the Year 93 E.E.” Red Book (1929): 66-69, 116, 119, 122, 124-25; rpt. in Fantasy Book 1.4 (May 1982): 73-80]; “The Rat.” Weird Tales 13.3 (March 1929): 337-50; rpt. as “Where the Rat Bites.” Fantasy: A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction (UK), no. 3 (1939): 33-44; and under the original title in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 133-52; and “Automata” Weird Tales 14.3 (September 1929): 337-44; rpt. Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 97-107; in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 121-32; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 117-132, with an editor’s note on 115-16. In The New Gods Lead, the Table of Contents is divided into “Where the New Gods Lead” and “Also”. The first group includes “Justice,” “This Night,” “Brain,” “Appeal,” “Proof”; “P.N. 40,” and “Automata.” The second group includes “The Rat,” “Rule,” and “Choice”. There is no such division in The Throne of Saturn. “This Night” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 37-49; “Brain” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 50-74; “Appeal” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 75-85; “Proof” is rpt. in Magazine of Horror 3.2 (14) (Winter 1966/67): 29-39; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 86-95’ “Rule” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 153-64; and “Choice”, which was originally published in Eve 36.473 (1929) is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 165-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spacetime Inn Y1 - 1932 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Play set outside of time with two cockney men who have won the “sweep” together with Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Dr. Johnson, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, the Queen of Sheba, and Eve. Napoleon and the two queens are presented as having extremely narrow views of the world. The others are somewhat caricatured, but there is serious debate, particularly between Shaw and Marx with occasional involvement by Shakespeare and Johnson, over whether and/or how to improve the lot of men like the two cockneys. Eve presents a eutopia of the simple enjoyment of life.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-Morrow's Yesterday Y1 - 1932 A1 - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly destructive barbarianism with a takeover by beings evolved from cats, who argue that humans are controlled by sex. Describes the present as leading inevitably to war.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his First One and Twenty (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1946), 13-120.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Voice Across The Years" Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Inga Marie Stephens] [Pratt] (1906-70) A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 5.1 N1 -

Rpt. as Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What I Would Do With the World. A Talk broadcast in September, 1931" Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction outlining a better future world in which he poses the question of what would he do if he had the power to bring about change? There would be a world state that would abolish war, an integrated world economy with a single currency and a world-controlled credit system, and a reorganized educational system, including much expanded adult education. 

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World is Red" Y1 - 1932 A1 - F[rederick] Britten Austin (1885-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The final chapter of a novel that fictionally describes the great revolutions from ancient Egypt to the “World Republic” of 2036, which is the dystopia that results from the success of Communism.

JF - The Red Flag PB - Eyre and Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1934]), 371-400.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World of Our Grandchildren. A Talk broadcast to U.S.A., November 1930" Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction but outlining a better future world. Socialism seen as a system of community buying that building beautiful, functional towns and community health services that would ensure healthy people.

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Citizen of the Future" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Sir Josiah [Charles] Stamp [1st Baron Stamp] (1880-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially better educated people will create a eutopia which has gotten over democracy.

JF - Criticism and Other Address PB - Ernest Benn CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emperor of Hallelujah Island Y1 - 1931 A1 - George Goodchild (1888-1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Island of slaves recruited from among murderers.

PB - Houghton Mifflin Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future of the Human Race" Y1 - 1931 A1 - W[illiam] R[alph] Inge (1860-1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of England about 3,000 A.D. A simple life lived in villages and small towns. Eugenic controls. No war. No tariffs. Most nations are essentially self-supporting. Little central government. No lawyers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gas War of 1940. A Novel. Being an account of the world catastrophe as set down by Raymond Denning, the first Dictator of Great Britain Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel focuses on a war of all nations using advanced weapons that leads to the destruction of human civilization. The Prologue (9-27) describes the emergence of the dictator of the subtitle.

PB - Eric Partridge at the Scholaris Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Valiant Clay. By Eric Bell [pseud.]. London: Collins, 1934.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hunger and Love Y1 - 1931 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly concerned with the trials and tribulations of its main protagonist, an intelligent but poor man, and is an attack on the dystopian of the contemporary capitalist order. But the novel also suggests, without going into detail, that a literal unification of the human race is necessary to being about a better life. As Bertrand Russel puts it in his “Introduction,” "It may be that the complete organic unification of the human race, which Mr. Britton regards as the ideal, is the only way in which a scientific civilisation can survive. It is, at any rate, practically certain that it cannot survive while the anarchism of private profit” [x]. The author says that the theory developed in Hunger and Love is presented in his plays Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930 and Animal Ideas: A Dramatic Symphony of the Human in the Universe. London: Putman, 1935. 134 pp.

PB - Putnam CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931, with an “Introduction” by Bertrand Russell (vii-x). 623 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If the General Strike Had Succeeded (Being Extracts from an Imaginary Newspaper June 1930)" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Rev. Fr. Ronald [Arbuthnott] Knox (1888-1957) ED - J[ohn] C[ollings] Squire KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire suggesting the negative effects of the power of labor.

JF - If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses into Imaginary History PB - Longmans, Green and Co. CY - London N1 -

Book rpt. without the subtitle (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), 277-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Children Y1 - 1931 A1 - H[enry] Herman Chilton (1863-1945) KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although it all turns out to be a dream, the novel describes the eutopia formed where the children were taken by the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Simple life. Arcadian. Crafts.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Traveller Returns Y1 - 1931 A1 - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia brought about by science; people selected for their scientific ability. All animals are destroyed. All culture eliminated.

PB - White Owl Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our World in Fifty Years' Time" Y1 - 1931 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction outlining a better future world. Although Wells says people might be worse off in fifty years, the world can be made a better place with the right education, all working short hours, and cooperation of the most prosperous countries. 

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London N1 -

Originally published in John o' London's Weekly (October 1931).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seven Niches: A Legend Y1 - 1931 A1 - Egerton [Arthur Crossman] Clarke (1899-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A poem about an imaginary city, called Tombelaine, which typifies Christendom.

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Hunger Y1 - 1931 A1 - Michael Hervey (1915-79) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A rich man and some scientists decide to establish a eutopia on an isolated island to counter the drift to war. It is established and manages to stop the next war.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth Y1 - 1930 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A giant brain built in the Sahara comes to control the entire world followed by a catastrophe when a Dark Star that the Brain cannot control destroys the Earth. The play opens with a discussion, between the Librarian of the British Museum, a conservative, and a professor of philosophy, who is more open to alternatives, of a manuscript, obviously Britton’s Hunger and Love (1931), and why it will be difficult to get it published.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - London & New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chronos or the Future of the Family. Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Maurice] Eden Paul M.D. (1865-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an argument that the family as then known was coming to an end for economic and sexual reasons. Also argues that from the point-of-view of child-rearing, large families are better than small ones because children should interact with other children rather than adults. Suggests that in the future related and unrelated adults with and without children of their own but with a talent for parenthood raising a group of children, again related and unrelated, in large homes. Refers positively to two existing examples, the Beacon Hill School founded in 1927 by Dora and Bertrand Russell, which closed in 1947, and the Caldecott Community, which still exists.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence Y1 - 1930 A1 - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of reason and communism. People are euthanized if they fail a physical. Kissing children is illegal because it is unhygienic. People are bored. See also 1932 Tillyard, The Approaching Storm.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drink Up, Gentlemen Y1 - 1930 A1 - J[ohn Cameron Audrieu] B[ingham Michael] Morton (1893-1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a near future mildly repressive and puritanical dystopia.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" Y1 - 1930 A1 - John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay that argues that within a hundred years the fundamental economic problems could be solved, and a society based on leisure created. Speculates on what such a society would look like. Three-hour workday fifteen hours per week will suffice.

JF - The Nation and Athenaeum (London) VL - 48.2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Essays in Persuasion (London: Macmillan, 1931), 358-73; and in Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. Ed. Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008), 17-26.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Here Is Thy Victory Y1 - 1930 A1 - Iris Barry (1895-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Involuntary immortality and its generally bad effects, which are reversed when death returns.

PB - Elkin Mathews & Marrot CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future Y1 - 1930 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One of Stapledon’s visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species. It begins with an Introduction by One of the Last Men and then moves initially to World War I and after and the relatively near future. It then traces humanity through millions of years with both eutopian and dystopian periods to the end where a eutopian cosmic consciousness is developing and humans as such will disappear. Loosely related is 1932 Stapledon, Last Men in London.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as by W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon with editorial cuts and “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3). Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 1-220; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 1-220; and in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 1-246, which includes “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3) and “Preface to the English Edition (9). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 3-11; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 436-52, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 434-35. Chapter IX: Earth and Mars in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 57-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Garden Y1 - 1930 A1 - Geo[rge] Cecil Foster (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Golden Ages at various times and places beginning with Atlantis and ending in the contemporary world. None are quite as “golden” as the myth suggests.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantopia Y1 - 1930 A1 - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia located on a contemporary isolated island. Natural aristocracy of talent/performance combined with essential equality. Communal economics. Eugenics. See also 1924 Harris, “The Temple of the Forgotten Dead,” which is said to be the basis for Pantopia.

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Frank Harris [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Blue Mountains Y1 - 1930 A1 - H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Russian author AB -

An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy. 

PB - Theosophical Press CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seventh Bowl Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of immortality.

PB - Eric Partridge CY - London U3 -

By "Miles" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Storm Over Europe. A Novel Y1 - 1930 A1 - Douglas [Francis] Jerrold (1893-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

History of a Cisalpania, a small country between Hungary and Russia, from monarchy to liberalism to socialism and back to monarchy.

PB - Ernest Benn CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the End of the World: A Vision Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Henry] [Gilbert] (1868-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

End of the world and last man novel which includes a eutopia. The world experiences the return of the ice age, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc. During the period humanity becomes both personally and socially more integrated and less egotistical and creates a world state, known as the Perfect State. Reproduction is limited; work is social and fulfilling; cultural, national, racial, and religious differences disappear or lose importance; and there is high-quality education for all. But conditions continued to worsen, and most people come to lead a simple, primitive life. Emphasis on the search for God, who appears at the end.

PB - Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd CY - London U3 -

Ernest Guest [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World" Y1 - 1929 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Fascist dictatorship in Britain.

JF - Nash's Pall Mall Magazine VL - 84-85 N1 -

Repub. without the subtitle London: William Heinemann, 1930. US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Capitalist Utopia; A Message for Workers, Politicians, and Employers Y1 - 1929 A1 - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Capitalist eutopia. One company takes over the government; affiliated firms are designed to create wealth. Efficiency. Eugenics.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children’s Country Y1 - 1929 A1 - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s story in which two Earth children visit and have adventures in The Children’s Country, where children, none of whom will ever grow up to be a man of a woman, rule.

PB - William Morrow & Co. CY - New York U1 -

Osborne, DLC, BL

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Illus. Beth Krebs Morris [Identified only on the dust jacket]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn Y1 - 1929 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1927 Wright, Deluge, that details the experiences of a number of people following the events of the Deluge as they try to first simply survive and then build the beginnings of decent life, which is where the novel ends.

PB - Cosmopolitan Book Co. CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1930. Rpt. as Dawn: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2009; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Halcyon or The Future of Monogamy Y1 - 1929 A1 - Vera Brittain (1893-1970) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presented as part of a book from the mid-21st century. Chapter I "Morals in the Post-Victorian Era, 1900-1930 (9-28); Chapter II "The Period of Sexual Reform, 1930-1975" (29-52); Chapter III "Scientific Progress, 1950-2000, and Its Relation to the Moral Revolution" (53-78); Chapter IV "The Triumph of Voluntary Monogamy, 2000-2030" (79-92).

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rebel Passion Y1 - 1929 A1 - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Traces history through the past and the then present to a religious, medieval, Christian eutopia in about 3150 (US 254-305). Women priests who serve women; the male priests serve men. No divorce. Everyone works. Some machinery including a “flying boat,” electricity that powers lights and radio. There has been no history in Europe since the passing of the machine age. If a country is happy, it has none.” Throughout it is suggested that the main character is not wholly male but a mix of male and female.

PB - Thornton Butterworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as by Kay Burdekin [pseud.]. New York: Morrow, 1929. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robinson the Great; A Political Fantasia on the Problems of To-day and the Solutions of To-morrow. Extracted from the works of Solomon Slack, LL.D. Y1 - 1929 A1 - [John Ramsay Bryce] [Muir] (1872-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia calling for freeing Parliament from party rule, more Parliamentary power, and the re-organization of government. Describes the good society that results.

PB - Christophers CY - London U3 -

An Impenitent Politician [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thirteen O'Clock; A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Eric] Anthony Thorne (1904-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting of the play is "a super-city of the future" which is in fact a dreary place where little works right. Conflict over its future makes it worse.

JF - Contemporary British Dramatists PB - Ernest Benn CY - London VL - 71 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities With Illustrations by Sir Edwin Luytens. Professor A.E. Richardson. Ethelwyn Baker. Jean Campbell. Albert Daenins. Mervyn Wilson. and The Editor Y1 - 1929 A1 - John [Lawrence] Hodgson, ed. [written by] (1881-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A leisure based eutopia set in 3927. Reason, eugenics, free love. Mostly technical. See also his 1929 "The War of the Rockets."  See also his 1929 “The War of the Rockets.”

PB - John Hodgson CY - Eggington, Beds., Eng. N1 -

Also published as a serial with the author given as John L. Hodgson in The Star Review (England) 2.4 - 12 (April - December 1929): 188-93, 279-84, 330-39, 398-405, 448-55, 510-20, 595-98, 634-51, 720-35 (NN). His The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual]. Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933 (L) reprints parts of The Time Journey (5-7 and 82-100) and the whole of “The War of the Rockets” (122-27) plus some other pieces.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War of the Rockets" Y1 - 1929 A1 - John [Lawrence] Hodgson (1881-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopia describing how "the Resourceless Ones" are controlled by their economic and political masters, who create an arms race that brings about a devastating war. The survivors create a eutopia based on a world government with a World Council and a World Police. 

JF - The Star Review (England) VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual] (Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933), 122-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Dominant Y1 - 1929 A1 - E[velyn] Charles H. Vivian (1882-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Below Y1 - 1929 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part I repeats 1924 Wright. The Amphibians. The rest, entitled “The World Below”, presents “The Dwellers”, an advanced humanity who rule the world. The Dwellers are free of disease and injury. As they age, the body remains strong, but the mind begins to lose vitality and longs for death, which it ultimately wills to happen. Very few women were being born and the end of the race was possible. A non-utopian authorized sequel is Brian [Michael] Stableford, The World Beyond Being a Sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s Classic Science Fiction Novel, The World Below. [Rockville, MD]: The Borgo Press, 2009; 2nd ed. [Holicong, PA]: The Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2013. 

PB - W. Collins Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Books for Today, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Longman, Green, 1930. and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. These eds. include both 1924 Wright, The Amphibians and The World Below. The World Below is rpt. separately Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949; Shasta ed. rpt. with the subtitle A pulse-pumping, mind-prodding, sequel to THE AMPHIBIANS , . . just as haunting as that masterpiece of Earth’s far-distant future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 5. New York: World Editions, [1949]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World in 2030 A.D Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Frederick Edwin] [Smith] [1st Earl of Birkenhead] (1872-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a prediction. Technology will have improved life greatly. Little change in politics or economics. Women intellectually inferior to men.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul Y1 - 1929 A1 - J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal. 

PB - Kegan Paul & Co CY - London N1 -

The book was originally announced under the title “Possibilities” and published in the “To-Day and To-Morrow” series. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - But Soft--we are observed! Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc (1870-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a conflict between the major political parties of the future: the Communists and the Anarchists.

PB - Arrowsmith CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Shadowed! New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.

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US ed. as Shadowed! New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.

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Illus. G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Childermass. Section I Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Percy] Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after death in Purgatory, which is depicted as a completely unstable wasteland where everything and everyone may change without warning. The protagonists find their way to the "camp", which is at least stable, but ruled by "The Bailiff", who is in conflict with Hyperides and his followers. The novel continues with the same characters in The Human Age Book Two Monstre Gai Book Three Malign Fiesta. London: Methuen, 1955. An additional planned volume, The Trial of Man, was never published.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Human Age Book One Childermass. London: Methuen, 1956. U.S. ed. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Country. A Pre-Vision Y1 - 1928 A1 - Sir Francis [Edward] Younghusband (1863-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rebirth of England through religion leads to a eutopia called Ourownland. Stress on love and the family.

PB - John Murray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of the Marriage Vow Y1 - 1928 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Symons (1873-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

All worlds are stages of evolution; earth is on the low end of the scale. At the next stage men and women are free and equal. No procreation and no marriage, but love exists. This life is preparation for the next stage; failure leads to low status in the next stage.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution Y1 - 1928 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Program to bring about the Wellsian eutopia. Here Wells stresses the need for some form of world political control, economic unity, and a limit on population growth. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928. Serialized without the subtitle in T.P.'s Weekly 9 - 10 (April 7 - July 7, 1928): 853-54, 856; 891-92; 7-8; 26, 39-40; 75-76; 112, 120; 53-54; 156; 188, 190; 220, 222; 249-51; 280-84; 321, 323; 351-52. Rev. ed. The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution. A Second Version of this faith of a modern man made more explicit and plain. London: Hogarth Press, 1930. U.S. ed. of rev. ed. entitled What Are We To Do With Our Lives? Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Rpt. as The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1933 [In addition to The Open Conspiracy, the volume contains, separately paged, First and Last Things and Russia in the Shadows]; rpt. as What Are We To Do With Our Lives? No. 55 of The Thinker's Library. London: Watts & Co., 1935 [This ed. includes a page on the movement with an address to which to apply for membership. Annual subscription of 5 shillings brings the monthly bulletin]; and with the subtitle H.G. Wells on World Revolution. Ed. W[alter] Warren Wagar with a "Critical Introduction" by Wagar (1-44) and the corrected text using the 1933 Waterlow & Sons ed. (45-136). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. See pp. 11-12 of the Wagar ed. for a description of the variations in the various editions. The Wagar text does not include the "Preface" (7-9) or the "Marginal Note" (154-56) from the 1928 ed.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia--Made to Suit" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Charles J[oseph Frederick] Finger (1867-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A world where all family members would each be able to develop individually. Anti-urban. Separate space for the young. Each member would have a separate apartment while the family unit was maintained. Freedom of expression. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. 

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 126 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vision of Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Philip [Armand Hamilton] Gibbs (1877-1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book is written in the predictive mode, but it includes these few pages of an explicit eutopia. Medical research has abolished disease and the elimination of slums means that there are no more "unfit". People live longer in garden cities. Men and women are equal in all ways. No servants. Synthetic food. No poverty. Peace. No racial discrimination, and there is a general blending of types. No crime. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

JF - The Day After To-Morrow: What Is Going to Happen to the World? PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928), 168-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What I Know! Reflections by a Philosophic Punter. With an extraordinary dream of 'The Cosmic Mystery Cup' run at Randwick Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Rev.] [Wyndham Selfe] [Heathcote] (1862-1955) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a horse race among religions, plus the Agnosticism, Idealism, Materialism, and Pragmatism, but there is no winner. Includes an argument against betting on races.

PB - Cornstalk Pub. Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

A Philosophic Punter [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Hour(?) Y1 - 1927 A1 - Felix J[ohn] Blakemore, O.B.E., F.S.S., F.G.I. (1872-1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although there is very advanced technology and pollution has been eliminated, the novel presents a standard anti-socialist dystopia. Tablet food, which is extremely unpopular and not used by the leaders, became necessary because equalizing income required eliminating expensive imports. The people then vote to abolish state control. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Confession of the Kibbo Kift: A Declaration and General Exposition of the Work of the Kindred Y1 - 1927 A1 - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very detailed eutopia based on something like the Samurai in 1905 Wells, here called The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift; Kibbo Kift, the Woodcraft Kindred; or just The Kindred. Economically based on the “Just Price.” Traditional gender roles. See also 1924 and 1925 Hargrave. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deluge Y1 - 1927 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

For an unexplained reason, the oceans of the world flood all low-lying land and destroys contemporary civilization. The survivors discover that their reliance of technology and industry has deprived them of the skills need to survive. Those who do survive struggle to create a better life based on community and traditional skills and practices. 1929 Wright is a sequel. 

PB - Fowler Wright CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Ed. Michael Stableford. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with the editor’s “Introduction” (xi-lviii, 307-318), notes on the text (318-22), and a “Bibliography” (323-29). U.S. ed. New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1928. Serialized in the Sunday Express (June - July 1931). Rpt. as Deluge: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2010; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fairy Tales of Socialism Y1 - 1927 A1 - Cumberland Clark (1862-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three stories ("The Fairy Tale of Socialism" (27-42); "If Bolshevism Comes" (63-78); and "Bill's Dream" (189-206) present socialist societies and the terrible conditions in them. Lawlessness, boredom, hunger, etc.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hymen or The Future of Marriage Y1 - 1927 A1 - Norman Haire (1892-1952) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Stress on the need for happy marriages with concern that they should be sexually fulfilling. Sex education. Early sexual relations desirable. Early marriage and, although lifelong, monogamous marriage is the ideal, there is easy divorce. Eugenics. State support of children. Birth control.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal Island Y1 - 1927 A1 - C[harles] V[ictor] A[lexander] Peel (1869-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an adventure story but includes the establishment of a communal experiment on an isolated island and a presentation of the social and economic ideals motivating it.

PB - Old Royalty Book Publishers CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Would Save the World Y1 - 1927 A1 - [William Arthur] [Dunkerley] (1852-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly about a one-man campaign to transform the world by bringing it to Christianity. It concludes with a brief worldwide eutopia in which the great estates are turned to productive use, disbanded soldiers and sailors are settled on land, scientific farming is introduced, and labor and capital are brought into harmony. There is worldwide disarmament with an international police force under the League of Nations, and a universal language is taught as a second language in all countries.

PB - Longmans, Green and Co CY - London N1 -

New ed. with the subtitle The Supreme Adventure of Col. Carthew. V.C. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1930.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium Y1 - 1927 A1 - J[ames] G[ranville] Legge (1861-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy. Over enforcement of a scheme for health improvement; for example, too tight shoes are illegal.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Pen Y1 - 1927 A1 - A[lan] P[atrick] Herbert (1890-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on socialism. The Red Pen is The General Federation of Poets and Writers which wants the nationalization of writing.

PB - BBC CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Right Off the Map. A Novel Y1 - 1927 A1 - C[harles] E[dward] Montague (1867-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although most of the novel is on war, it is partially set in a recreated British industrial feudalism presented as a dystopia.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1927.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of a Great Experiment. How England Produced the First Superman Y1 - 1927 A1 - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenics--select the best for work then bring the best women around with concerts and other entertainment and let nature take its course--"A living wage all round is the best form of practical eugenics" (116). Women's role is to be mothers of a healthy race, and they are not allowed to vote.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-Morrow; A Romance of the Future Y1 - 1927 A1 - Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Arcadia. Simple life but with ten years required labor service from age 18.

PB - Alston Rivers CY - London N1 -

US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Morning Y1 - 1926 A1 - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to 1954 Golding in that the novel presents children shipwrecked on an isolated island, but here the children are marooned for a much longer time. The children grow up, a dictator emerges in part of the island, and there are struggles over various issues.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. Originally published in The American Weekly, a Sunday supplement to U.S. newspapers in 1926. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream City" Y1 - 1926 A1 - Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A short poem describing an idyllic city based on London.

JF - Humbert Wolfe PB - Ernest Benn CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Argosy (UK) 5.36 (May 1929): viii. Set to music by Gustav Holst (1874-1934); see Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Eng.: Galliard Ltd., 1970), 31-35.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dymer Y1 - 1926 A1 - [Clive] [Staples] [Lewis] (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Book length poem in which the hero is born in a dystopian city, where religion is prohibited, marriage partners are chosen by the state, and all aspects of daily life are regulated by the state. Dymer is the rebel who is, although conditioned by the state, inspired by a spring day to leave the city.

PB - John Dent CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1926. Rpt. London: J.M. Dent/New York: Macmillan, 1950. Later reprints under the author's name.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emperor of the If Y1 - 1926 A1 - Guy [Herbert de Boisragon] Dent (1892-1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A man invents a means of changing history with the idea of forcing people to face greater challenges in order to improve the race. Instead, they degenerate. He then uses the same means to visit the future, which he finds to be in continuous war. The novel ends with the suggestion that a better, more Christian future is still possible.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Human Hive: Its Life and Law Y1 - 1926 A1 - A[rthur] H[eygate] Mackmurdo (1851-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia based on what the author calls “the law of personal and social evolution” (x). Humans are social animals that naturally form associations and communities. Stresses the importance of the traditional family. Emphasis on Christianity. Much detail on the economic system, which is based on the production of food. Representative government. Details on education. Free press. The author reiterates and develops aspects of his eutopia in Money and Food: Discoveries by a Group of Scientists. Introduction by A. H. Mackmurdo, M.I.S. London: C. W. Daniel, 1939. 91 pp.; and in The New Social Order: Its Mechanism [cover adds By A Group of Scientists and lists Mackmurdo as the editor]. London: C. W. Daniel [1941]. 24 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Orphans of Space; A Tale of Downfall Y1 - 1926 A1 - Reginald Glossop (1880-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Communism and the "Yellow Peril" sweep over the West with divine intervention saving the day.

PB - G. MacDonald CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Posterity; A Novel Y1 - 1926 A1 - Diane Boswell (1899-1995) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Good life brought about by a reduction in the birth rate, which becomes a required limit. This leads to a mixed result, some good, some bad. Good living conditions but strict rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Question Mark Y1 - 1926 A1 - M[uriel] Jaeger (1894-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The author notes that however attractive she finds the utopias of her day, the people in them do not seem real. Ursula K. Le Guin made a similar point in her “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” (1976), The author depicts a deeply flawed utopia in which everyone is well off, but there is a divide between intellectuals, who tend to be overly rational and non-intellectuals (known as normals), who are driven by emotion. The novel stresses how they have grown more and more apart, with marriage mostly within the group, but with the family depicted in the novel a dysfunctional mixed marriage. Religion is a popular hobby for the normals. Much boredom that leads to hero worship and temporary enthusiasms among the normals. Euthanasia is common. Eugenic themes.

PB - Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press CY - London SN - 9780712352987 N1 -

US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 249 pp. Rpt. London: British Library, [2019], with an “Introduction” by Dr. Mo Moulton (7-15). 205 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ragnarok Y1 - 1926 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel focuses on a coming world war with the end describing the dystopia created.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Return of Don Quixote Y1 - 1926 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented in a play at a country-house weekend. Return to the medieval ideals of craftsmanship, nobility, and usufruct.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1927. Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Donald Barr (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1999), 8: 45-251.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sibylla or The Revival of Prophecy Y1 - 1926 A1 - C[ecil] A[lex] Mace (1894-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented in eutopian terms but can be read in dystopian ones because the stress is on the scientific management and deliberate manipulation of the population to produce desired results. Stresses the need to manipulate workers and children should be educated to meet the needs of the state.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Y1 - 1925 A1 - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed predictions of a eutopian future. There is considerable satire throughout the book, and the illustrations are mostly satirical. Much of the eutopia is technological, but there is gender equality, and material on amusement and sport and clothing, with men and women wearing Identical clothes, and other topics. The captioned illustrations include the frontispiece A Station showing that “All the main offices and thoroughfares will be built like arcades, glass roofed, electrically lit and heated. Moving pavements will enable pedestrians to step straight on to their suburban trains.” Between 32 and 33 is a detailed depiction of a car that is also an airplane. Between 66 and 67 shows and motor race in Australia being watched in a theatre in London. Between 76 and 77 is a depiction of underground travel with television or cinema, connections to Typing Department or Restaurant, and telephones to the entire world. Between 88 and 89 is a detailed depiction of a street in the suburbs. Between 108 and 109 is “A Family Snapshot in A.D. 3000” with a husband and wife two children and a dog, all dressed identically, including the dog. Between 130 and 131 is a depiction of future warfare. Between 168 and 169 is a picture of “A Quiet Lunch at Home.” See also 1934 Low, Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future.

PB - George Routledge & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Illus. New York: International Publishers, 1925. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lysistrata: Or, Woman's Future and Future Woman With a Foreword by Norman Haire, Ch.M., M.B. Y1 - 1925 A1 - Anthony M[ario] Ludovici (1882-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the short book is about the current position from a conservative viewpoint. The last chapters “Woman’s Future” (66-90) and “Future Woman” (91-125) project as the better future women staying home, caring for the husbands, and raising children.

PB - K. Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1925. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mighty Heart; A Survey of England As It Is and A Vision of What It Might Be Y1 - 1925 A1 - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Largely a plea for new, strong leadership. Includes a vision of cooperation between the classes and a cleaned up, purer Britain. Reason replacing religion.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rule of the Beasts Y1 - 1925 A1 - V[iolet] T[orlesse Holland] Murray (b. 1874) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

After a catastrophe, animals bring about a eutopia among themselves and the remaining humans with an emphasis on the spiritual.

PB - Stanley Paul & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ultimate Island: A Strange Adventure Y1 - 1925 A1 - L[ancelot] de Giberne Sieveking (1896-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a flawed utopia, an almost inaccessible island that provides a relaxed life of equality, including gender equality, and freedom. The flaw is that in order to maintain the population at the correct point, childbirth is rigidly controlled, and eugenically imperfect children are killed, as is anyone who tries to leave.

PB - George Routledge & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1925.

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A map of the island appears on the inside front and backer covers. The U.S. ed. has the map as a frontispiece.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Young Winkle Y1 - 1925 A1 - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the founding of a secret society aimed at boys and intended to bring them closer to nature, much like the Kibbo Kift that the author founded. Based loosely on Kim (serially 1900-1901/Book 1901) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). See also 1924 and 1927 Hargrave.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Amphibians. A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence Y1 - 1924 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Set 300,000 years in the future and mostly dystopian. The Amphibians are one of the species in that future. They are small, furred, sexless creatures who communicate telepathically and mostly live peacefully. And there are other species of both plants and animals that are extremely violent. The Dwellers, the dominant species, live underground. The novel is concerned with a conflict between the Amphibians and the Dwellers, and how it is settled. 

PB - Merton Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Merton Press, 1925. 2nd ed. London: Merton Press, 1926. Also included in Wright, The World Below (London: Collins, 1929), 3-186; U.S. ed. (New York: Longmans, Green, 1930), 1-203; rpt. (Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949), 1-203. Rpt. without the subtitle on the book but with the subtitle A Suspenseful, Haunting Masterpiece of Earth's Far-Distant Future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 4. New York: World Editions, 1949.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eliza Fanshawe, K.C. (A Story of 2000 A.D.)” Y1 - 1924 A1 - E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief sex-role reversal story.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England at the Flood Tide Y1 - 1924 A1 - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Natural aristocracy with checks on the power of the people. Guild system. Women economically independent but to a large extent men and women are separate.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harbottle; A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is To Come Y1 - 1924 A1 - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory based loosely on John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) in which a better future is briefly described. The English author was the founder of the Kibbo Kift and later became involved in the Social Credit movement. See also 1925 and 1927 Hargrave.

PB - Duckworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1924

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Symbolic Island Y1 - 1924 A1 - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A group is temporarily marooned on an isolated island. After an over-organized beginning, many of the people manage to create a relaxed society. Much satire.

PB - The Damian Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Temple of the Forgotten Dead" Y1 - 1924 A1 - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This story is said to be the basis for his 1930 Pantopia. In the story, a storyteller tells two stories. The eutopian one, which gives the story its title, describes an isolated island which has developed a religion with gods representing each virtue and bases its society on self-development and duty to others. It is also technologically advanced. 

JF - Undream'd of Shores PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

The manuscript is at Princeton University.

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Frank Harris [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley of the Eyes Unseen Y1 - 1924 A1 - Gilbert [Henry] Collins (b. 1890) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race eutopia with a classical Greek culture.

PB - Robert M. McBride and Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of London Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Harry Collinson] [Owen] (1881-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-Communist dystopia. Mostly on the revolution and the fight to defeat it. The Liberty League of England, which the author compares to the Fascist Party in Italy, which meets his approval, saves the day.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

Hugh Addison [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Collapse of Homo Sapiens Y1 - 1923 A1 - P[eter] Anderson Graham (1856-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A man is projected two centuries into the future and discovers a world without any trace of human civilization, with humans, now much smaller, living isolated lives in forests hunting each other for food. On a second visit he discovers a remnant of a primitive civilization and learns the history of the collapse.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1923 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a eutopia 2000 years in the future. Although there is little of the eutopia, it is presented as having overcome the economic and social problems of Wells's time and is reminiscent of his 1923 Men Like Gods. The dystopia reads like one of Wells's novels describing the problems of the poor prior to World War I. One emphasis is on the ignorance of sexual relations in the past contrasted to the free and open sexual relations of the future.

JF - Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine VL - 72-73 N1 -

Repub. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Rpt. London: The Hogarth Press, 1987, with an "Introduction" by Brian Aldiss [3-7]. US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 329-654. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.

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Some installments have the subtitle "A Story of the World of To-day told by a Man of the Future."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Golgotha & Co." Y1 - 1923 A1 - Robert [Malise Bowyer] Nichols (1893-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which plutocrats try to use Christianity to help them control the proletariat. It backfires when people take Christianity seriously.

JF - Fantastica; Being the Smile of the Sphinx and Other Tales of Imagination PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 129-375 with a brief "Foreword" by John Masefield (xi-xii) and without Romances of Idea.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harilek: A Romance of Modern Central Asia Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Martin Louis Alan] [Gompertz] (1886-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost Nordic race influenced by Classical Greece in Central Asia. Mostly adventure and romance, but the society is morally better than contemporary society.  The continuation, Wrexham’s Romance being a continuation of “Harilek”. By Ganpat [pseud.].  London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1935, has more on the society. 

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1923. Rpt. in Adventures in Sakaeland Comprising Harilek and Wrexham's Romance (New York: Arno Press, 1978), separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lavender Dragon Y1 - 1923 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A delightful satire with a rational, vegetarian dragon and a rather dull knight. The dragon creates a eutopia by picking up unhappy people and children from the area and bringing them to an isolated area where they create a eutopia of equality without money. Includes a reflection, by the dragon, on the positive and negative aspects of human hope and dreaming.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Medical Utopia” Y1 - 1923 A1 - Dr. J. Walter Carr (b. 1862) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.

JF - The Hospital and Health Review  VL - 2.21 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memories of the Future; Being Memoirs of the years 1915-1972. Written in the year of Grace, 1988, by Opal, Lady Porstock Y1 - 1923 A1 - Ronald A[rbuthnott] Knox (ed.) [written by] (1888-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Utopian satire on Britain from 1915 to the end of the Great War of 1972. Significant technological improvements like moving sidewalks.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

An extract appeared in The Book of the Queen's Doll House. Ed. E.V. Lucas. 2 vols. (London: Methuen, [1924]), 2: 202-09.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captain Youth: A Romantic Comedy for All Socialist Children Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ralph [Winston] Fox (1900-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A play in three short acts describing the horrors of the capitalists system from the point-of-view of two children who are desperate to escape the system, their escape with the help of Captain Youth, and their return to lead a successful revolution, with the ending suggesting the eutopia to come.

PB - C. W. Daniel CY - London VL - No. 19 of Plays for the People’s Theatre U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Men Like Gods: An Original Romance" Y1 - 1922 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A world composed entirely of the Samurai of 1905 Wells.

JF - The Westminster Gazette VL - nos. 9175 - 9210 N1 -

U.S. serialization illus. George W. Bellows. Hearst's International 42.5 - 43.6 (November 1922 - June 1023): 9-15, 136-39; 42-48, 128-31; 32-38, 124-25, 110; 42-48, 151-53;38-43, 149-53; 56-61, 154-55; 89-92, 130, 132-34; 83-84, 146-48. Repub. without the subtitle. London: Cassell, 1923. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 1-328. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ella M[arie] Scrymsour[-Nicol] (1888-1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel that includes both a dystopia and a eutopia. The dystopia is in the center of the Earth and is inhabited by the descendants of Jews condemned by God to be swallowed by the Earth. The protagonists from the surface escape the dystopia, and, while the Earth is destroyed, they escape in a "airship", which takes them directly to a eutopian Jupiter. Jupiter had a separate Adam and Eve, but without the Fall and has developed a good society that, while hierarchical, is based on pro rata sharing.

PB - Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future Y1 - 1922 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presents a picture of a destroyed civilization that manages to create a new, more primitive lifestyle that is initially violent becomes more settled over time. Science is rejected, and the human race slowly rebuilds a healthy hunting, fishing, and farming life structured around tribes. This is depicted as more in tune with our capacities than the civilization that it replaced. The revised volume is slightly more positive than the original.

PB - Leonard Parsons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: HiLo Books, 2013 with an introduction “A Cargo Cult in Reverse” by Gary Paynter (13-17); and without the subtitle Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with “Introduction: The Wars of the Air and the Laboratory’: Theodore Savage at 100” by Susan R. Grayzel (xiii-xxi). Rev. ed. entitled Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928.

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Rev. ed. entitled Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Council of Seven Y1 - 1921 A1 - J[ohn] C[ollis] Snaith (1876-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia in which a group of newspaper editors bias and falsify the news in order to enrich themselves and control the world. Against them is the "Council of Seven" or the "Society of the Friends of Peace" who use murder to fight them. Mostly intrigue.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fly-By-Nights Y1 - 1921 A1 - Major-General Charles Ross (1864-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-Communist, anti-alien dystopia, but at the end hope is held out that people the eutopia can reemerge.

PB - John Murray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Image Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conflict between capitalists and socialists set one hundred years in the future. The world is decimated but gradually rebuilds.

PB - Odhams Press CY - London U3 -

Pan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island of Eugenia; The Phantasy of a Foolish Philosopher" Y1 - 1921 A1 - William McDougall (1871-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presented as a dialogue between a practical man and a scientist. Eugenics. Children will be brought up to be devoted to saving the world. The island would be closed regarding marriage and education, but otherwise open to outsiders. After the initial establishment, it would recruit new members mostly from their own children. Early marriage encouraged. The state will be politically independent but economically dependent on the outside world; uses the analogy of a university. Appeals to a millionaire to help establish it. T

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Message from Space" Y1 - 1921 A1 - George Goodchild (1888-1969) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult adventure tale that includes two eutopias. The first is a lost race in the middle South America; the second is on Mars. The South American eutopia is a society like ancient Greece whose highest value is happiness. The Martian eutopia is based on reason.

JF - The Children's Newspaper VL - nos. 106 - 31 N1 -

Rpt. London: Jarrolds, [1931]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution: A Novel Y1 - 1921 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting a revolution as it effects one parish as seen primarily through the eyes of a man who tries to see both sides. A labour dictatorship emerges that plans to establish a socialist system, but the people reject equality and common property. The counter-revolution succeeds but simply replaces one dictatorship with another. At the end the protagonist is at the beginning of a campaign to bring the country back together.

PB - W. Collins & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Secret Power Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Most of the novel is romance with a somewhat demented scientist who develops a weapon that he hopes will stop war. Embedded in the novel is a brief description of the “Golden City,” where people much advanced beyond normal humans live.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. without the subtitle Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. 

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Marie Corelli [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China Y1 - 1921 A1 - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that describes two societies. The first is a warrior society (authoritarian but fair); the second is socialist eutopia shown to be based on drug-taking and deeply flawed and parts of the novel reads like an anti-socialist tract.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Rpt. as a volume of The Definitive Edition of Gilbert Frankau's Novels and Short Stories. London: Macdonald, [1945].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tax-Wise Men of Aristopia: A Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer” Y1 - 1921 A1 - Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on current education. The Aristopians tax the use of abstract words such as “equality” and “liberty” that the user cannot precisely define.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia Y1 - 1921 A1 - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of essays presenting a eutopia of regionalism and decentralization. The two page "What To Do" summarizes the eutopia. See also 1917 Branford and Geddes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain Y1 - 1920 A1 - Sidney Webb (1859-1947) A1 - Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Just what the title says. Most of the book focuses on the political organization of a socialist state, but there are chapters on voluntary associations concerning the Co-operative Movement, other consumers’ associations, adult education, and the press, among other issues, and work, which is primarily about the nature and organization of vocations, with both obligatory and voluntary associations based on vocation, and the development of professional ethics, among other issues. The final chapter is on the transition from capitalism to socialism.

PB - Longmans CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: London School of Economics and Political Science/Cambridge University Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy--False or True? A Prologue and Dream Y1 - 1920 A1 - Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia entitled "A Dream of England" (72-172). Democratic socialism. Decentralization (home rule for each county). Science. There are still classes, and there is continuing stress on the working class needing the right leaders and avoiding agitators.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anymoon. With a Foreword by Harold Cox Y1 - 1919 A1 - Horace [William] Bleackley (1868-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist, anti-egalitarian, anti-feminist dystopia

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head/The John Lane Co. CY - London/New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Christmas 1969; The Kind of World in Which I Should Like It to Dawn" Y1 - 1919 A1 - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World community of nations; all nations republics. Nationalized industries. Technology. Rights of children. Education. No fashion.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Christmas House-Party in 1969 (Being extracts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys the Second)" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [John] Twells Brex (1874-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women in political and economic control.

JF - Pears' Christmas Annual (London) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Cottage" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia in which a man who had been a relatively enlightened industrialist wakes up fifty years after being injured in World War I and is led to see how unenlightened he had actually been. Examples given are that he introduced electricity to his own estate but not, although easily able to do so, to his works, built houses for his workers but in an extremely unhealthy, swampy area because it was convenient to his factories, which were polluting the atmosphere, opposed women's suffrage, and generally opposed any legislation that would have improved the education, health, or working conditions of the lower classes. The eutopia, though, is still class based and the upper classes still have servants.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "England in 1919; Being an Extract From a School History of the Period published in 1969" Y1 - 1919 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

1919 seen as a dystopia called the period of the Plutocracy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Further East Than Asia." A Romantic Adventure Y1 - 1919 A1 - Ward Muir (1878-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Oriental tale of romance and adventure in which an apparently eutopian island of long life, produced by radium, is discovered. But the apparent eutopia is deeply flawed. Racist.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" Y1 - 1919 A1 - John Cournos (1881-1966). KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.

JF - The Nineteenth Century and After VL - 85 N1 -

Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Town, A Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Reconstruction Y1 - 1919 A1 - W[illiam] R[avenscroft] Hughes, M.A. (b. 1880), ed. for The New Town Council KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction presenting a detailed cooperative eutopia. Specifically, it proposes to establish a new country town, and a slip dated June 1921 tipped into the CtY copy says that “The proposals contained in this book are being put into operation at Welwyn Garden City. . . . .” Discusses industry, which must “enrich the lives of all associated with it. . .” (45), agriculture, education, which will include learning handicrafts and vocational skills in school workshops and adult education, and homes, which will include grouped cooperative homes, professional household services, and social life.

PB - Pub. for The New Town Council by J.M. Dent CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of the Ruins; A Story of the Future" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Edward [Richard Buxton] Shanks (1892-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A general strike followed by a revolution, fifty years of world war, and one hundred years of famine and disease produce a loss of technology and arts and craft and a resurgence of religion. Return to a more primitive life.

JF - The County Gentleman & Land and Water (London) VL - nos. 2997 - 3014 N1 -

Repub. with the subtitle A Story of the English Revolution and After. London: W. Collins Sons, 1920. U.S. ed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Somewhere in Christendom Y1 - 1919 A1 - Evelyn [Jane] Sharp (1869-1955) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel describes a small country between two regularly warring large countries that establishes an egalitarian, Christian cooperative eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fair Inez: A Romance of Australia Y1 - 1918 A1 - Douglas [Brooke Wheelton] Sladen (1856-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conservative eutopia set in 2000 A.D. Technological changes have produced few social changes. Argues that colonies produce better people. The novel ends with a new king, who had lived and worked in Australia and his Australian wife planning to change the monarchy into a more open and democratic institution.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1918].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of Content Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rule by trusts followed by revolution and war. A small group survive and create an Eden.

PB - Mills & Boon CY - London U3 -

Pan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Not; A Prophetic Comedy Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.

PB - Constable and Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and “Notes” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley’s original vague note on xxix.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Polity: A Study in Reconstruction Y1 - 1917 A1 - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) A1 - Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a series concerned with post-war reconstruction. Most of the book is concerned with history, showing how the world has reached its current situation. The last chapter, “Summary and Conclusion--Regional Eutopias”, makes a distinction between Utopia and Dystopia and briefly develops a eutopia based on regionalism. That chapter and other material is dropped in the 2nd ed. This material is replaced with a section called “Practice,” which has three chapters, “The Renewing of Christendom,” “The Post-Germanic University,” and “From the Old State to the New,” with the last chapter proposing ideas similar to the “Summary” in the 1st ed. See also 1921 Branford.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London N1 -

New & enl. ed. London: Williams & Norgate, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Messiah of the Cylinder" Y1 - 1917 A1 - [Avigdor Rousseau] [Emanuel] (1879-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Scientific dystopia. A leader uses science and religion to take control of the world. A successful revolt frees people, and the ending suggests that a better world is being created.

JF - Everybody's Magazine VL - 36 - 37 N1 -

Rpt. illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Chicago, IL: A .C. McClurg & Co., 1917; and illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974, with an unpaged introduction, “A Neglected Masterpiece,” by Lester Del Rey, who characterizes it as an “anti-utopia (or dystopia,” written in opposition to H. G. Wells. U.K. ed. without the illus. as The Apostle of the Cylinder. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]. A few libraries catalog the U.K. ed. as [1919?]. 

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Victor Rousseau [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - And It Came to Pass Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially a religious novel, but a brief section (234-42) describes the conservative post-World War I eutopia brought about by the development of a "United Council of Empire" that brought the countries of the British Empire together. This eliminated liberal education, which was replaced by vocational education and common sense. Trade unionism eliminated. Piece-work and short contracts replaced union contracts; this produced prosperity for all. Feudalism reinstated.

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Guy Thorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1925": The Story of a Fatal Peace Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Description of the dystopia that will come about if Germany is not completely subjugated after the war. Since Germany was not disarmed at the end of the war, it increased the armaments of its navy and plans to attack England and then America. The novel ends with the beginning of the invasion.

PB - George Newnes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as separately paged four-page supplements to The War of the Nations (London) 7.78 - 86 (February 19 - April 15, 1916) (AR, L). The War of the Nations was the author’s history of World War I, which was issued weekly. At the head of all installments is the following: “One of the most successful books of the War is Mr. Edgar Wallace’s ‘“1925’”: the Story of a Fatal Peace.’ The purpose Mr. Wallace, who is the author of ‘The War of the Nations,’ had in view in writing ‘1925’ was to bring home to readers the inevitable consequence of ending the war in any other way than by the complete defeat of Germany and the destruction of Prussian militarism. There are many people who are not alive to the certain terrible sequel of an unfortunate peace. The story is one of the most powerful and enthralling that Mr. Wallace has ever written. It will be continued in ‘The War of the Nations’ from week to week.”

ER - TY - ABST T1 - King of Kulturia Y1 - 1915 A1 - W[illiam] Hugh Higginbottom (1881-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An anti-German satire describing an attempt to control artistic production. The Greek gods are awakened, wreak havoc, and are put back to sleep.

PB - The Walter Scott Company CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found or The Superman Found Out in Three Acts Y1 - 1915 A1 - Allen Upward (1863-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire in which two hundred years in the future, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) awakes in a world based on a misreading of his ideas. The British Empire has collapsed, and England is under a corrupt Indian Empire. Canada is part of the U.S. Australia is controlled by Aborigines. South African natives are cannibals. In England, doctors are in power, and the entire system is corrupt.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U1 -

Jacket title as reported by Cambridge University Library--The adventures of Bernard Shaw in a Shavian world. George Locke lists an acting edition, probably never published, with the title Paradise Found or The Superman Found OutA Joke at Everybody's Expense in Three Acts. By Saint George [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Upsidonia Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Arthur Hammond] [Marshall] (1866-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of reversal in the tradition of 1872 Butler. In this case the reversal concerns wealth, which is considered undesirable. Those of high status life poorly and those of low status live in luxury.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U3 -

Archibald Marshall [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Virgin’s Treasure: A Romance of the Tropics Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Amelia] Louise Gerard (1878-1979) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is mostly romance and adventure but ends in a religious allegory in which a man struggles past the Tomb of Buried Hopes, the Tomb of Dead Desires, and the Plain of Despair and gets temporarily lost in the Mountains of Self-Abasement before winning through.

PB - Mills & Boon CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Mills & Boon, [1919?].  245 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windmills: A Book of Fables Y1 - 1915 A1 - Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two utopias--the first starts as a Robinsonade in "Samways Island" but concludes as a eutopia stressing world peace as "Ultimus." The second, "Gynecologia," is a typical gender-role reversal story. Much heavy-handed satire in both.

PB - Martin Secker CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2010 Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Frederic] [Carrel] (1869-1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mechanical improvement of brains leads to eutopia. Stress is on the struggle to get the brains accepted.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

The Author of "The Adventures of John Johns" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Elixir of Life or 2905 A.D. A Novel of the Far Future Y1 - 1914 A1 - Herbert Gubbins (1887-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Contemplative, technological eutopia set a thousand years in the future. Described as an ". . . age of calm reflection and freedom from every form of physical exertion. . ." (73). Telepathy. Tablet food. Life-long clothes. Emphasis on electricity and solar energy (manufactured in concentrated form). International law. Accurate news. Trusts and syndicates control all the technology.

PB - Henry J. Drane CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flying Inn Y1 - 1914 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor--Europe is part of the Moslem Empire, as it is spelled in the book. Effect of the closing of the pubs on the British.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Iain T. Benson (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 2004), 7: 421-665. The songs found throughout the text were originally published in The New Witness as follows: “A Song Against Grocers.” 1.2 (November 14, 1912): 47; “The Song of the English.” 1.4 (November 28, 1912): 111; “A Song of Songs.” 1.7 (December 19, 1912): 207; “The Song of the Good Rich Man.” 1.9 (January 2, 1913): 271; “A Song of Strange Drinks.” 1.12 (January 23, 1913): 367; “Song of the Happy Vegetarians.” 1.13 (January 30, 1913): 398; “Song of the Temperance Hotel.” 1.14 (February 6, 1913): 436; “The Song of the Strange Ascetic.” 1.16 (February 20, 1913): 495; “The Song of the Second Deluge.” 1.17 (February 27, 1913): 527; “A Song of Dietetic Logic.” 2.45 (September 11, 1913): 591; “A Song of Temperance Reform.” 2.47 (September 25, 1913): 658; “The Song of the Alternative Explanations of the Curvature of the English Country Road.” 2.51 (October 23, 1913): 785; and “Song of the Dog named Quoodle.” 3.56 (November 27, 1913): 111. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perhaps: A Tale of Tomorrow Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Henry] Norman Davey (1888-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A humorous novel describing the secession of the Isle of Wight from the U.K. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goslings Y1 - 1913 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the results of a plague that mostly affects men but not women. One focus is on a group of women who organize a generally successful community based on the principle that everyone earned a right through labor to a share in what could be produced. After contact is made with parts of the world less affected by the plague, the outlines are given of a future eutopia based on greater gender equality.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA/Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2013 with an “An Un-Cozy Atmosphere. Introduction” by Astra Taylor (13-17); and Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp. U.S. ed. as A World of Women. New York: Macauley Co., 1913. Rpt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Would Not Be King. Being the Adventures of one Fenimore Slavington, who was neither born great nor achieved greatness, but had greatness thrust upon him much to his own discomfort and the discomfort of many others Y1 - 1913 A1 - Sidney Dark (1874-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist dystopia brought about by too great a desire for efficiency, exemplified for the author by Sidney Webb (1859-1947). He prefers the approach of Robert Blatchford (see 1906-7 Blatchford) and says, "I believe that the real business of man is to live--to throw stones into pools and watch the ripples, to dream, to loaf, to love, to play the fool, to begin and never to end, to read poetry (if he cannot write it), to grow roses" (viii-ix).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pages for Young Socialists With Prefaces by H. M. Hyndman and J. Keir Hardie and Illustrations by Walter Crane Y1 - 1913 A1 - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book is a collection of essays and stories designed to describe socialism to children. Three of the stories. “The Stickleback” (74-78), “Red Tunic,” and “Thrift” (101-105) include brief descriptions of what a socialist eutopia would be like. In addition, there are essays on “Robert Owen” (183-87) and “William Morris” (194-97).

PB - National Labour Press CY - Manchester and London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns Y1 - 1913 A1 - H[ector] H[ugh] Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of life in England after a German conquest.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1913. U.K. ed. rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1941; in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 79-245; and in The Battle of Dorking George Tomkyns Chesney & When William Came Saki. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997), 49-182. An excerpt was rpt. in The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Ed. I.F. Clarke (Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1997), 368-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind" Y1 - 1913 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.

JF - The English Review VL - 16 - 17 N1 -

Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--“A Trap to Catch the Sun” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; “The Last War in the World” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and “The World Set Free” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an  “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a “Preface” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an “Afterword: Shall We Play the Game” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as “War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells’s battle against kriegspiel.” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D." Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The future is presented with both eutopian and dystopian elements depending on one's perspective. The world is controlled by the Aerial Board of Control. People have rejected democracy and returned to an agricultural economy. A reduced birth rate means that the world population falling. See also 1909 Kipling, which is, in effect, Part I.

JF - London Magazine VL - 28 N1 -

Rpt. as As Easy as A. B. C. London: A.P. Watt & Son, 1912. On the first page of the text, “Part II” is added after the title. Repub. without the subtitle in his A Diversity of Creatures (London: Macmillan, 1917), 1-44; book rpt. ed. Paul Driver (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1987), 29-57. Rpt. as “As Easy as A.B.C. (1912)”. In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures Letters of Travel 1892-1913 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 3-40 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Rpt. as “As Easy as ABC.” The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 33-58; and with the original title in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 165-83. Rpt. from A Diversity of Creatures in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 91-139 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Child of the Dawn Y1 - 1912 A1 - Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia. No sex. No property. Reincarnation. Each person enters heaven with the understanding with which they left life, and work in heaven involves helping other souls to advance. There are souls who try to stop others advancing. Hell is described as a meaningless round of pleasure that becomes less and less satisfying.

PB - Smith, Elder and Company CY - London N1 -

U.S.. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Rpt. Indian Hills, CO: Falcon’s Wing Press, 1957. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away” Y1 - 1912 A1 - Margaret McMillan (1860-1931) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A brief eutopia depicting healthy young girls in a future where children are fed right, get good health care, and learn how to correctly care for themselves. The author includes one-paragraph exhortation to the Labour Party saying that it needs to learn what needs to be done to produce the eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Civil War of 1915 Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[ohn] Twells Brex (1874-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London N1 -

Originally serialized in The Sporting Times.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day That Changed the World Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Through what may or may not be a miracle, people change their behavior so they behave as good Christians should, which at least begins the process toward eutopia.

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The Man Who Was Warned [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great State: Essays in Construction Y1 - 1912 ED - [Francis Evelyn] [Warwick] (1861-1938) ED - G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor ED - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other.

PB - Harper and Bros CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, "The Past and the Great State" (1-46), also published as "Socialism." Harper's Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as "The Great State." In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), "The Great State and the Country-side" (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, "Work in the Great State" (67-119); Ray Lankester, "The Making of New Knowledge" (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, "Health and Healing in the Great State" (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, "Law and the Great State" (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, "Democracy and the Great State" (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, "Women in the Great State" (219-47); Roger Fry, "The Artist in the Great State" (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, "The Present Development of the Great State" (273-99); Conrad Noel, "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, "The Growth of the Great State" (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, "The Tradition of the Great State" (357-78).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Individualist's Utopia Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[oseph] H[iam] Levy (1838-1913) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenics, technology, and the simple life. The eutopia is brought about by people choosing to have fewer children.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lady Ermyntrude and the Plumber; A Love Tale of MCMXX Y1 - 1912 A1 - Percy [Arthur Perceval] Fendall (1850-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

The Great Compulsory Work Act requires that everyone work. For example, the monarch is paid by the job for ceremonial duties, and the Queen takes in paying guests. No House of Lords. Illegal to give credit.

PB - S. Swift CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: S. Swift, 1919

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life--the Jade Y1 - 1912 A1 - Martin H[enry] Potter (1871-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a substance that granted immortality. Set between its discovery in 1921 and the rediscovery of the need to love and bear children in 2021.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Gulliver" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Two class-society in which the lower class is bred as slaves to the upper class. The upper class is sexless, long-lived, and lives underground. Stress on moderation and safety. High technology. Live on pills and water.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Rev. Conrad [le Despenser Roden] Noel (1869-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction set about 2000. The Church of England will encompass most Christian groups in England and will be more democratic. The church has been disestablished, but there is a movement to have it re-established. New saints include Thomas More (1478-1535), who was actually canonized twenty years later by the Roman Catholic Church, and John Ball (c. 1338-81), the English Lollard priest involved in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 (See 1886-87 Morris). The church stresses a balanced life, including a healthy sex life. There is a description of a cathedral, which includes chapels for different groups within the faith, including a Chapel of Our Lady of Health and a Chapel of Santa Claus, for children.

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U.S. ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 5000 A.D. A Review and an Excursion. Read Before ye Sette of Odd Volumes at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant on Jan. 24th, 1911 Y1 - 1911 A1 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Pages 39-56 presents a eutopia based on the samurai of 1905 Wells. Pages 9-39 gives a survey of previous literature on utopias.

PB - Privately ptd. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centaur Y1 - 1911 A1 - Algernon [Henry] Blackwood (1869-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure but includes, although without much detail, a eutopia of the Simple Life in contact with nature.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1938.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of All Y1 - 1911 A1 - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the Roman Catholic Church completely dominant in sixty years. Democracy and equality eliminated. Socialism illegal. Monarchy re-established. Heretics are handed over to the state and executed. See 1907 Benson for an alternative dystopian future.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

US ed. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1911.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalomera; The Story of a Remarkable Community Y1 - 1911 A1 - W[illiam] J[ohn] Saunders (1873-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Communist eutopia in which each town manages its own affairs under the supervision of the central government. Each town also provides some national service like producing goods for the national stores and working on construction projects. All people equal. Gender roles are fairly traditional but the head of state and the heads of all departments that concern both sexes rotate. Separate gender authority in those areas where only men or women work. Religion that teaches morality.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kantsaywhere" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Francis Galton (1822-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic eutopia.

JF - University College, London, Galton Papers 138/6 N1 -

The work, which was significantly cut by Galton’s relatives after his death, is described and most of what remains is published in Karl Pearson, “Francis Galton’s Utopia.” The Life and Letters of Francis Galton. 4 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1930), 3A: 411-425. Pearson published the corrected manuscript without indicating the changes made in the original draft. Pearson changed the paragraphing found in the original. A critical edition was published with the permission of University College as “The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere. Critical Edition.” Ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 191-209.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laws of Leflo Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Beatrice May Butt] [Allhusen] (1853-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Leflo is a lost colony in Africa that has been isolated for over a century. The community was established with very strict laws that were to be followed to the letter. The result was a peaceful community, but the negative effects outweighed the positive. An example is that at eighteen girls must choose to marry or not. They are provided for by the community whatever their choice, but if they choose not to they wear distinctive dress and can never marry. Much of the novel is romance.

PB - John Ouseley CY - London U3 -

The Author of Miss Molly [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Hundred Years Hence. Being Some Extracts from "The Hourly Mail" of A D 2000 Y1 - 1911 A1 - Walter Emanuel (1869-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire, much of it through the advertisements in the newspaper.

PB - Eveleigh Nash CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reign of the Saints Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Ernest George] [Henham] (1870-1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist, racist, sexist dystopia and a failed attempt to re-establish a true English life. Britain becomes part of the Japanese Empire.

PB - Alston Rivers CY - London U3 -

John Trevena [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road to Avalon Y1 - 1911 A1 - Coningsby [William] Dawson (1883-1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Allegory in a medieval setting with various fantastic countries. Avalon, which is reached in the last chapters, is the goal.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Simple Life Limited Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire directed against an experimental community of people trying to live the simple life.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Daniel Chaucer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Building of Thelema Y1 - 1910 A1 - C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee (1863-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy with utopian elements. Thelema is the reconstructed city of the dreamers of all times and the protagonist sees it from a variety of perspectives.

PB - J.M. Dent CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man From Mars or Service, for Service's Sake Y1 - 1910 A1 - Henry Henry Wallace (Dunraven) Dowding (1867?-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia on Mars. No large cities. No military. Stress on the home. Martians are both rational and artistic. Many completely equipped school buildings. "On the planet Mars education starts with a principle called Service" (251). Individual talents developed. Universal language. Includes extracts from a constitution.

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newæra. A Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination Y1 - 1910 A1 - Edward G[eisler] Herbert (1869-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist intentional community founded with careful selection of members fails due to an inefficient bureaucracy and malice on the part of elected leaders toward the founders. Suggests that socialism is impossible, and the chapter on vaccination is an argument that experiments like Newæra (New Era) can vaccinate a country against the sickness that is socialism.

PB - P.S. King & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940 Y1 - 1910 A1 - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist and anti-democratic dystopia. When women got the vote, the votes of the uneducated led to the election of the Labour Party, the triumph of socialism, and the weakening of the British Empire. The "Author's Note" says that it is partially a sequel to 1906 Ford.

PB - King, Sell & Olding CY - London N1 -

Originally published serially.

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By The Author of "A Time of Terror," "The Devil's Peepshow," & c.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beatrice the Sixteenth Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Thomas] [Baty] (1869-1954) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

While the novel is largely taken up with palace intrigue and conflicts with neighbors, there are eutopian elements in its presentation of an aristocratic society based on slavery and servants (both well treated of course) that is almost entirely female.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U3 -

Irene Clyde [pseud.]. The pseudonym has been described as the “transgender personal of the author.” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captain Tatham of Tatham Island Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel but includes a vague plan for turning an isolated island into a eutopia. Some discussion of alternative ideas.

PB - Gale & Polden CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an added first chapter “The Genesis of the History” as The Island of Galloping Gold. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1916, which was rpt. as Eve’s Island. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1926. 

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Cover title reads Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Commission on the Rebellion and Cession of Tatham Island, together with One Map. Presented to the Parliament of the Tatham Island Republic by the Command of the President. 

Rpt. with an added first chapter as The Island of Galloping Gold. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1916; which was rpt. as Eve’s Island. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1926. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Finding of Mercia Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Harold Northway]] [Robbins] (1874-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia inhabited by Puritans. Austere, devoted Christians. No money. State ownership. Mercia equals Mercy Land.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner CY - London U3 -

Cassius-Minor [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future in London” Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Joseph Leopold] Ford [Hermann] Madox Hueffer (1873-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Divided into Futures Probable and Futures Utopian. People will move to the suburbs with good transportation into London. This will lessen traffic and radically reduce pollution. Poor quality housing will be removed, and many parks will be created. The changes will improve human health. Says there is nothing utopian about his proposals.

JF - In W.W. Hutchings. London Town Past and Present With a Chapter on the Future in London by Ford Madox Hueffer. Profusely Illustrated from Old Prints and from Photographs and Drawings PB - Cassell and Co. CY - London VL - 2 vols U3 -

Ford Madox Ford [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Persecution Y1 - 1909 A1 - S[idney] N[ewman] Sedgwick (1872-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A successful Chinese invasion of Europe is possible due to a falling away from God. A religious revival brings the overthrow of the Chinese.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Machine Stops" Y1 - 1909 A1 - E[dward] M[organ] Forster (1879-1970) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic dystopia in which people become dependent on a machine.

JF - Oxford and Cambridge Review VL - 8 N1 -

Repub. in his The Eternal Moment and Other Stories (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928), 1-61.

Rpt. in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 164-95; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 173-98; in his The Machine Stops and Other Stories. Ed. Rod Mengham. Vol. 7 of The Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster (London: André Deutsch, 1997), 87-118, with editor’s notes 187-88; 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), 50-78 with an editors’ note on 50; illus Chris Bird in AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1]. Ed. Dana Rich (Victor, IA: Obsolete Press, 2014), 127-59; in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 135-74, with an editor’s note on 133; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 35-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Real Man Y1 - 1909 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A farce that redoes the material in 1907 Byatt as a group of anarchists whose leader comes to rule Britain. 

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unknown To-morrow: How the Rich Fared at the Hands of the Poor Together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England Y1 - 1909 A1 - William [Tufnell] Le Queux (1864-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia. Marriage and divorce made easy; children are the property of the state. Churches secularized. Ultimately the system fails.

PB - F.V. White & Co CY - London N1 -

Originally published as “The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909): 16-19; 62-65; 100-101; 138-39; 178-79; 218-19; 258-59; 292-93; 328-29; 364-65; 400-01; 436-37; 474-76; 508-09; 544. 

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“The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Votes for Men: A Dialogue" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which the female Prime Minister argues that men do not want the vote despite huge demonstrations and all the other activities of the women's suffrage movement.

JF - Cornhill Magazine VL - ns 27 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: Murray, 1921), 200-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 200-15. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zarlah, the Martian Y1 - 1909 A1 - R[obert] Norman Grisewood (1876-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Technologically and ethically advanced civilization on Mars. World government, universal language. Much romance and adventure.

PB - R. F. Fenno CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How the Vote Was Won. Produced for the First Time at the Royalty Theatre, London, April 13, 1909 Y1 - 1908 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) A1 - [Christabel] [Marshall] (ca. 1875-1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Successful general strike of all women who do not have the means to support themselves. Those who are refused support by their male relatives (most of them) go on relief.

PB - Edith Craig CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as How the Vote Was Won. A Play on One Act. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910. Rpt. in How the Vote Was Won and Other Suffragette Plays (London: Methuen, 1985), 23-33, with production notes by Carole Hayman (19-21); and in The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays. Ed. Naomi Paxton (London: Methuen, 2013), 1-28. The play is best known in this version, but it originated as “How the Vote Was Won (Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s Political History of the Twentieth Century published in the Year 2007 A.D.).” By Cicely [Mary] Hamilton. Woman’s Franchise, no. 20 (November 14, 1907): 227-28, which was published separately as How the Vote Was Won (Some short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s ‘Political History of the Twentieth Century,’ published in the year 2008 A.D.). [London]: Women’s Writers’ Suffrage League, [1908]. 

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"Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust's Political History of the 20th Century."

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Christopher St. John [pseud. of Marshall]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Generation: A Story of the Future Y1 - 1908 A1 - James [Herman] Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia produced by trying to achieve eutopia. People stopped producing children in order to live better. Horrors of the last generation.

PB - New Age Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Prose (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), 1-32; rpt. (London: William Heinemann, 1922), 1-32; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 46-64, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 44-45. Expanded version of a story first published in his privately printed The Best Man. Eights Weeks, 1906. Oxford: np, 1906), 9-13. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mystery of the North Pole Y1 - 1908 A1 - Mrs. C. A. Scrymsour Nichol (1830-1916) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Christian eutopia at the North Pole.

PB - Francis Griffiths CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Singular Republic Y1 - 1908 A1 - W[illiam] H[enry] Koebel (1872-1923) ED - W[illiam] H[enry] Koebel (1872-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The failure of an attempt to establish a utopian community called Neuvonie in South America.

PB - Francis Griffiths CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Socialism and How It Succeeded Y1 - 1908 A1 - John D[awson] Mayne (1828-1917) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. The socialists win the 1912 election, establish a republic and nationalize industry while raising parliamentary pay. This proves to be a disaster. Cuts in the military leads Germany to invade, but the socialists are overthrown, and Germany is defeated by a reinvigorated Britain.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Behold the Days to Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics Y1 - 1907 A1 - James [Granville] Adderley (1861-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of Christian Socialism that depicts a Garden City. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dust which is God; An Undimensional Adventure Y1 - 1907 A1 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of evolution and religion. A man is shown the First, Second, and Third Worlds, which are stages of human evolution, with the First World the beginning of consciousness, the Second World the contemporary world, and the Third World the eutopia to which evolution is tending. In the Third World friction has been overcome and humanity has evolved wings.

PB - Samurai Press CY - [Norwich, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Elixir of Life Y1 - 1907 A1 - William [Arthur] Satchell (1861-1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Various themes, but one is building a good society on an isolated island after a shipwreck. Stress on the need for authority.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Episode in Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension. To Which Is Added A Outline of the History of UNÆA Y1 - 1907 A1 - C[harles] H[oward] Hinton (1853-1907) KW - English author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary England set in Flatland (See 1884 Abbott) or Astria, as it is called here, which is divided between the savage Scythians and the civilized Unæans, who are the focus of the novel.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Every-day Life in a Socialist State" Y1 - 1907 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia as described in the title stressing education, the home and family, and work.

JF - Christian Commonwealth VL - 28 N1 -

Rpt. in "Notes of the Week." New Age 2.5 (November 30, 1907): 84.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flight of Icarus Y1 - 1907 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An apostate Jew with magical powers rules the world. See also 1909 Byatt. 

PB - Sisley's Ltd. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hidden Country" Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Janet] Syrett (1865-1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A story for children about the Kingdom of Progressia, which is based on rationality, equality, and freedom but has no fantasy, color, trees, grass, birds, and so forth. Children have no toys. The King and Queen live in a house the same as everyone else and must hold down regular jobs like everyone else. The Fairy Morgana creates a fairy tale setting in the center of the city that only believers can see. Conflict arises between those who can see it and those who can't, and they divide into two cities.

JF - Our Jabberwock (London) VL - 4.22 - 27 U3 -

Netta Syrett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Immortal Light Y1 - 1907 A1 - John Mastin F.S.A. Scot. F.L.S., F.C.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., R.B.A. (1865-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The life of reincarnated souls in an underground eutopia. Well developed people both physically and mentally. Water provides all the nourishment needed. Advanced technology, particularly in the use of glass and electricity. Egalitarian. See also 1906 Mastin.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London Charles Griffin & Co., [ca 1910]. The rpt. has the publisher as stated on the title page but Selfridge on the spine. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of the World Y1 - 1907 A1 - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) after split between secular humanism and the Roman Catholic Church. See 1911 Benson for an alternative future.

PB - Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908; New York: Arno Press, 1975; South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2001; and in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 101-481, with a brief note by the editor (97-99).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Hath Wings. Time: 2007" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Henry Fletcher (1856-1932) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic marriage laws enforced by the Sydney Marriage Bureau of the Co-operative Commonwealth in conflict with love. Hygienic clothes for all. Notes that for all the control of marriage, most people had false teeth and had to wear glasses.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Master Beast; Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism A.D. 1888-2020 Y1 - 1907 A1 - Horace W[ykeham] Newte (1870-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

PB - Rebman Ltd CY - London N1 -

Repub. as The Red Rosette. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1913]. 2nd ed. as The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism. London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1919].

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Repub. as The Red Rosette. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1913]. 2nd ed. as The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism. London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1919].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Cecil [Edward] Chesterton (1879-1918) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A non-fiction description of his eutopia stressing socialism, nationality, religion, festivity, the family, and a fairly conservative gender equality.

JF - The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, and Art VL - 692 (ns 2.7) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tyranny Y1 - 1907 A1 - James Blyth (1864-1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A tyrant rules Britain and war with Germany leads to a mass uprising.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A short poem that compares contemporary life to the possibility of eutopia. See also 1906 Nesbit.

JF - The New Age: An Independent Review of Politics, Literature, and Art VL - no. 662 (ns 1.2) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Might Have Been; The Story of a Social War Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Ernest Bramah] [Smith] (1868-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. Street names were changed to codes in the name of efficiency. The upper classes revolt, restore capitalism, and everybody is better off.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2017, with an “Introduction. The History of a Novel” by Jeremy Hawhorn (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (330-32), and “Works by Ernest Brahman” (329-34). An abridged ed. entitled The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1909] omitted the “Preface” and Chapter III, rearranges the order of other chapters, and makes other internal changes. U.S. ed. of the abridged ed. Atlanta, GA: Specular Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Dennis Jencke (i-iv) and a “Glossary” [287-91). L, NLS

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Abridged ed. as The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War (1909)

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Ernest Bramah [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Further Surprising Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon and then Captain of several Ships) in Topsy-Turvy Isle Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Elliott E.] [Mills] (1881-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary English politics and manners.

PB - Alden & Co CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Another copy has the publisher as Oxford, Eng.: Alden & Co., Ltd., Bocardo Press/London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.

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Vivian Grey [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Weather Syndicate Y1 - 1906 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Weather is controlled initially for political purposes, but it is then controlled to improve life. 

PB - F.V. White CY - London U3 -

George Griffith [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Nison Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Charles Percy] [Sanger] (1871-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nison means no sin and generally the language is simply the reversal of letters. Rule of wisdom. Few institutions. Women are considered to be inferior to men.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U3 -

C. Regnas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Made in His Image Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The establishment of slavery in England and how Christianity overcomes it.

PB - Hutchinson and Company CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906.

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Guy Thorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robinson Crusoe's Return Y1 - 1906 A1 - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Crusoe's return to modern England.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance" Y1 - 1906 A1 - Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist eutopia.

JF - The Clarion VL - nos. 779 - 98 N1 -

Repub. London: The Clarion Press, 1907.  Serial rpt. in British Socialist Fiction 1884-1914. Ed. Deborah Mutch. 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 4: 3-104.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy" Y1 - 1906 A1 - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Written for children but a good satire on the Wellsian future by a friend of H.G. Wells (1866-1946).

JF - The Strand Magazine VL - 31.182 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Story of the Amulet. Illus. H.R. Millar (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), 288-318; and (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1959), 217-38; rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1996), 224-47. The first Puffin Books ed. has the story copyright of 1901, but The Strand Magazine publication is clearly the first publication. The general title of The Strand Magazine version is “The Amulet: A Story for Children” and appears in 29.173 - 31.184 (May 1905 - April 1906). 

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Illus. H.R. Millar

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Superannuation Department A.D. 1945" Y1 - 1906 A1 - E[dward] F[rederic] Benson (1867-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the balance between individuals and the collective good. Everyone over 65 has to regularly demonstrate their usefulness to society with the testimony of witnesses--usefulness, beauty, moral improvement, and happiness are central but other answers are acceptable. Death for those who fail.

JF - Windsor Magazine VL - 23.133 N1 -

Rpt. in his Desirable Residences and Other Stories. Selected by Jack Adrian (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1991), 197-207.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D., 1910) Y1 - 1906 A1 - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 1910. Terror as the poor are manipulated by agitators. Attacks on law and lawyers but with a strong suggestion that the legal system is corrupt. Anti-socialist; anti-women's rights. The novel ends with the defeat of the terrorists and the recognition that England must reform. See also 1910 Ford.

PB - Greening & Company CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D. 1912). London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912 under the author's name as D[ouglas] Morey Ford. 

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2nd ed. A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D. 1912). London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Colonial King Y1 - 1905 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Chapter 21, "The Future Monarch of Democrata" (243-56), and the Epilogue, "The Kingdom of Democrata. The Building of Octavinia" (310-20), contain a eutopia for a democratic kingdom in the U.S. led by a benevolent monarch. State church. See also 1893, 1895 and 1902 Nisbet. 

PB - F.V. White CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. A brief account of those cases which resulted in the destruction of our late Ally, together with a comparison between the British and Roman Empires. Appointed for use in the National Schools of Japan--Tokio, 2005-- Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Elliott E.] [Mills] (1881-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The British Empire fell in 1995 and the colonies are now all colonies of other empires. Brought about by British leaders becoming talkers rather than actors, the shift from country to city, the rejection of sea power, "the growth of refinement and luxury", the decline in taste in literature and drama, the decline in physical health, "the decline of intellectual and religious life", high taxes and exorbitant municipal spending, and the inability to defend themselves or the empire. Compared throughout to the decline and fall of Rome as described by Edward Gibbon in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88).

PB - Alden & Co., Ltd., Bocardo Press/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, Ltd. CY - Oxford, Eng./London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fulfilment Y1 - 1905 A1 - Edith Allonby (1875-1905) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is divided into three roughly equal parts, “Earth,” “Hell,” and “Heaven” and describes the experiences of a woman as she lived and after she died with Hell a dystopia and Heaven a eutopia. The book was posthumously published after she committed suicide, and it was revised in ways she had explicitly rejected. 

PB - Greening & Co. CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God of this World: A Story for the Times Y1 - 1905 A1 - [John] [Bagot] (1844-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly on a revolution against a religion that worshipped Mammon, but it ends with the creation of a eutopia with elements of anarchism, socialism, religion, and the single tax.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U3 -

John B. Middleton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Days of the Comet" Y1 - 1905 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Something in the tail of a comet changes all human beings, freeing them from greed, power, and all baser passions. In response, all housing is rebuilt, private property disappears, and human relations are established on a firmer basis. Most of the novel is concerned with the problems of the old society. There is a significant focus on love and sex both in initial descriptions of the bad old world and in contrasts between it and the new world that develops after the passing of the comet.

JF - Cosmopolitan Magazine VL - 40 - 41 N1 -

Repub. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. Also published in The Daily Chronicle, nos. 13,725 - 13,756 (February 20 - March 29, 1906). All installments appear on page 8 except No. 13,746 (March 16): 10. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume X In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), 9-319. The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. The first two sections of Chapter 6 “The Change” are rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 202-08 with an editor’s note on 201. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mark Meredith: A Tale of Socialism Y1 - 1905 A1 - C[harles] H[enry] Chomley (1868-1943?) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel, probably written specifically against William Lane (1861-1917), the founder of New Australia. See 1888 and 1892 Lane for his utopias. 

PB - Edgerton & Moore CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple and White; A Romance Y1 - 1905 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Future tale of peace and prosperity under one man rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Sexes Y1 - 1905 A1 - F[lorence] E[thel] [Mills] Young (1875-1945) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Humor about the last man. A partial eutopia has been created by the women.

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With the Night Mail" Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Introduction to 1912 Kipling, which develops this story.

JF - McClure's Magazine VL - 26.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “With the Night Mail. From ‘The Windsor Magazine,’ October, A.D. 2147.” Windsor Magazine 23.1 (December 1905): 52-66; with the subtitle “A Story of 2,000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared).” In his Actions and Reactions (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 117-81. Rpt. in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 19-89 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).U.K. ed. (London: Macmillan, 1909), 111-169, which was rpt. as Vol. 4144 of Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz ed. (Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1909), 117-65. An ed. illus. and ptd. on right hand pages only, was published as With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared). London: Macmillan, 1909. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. Also rpt. as “With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared (1905).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 103-59 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Without a Child: A Story for Women and for Men Y1 - 1905 A1 - [John] Coulson Kernahan (1858-1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world concerned only with variety and pleasure. No children born. Death of religion.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Army of the Dream" Y1 - 1904 A1 - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Britain has willingly/happily adopted militarism. Set in the 1920s. Presented positively. Those who do not volunteer cannot vote.

JF - Traffics and Discoveries PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1987), 202-41 with notes on 334-37. Also rpt. as “The Army of a Dream (1904).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 237-88 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Originally published in the Morning Post (July 15 - 18, 1904). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fourth Conquest of England; A Sequel to "Treason" Y1 - 1904 A1 - Allen Upward (1863-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the revival of the Roman Catholic Church. Science and technology rejected. Pope concluded that the Antipodes do not exist. Treason is probably his High Treason. London: The Primrose Press, [1903], which also has Romance of Politics at the head of the title and is an anti-Roman Catholic work. A note says, "The publications of the Primrose Press are copyright in all civilised countries, but not in the United States, Haiti, Domingo, Liberia, and other Negro Republics" (ii).

PB - The Tyndale Press. (W.S. Martin & Co., Ltd.) CY - London U1 -

At the head of the title--Romance of Politics. Cover adds before the title page sub-title A Narrative of the Re-union of the Churches of England and Rome, followed by the restoration of the Stuarts and the setting up of the Holy Inquisition in England.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Y1 - 1904 A1 - W[illiam] H[enry] Hudson (1841-1922) KW - Argentinian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A love story set in the tropical  forest  of  South America , with, for a time, the forest providing its Adam and Eve with an idyllic existence. The author was born in Argentina and immigrated to England in 1874.

PB - Duckworth CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916 with a “Foreword” by John Galsworthy (vii-xvi). Rpt. with illus. by Keith Henderson. London: Duckworth, 1926. Rpt. with illus. by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” by William Beere (vii-x). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; with illus. by E. McKnight Kauffer New York: Random House, 1944; London: Guild Books, 1950; London: Collins, 1957 with an “Introduction” by H. E. Bates (11-16); New York: AMS Press, 1968 with A Note on Hudson’s Romances” by Edward Garnett (v-ix); and New York: Dover, 1989; with Paintings and Drawings by Horacio Butler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Also rpt. without the subtitle Mount Vernon, VA: Peter Pauper Press, 1943; with the subtitle With illustrations reproducing drawings for early editions and photographs of contemporary scenes together with an introductory biographical sketch of the author and anecdotal captions by Edwin Way Teale. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949; with the subtitle on the cover but not the title page London: Robin Clark, 1990; and without the subtitle ed. Ian Duncan. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Rpt. with illustrations by Keith Henderson. London: Duckworth, 1926.  Rpt. with Paintings and Drawings by Horacio Butler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Utopia. A Sociological Holiday" Y1 - 1904 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic world state eutopia.

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - ns 76 - 77 (os 82 - 83) N1 -

Repub. as A Modern Utopia. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume IX A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925), 1-331. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. ed. Krishan Kumar. London: Everyman, 1994; and ed. Gregory Claeys and Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Francis Wheen (xiii-xxviii), a "Note on the Text" by Gregory Claeys and Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxviii), and "Notes" by Gregory Claeys and Andy Sawyer (267-81); and in The First Men in the Moon A Modern Utopia (Ware, Eng.: Wordsworth Classics, 2017), 195-415, with an “Introduction” by David Stuart Davies (11-25). U.S. ed. New York: Scribner's, 1905. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Napoleon of Notting Hill Y1 - 1904 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in an odd combination of humor and a return to the medieval ideal of independent villages in London.

PB - John Lane: The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: John Lane, 1909; Beaconsfield, Eng.: Darwen Finlayson, 1964; in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Denis J. Conlon (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1991), 6: 215-379; New York: Dover, 1991; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994; and Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with “Introduction: Dystopias Are Problems Plus Time” (xv-xxiv) by Madeline Ashby.

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Illus. W. Graham Robertson.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Food of the Gods" Y1 - 1903 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

New food produces giants who are also of superior intelligence. Conflict with the "little people" follows. The giants decide to allow the little people to live but expect them to die out. Little detailed utopianism but includes a section on how the giant children should be educated and brief glimpses of possible ways of improving life for the little people.

JF - Pearson's Magazine VL - 16 - 17 N1 -

U.S. serialization in Cosmopolitan 36 - 37 (November 1903 - August 1904): 33-50, 227-40, 299-313, 395-411, 525-38, 643-56; 29-4o, 193-200, 283-90, 461-69. Repub. with the subtitle And How It Came to Earth. London: Macmillan, 1904. Rpt. London Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Adam Roberts (v-viii). U.S ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904; rpt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume V The Food of the Gods The Sea Lady (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925), 1-306. The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.

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Illus. Cyrus Cuneo

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future Is Ours" Y1 - 1903 A1 - John Addington Symonds (1840-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief poem suggesting the eutopia to come after the revolution. Little detail.

JF - The Comrade (New York) VL - 2.6 N1 -

Almost certainly published earlier.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gates of Afree A.D. 1928: A Romance of the New Empire Y1 - 1903 A1 - Henri Van Laun (1820-96) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

The novel, with characters and incidents the author describes in the Preface as symbols of the forces at work in South Africa, suggests the eutopia based on technology and a form of socialism that is possible in South Africa as long as it is part of the British Empire. Racist.

PB - W.H. White & Son CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U1 -

New Original Tale at the head of the title on the cover.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver Joe Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Cecil Eldred] [Hughes] (1875-1941) A1 - [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gulliverian satire on Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), who was Secretary of State for Colonies at the time.

PB - Isbister CY - London U3 -

Jonathan Quick, Dean of St. Rattrick's [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Our Midst. The Letters of Callicrates to Dione, Queen of the Xanthians, concerning England and the English, Anno Domini 1902" Y1 - 1903 A1 - [William Thomas] [Stead] (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Britain in a series of letters back to an African matriarchy. 

JF - Review of Reviews Annual N1 -

Repub. as by William T[homas] Stead, ed. [written by]. The Despised Sex: The Letters of Callicrates to Dione, Queen of the Xanthians, concerning England and the English, Anno Domini 1902. London: Grant Richards, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morganeering Or, The Triumph of the Trust. A Fragment of a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth Y1 - 1903 A1 - Professor [Alexander William] Bickerton (1842-1929) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a dystopia of one man controlling all the world’s wealth. Laissez faire catechisms are taught. Includes a federation of intentional communities and a broad egalitarianism.

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A fragment was published earlier as Morganeering Or, The Triumph of the Trust. A Fragment of a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth. [Christchurch, New Zealand: Wainoni Publishing Co., 1901?]. Critical ed. ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Studies in English. English and Linguistics, University of Otago, 2021. According to Bickerton, this was based on an even earlier election leaflet, which has apparently been lost. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Animated Flat” Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Edith Cecil] [Maturin] (b. ca. 1865) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Satire on technological improvements to domestic life. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Story of Atlantis. Written down for the Hermetic Brotherhood Y1 - 1903 A1 - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atlantis as eutopia including details about the island, which in this version is in the Caribbean, its institutions, and its people.

PB - Hermetic Book Concern CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.

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A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Quest of the Simple Life Y1 - 1903 A1 - W[illiam] J[ames] Dawson (1854-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the book is taken up with the author’s complaints about city life, while recognizing its advantages. The second part is about his search for a way of living in the countryside, the discovery of a cottage, and his life there with his wife and children. The book ends, though, with a chapter, “The city of the Future” (257-278) in which he discusses how the modern city could be transformed to keep the advantages of city life without the accompanying disadvantages. His solution is a core city with many parks surrounded by towns with all the basic amenities but all, equally, part of the core city.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1907.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Freedom: Romance of South America Y1 - 1902 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A novel describing the intentional community of New Sparta (160-318) in Paraguay, which is obviously based on William Lane (1861-1917) and the New Australia experiment. The settlers are described as Practical Communists following the ideals of William Morris (1834-96), which does not fit the actual New Australia. See 1888 and 1892 Lane for his utopias. See also 1893, 1895 and 1905 Nisbet. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lake of Gold: A Narrative of the Anglo-American Conquest of Europe" Y1 - 1902 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Power of money used for good--free trade, trusts abolished, no strikes or lockouts, arbitration, and no war.

JF - Argosy VL - 41.1 - 42.4 N1 -

Repub. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: F.V. White, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trial of Man; An Allegorical Romance Y1 - 1902 A1 - [Charles Edward] [Lawrence] ​(1870-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially the Biblical story of Eden and its aftermath told regarding a new planet with a new Adam and Eve (Martin and Lucy) facing the same problems.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Donoghues of Dunno Weir" Y1 - 1901 A1 - Francis Galton (1822-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic eutopia.

JF - Utopian Studies VL - 12.2 N1 -

University College, London Galton Papers 138/5

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erewhon Revisited twenty years later, both by the original discoverer and his son Y1 - 1901 A1 - [Samuel [Butler] (1835-1902) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1872 Butler stressing religion. 

PB - G. Richards CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as volume 16 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew. London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inoculation Day" Y1 - 1901 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which there is an inoculation for character and to eliminate emotions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Cloud Y1 - 1901 A1 - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) KW - Creole author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Montserrat British West Indies author AB -

Last man dystopia set only a few years in the future.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977 with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-xviii). Rev. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1930; rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 with an "Introduction to the Bison Books Edition" by John Clute (v-xii). Originally published serially illus. J. J. Cameron. The Royal Magazine 5 - 6 (January- June 1901): 276-, 358-, 437-, 508-; 37-, 139-112. The Vanguard Press ed. is rpt. abridged illus. Lawrence [Sterne Stevens] (1886-1960). Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.5 (June 1949): 10-; and with additional material for The Reynolds Morse Foundation, 1979. The 1901 ed. is an expanded version of the serial. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Will There Be Servants in 2000 A.D.” Y1 - 1901 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

No because housing will have so improved that they will no longer to needed.

JF - Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 118-22. Rpt. in Current Literature 32.4 (April 1902): 426-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream of a Warringtonian Y1 - 1900 A1 - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Warrington described as a future eutopia. Clean and improved both architecturally and morally. Much control by local government. See also 1892 Hythloday Junior. Bennett also wrote a utopia advocating a world federation; see 1892 Bennett.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The First Men in the Moon" Y1 - 1900 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic dystopia of breeding for service to society. On October 19, 2010, BBC Four broadcast a made-for-television version written by Mark Gatniss (b. 1966) and directed by Damon Thomas.

JF - The Strand Magazine VL - 20 - 22 N1 -

The Strand Magazine sections from July and August 1901 have been rpt. in Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 107-49 with and editor’s not on 105-06. A different version was published in The Cosmopolitan (New York) 30.1 - 6 (November 1900 - April 1901): 65-80, 194-206, 310-23, 415-29, 521-34, 643-56. First collected--Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill, 1901; and, with minor textual differences, London: George Newnes, 1901. Rpt. London Gollancz, 2013, with an “Introduction” by Lisa Tuttle (ix-xi). Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume VI The First Men in the Moon and Some More Human Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), 1-267. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 1.9 – 11 (December 1926 – February 1927): 774-91, 914-39, 1014-38; with illus. Bob Eggleton. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1989; London: Everyman, 1993; as The First Men in the Moon: A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998; New York: Modern Library, 2002, with an “Introduction” by Ursula K. Le Guin (xi-xviii) that has been rpt. in her Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016 (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer, 2016), 173-78, and “Commentary” by T. S. Eliot (223-26) that had been originally published as “Journalists of Yesterday and Today.” The New English Weekly 16.16 (February 8, 1940): 237-38 [The Modern Library edition says the original title was “Wells as Journalist]; and Darko Suvin (227-240) that had originally been published as “Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition.” Minnesota Review, ns 4.4 (1975): 106-15, and a “Reading Group Guide” (241-42); ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by China Miéville (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxvii), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (205-13); and in The First Men in the Moon A Modern Utopia (Ware, Eng.: Wordsworth Classics, 2017), 27-193, with an “Introduction” by David Stuart Davies (11-25). An alternative beginning and an alternative ending were published as “An Unpublished Prologue to The First Men in the Moon.” with an “Introduction” by Charles Blair. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 15-17; and “Terrestrial: An Unpublished Version of the Ending of The First Men in the Moon” with an “Introduction” by Simon J. James. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 18-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Good Place" Y1 - 1900 A1 - Henry James (1843-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man with extreme stress from overwork dreams of a eutopia of rest similar to a monastery.

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Rpt. in The Novels and Tales Of Henry James. New York Edition.  vol. 16 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), 222-63; The Short Stories of Henry James. Ed. Clifton Fadiman (New York: The Modern Library, 1945), 385-422, with "A Note on The Great Good Place" (413-15);  The Complete Tales of Henry James. 11 1900-1903. Ed Leon Edel (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964), 13-42; and in his Complete Stories 1898-1900 (New York: Library of America, 1996), 152-77, with a Note on the Text (940) and Notes (943) by Denis Donoghue..

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nineteenth Century; A Dialogue in Utopia Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Discussion of the nineteenth century, presented largely in negative terms, from the vantage point of a future eutopia, which is a united world, although nations still maintain their cultures, with one language and one medium of exchange. Communities exist to benefit their members rather than the reverse, which was the nineteenth century norm. The future is concerned with the art of living rather than commerce. Stress on beauty.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London N1 -

US ed. subtitled An Utopian Retrospect. Boston, MA: Small, Maynard, 1900.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 Y1 - 1900 A1 - Robert William Cole (1869-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Anglo-Saxon race had absorbed the world with England and Germany dividing it up and the United States reunited with England. London is the capital of the solar system. New power sources and been discovered. The sciences and engineering are considered the only worthwhile subjects of study because they are ". . . the only subjects that gave an adequate return for the labour spent on them" (7). The study of the humanities has been abolished. Two classes--intellectuals and menials. Riots followed by a future war, with most of the novel on the war.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Volume 1 The Empire of the Future. Ed. Richard Bleiler (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 133-97, with Bleiler’s “Introduction to Cole’s The Struggle for Empire (107-31), “Contemporary Essays by Robert Cole and Others” (207-39), and “Editorial Notes” (245-49). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Within an Ace of the End of the World” Y1 - 1900 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced when capitalists draw nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce food. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203. The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Caramella; A Story of the Lotus Eaters Up to Date Y1 - 1899 A1 - George Procter Hawtrey (1847-1910) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire using the South Seas Island style of eutopia. Ends with the "Preface" (424-26). Beautiful people, tranquility; little or no work needed; constant good weather; people do what they want. Army for show only and recruited only from foreigners in their early teens who serve for three years and then return to their home country; rifles made of wood. Mostly romance and some adventure.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. CY - Bristol, Eng./London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Explorations in the Sit-Tee Desert: Being a Comic Account of the Supposed Discovery of the Ruins of the London Stock Exchange Some 2000 Years hence Y1 - 1899 A1 - Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire supposedly written on April 1, 3999 describing the discovery of the ruins of the stock exchange near the river Thamisis, which was the site of Bab-y-london.

PB - Unwin Brothers, Printers CY - London and Chilworth U1 -

The cover title is Explorations in the Sit-Tee Desert and Discovery of the Great Temple of the Bull and Bear.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How the House of Commons became a Cycling School" Y1 - 1899 A1 - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The House of Commons is accepted as completely useless and votes itself out of existence.

JF - A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction PB - Greening & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How the 'House of Lords Question' Was Settled. A Tale of the Terrace or, Mrs. Ponsonby-Jones's Revenge" Y1 - 1899 A1 - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Because women visitors are distracting the Peers from the business of Parliament, the Prime Minister gets a bill passed prohibiting them from the terrace. Women vote in a majority in favor of abolishing the House of Lords. A compromise is reached in which women elect women representatives to a female house and the entire House of Lords becomes the Privy Council.

JF - A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction PB - Greening & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jacob's Dream" Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England. 

JF - Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 26.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Probable Tales Y1 - 1899 A1 - W[illiam] Stebbing ed. [written by] (1832-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Series of mostly satirical short stories describing countries with one unusual custom.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Son of Africa. A Romamce Y1 - 1899 A1 - Anna [Dunphy] Brémont comtesse de (1864-1922) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel, but it includes a short section in which the immortal Queen of Sheba prophecies a New Jerusalem to be founded in South Africa by Jews and Christians (96-111). Extremely unusual for the time, the novel depicts an interracial marriage positively.

PB - Greening CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Was It a Sin? London: Hutchinson, 1906.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Story of The Days To Come" Y1 - 1899 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia controlled by trusts and the Labour Company. No family life.

JF - Tales of Space and Time PB - Harper & Bros. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899), 165-324. Rpt. in Amazing Stories 3.1-2 (April - May 1928): 6-25, 134-47; and in The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells. Ed. John Hammond (London: J.M. Dent, 1998), 333-98. Originally published as a linked series of stories in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1899 as follows: "The Cure for Love. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (June): 186-99; "The Vacant Country. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (July): 309-23; "The Ways of the City. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2090-2095.)" 18 (August): 491-505; "Underneath. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2098.)" 19 (September): 81-94; and "The Magnanimity of the Man of Pleasure. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2097.)" 19 (October): 222-34 [L(NL)]. In the 1900 version, the last story is changed significantly, and the title is changed to "Bindon Intervenes."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Trip to Paradoxia" Y1 - 1899 A1 - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Paradoxia has completely dysfunctional social arrangements, but its inhabitants believe everything is working well.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Sleeper Wakes Y1 - 1899 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Archetypal Wells dystopia in which class divisions have worsened. Rural life has disappeared and been replaced with great class-stratified cities. Religion, and everything else, has to be profit-making. 

PB - Harper & Bros CY - New York N1 -

Originally pub. in The Graphic 59 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 9-11, 41-43, 73-75, 105-07, 137-39, 169-71, 201-03, 233-35, 265-67, 297-99, 329-31, 361-63, 393-95, 433-35, 465-67, 497-99, 529-31, 561-63. Rpt. in Harper's Weekly 43.2194 - 2211 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 11-13; 39-40; 65-69; 93-95; 117-19; 141-42; 165-67; 191-93; 215-17; 239-41; 263-65; 287-88; 311-13; 339-41; 376-77; 399-401; 427-28; 451-53. Rpt. as "The Sleeper Awakes" in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume II The Island of Doctor Moreau The Sleeper Awakes (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924), 173-480. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly 1.1 (Winter 1928): 55-126, 136; ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1994. Later ed. entitled The Sleeper Wakes. London: Thomas Nelson, 1910. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000; ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Patrick Parrinder (xiii-xxvii), a "Note on the Text" by Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxvi), and "Notes" by Andy Sawyer (235-52); and ed. John Sutherland. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sutherland (9-41), “A Note on the Text” (43-46), “Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews” (61-65), “Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an ‘Afterword’” (267-71), “Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos” (273-76), “Appendix C: Utopian Quarrels [Brief excerpts from Hudson, A Crystal Age; Morris, News From Nowhere; and Bellamy, Looking Backward]” (277-88), “Appendix D: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes (289-90), and “Works Cited and Select Bibliography” (291-92). Esperanto ed. as La Dormanto Vekigás. Tradukita De A. Frank. London: Esperanto Pub. Co., 1929.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Buried Mystery Y1 - 1898 A1 - Clement A[lfred] Mendham (1859-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that depicts a eutopian country in the interior of South America. The only limit on freedom is that no new ideas may be propagated because the people are happy as they are. All things taken from a public storehouse. Marriage by lot at age 20. Love enters and most of the novel concerns issues that arise from this "new idea." The eutopia is destroyed in an earthquake.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Corner in Lightning” Y1 - 1898 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia when capitalists try to control lightning to produce electricity. The author changed his legal name from Jones to Griffith in 1894. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hellsville, U.S.A." Y1 - 1898 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Economic reform in the United States beginning with anti-trust legislation followed by something close to civil war of rich against poor with the rich enlisting the Irish and black against white. After the war was won, the problem of what to do with the losers led to the worst and most useless people put on a reservation called Hellsville. While the U.S. becomes a eutopia, Hellsville is a dystopia is destroyed by meteors. 

JF - Pearson's Weekly VL - no. 420 N1 -

Rpt. in his Gambles With Destiny. By George Griffith [pseud.]. (London: F.V. White, 1899), 3-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keepers of the People Y1 - 1898 A1 - Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the way an Englishman establishes a dynasty in an Asia country by first defeating its enemies and then establishing Western agriculture and ways of life.

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rev. Annabel Lee. A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1898 A1 - Robert [Williams] Buchanan (1841-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A scientific eutopia set in the middle of the twenty-first century without religion needs a religious revival to overcome too great a dependence on reason. Eugenics policy, which prohibited marriage between those deemed unfit, is referred to favorably and quoted in Harry Campbell, “An Essay on the Marriage of the Unfit.” The Lancet 2.3915 (September 10, 1898):680. Euthanasia is practiced, mostly for the old but can also be applied to the disabled. 

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of the Horses Y1 - 1898 A1 - Walter Copland Perry (1814-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Novel based on 1726 Swift. The Houyhnhnms lead a revolt of the horses in Great Britain and establish a Houyhnhnm state. The Yahoos are only adept at killing each other.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sketches of the Future" Y1 - 1898 A1 - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women in power, including "The Foreign Secretary's Baby", where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); "The Lord Chancellor's Husband" (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; "The New Childhood", which describes the power of the "Children's Union" (31-42); and "The Pole of Heredity" (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst.

JF - Sketches of the Future PB - John Macqueen CY - London N1 -

Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Society of the Future Y1 - 1898 A1 - Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay that, while mostly concerned with and critical of contemporary conditions, also describes a socialist utopia that has eliminated poverty and child labor and radically reduced the hours of work.

PB - J.A. Wayland CY - Girard, KS VL - No 7 of Wayland’s One-Hoss Philosophy (October 1898) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform Y1 - 1898 A1 - E[benezer] Howard (1850-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay describing a suburban eutopia combining town and country. Basis for the Garden City Movement. On the movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London N1 -

Rpt. of this edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, and Colin Ward. London: Routledge, 2003. Better known as Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"). London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.  As Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Ed., with a Preface (9-28) by F[rederic] J. Osborn [and] With an Introductory Essay [“The Garden City Idea and Modern Planning”] (29-40) by Lewis Mumford. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. With the exception of the 2003 edition, later editions are all under the title of the 2nd edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas Y1 - 1898 A1 - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944) A1 - E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. VL - Vol. 78 of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warstock: A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1898 A1 - [William Oliver] [Greener] (1862-1935) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and future war but is concerned with patent rights and shows how inventions can both improve life and give power for good to inventors. Argument that improved patent rights will inspire inventors to greater efforts. The first invention is wireless telegraphy, which allows instant communication. A "white" republic called Cristalla is established in Africa in which inventors will be the only aristocrats. A new weapon makes Cristalla invincible, and it defeats Europe and brings world peace.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When All Men Starve: Showing Home England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply Y1 - 1898 A1 - Charles [Henry Alfred] Gleig (1862-1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

As a result of the government’s poor policies, England loses its influence in Africa, is blockaded by European governments, the government falls, and a rebellion ensues followed by looting and killing.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London UR - https://archive.org/details/whenallmenstarv00gleigoog/page/n8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The White Women” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Mary E[lizabeth] Coleridge (1861-1907) ED - [Henry] [Newbolt], ed. KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Amazons presented in eutopian terms. Said to be “From a legend of Malay, told by Hugh Clifford (78). 

JF - Poems PB - Elkin Matthews CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge. Ed. Theresa Whistler (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954), 212-13. The “Preface” to the 1908 ed. says that this poem and eleven others were first published “in a volume by several authors called ‘The Garland’,” which is probably The Garland of New Poetry by Various Authors. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899, which contains twelve poems by the author but not this one. The 1954 edition places the poem as 1900 without explanation. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ivory Queen: A Story of Strange Adventure Y1 - 1897 A1 - John Pendleton (1848-1926?) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel. Mostly adventure but ends with a eutopia in Africa which is a successful agricultural society in an isolated valley under a white king descended from early Egyptian settlers. Odd novel for the period in that it includes successful cross-dressing and, together with some fairly standard racism, a successful interracial marriage.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marooned On Australia: Being the Narrative of Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits "In Terra Australis Incognita" About the Year 1630 Y1 - 1897 A1 - Ernest Favenc (1846?-1908) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that includes a short eutopian section describing an arcadia in a valley in the Australian desert (31-52). Simple religion. Racist.

PB - Blackie and Sons CY - London N1 -

New ed. London: Blackie and Sons, 1905.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Prehistoric Music. A Lecture Delivered by Professor Boremall Before the Members of the Society of Antediluvian Art, July, 2897” Y1 - 1897 A1 - Edward A[lgernon] Baughan (1865-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire presenting the music of the Victorian era from the perspective of a future eutopia. There is little about the future, but it is stated that peace prevails because disputes are settled by arbitration. Music in the future is a central part of moral teaching.

JF - Monthly Musical Record (London) VL - 27.320 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Raid of the "Detrimental": Being the True History of the Great Disappearance of 1862; Related By Several of Those Implicated And Others; And Now First Set Forth Y1 - 1897 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and satire set on a South Seas island with particular satire on gender relations.

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to Venus Y1 - 1897 A1 - John Munro (1849-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Arcadian, small-town eutopia on Venus. Abundance.

PB - Jarrold and Sons CY - London N1 -

The first chapter is entitled “A Message from Mars” and was originally published under that title as by J[ohn] Munro, C.E. in Cassell's Family Magazine 21 (March 1895): 292-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Without Bloodshed; A Probability of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1897 A1 - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on English manners. Rich Americans take over all English property through political maneuvering. Intentional community in England. Gorst published a review of his own book in The Quilldriver, no. 1 (October 1897). The journal was the inhouse journal of the publisher and does not appear to be available. See also 1898 Gorst.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Gold; A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent Y1 - 1896 A1 - Edward Markwick (1851-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race eutopia. Matriarchy. Both men and women work at a variety of jobs. Community cares for children from age one. Telepathy.

PB - Tower Publishing Company CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: W. Thacker, 1898.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Refuge" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Walter Besant (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Much of the setting of the novel is an intentional community in the United States where a man from England is hiding from his past and the authorities. The community is, as the title suggests, presented, not entirely favorably, as a refuge from the world. The people wear unattractive clothing, work, eat, and meditate. No books allowed.

JF - The Pall Mall Magazine VL - 8 - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of To-Morrow: A Tale of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1896 A1 - Hon. [Alice] Coralie Glyn (1866-1928) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of greater gender equality in 100 years presented from the point of view of a modest, repressed, middle-aged spinster from the 1890s. There are still rich and poor. Some satire on both the 1890s and the 1990s.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Abolition of Money" Y1 - 1895 A1 - I[srael] Zangwill (1864-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the topic of the title. While workers do well through a system of barter, artists, writers, preachers, and the like do badly so eutopian for one group and dystopian for another, with the latter the focus of the story. 

JF - The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 6 U2 -

Illus. Max Cowper and Herbert Johnson

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Government by the People Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914) A1 - [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction presentation of a detailed scheme for a new political system stressing administration over politics and how to bring it about. Includes chapters on the civil service; the national assembly, which has no speaker or prime minister, and its committees; "The Chamber of Experts", which has educational qualifications for membership; local government; the constitution; rights of minorities; and social ethics. 

PB - Bliss, Sands and Foster CY - London U3 -

The Authors of The Story of My Dictatorship [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Secret. A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1895 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Begins as a novel of adventure with a conflict between anarchists set on destruction and the passengers and crew of a ship. The anarchists kill all the others and most of the anarchists come to a bad end. Three of the dead pass through the River Styx to a spirit world of almost static perfection where all the perfected spirits of the past together with a few immortals live in their own civilizations, which have been stripped of their imperfections. Two of the anarchists are reformed and become the center of a good society on an isolated island, which is only briefly described.  See also 1893, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet. 

PB - F.V. White CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hedged With Divinities Y1 - 1895 A1 - Edward Tregear (1846-1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

All men die but one, who has been put into a trance by Maori elders. The women generally make a mess of things. When the man awakes, he is made king, whereupon he organizes the women, who only needed a man to direct them, and the road to recovery begins. But he is required to marry one hundred women and runs away for true love with a woman who won't share him with others.

PB - R. Coupland Harding CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Moon. A Novel Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Edward] Tremlett Carter (1866-1903) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex multi-genre novel set in a hollow moon combining adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, which is the emphasis of the novel. Some on the lives of the people.

PB - "The Electrician” Printing and Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co. CY - London U2 -

Illus. A. d’Aguilcourt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Root of the Matter: Being a Series of Dialogues on Social Questions Y1 - 1895 A1 - H[enry] H[yde] Champion (1859-1928) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction in which one person describes socialism.

PB - E.W. Cole CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Story of Strange Sights" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Ethel Turner (1870-1958) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. Future in which many of the social fads of the time have been implemented, but with children raised by the state and everyone better off.

JF - Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 51 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Machine: An Invention Y1 - 1895 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gradual development of two classes, the Eloi and the Morlocks, who are the final stages of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, respectively. An authorized sequel is 1995 Barnes. There are many unauthorized sequels.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume I The Time Machine The Wonderful Visit and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924), 1-118. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 2.2 (May 1927): 148-78; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 11.6 (August 1950): 10-53; in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books 1.4 (Winter 1951): 2-44; in Three Prophetic Novels of H.G. Wells. Ed. E.F. Bleiler (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 263-335 [Follows the 1895 Heinemann ed. except for including an episode from the National Review serial left out of book versions (325-27); as The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition of H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romance With Introduction and Notes by Harry M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987; Ed. Michael Moorcock. London: Everyman, 1993; Rev. Centennial ed. ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1995; as The Time Machine: An Invention. A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996; Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2001; Ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by Marina Warner (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxiv), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (97-104); and in London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (vii-xi). Illustrated by Ale + Ale [Alessandro Lecis and Alessandra Panzeri]. Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers/Quarto Group, 2019. See also, “The Missing Pages from the Immortal Science Fiction Novel by H.G. Wells. The Time Machine XIII. The Further Vision.” Satellite Science Fiction 2.6 (August 1958): 98-109]; Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1964 illus. Joe Mugnaini and with an “Introduction” (v-xi) by George Zebrowski; the title page says that the introduction is by Brian W. Aldiss, but it is signed by Zebrowski. Differing text in New York: Henry Holt, 1895 [by three weeks, this is technically the first edition]. The Time Machine began life as “The Chronic Argonauts.” Science Schools Journal 2.11 - 13 (April - June 1888): 312-20, 336-41, 367-71. Serialized versions that differed from each other and from the first book version appeared as a series without a common title in the National Observer as follows: “Time Travelling: Possibility or Paradox?” 11.278 (March 17, 1894): 446-47; “The Time Machine.” 11.279 (March 24, 1894): 472-73; “A.D. 12,203: A Glimpse of the Future.” 11.280 (March 31, 1894): 499-500; “The Refinement of Humanity.” 11.283 (April 21, 1894): 581-82; “The Sunset of Mankind.” 11.284 (April 28, 1894): 606-08; “In the Underworld.” 12.287 (May 19, 1894): 14-15; and “The Time Traveller Returns.” 12.292 (June 23, 1894): 145-47; and as “The Time Machine.” New Review 12.68 - 72 (January - May 1895): 98-112, 207, 221, 329-43, 453-72, 577-88. Much of The National Observer version and some of the New Review version can be found in H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction. Ed. Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), 57-104. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia"; The Story of a Strange Experience Y1 - 1895 A1 - Frederic Condé Williams (ed.) [written by] (1844-1917) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An isolated island Arcadia. Nudity, no formal marriage. Children are raised by the community.

PB - Metcalfe and Company CY - Cambridge, Eng. VL - The Cambridge Christmas Annual 1895 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A.D. 1900--Application for Leave to Give a Dinner" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary manners projected slightly into the future.

JF - Pall Mall Gazette VL - no. 9221 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curse and Its Cure in Two Volumes Y1 - 1894 A1 - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A religious dystopia followed by a religious eutopia. Volume I, set in 2000, describes a Brisbane that has essentially disappeared and ends with a description of Hell. Volume II, set in 2200, describes a Brisbane revived and ends with a description of Heaven. Land and mineral wealth nationalized, and “rational” dress adopted, but the key change is the return to religion. Eight-hour workday. See also 1889 Lucas.

PB - J.H. Reynolds CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Devil's Pronoun" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Frances Forbes Robertson (1866-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An egalitarian eutopia with people living a simple life where the language has no possessive pronoun. Satan introduces possessive pronouns and destroys the eutopia.

JF - The Devil's Pronoun and Other Phantasies PB - Reeves & Turner CY - London U2 -

With Five Designs by E[ric] F[orbes] R[obertson] (1865-1935).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century; A Prospective History Y1 - 1894 A1 - Henry Lazarus, ed. [written by] (1855-1922) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly criticism of contemporary society from the perspective of a future eutopia. The Salvation Army, while remaining a religious body, is remodeled into a real army and leads the essentially peaceful revolution. But after the revolution, slum landlords and others who had preyed upon the poor were turned over to those they had preyed upon, who killed them. Government replaced, although the king is kept. Slum clearance. Much on the period of transition and details of reforms in the economy, politics, education, law, and social relations.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Guesses at Futurity" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Fred[erick] T[homas] Jane (1865-1916) KW - English author AB -

A series of one-page satirical sketches.

JF - Pall Mall Magazine VL - 4 - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hygenic Country” Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on reforms in hygiene and diet through an island called Hygeia where anything that might cause disease has been destroyed and the water purified. The people eat only brown bread, stewed fruit, and new milk.

JF - Lika Joko VL - no. 9 U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal City Y1 - 1894 A1 - Rev. Canon [Samuel Augustus] Barnett (1844-1913) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that the author argues is possible. Stress on variety but no very rich or poor. Religion, education, health. Outlines how England could become such a eutopia, with Bristol the specific city being considered. See also Samuel [Augustus] Barnett and Henrietta Barnett, Practicable Socialism: Essays on Social Reform. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Rpt. in 1894 and 1915.

PB - Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Ideal City. Ed. Helen E. Meller (Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1979), 55-66 with a "Note to The Ideal City (47-53).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer Y1 - 1894 A1 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious, cooperative eutopia in one chapter entitled "In the Twentieth Century." For a response, see 1894 Hale, “If Jesus Came to Boston.” For non-utopian works using the same trope, see M[ilford] W[riarson] Howard. If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to "If Christ Came to Congress". [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh, A Second Coming. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1900.

PB - Review of Reviews CY - London N1 -

New ed. as If Christ Came to Chicago! What Would Jesues Do with The Precursor of “In His Steps.” at the head of the title. London: “Review of Reviews” Office, 1899. U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Island of Opera” Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on opera in which sailors come across the Island of Opera in the Archipelago of Music.

JF - Lika Joko VL - no. 6 U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ivanda or the Pilgrim's Quest: A Tale Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Sir] Captain Claude [Arthur] Bray (b. 1858) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia or flawed utopia. A lost community in Tibet that was intended to be a utopian religious community is more dystopian as a result of some evil men with power in the community. Mostly adventure and romance.

PB - Frederick Warne CY - London U1 -

Cover title is Ivanda: A Tale of Thibet.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Outlaws of the Air" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and future war, but two chapters describe eutopias that stress personal freedom in an explicitly capitalist setting. The first is a simple, escapist, South Seas Island eutopia without the usual implication of sexual freedom. The second includes all the islands of the South Seas and is a new, independent company set up by the good capitalists who have wrested control of the air from the bad anarchists.

JF - Short Stories (London) VL - 11.297 - 325 N1 -

Rpt. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: Tower Publishing Company, 1895. 

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George Griffith [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Revolt of the----: A Page from the domestic history of the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

JF - The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 5.4 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 62-71.

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Illus. Hal Hurst

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Splendid Paupers. A Tale of the Coming Plutocracy Y1 - 1894 A1 - [William Thomas] [Stead] (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future Britain in which wealthy Chinese now dominate and the formerly wealthy have had to give up their estates. 

JF - Review of Reviews PB - Review of Reviews CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toddle Island. Being the Diary of Lord Bottsford Y1 - 1894 A1 - [James Dennis] [Hird] (1850-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British life, politics, and society that presents them as both remarkably inconsistent and extremely silly. The one positive feature of Toddle Island is a cooperative laundry, and, at the end of the novel, a larger cooperative system is being established.

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Lord Bottsford [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Angel of the Revolution" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly on war but includes a detailed depiction of a world with complete disarmament. See also 1893-94 Jones.

JF - Pearson's Weekly VL - 3-4.131-69 N1 -

A synopsis preview was published no. 130 (January 14, 1893): 413. Rev. for book published London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894; and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Part of the original serial but not included in the book was “The Fall of Berlin”; rpt. in The Raid of “Le Vengeur” and Other Stories (London: Ferret Fantasy, 1974), 59-63. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fear of It" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story describing a religious community that believes so deeply in heaven that it welcomes death. Simple, austere life.

JF - The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 3.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Face and the Mask (London: Hutchinson, 1894), 30-40. U.S. ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1895), 25-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Revolution of 1905; or, The Story of the Phalanx, With an Introductory Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1893 A1 - Frederick W[illiam] Hayes (1848-1918) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia describing the development to eutopia with considerable material on the political steps involved. The "Introduction" (Forder v-lxviii/Claeys 169-200/State Industrialism v-lxviii) is a critique of contemporary capitalism or individualism, which is then compared to the preferred collectivism or state industrialism. 

PB - Robert Forder CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 4: 165-420. Editor’s notes, 163, 422-30. Rpt. London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1894. Also published as State Industrialism: The Story of the Phalanx. With an Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. London: William Reeves, 1901. Bellamy Library No. 34. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island of Progress" Y1 - 1893 A1 - M[ary Eliza] Bramston (1841-1912) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set five hundred years in the future about a future based entirely on science. Equality, but gender roles are unchanged with men working outside the home and women in it, but without servants, science, eugenics, and technology. The physical condition of the race is the highest good. Arranged marriages based on physical characteristics and character. Highly refined. Placid--a phlegmatic mind is best; having an imagination is bad (245-246). Criminals used in scientific experiments (242). Involuntary euthanasia where Extinguishers “extinguish anyone whose existence is hurtful to the progress of the Race” (242). 

JF - The Wild Lass of Estmere and Other Stories PB - Seeley and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man of the Year Million. A Scientific Forecast" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on far future forecasting; people will have larger brains and larger hands and use their hands for locomotion. The rest of the body has shriveled. Punch took it seriously and spoofed it in "1,000,000 A.D." Punch 105 (November 25, 1893): 250.

JF - Pall Mall Gazette 57.8931 VL - 57.8931 N1 -

Rpt. in the Pall Mall Budget, no. 1312 (November 16, 1893): 1796-97; in "Of a Book Unwritten." In his Certain Personal Matters. A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1898), 161-71; and in English Illustrated Magazine 26 (January 1902): 381-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Original Comic Opera in Two Acts Entitled Utopia (Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) A1 - Arthur [Seymour] Sullivan (1842-1900) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on utopia.  See David Eden, ed. Utopia Limited. A Centenary Review of the Year 1893. Ed. for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. Coventry, Eng.: The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, 1993. O

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Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. For additional textual material, see John Wolfson, Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas Including the unpublished rehearsal librettos and twenty unpublished Gilbert lyrics. London: Chappell & Company in Association with André Deutsch, 1976. 

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Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reveries of World-History; From Earth's Nebulous Origin to Its Final Ruin or The Romance of a Star Y1 - 1893 A1 - T[homas] Mullett Ellis (1850-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia (131-40) in the last chapter, "The Future" (131-56) plus a universal language and a world government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of My Dictatorship" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914) A1 - [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Single Tax eutopia set in London. See also 1895 Berens and Singer. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

JF - Weekly Times & Echo (London) VL - nos. 2418 - 2433 N1 -

The first version appeared serially in Our Commonwealth (Adelaide, SA, Australia), a newspaper edited by Singer to publicize land nationalization and the single tax, in 1887 and 1888, but the most complete holdings are missing two issues in the middle of the serial. The first part of the series is entitled "When I Was Governor of This Country" and appeared in 2.2 (December 1887): 428-29. A later part appeared as "When I Was Governor of South Australia" in 2.5 (March 1888): 452. This part refers to a previous part and indicates that it is to be continued, but the newspaper appears to have ended with that issue. Rpt. with a "Preface" by William Lloyd Garrison. New York: Sterling Pub. Co. Sterling Library No. 4, May 1, 1894; with the subtitle Dedicated (Without Permission) to the National Association. Auckland, New Zealand: Ptd. by F.W. Harradence, 1894; London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1894 with 2nd ed. on the cover; and Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade, 1894, also described as 2nd ed. There is a Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade edition of 1895 described as the 3rd ed., and there are copies of the 3rd ed. that gives the publication information as Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade/London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1895; Rev. ed. Glasgow/Bradford/London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1907], with “Introductory by William Lloyd Garrison from the Preface to the American Edition” (5); New and unabr. ed. London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1910] has the subtitle The Taxation of Land Values Clearly Explained. Rpt. Cincinnati, OH: Joseph Fels Fund of America, 1913 and again in 1931. An edition with the subtitle An Account of an Eventful Experience Abridged From the Record Made by L.H. Berens and I. Singer. London: Henry George Foundation, 1934. Another edition is entitled Dictator--Democrat. Abridged and adapted from The Story of My Dictatorship By Lewis H. Berens and Ignatius Singer. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Henry George Foundation, Australia, 1945. As can be seen, the publishing history of this book is complex and not yet settled.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Syren of the Skies" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1893 Jones, set a hundred years after the conclusion of that novel. Peace has existed throughout the period and social and technological changes have brought about a world-wide eutopia. The bulk of the novel is concerned with the re-start of conflict and its defeat, followed by a catastrophe that wipes out human civilization.

JF - Pearson's Weekly VL - no. 180 - 211 N1 -

An introduction was published as “A Flight into the Future. An Introduction to the Sequel to ‘The Angel of the Revolution”, no. 179 (December 23, 1893): 361-62. Revised for book publication as Olga Romanoff or The Syren of the Skies: A Sequel to “The Angel of the Revolution”. London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.

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Revised for book publication as Olga Romanoff or The Syren of the Skies: A Sequel to “The Angel of the Revolution”. London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.

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George Griffith [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two and Two Make Four. Being the Review of Review Annual, 1893 Y1 - 1893 A1 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is made up of reflections on current conditions with strong spiritualist elements plus adventure and romance. At the end a wealthy “modern woman” has used her wealth to create an ideal society on and around her estate, although, of course, without changing the class structure.

PB - “Review of Reviews” Office CY - London U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valdmer the Viking: A Romance of the Eleventh Century by Sea and Land Y1 - 1893 A1 - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Vikings discover a lost race with a social system in which positions are assigned by lot at birth. The eutopia is a small part of an adventure story. See also 1895, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Witch of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly spiritualism, but the novel contains a brief description of an underground eutopia that will be created by those advanced spiritually. It is also technologically advanced.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Free Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Elizabeth Clarke] [Wolstenholme-Elmy] (1833-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A poem with the title of the book (1-32) followed by notes on the poem (33-222). Much of the poem is on the trials and tribulations of the current position of women, but parts of it project into a future of free, enabled women. Little detail.

PB - Women's Emancipation Union CY - Congleton, Eng. U3 -

Ellis Ethelmer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Doom of London” Y1 - 1892 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created in London when the combination of fog and smoke cut off oxygen at ground level and millions die, with the suggestion that the reduction in population plus advanced technology have produced a better life fifty years later.

JF - The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 7.1 (38) (July 1954): 25-34 with an editor’s note on 34; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.) 6 ([February 1956]): 23-33. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream of an Englishman Y1 - 1892 A1 - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World federation developed from Britain. Three stages--United Kingdom and Ireland form a federation; the empire is added; and then the entire world joins. Based on self-interest. . See also his letter to the editor, “Federation Made Easy.” Imperial Federation 8 (1893): 320-21. Bennett also wrote a utopia set in his hometown in the future; see 1900 Bennett.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Warrington, England: "Sunrise" Pub. Co., 1893.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Darkest England, 1890 to Christian England, 1980" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Mrs. Septimus [Maria Emma] Buss KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Christian eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Cooperative housekeeping. Temperance. Gender equality. Cremation. Land publicly held.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "He Visits an Adamless Eden" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Arthur [William] A'Beckett (1844-1909) ED - His "Alter ego" [pseud.] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women's franchise.

JF - The Member for Wrottenborough: Passages from His Life in Parliament PB - Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., CY - London N1 -

Probably originally published in a weekly newspaper.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Fantasy; A Romance Y1 - 1892 A1 - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Greek Arcadian eutopia founded on an island by an Englishman. The entire social structure is based on early Greek forms.

PB - Griffith Farran and Company CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

One vol. ed. New York: Lovell, Gestefeld & Co., 1892. Rpt. New York: Fenno, 1905. New ed. London: Griffith Farran and Company, [1893]. Abridged ed. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1914].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nineteen Hundred? A Forecast and a Story Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Mary Ann] [Hearn] (1834-1909 KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Establishment of a successful religious intentional community.

PB - James Clarke CY - London U3 -

Marianne Farningham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Village Commune: A Labour Poem. Leaflets for the People. No. IV. For God and Home, Humanity, and Fatherland Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Robert Michael] [Cochrane] (1862-1933) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem in which the second part (10-16) describes a future communal eutopia.

PB - Queensland Social-Democratic Federation CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia N1 -

Extracts were published in The Worker (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 3.70 (September 3, 1892): 3; and the Bulletin (December24, 1892), 21.

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By Alaric [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yorl of the Northmen; or, the Fate of the English Race; Being the Romance of a Monarchical Utopia Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Charles Wicksteed] [Armstrong] (1871-ca 1963) KW - Brazilian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Spanish author AB -

Feudal eutopia brought about through eugenics. Cottage industries but a few factories are allowed under strict health regulations. Traditional gender roles. See also 1936 Armstrong, Paradise Found; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review 25.2 (ns. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.

PB - Reeves and Turner CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 317-389. Editor's notes, 315, 399-400.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Agnostic Island Y1 - 1891 A1 - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agnostic eutopia stressing education and religious toleration. Considerable satire on religion and missionaries in particular.

PB - Watts CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadian Life Y1 - 1891 A1 - S[ydney] S[avory] Buckman, F.G.S. (1860-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on rural life as an imaginary country.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Christ That Is To Be. A Latter-Day Romance Y1 - 1891 A1 - Joseph Compton Rickett (1847-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

After a revolution, England returns to small, agricultural communities and a craft guild system. The Second Coming is ignored and rejected.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Human Republic Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Henry Robert] Heather Bigg (1853-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia depicted in the interior of the human body with the emphasis on interdependence and equality.

PB - David Stott CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of Miracle; A Tale of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred Y1 - 1891 A1 - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A plague is deliberately introduced into the world and decimates the population. But after the plague passes, there is a very brief depiction of the better world that has become possible based on the reduced population and the elimination of the poor, who were most affected by the plague. 

PB - George Routledge and Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conditions of Peace Y1 - 1890 A1 - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Six-page pamphlet in which Evans outlines the basis for eutopia, including the franchise for women, vegetarianism, and Christian community. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Universal Republic.

PB - [Shaker Community] CY - Mt. Lebanon, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An English Tax-Day, June 15, 1927" Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Auberon Edward William Molyneux] [Herbert] (1838-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Individualist eutopia. Taxes are freely given not imposed.

JF - The Free Life VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Girl of the Future” Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satirical essay that criticizes the current marriage system as marriage for the man and prostitution for the woman as well as the new education for women that cultivated their brains but neglected their bodies and, specifically, ignored sex. He then suggests the eutopia that would be possible if women were fully emancipated and given the sort of education that would prepare them for motherhood, mentally and physically. 

JF - Universal Review VL - 7.25 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Lake or the Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia Y1 - 1890 A1 - Carlton [William Lanyon] Dawe (1865-1945) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Typical lost race dystopia in which intrepid explorers discover a lost race, complete with the required beautiful blond woman, who they rescue and who marries one of the explorers.

PB - Trischler and Co. CY - London N1 -

Colonial Ed. Melbourne, Vic, Australia: E. A. Petherick, 1891. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Humanitarian Government Y1 - 1890 A1 - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull Martin (1838-1927) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that proposes a government of philosophers, control of the press, and other reforms. Some material on eugenics. A related text is Victoria Woodhull (Mrs. John Biddulph Martin). Humanitarian Money. The Unsolved Riddle. London: Np, 1892. 26 pp. See 1870 Woodhull.

PB - Np CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Blades, 1893. 68 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Darkest England and The Way Out Y1 - 1890 A1 - General [William] Booth (1829-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a reform scheme centered on the Salvation Army but includes the transformation of society through a series of city, farm, and overseas colonies. The city colonies were designed to get the poor off the streets. A factory in the city helped train them to work, and the city colony sent people to the farm colony which consisted of a cooperative farm and industrial and agricultural villages. These were then expected to send people to the overseas colonies. Some such schemes were established; see and Norman H Murdoch, “Anglo-American Salvation Army Farm Colonies, 1890-1910.” Communal Societies 3 (Fall 1983): 111-21; and Clark C. Spence, The Salvation Army Farm Colonies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. For an attack on the Salvation Army, see 1890 Pope Booth.

PB - International Headquarters of the Salvation Army CY - London N1 -

6th ed. London: Charles Knight & Co., Ltd. 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in Utopia; Being a Faithful and Accurate Description of the Institutions that Regulate Labour, Art, Science, Agriculture, Education, Habitation, Matrimony, Law, Government, and Religion in this Delightful Region of Human Imagination Y1 - 1890 A1 - John [Aloys] Petzler (1814?-1898) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Fairly standard socialist eutopia. See also 1870 and 1876 Petzler, his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Utopia" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Jerome K[lapka] Jerome (1859-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Equality achieved by limiting those better than the average.

JF - Treasure Trove VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Diary of a Pilgrimage (And Six Essays). Illus. G. G. Frazar (Bristol, Eng.: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1891]), 261-79. U.S. ed. Illus. G. G. Frazar (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1891), 337-60; and in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 24.1802 (June 10, 1891): 5. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest. Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance" Y1 - 1890 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian socialist eutopia. See also 1884, 1886-87 1887, and 1889 Morris. 

JF - The Commonweal VL - 6.209 - 247 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Bros., 1890. The first U.K. ed. was London: Reeves & Turner, 1891 and was extensively revised. Rpt. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892 1892 with a facsimile ed. of the Kelmscott Press was published by London: Thames & Hudson/V&A, 2017, with an “introduction” by Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury (vi-xi); in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King's Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 1-211; ed. James Redmond. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970; ed. Krishan Kumar. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; ; and ed. David Leopold. Oxford, Eng: Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapters II-III rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 292-302. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Universal Republic: A Shaker Pronunciamento Y1 - 1890 A1 - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the teachings of the Shakers and Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Each child born is due education until its legal age, at which point it is given its portion of land, sufficient to support a family. Childbearing will be controlled by the women. Also suggests a higher order of celibacy and community of goods. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Conditions of Peace. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wreck of a World With a Preface by Sir John Brown, C.E., J.P. Knight of the Order of Maximilian of Mexico, etc., etc., etc. Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Reginald Colebrook] [Reade] (1853-1891) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel starts in what is presented in the first chapter as a flawed utopia that is technologically advanced but beginning to lose its moral center. There is a Pan-Britannic Confederation with all members having a President and Congress and the nobility gradually disappearing. But much of the novel is concerned with a revolt of the machines against the human race, which is almost eliminated. After a long conflict, humans win but are temporarily limited to one island where a small group begins to create a good society that is compared to More's Utopia. No money. Goods freely exchanged. Sequel to his A Mexican Mystery. London: Digby and Long, 1888 in which a train is given consciousness and turns into a monster.

PB - Digby and Long CY - London N1 -

Long's Albion Library, Vol. II. This ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 3: 5-163, with a brief note by the editor (1-3). The English Catalogue lists the 1st ed. as February 1890, but, due to ads in the book dated 1889, I.F. Clarke's Tale of the Future and some other bibliographies give the publication date as 1889.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny Y1 - 1889 A1 - Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G. (1835-99) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Sexual equality. Includes a chapter on the eutopian results of Home Rule for Ireland (233-48). Satires on the novel include 1889 Juggle, Sir Volius and 1891 Williams, George Phipps and W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves. “Farming in the Future.”

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Colonial ed., which is technically the 1st ed., has a picture of the author and different binding. 3rd and cheaper ed. London: Hutchinson, 1890 and Sydney, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1890. 331 pp. 4th and cheaper ed. London: Hutchinson, 1890 has different cover, different ads in the back. Rpt. Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2000. 184 pp.; which is rpt. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002.

It was adapted for radio by Dennis McEldowney and broadcast on New Zealand radio 3YC Christchurch May 9, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beneath Your Very Boots: Being a Few Striking Episodes from the Life of Anthony Merlwood Haltoun, Esq. Y1 - 1889 A1 - C[harles] J[ohn Cutcliffe Wright] Hyne (1866-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Society in the earth under Britain. There are eutopian elements to the society in that, for example, everyone dresses uniformly, lives comfortably in good housing, and has excellent medical care. The dystopian elements are stronger in that absolute power is held by a fake god who kills opponents without trial, and all homes are apparently bugged by the god.

PB - Digby and Long CY - London N1 -

2md ed. London: Digby and Long, 1889.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gobi or Shamo; A Story of Three Songs Y1 - 1889 A1 - G[eorge] G[ilbert] A[imé] Murray (1866-1957) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel with a eutopian Athenian society.

PB - Longmans, Green and Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How Shall We Live Then?” Y1 - 1889 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Some details of what he sees as basic to the good life in the future that fit well with his 1890 News From Nowhere. Stress on maintaining a strong and healthy body. Includes a long list of occupations. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1887, 1888, and 1890 Morris.

JF - International Review of Social History VL - 16, Part 2 N1 -

There is a copy of the manuscript at http://www.iisg.nl/archives/morris/live15.php

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Wilholm’s Class Meeting; or, The Forward Movement: Christlike Christianity Y1 - 1889 A1 - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is about how one group of Methodists come to themselves lead more Christian lives and their influence on the area where they live. While most of the book is on the developments within the group, it ends with a brief presentation of the eutopia that is coming into being with pubs closed and jails no longer full. The book is dedicated to Rev. Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), the founder of The Methodist Times and the Forward Movement in the Methodist Church, a movement to make the church more socially relevant. See also 1894 Lucas.

PB - T. Barrett CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lady of the Bush. The Dream of an English Traveller” Y1 - 1889 A1 - David Christie Murray (1847-1907) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Australia in the future as a metropolitan eutopia. The eutopia is in the last paragraph only with the rest a vision of the Australian bush.

JF - Adelaide Advertiser (Adelaide, SA, Australia) N1 -

Also in the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW, Australia). The Adelaide paper says that it was written for the Advertiser. The Grafton paper says it was originally published in the Daily Telegraph.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lesbia Newman Y1 - 1889 A1 - Henry Robert S[amuel] Dalton (1835-1902?) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Rights for women with training so they can exercise them effectively. Roman Catholic church allows priestesses.

PB - George Redway CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 371-702, with a brief note by the editor (367-69).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Amazonia; a Foretaste of the Future Y1 - 1889 A1 - Mrs. George [Elizabeth Burgoyne] Corbett (b. 1846) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia in a society of the far future in Ireland. After war and revolution women’s position worsened, and they colonized Ireland, founding New Amazonia. All government posts held by women, and for the most important posts they can never have been married. The story is about a woman and a man who re projected into the future, the woman experiencing the future as eutopia and the man unable to adjust to it. Detailed regulation of the economy, a national dress with no fashion changes. Stress on physical education and diet to ten, and then everyone learned a trade for four years. All earnings from the next five years taken by the state to reimburse it for educating and maintaining the individual. Advanced technology. It turns out to have been the woman’s dream. The “Prologue” (1-8) says that it was inspired by a feature in the Nineteenth Century opposing women’s suffrage. A humorous comment is L[inda] Timmel Duchamp, “Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 184-200. 

PB - Tower Pub. Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2014 with an “Introduction: A Foretaste of the Future, a Caution from the Past” by Alexis Lothian (1-23). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Society of the Future" Y1 - 1889 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay with a eutopia similar to his 1890 News From Nowhere. See also 1884, 1886-87, and 1887, and 1890 Morris. 

JF - The Commonweal VL - 5.168 - 70 N1 -

Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 453-68. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 453-68; and in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 142-55, with editorial notes on 206-09.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inner House Y1 - 1888 A1 - Walter Besant (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall CY - Bristol, Eng./London N1 -

Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an “Afterword” by Brian Stableford (199).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island: or, An Adventure of a Person of Quality Y1 - 1888 A1 - Richard Whiteing (1840-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A South Seas Island eutopia that depicts a romanticized Pitcairn Island with a series of laws designed to establish and protect a simple life. Mostly romance and adventure.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London N1 -

The 2nd ed. London: Grant Richards, 1889 has two added chapters and minor revisions throughout.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kophetua the Thirteenth" Y1 - 1888 A1 - Julian [Stafford] Corbett (1854-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance but includes a eutopia, primarily in volume 1, called Oneira that had been established in Africa during the Renaissance. Based on reason. Tax system similar to that in 1656 Harrington results in wealth and the elimination of all taxes. Some satire on politics when there are no real issues. There is a dystopian enclave created deliberately to provide a place for those incapable of living a good Christian life. This is eliminated by the end of the novel.

JF - Time VL - os 18.40-19.47, 3rd ser. 1.51 - 51 N1 -

Rpt. 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co., 1889. One vol. ed. London: Macmillan, 1889.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shaker Reconstruction of the American Government Y1 - 1888 A1 - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY)  that first criticizes the policies supported by the New York Tribune and then proposes a revision of the U.S. Constitution based on Shaker teachings. Women will be full citizens. A class of celibate men and women, in separate houses (Senate women; House of Representatives men) will be the legislators. No individual or corporate land ownership with land becoming government owned on the death of the current owner and then distributed to the people. No private or religious education. No alcohol. See also 1890 Evans (2).

PB - Office Register and Gazette CY - Hudson, NY N1 -

Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Son of a Star; A Romance of the Second Century Y1 - 1888 A1 - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is an adventure story set around Roman Britain and the relations between Rome and Palestine. Noviomagus or the state of the New Magicians is an enclave in Roman Britain that produces a eutopia by reversing the usual patterns. For example, every person holds an office except for one, who is designated the "Regular Citizen". The general commanding all the military is chosen for his peacefulness. The Treasurer must be able to write but not be able to read, which kept him from reading texts in political economy. See also 1876 Richardson.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Also published in an abr. one volume ed. New York: Longmans, Green, 1888; and London: Longmans, Green, 1889. The eutopia, "The Noviomagians", is found in volume II, Chapter 5 (66-96) and, in the one volume edition, Chapter XXI (187-202). The utopia was published separately as At Noviomagus: A Tribute of Affection to the Late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson Fifteen Years Lord High President of the Noviomagians, 1881-1896. London: Chiswick Press, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thoth: A Romance Y1 - 1888 A1 - [Joseph Shield] [Nicholson] (1850-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Society intended by its founders to be a eutopia is a dystopia. Rule by reason alone with mixed result. Genetics produces a class system based on inbred talents and physical characteristics. Scientifically advanced. Most people are happy, but the founder hated women and upper class women are treated very badly. Plan to kill everyone else in the world.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 contains as an appendix a previously unpublished version of the first chapter as it had been originally written in 1876. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Crystal Age Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Henry] [Hudson] (1841-1922) KW - Argentinian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future Arcadian society organized in large families. Detailed picture of the society. Appears eutopian but is not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.

PB - T. Fisher Unwin CY - London N1 -

[2nd ed.]. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1906. 2nd ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 375-696, with a brief note by the editor (371-73). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Harmony in Deep Mourning” Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Technological utopia. Marriages on short term license, the shortest being three months.

JF - his Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How We Live and How We Might Live” Y1 - 1887 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Morris sums up his position as “First, a healthy body; second, an active mind in sympathy with the past, and the future; thirdly, occupation fit for a healthy body and an active mind; and fourthly, a beautiful world to live in” (Book 76). See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, 1890 Morris.

JF - Commonweal VL - 3.73 - 77 N1 -

Rpt. in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 56-77, with editorial notes on 184-86

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Anarchy. A Fragment of History in the 20th Century Y1 - 1887 A1 - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An island of transported revolutionaries, mostly anarchists, is presented in mostly dystopian terms because there is conflict among them. Some are then converted to Christianity and the situation improves.

PB - Miss Langley, Lovejoy's Library CY - Reading, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Two Rivers, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Lady and the Lords” Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women getting the vote.

JF - Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letters from the Planets" Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Wladjslaw Somerville] [Lach-Szyrma] (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.

JF - Cassell's Family Magazine VL - 13 N1 -

The stories from April and October are rpt. as “Letters from Mars.” in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 53-72 with an editor’s not on 51-52. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red PlanetSeries continued as "The Portals of the King of Day. A Journey To the Regions of the Sun." 14 (January 1888): 96-98; "Our Second Voyage to Mars." 15 (February 1889): 166-70; "Letters from the Planets--Canal Life on Mars." 16 (February 1890): 285-87; "A Trip to Jupiter's Moonlet." 18 (December 1891): 55-56; and "Corresponding With the Planets." 19 (June 1893): 403-05. Entire series rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 1-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of Tomorrow Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Samuel Middleton] [Fox] (1856-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British high society focusing on a pleasure city on the Riviera.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. VL - 2 Vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Strephon and Phyllis in 1920” Y1 - 1887 A1 - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of sex role reversal.

JF - Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tables Turned; or Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude Y1 - 1887 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Play describing revolution and (briefly) the resulting eutopia which is presented at greater length in 1890 Morris. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, and 1890 Morris.

PB - Office of "The Commonweal" CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 528-67. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 528-67; and ed. Pamela Bracken Wiens. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brotherhood of Rest Y1 - 1886 A1 - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A community where the overworked can go for a complete rest. Modeled on retreats.

PB - E. Langley, Lovejoy's Library CY - Reading, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream of John Ball" Y1 - 1886 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, and his dream is of the success of the revolt. See 1958 Fairburn for another eutopia focusing on Ball. See also 1884, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris. 

JF - The Commonweal VL - 2 - 3.44 - 54 N1 -

First published in book form as A Dream of John Ball and A King’s Lesson (Reprinted from the ‘Commonweal’). London: Reeves and Turner, 1888. Rpt. in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King’s Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 213-88. L, L(NL)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" Y1 - 1886 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One section of the poem (lines 155-74 in the Ricks edition) has the future of 1842 Tennyson facing overpopulation and the renewal of war.

JF - Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Etc. PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After."  Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), III: 148-59, with an introductory note (148-49) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 551-61. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes from Another World Y1 - 1886 A1 - Lord Granville [Armyne] Gordon (1856-1907) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A loosely connected stories sent back to a living person from one recently deceased and getting used to living in the underworld, which has heavenly and hellish subdivisions. Strongly influenced by Brave fra Helvede/Letters From Hell (1866) by the Danish author Valdemar Adolph Thisted (1815-1887), which was translated into English in 1866 and 1884.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs Y1 - 1886 A1 - Joseph Carne-Ross, ed. [written by] (1844-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Flawed utopia. Rational, egalitarian eutopia that has gone too far and rejected emotion. Stress on technology, health, and cleanliness. Hospitalization for drunkenness and illiteracy; police are also physicians. Intellectual women, who are all narrow-hipped, rejected child-bearing; men show an atavistic tendency to prefer unintellectual women, imported from outside, who will bear children.

PB - John and Robert Maxwell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 3-55. Editor's notes, 1, 391.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Romance of Two Worlds Y1 - 1886 A1 - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

While the novel is mostly romance and spiritualism, it includes a tour of the solar system. Earth is the only planet where people doubt God. On Saturn people can talk with spirits, sickness and old age do not exist, and death is simply going to sleep. Venus is one great garden, and everyone is inspired by Nature and Art. Jupiter is an electrical civilization with everything done by electricity and part of the book is about Christ as an electrical being. "The Electric Creed" is on pages 229-44.

PB - Richard Bentley CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1976; and Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing Co., 1986. New and rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1896 has an Appendix of letters received commenting on the book (326-38) and a Postscript (358-59) commenting on the discovery of what she calls the Röntgen Ray (X-Ray).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Siege of Bodike: A Prophecy of Ireland's Future Y1 - 1886 A1 - Edward Lester (1831-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An anti-Home Rule tale of the future, but one that is sympathetic to Ireland's problems. The "Severance of Union Act" is passed and then repealed. The new regime established gives considerable power to localities, with each having a local board to "regulate tariffs, rents, and all technical and local matters" (137). More police. Absentee landlords heavily taxed. Money invested in improving agriculture, industry, and infrastructure. Education is improved, and a Roman Catholic university of quality is established, so that clergy will be better educated. Censorship is imposed as a means of improving education. Royalty visits regularly.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After London; or, Wild England In Two Parts. Part I.--The Relapse into Barbarism. Part II.--Wild England Y1 - 1885 A1 - [John] Richard Jefferies (1848-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

aeturn to barbarianism is initially dystopian, with slavery, ignorance, and continuing warfare, but a strong leader brings unity and the possibility of eutopia.

PB - Cassell and Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Cassell and Company, 1886; London: Duckworth, 1905; New York: Arno Press, 1975; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1980; and ed. Mark Frost (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2017 with an “Introduction” (vii-l), Jefferies “The Great Snow (fragment 1876)” (194-98), and Jefferies, “[‘Alone in London’] (Untitled fragment, undated MS, British Library, Add. MSS 58817), which was originally published in the Richard Jefferies Society Journal 1 (1992): 2-3 (199-201). Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Most reprints have the title as After London; or, Wild England.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Bread Riots and What Came of Fair Trade Y1 - 1885 A1 - [John] S[aint] L[oe] Strachey (1860-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by protective tariffs.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. N1 -

Serialized in The Daily Mail (1885). Rpt. with minor revisions and with the author's name as J. St. Loe Strachey as The Great Bread Riots: A Political Romance. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modern Daedalus Y1 - 1885 A1 - Tom [Thomas] Greer (1846/7-1904) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An Irishman builds an airplane and wins independence for Ireland. There is only the vaguest suggestion of a eutopia beyond independence.

PB - Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh/New York: E.P. Dutton, [1887]; and New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Utopia, or England in 1985. A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Sunday February 8th, 1885 Y1 - 1885 A1 - Rev. W[illiam] Tuckwell (1829-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Village society with trained farmers and all land owned by the state and rented to farmers based on their qualifications.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bertha: A Romance of Easter-tide Y1 - 1884 A1 - W[illiam Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A novel of spiritualism that includes a chapter (292-302) describing a proposed spiritualist intentional community planned for Texas. It will be democratic and cooperative.

PB - J. Burns CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Child of the Phalanstery" Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire directed at Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Presents a Fourierist phalanx in dystopian terms.

JF - Belgravia VL - 54 N1 -

Rpt. in The New York Times (August 24, 1884): 10; in his Strange Stories (London: Chatto and Windus, 1884), 301-20; in his Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and An Intermezzo: Being Selected Stories (London: Grant Richards, 1899), 45-64; in his The Backslider (New York/London: Lewis Scribner, 1901), 313-42; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 92-107. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Factory As It Might Be" Y1 - 1884 A1 - William Morris (1834-1896) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Depiction of an ideal factory with a garden tended by the workers, simple but beautiful buildings, and the workers doing useful work using the best machines and thus working shorter hours. The factory will also be a center of education for both its workers and any children in the area interested in its work. ​See also 1886-87, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris. 

JF - Justice VL - 1.18, 20, 24 N1 -

Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 130-40; rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 130-40); in his Political Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890. Ed. Nicholas Salmon (Bristol, Eng.: Thoemmes Press, 1994), 32-35; 39-46; in A Factory As It Might Be with Colin Ward, The Factory We Never Had (Nottingham, Eng.: Mushroom Bookshop, 1994), 5-20; and in Utopia [Ed. Ross Bradshaw] (Nottingham, Eng.: Five Leaves, 2012), 34-43 with Colin Ward’s “The Factory We Never Had” on pp. 44-49. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Edwin Abbott] [Abbott] (1838-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily an exercise in geometry using an imaginary country, but the novel includes commentaries, some satirical, on art, eugenics, religion, class, the position of women, and other contemporary issues. For a 21st century use of the idea, see Steve Tomasula, VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2002. A humorous comment is Anne Toole. “Secrets of Flatland.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multuiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 172-77. Others who have written sequels to Flatland include Dionys Burger, Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Space and an Expanded Universe. Trans. Cornelie J. Reinboldt. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, 1965 (Originally published in Dutch in 1957); Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946), “Message Found in a Copy of Flatland.” The 57th Franz Kafka (New York: Ace Books, 1983), 224-34; and Rucker, The Sex Sphere. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1983; A[lexander] K[eewatin] Dewdney, The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. New York: Poseidon Press, 1984; and Ian Stewart, Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. See also 1907 Hinton and 1965 Calisher.

PB - Seeley & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd and rev. ed. London: Seeley & Co., 1884. Rpt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991; and illus. Frank Mayo. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995, with an “Introduction” by Gregory Benford (ix-xxvii). See also The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Introduction and Notes by Ian Stewart. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. Other recent eds. are ed. Rosemary Jann. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2006; and ed. William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff with Notes and Commentary. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press/Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Simiocracy; A Fragment from Future History Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Arthur Montagu] [Brookfield] (1853-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which monkeys take over England, partially as a result of failures in education and partially due to political failures.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

The Author of 'Post Mortem'. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aleriel; or, A Voyage to Other Worlds. A Tale Y1 - 1883 A1 - Rev. W[ladjslaw] S[omerville] Lach-Szyrma (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Continuation of his 1874 A Voice From Another World. See also his 1887 "Letters from the Planets." Includes a voyage around the solar system with visits to Mars and Venus (both eutopias), Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and some of the moons of the latter two. The eutopias are both based on religion. He describes the eutopia on Venus as one of the perfection of "a future state" (i. e. heaven) and the one on Mars as "a more practical Utopia, implying the tendencies of human progress, and suggesting improvements for human society as it now exists" (viii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Bertie, A.D. 1900 Y1 - 1883 A1 - [Samuel Orchart] [Beeton] (1831-77) A1 - [George Rose] [Emerson] A1 - [Mr.] [Doughty] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British politics set slightly in the future plus a catalog of reforms that brings Britain from penury to wealth and peace. Introduction of paper currency. Channel tunnel. Constitutional reform with a limited monarchy. Nationalization and reclamation of the land allows Britain and Ireland to feed themselves. Immigration ends. Land given to people who will settle on it and use it. The Catholic Church gives up temporal power. Home rule for Ireland. Poem of thirty-four cantos.

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Halek: An Autobiographical Fragment Y1 - 1882 A1 - John H[enry] Nicholson (1838-1923) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegorical oriental tale set in a variety of eutopian and dystopian settings. A sequel was published as Almoni. Companion Volume to Halek. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1904. This continues the hero’s wanderings, but he finds true love at the end of the novel.

PB - Griffith and Farran/ E. P. Dutton CY - London/New York: N1 -

2nd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: A. J. Ross & Co., 1896. 3rd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Companion to "Almoni". Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop, and Co., 1904.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of Man Y1 - 1882 A1 - [Sir] [Walter] [Besant] (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal. Women had taken political power, abolished the House of Commons, replaced the House of Lords with the House of Peeresses, abolished the monarchy, and introduced a theocracy based on rule by the ideal Perfect Woman. Men were uneducated, did most of the work while caring for their families, and generally had the attitudes traditionally assigned to women. A manly man and true love leads to the overthrow of the system, and women welcome the restoration of the right order of things.

PB - William Blackwood & Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scotland N1 -

New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 9th ed (1890) rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 7-366, with a brief note by the editor (1-5)U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1882. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fixed Period" Y1 - 1881 A1 - [Anthony] [Trollope] (1815-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A society is established with a voluntary fixed period for life, which is intended to produce a eutopia but problems arise as the first people reach that age. Set on an island near New Zealand.

JF - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine VL - 130 - 131 N1 -

Repub. with deletions restored. 2 vols. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Rpt. ed. R[obert] H. Super. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990; and ed. David Skilton. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993. The Robert H. Super ed. rpt. illus. Elisa Trimby. London: Folio Society, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Hundred Years Hence; or, A Voice from Posterity Y1 - 1881 A1 - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Racist, socialist, sexist, technologically advanced society presented as a eutopia. Huge population growth. The oriental and Negro races have been exterminated. People live in and on the seas and in the air. Women have symbolic power but no actual power, and are described as mentally inferior.

PB - Newman and Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 7-370, with a brief note by the editor (1-5).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Across the Zodiac; The Story of a Wrecked Record Y1 - 1880 A1 - Percy Greg (1836-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set on Mars. The society has some characteristics of the eutopias of the time (world government, one language, highly developed technology), but its lack of religion, the extreme inferiority of women, and the narrowness of intellectual outlook makes it a dystopia.

PB - Trübner & Co CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in one volume Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Chapter III: The Untravelled Deep is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 257-269.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doom of the Great City; Being The Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942 Y1 - 1880 A1 - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Catastrophe due to the dystopia that is contemporary London. Brief New Zealand eutopia of 1942 at the beginning.

PB - Newman & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 17-68, with a note by the editor (1-16).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last African Explorer” Y1 - 1879 A1 - Eustace Hinton Jones KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on African exploration in which a man walks from London to Central Africa and comes across a eutopia. Government ministers are paid to think; other government officials are paid to propagandize and not think; murderers become army officers with those guilty of violent assaults forming the ranks; thieves are placed in the financial ministry or made tax collectors. Since no debt is recoverable by law, all transactions are in cash.

JF - Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel PB - Pub. by the Proprietors at the Fun Office CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monks of Thelema. A Novel Y1 - 1878 A1 - [Walter] [Besant] 1836-1901 A1 - [James] [Rice] (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance but presents a eutopian abbey based very loosely on the Abbey of Thélème of François Rabelais (1483?-c.1533). The inmates of this Abbey are attractive young men and women whose "vows are of permission to marry, to be rich, if the Lord will, and to live at liberty" (I: 2). Throughout the book much humor is directed at social reform, the communal movement, and attempts at "higher thought".

JF - The World VL - 8-9 N1 -

Vol. 2 has the subtitle An Invention. New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. 

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The Authors of 'The Golden Butterfly.' Etc. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Positivism on an Island: The New Paul and Virginia" Y1 - 1878 A1 - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in a vein similar to the author's 1877 The New Republic.

JF - The Contemporary Review VL - 32.1 N1 -

Rpt. as The New Paul and Virginia or Positivism on an Island. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Science; A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Frances Power] [Cobbe] (1822-1904) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Satirical dystopia of science gone too far. The Age of Science is the name of the paper and the date given is January 1, 1977. Medicine is particularly powerful, and Parliament is composed entirely of medical people who act in their own interest. People are executed for such heresies against science as homeopathy, religion, and not getting vaccinated. There are so few servants that people must recruit them with excellent offers.The author published an essay along similar lines as “The Scientific Spirit of the Age” The Contemporary Review 54 (July 1888): 126-39. Rpt. in her The Scientific Spirit of the Age and Other Pleas and Discussions (Boston, MA: Geo. H. Ellis, 1888), 3-34. The author anonymously published a story on the nineteenth century as seen from the far future; see “The Nineteenth Century.” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 69.412 (April 1864): 481-94. There is very little on the future.

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By Merlin Nostradamus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Australian Race Y1 - 1877 A1 - Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846-81) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric essay describing a twentieth-century Australia, which will include all of the area to the North including Singapore and to the East including New Zealand. North of the middle of Australia will be an empire. South of it will be a republic with the capital in New Zealand, which the author considers to be the real Australia. In five hundred years the Australian race will be extinct.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House Y1 - 1877 A1 - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conservative eutopia constructed over a country weekend. Much discussion, but little detail. The people involved have been identified as Matthew Arnold (1822-88), John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-94), Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Herbert Spencer (1820-1902), John Tyndall (1820-93), William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79), Mary Montgomerie Singleton, later Lady Currie, who wrote as Violet Fane (1843-1905), and Mallock.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. New [4th] ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Rpt. ed. J. Max Patrick. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1950, with an "introduction" by the editor (xi-xxxvi); and Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1975, with "Introduction" by James Lucas (7-37). Parts originally published in Belgravia 29 - 31 (June - December 1876), 514-43; 48-73, 133-51, 343-60, 434-49; 46-65; 189-209.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Utopia" Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Augusta Theodosia] [Drane (Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D.)] (1823-94). KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia created on an estate, a eutopian monastery built, and labor reform. The emphasis is on religion, temperance, and hard work. Some Australian content.

JF - Irish Monthly VL - 5 N1 -

Rpt. in the New Zealand Tablet 5.238 - 257 (November 23, 1877 - April 5, 1878): 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 11, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 5. Repub. in book form under the author's name. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1898. Also rpt. with no author given as The Australian Duke; or, The New Utopia. Np: np., nd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coralia; A Plaint of Futurity Y1 - 1876 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

While the novel focuses on an unhappy immortal who attempts to find solace in life, Coralia is called "the land of happiness" (11), and, while it is beneath the sea, it is a sort of heaven. "Here life was not as what we know it, but a serene existence without insignificant and unworthy objects such as those of earth" (49). The novel ends with the unhappy immortal united with God.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hygeia: A City of Health Y1 - 1876 A1 - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very detailed eutopia in an address to the Health Department of the Social Science Congress describing the healthy city of the future. Pollution controls on fires. Roof gardens. No carpets. No one smokes or drinks alcohol and everyone exercises. Factories out of town. Public laundries under state supervision; public street cleaning. Burial without embalming or a casket. Low houses. Railroads and sewage underground; roads all paved. No rooms underground. Publicly supervised slaughter houses. Model hospital. The author was a scientist and a leader of the temperance movement as well as a sanitation campaigner. The author says that he is suggesting only what is now easily possible. See also 1888 Richardson.

PB - Macmillan and Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Robert Pemberton's The Happy Colony (1854).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Front of the World. A Novel Y1 - 1876 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A messianic figure attempts to bring about human unity, writes a new Bible, and creates a new religion through a group with telepathy.

PB - Charing Cross Publishing Co. CY - London VL - 3 Vols. U3 -

The Author of "Pyrna, A Commune; or, Under the Ice" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice Y1 - 1876 A1 - [John Aloys] [Petzler] (1814?-1898) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia. The author summarizes the book as follows: "The guiding principles upon which this social demolition and reconstruction is to proceed, are chiefly the following:--1. Abolition of money, inheritance, and private property. 2. Restriction of the isolated household, and development of the associated home. 3. Freedom of sexual unions. 4 Compulsory and equal sharing of all physical labour. 5. Economical arrangements for the prevention of waste. 6. Organization of labour. 7. Equal division of the means of existence and enjoyment. 8. Universal diffusion of education, sciences, and arts" (80). Includes 1870 Petzler as an Appendix (423-39). See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). In the "Preface" to the book Petzler says that he shared imprisonment in France with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-65), the mutualist and anarchist theorist. After his release he was expelled to England. 

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

An Exile from France [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under the Ice Y1 - 1875 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia called the Universal Community of Free Brethren located inside a glacier in Switzerland. While the institutions of the society are presented positively, there is a general sense that the people are too unemotional. Pyrna means "The Beautiful Home". Emphasis on the educational system. Gender equality. Highly refined. The people "looked upon eating as a disagreeable necessity. . ." (125/Claeys 57).

PB - Bickers and Son CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 3-64. Editor's notes 1, 349.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skyward and Earthward Y1 - 1875 A1 - [George Theodosius Boughton] [Kyngdon] (1821-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Voyages by balloon to various locations beginning with an inhabited moon, which is presented as a satire on Earth customs. They then visit Mars that is a simple eutopia with friendly people, tame birds, and a diet of fruit. No government or laws. No disease or old age. After their return to Earth, the novel is one of adventure and romance.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

Arthur Penrice [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King of No-Land Y1 - 1874 A1 - B[enjamin] L[eopold] Farjeon (1833-1903) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A king who would prefer not to be a king abdicates to a democracy and finds an idyllic life in the country. Invited back by the people, he creates a better society.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tales in Political Economy Y1 - 1874 A1 - Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An island becomes a eutopia through free trade and the free market. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transmigration Y1 - 1874 A1 - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Volume two is set in a eutopia on Mars. The eutopia is a paradise caused in large part by a gas in the air that prolongs life and generally provides health and a good feeling. No money. The various planets are places where souls spend their lives after death or between reincarnations. Most of the volume consists of interactions among people from the past, mostly classical Greece.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice From Another World Y1 - 1874 A1 - W[ladislaw] S[omerville] L[ach]-S[zyrma] (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A Christian eutopia stressing science, art and religion. Little or no political, economic, or social material. Written in 1865. See also 1883 and 1887 Lach-Szyrma.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another World; or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Benjamin] [Lumley] (1811-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on the correct cultivation of character.

PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -

Hermes [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - By and By; An Historical Romance of the Future Y1 - 1873 A1 - Edward Maitland (1824-97) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a future technological eutopia as well as a description of a lower heaven as eutopia. Much discussion of the need for religion to recognize science. Stresses individualism. Racist, sexist, and imperialist. In the “Preface to New Edition” (iii-vi) the author says that the book was conceived and mostly written before The Coming Race and Erewhon and differs from them in outlining “a condition of things easily imaginable as resulting from the natural development of existing tendencies in knowledge and thought” and in indicating “the necessary future development of society” (iii). The author lived in New South Wales, Australia from 1849 to 1858 and some of the novel deals with the future of Australia.

PB - Richard Bentley and Son CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977. New ed. London: Richard Bentley, 1875.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Colymbia Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Robert Ellis] [Dudgeon] (1820-1904) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A mixture of satire and reform in a society located under water. Given the mixture, it is difficult to be sure what parts the author means seriously. The author was a friend of Samuel Butler, and the book was his response to Erewhon

PB - Trübner and Company CY - London N1 -

Extract illus. Mark Toner. Shoreline of Infinity, no. 9 (Autumn 2017): 91-99, with an introduction “SF Caledonia” by Monica Burns (85-90), with a photograph of Dudgeon on 87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fifth Voyage of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Sometime of Nottinghamshire" Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. In Amazonia men are slaves and even dogs are considered superior to men. Women had left England after men had concluded that men were superior to women. Common stores. No money.

JF - Squire Silchester's Whim PB - Henry S. King and Co. CY - London VL - 3 vols. U1 -

Running head "Gulliver in Amazonia"

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Franklin Bacon's Republic: Diary of an Inventor" Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Eustace Clare Grenville] [Murray] (1824-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the founding of an island community that the inventor hopes will be a eutopia but is in constant conflict.

JF - Cornhill's Magazine VL - 27 ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Clouds; A Glimpse of Utopia. A Fairy Extravaganza Y1 - 1873 A1 - Gilbert [Arthur] A'Beckett (1837-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire both on the idea of utopia and on specific reform movements, including women's rights. A military that does not fight. No votes for anyone. Government that does nothing. Only Shakespeare in the theatre. No newspapers. There is a well of the water of truth, and anyone exposed to it can no longer live in Utopia.

PB - Samuel French CY - London N1 -

In vol. 100 of Lacy's Action Edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium: An Epic Poem Y1 - 1873 A1 - Edward Francis Hughes (1814-79) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Long poem describing all the stages of the millennium.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erewhon; or, Over the Range Y1 - 1872 A1 - [Samuel [Butler] (1835-1902) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The classic utopian satire. 

PB - Trübner CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. rev. and corr. London: Trübner, 1872. New rev. ed. London: Grant Richards, 1901. Rpt. as vol. 2 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew. London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Rev. ed. London: De La Mare Press, 1906. New and rev. ed. London: Fifield, 1910. Rpt. with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings and with an Introduction and illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson. New York: Chesire House, 1931; with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Montgomeryshire: The Gregynog Press, 1932; with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley and illustrations by Rockwell Kent. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934 [Huxley’s introduction is rpt. in Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond 2 (2003): 49-54; with illustrations by Graham Byfield. [London]: Distributed by Heron Books, [1969]; without the subtitle, with an “Introduction” by Peter Mudford (7-24), a “List of Passages Butler added to the text of the 1872 edition” (261), and “Notes” (263-70). 150th Anniversary Edition. New York: Erewhon, 2022, with “Looking Backward to Local Utopia: An Introduction” by Octavia Cade (1-29) also includes the Prefaces to the 1st, 2nd, and revised eds. (xi-xv). Critical ed. ed. Hans-Peter Breuer and Daniel F. Howard. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981, which reprints the 1872 edition and includes the later revisions in an appendix. Chapters XXIII-XXV of the 1872 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 57-72. Two parts were originally published as “Darwin Among the Machines.” Signed Cellarius. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.192 (June 13, 1863): 1-2; and “Lucubratio Ebria.” Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 8.847 (July 29, 1865): 2. These two parts are available in The Notebooks of Samuel Butler. Ed. Henry Festing Jones (London: A. C. Fifield, 1912), 42-53. Rpt. (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 42-53; and in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 179-94. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 179-94. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 208-20. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Butler also published the related article [“Darwin on the Origin of the Species. A Dialogue”]. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.93 (December 20, 1862): 2. This is also available, together with correspondence that followed, in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. [Richard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 149-78. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 149-78. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 184-207. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. The origin of the chapter “The Book of the Machines” is “The Mechanical Creation.” The Reasoner: A Political and Secular Review (London), no. 833 (July 1, 1865): 30-31, which is rpt. in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 231-37. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Not in the Streatfield ed. An interesting oddity is the translation into Esperanto--Erevono. Trans. by Alec Venture. London: Alec Venture, 1978. The DU-Ho copy of the Esperanto translation includes a lengthy errata sheet. Three chapters were published separately as Book of the Machines. Illus. Corydon Bell. [Cleveland, OH]: Bonnar-Vawter Fanform Company, 1940.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-two" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Jean Ingelow (1820-97) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's technological eutopia.

JF - The Little Wonder Horn PB - Henry S. King CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 4.221 (April 25, 1872): 9. Repub. in Vol. 4, The Snowflake and the Water-lily and 1972 of her The Fourth Wonder of The Little Wonder Box. 6 vols. (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, & Welsh, 1887), 222-52. Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Children’s Short Stories. Ed. Jan Mark (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993), 134-45.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ranolf and Amohia: A South-Sea Day-Dream Y1 - 1872 A1 - Alfred Domett (1811-87) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very long poem that is in part a romantic Aotearoa/New Zealand and South Seas eutopia presenting the Maori as both Noble Savage and just savage.

PB - Smith, Elder & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. rev. with the subtitle A Dream of Two Lives. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Race Y1 - 1871 A1 - [Edward] [Bulwer-Lytton] (1803-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic utopia in the center of the earth. Highly rational winged people illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of reason. Each individual holds the power, called vril, of destroying any other individual and, as a result, all get along well. Some sex role reversal. 

PB - William Blackwood CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. as by The Right Hon. Lord Lytton. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1874]. Canadian ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Toronto, ON, Canada: Adam, Stevenson, 1871. US ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Reprinted from the English Edition. New-York: Francis B. Felt & Co., 1871. Also published as Vril. The Power of the Coming Race. Blauvelt, NY: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1972; as The Coming Race. Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Publishing Co., 1973 with notes and commentary connecting it to New Age thought by Emerson M. Clymer; Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press Pub. Co., 1979; Stroud, Eng.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995, with a “Biographical Introduction” by Julian Wolfreys; in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 1: 143-36; Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2002 with an "Introduction" by Brian W. Aldiss (5-11); ed. David Seed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005; and ed. Peter W. Sinnema. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008, with extensive appendices.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain" Y1 - 1871 A1 - John Ruskin (1819-1900) ED - E[dward] T[yas] Cook ED - Alexander Wedderburn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes throughout the series, but particularly in Letters LVII and LVIII, a proposal for the Guild of St. George, which will provide land for workers. Other works of Ruskin have been included in lists of utopias, particularly Unto This Last”: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. London: Smith, Elder, 1862, originally published as “‘Unto This Last.’--I. The Roots of Honour;” “‘Unto This Last.’--II. The Veins of Wealth; “‘Unto This Last.’--III. Qui Judicatis Terram; and “‘Unto This Last.’--IV. Ad Valorem.” Cornhill Magazine 2.8-11 (August - November 1860): 155-66, 278-86, 407-18, 543-64. There is a utopianism in much of Ruskin’s thought, and various intentional communities were founded on the basis of Ruskin’s ideas but without his participation.

JF - The Works of John Ruskin PB - George Allen CY - London VL - 39 vols. N1 -

Fors Clavigera is in vols. 27 - 29 (1907). Vol. 27 contains letters 1-36; Vol. 28 contains letters 37-72; and Vol. 28 contains letters 73-96. The letters were originally published separately and collected into volumes as follows: 1-12 (1871) Vol. 1; 13-24 (1872) Vol. 2; 25-36 (1873) Vol. 3; 37-48 (1874) Vol. 4; 49-60 (1875) Vol. 5; 61-72 (1876) Vol. 6; 73-84 (1877) Vol. 7; 85-96 (1878-84) Vol. 8 described as new series]; 85-87 (1878); 88-89 (1880); 90-93 (1884); 94-96 (1884); 85-90 issued as ns 1-6; 91-96 as ns 7-12. New ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1896. Second Small. ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1899-190?. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Ed. Dinah Birch. The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin. Edinburgh, Scot.: Edinburgh University Press, 2000 is an edited selection from the letters.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World" Y1 - 1871 A1 - Edward Lear (1812-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly standard Lear nonsense, but many of the places the children visit have elements of a cockaigne, particularly concerned with food.

JF - Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets PB - Robert John Bush CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Nonsense Books with all the original illustrations (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1921), 98-114; and in his The Complete Nonsense Book Containing all the Original Pictures and Verses, together with New Material. Ed. [Constance], Lady Strachey, 18th ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961), 149-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Universal Equality, or, Jonathan Baxter's Peep into the Future Y1 - 1871 A1 - Julia Agnes Fraser (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Parody written partially in an Irish brogue in which a man visits the future France, Scotland, Ireland, America, and England in all of which he discovers that his ideal of universal equality produces a negative rather than a positive result.

PB - John Menzies and Co CY - Edinburgh, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wicked World: An Allegory" Y1 - 1871 A1 - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. The eutopia of the fairies makes contact with the real world.

JF - Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1871 PB - Published at the Fun Office CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert. Ed. Peter Haining (London: Robson Books, 1982), 143-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Democratic Charter of the Future; or, Outlines of Progressive Reforms, in Government, Social Economy, Labour-Arrangement, Education, Law, Police, Military, Poor-Relief, Etc. Y1 - 1870 A1 - [John Aloys] [Petzler] (1814?-1898) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia. Twenty page pamphlet giving a series of detailed proposals for the stages from the current situation to what he calls the "Communistic State". Includes all of the areas included in the title. See also 1876 Petzler, which reprints this text and 1890 Petzler. See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). 

PB - E. Truelove CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as an Appendix to his Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice. By An Exile from France [pseud.] (London: Samuel Tinsley, 1976), 423-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams Y1 - 1870 A1 - Annie Denton Cridge (1825-75) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - William Denton CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York) 1.17 - 25, 2.1 (whole no. 27) (September 3 - November 5, November 19, 1870): 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 2-3, 2-3, 2-3; 3-4. Selections rpt. without Comprising Dreams in the title in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 75-94 with an editor’s note on 74. Complete text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 5-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moslem in Cambridge. A Liberal and Advanced Journal of Universal Scope, Views and Tendencies, Adapted to the Tastes of all Nations Y1 - 1870 A1 - [Gerald Stanley] [Davies] ed. [written by] (1845-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a future Cambridge University that is no longer just Christian, admits women, has abolished tests, and is completely cosmopolitan.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Page of American History. Constitution of the United States of the World. An Address by Victoria C. Woodhull. Delivered in Lincoln Hall, Washington, U.S.A., in 1870. The First Suggestion of its kind made in America, and commented on widely by the Press Y1 - 1870 A1 - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull (1838-1927) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through a detailed constitution, which the title suggests is to be world-wide but the details of which are limited to the U.S. The basic governmental structure is similar to that in effect in the U.S. at the time. The Constitution is egalitarian, with the only division of the population is that between adults, those eighteen and over, and minors. All over eighteen can vote with minor residence requirements. See also 1890 Martin and Victoria C. Woodhull, A Speech on The Garden of Eden; or, Paradise Lost and Found, delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City, December 30, 1875. New York: Woodhull & Claflin, 1876. A statement of the equality of the sexes. A completely different version was published in her Victoria C. Woodhull’s Life Sketches. Np: np, nd.  Their The Garden of Eden; or, The Paradise Lost and Found is a commentary on Genesis and Revelations on women with a brief comparison to the Vedas

PB - Norman, Sawyer CY - Cheltenham, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Victoria Woodhull Reader. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. Weston, MA: M S Press, 1974. [Items are separately paged]. Rpt. slightly rev. as A New Constitution for the United States of the World Proposed for the Consideration of the Constructors of Our Future Government. New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1872. Rpt. in We, the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence By Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman’s Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829-1975. Ed. Philip S. Foner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), 177-201 with an editor’s introduction (177-80). 

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Humans kill off most animals and then killed or drove away the birds. As a result, bugs destroy all the crops and starvation threatens. An expedition discovers the Paradise of the Birds at the North Pole and negotiates for their return. See also 1869 Courthope.

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2nd ed. without the subtitle. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. 1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. Another ed. London: Macmillan, 1895.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ludibria Lunae; or, The Wars of Women and the Gods. An Allegorical Burlesque Y1 - 1869 A1 - William John Courthope (1842-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Epic poem. Satire on women's rights following Aristophanes. Presented as beginning in a eutopia which has no rights for women. Women plan to travel to the moon, discover that it is inhabited by the old gods and goddesses, who they challenge. Women are defeated by love and vanity. See also 1879 Courthope.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Thousand Years Hence Y1 - 1868 A1 - Henry [Nelson] O'Neil, A.R.A. (1817-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Picture of nineteenth century Britain from the point of view of a future in which Britain has been destroyed by a volcanic eruption and climatic changes. There is a world state centered in the Antipodes with one religion and English is the only language. Anti-democratic.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday, To-Day, and For Ever: A Poem, in Twelve Books Y1 - 1866 A1 - Edward H[enry] Bickersteth (1825-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christianity in a long poem. Cantos II "The Paradise of the Blessed Dead", X "The Millennial Sabbath", and XII "The Many Mansions" present Christian eutopias. The poem looks at the damned and the saved and the Second Coming of Christ.

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There were at least twenty-three editions. U.S. ed. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1875.

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Famous children's book that includes the presentation of a cockaigne-like utopia (the Doasyoulike) which is punished for living without care. The Water Babies slowly devolve back into apes. In addition, St. Brendan's Island is described, and Laputa from Gulliver's Travels and other utopias are briefly mentioned. A strong anti-Irish prejudice is present in the two main utopias.

JF - Macmillan's Magazine VL - 6.34 - 7.41 N1 -

Rev. illus. Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901). London: Macmillan, 1863. Rpt. illus. Linley Sambourne. London: Macmillan, 1886; and illus. W[illiam] Heath Robinson (1872-1944). London: Constable, 1915. U.S. ed. illus. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935). New York: Dodd and Mead, 1916. Critical eds. include The Water-Babies. Ed. Brian Alderson. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Textual Variants” (185-95), “The Iconography of The Water-Babies (197-200), and “Explanatory Notes) (201-30) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Richard D. Beards. New York: Penguin Books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxiii) and “Explanatory notes (191-98) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with illus. from various editions]; The Water-Babies. Ed. Richard Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (9-38) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with the illus. from the 1886 ed. and the 1863 illus. It also includes some other nineteenth century children’s literature, reviews of The Water-Babies, and some of Kingsley’s essays.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Brian Alderson with an Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (vii-xlix), “Textual Variants” (182-89), Kingsley, “The Wonders of the Shore” (190-201), and “Explanatory Notes” comp. by Alderson and rev. by Douglas-Fairhurst (203-35), [This ed. reprints the 1863 edition with its illustrations]. The book was advertized as the 150th anniversary ed., but this does not appear in the book.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Labour's Utopia" Y1 - 1857 A1 - [William Thomas] [Thornton] (1813-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.

JF - Modern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and Other Poems PB - John W. Parker and Son CY - London N1 -

Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68.

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"A Poet hidden / In the light of thought / Singing hymns unbidden, / Till the world is wrought / To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions Y1 - 1857 A1 - William [Henry] Smith (1808-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The eutopia is spread throughout the book. It is a fairly conservative one aiming at improved community and family life. As it appears it is critiqued by those, generally more conservative, who believe it impossible. The author’s Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862. 2nd ed. with the additional subtitle Knowing and Feeling. A Contribution to Psychology with a Memoir of the Author by his wife (3-121) and “Contributions by William Smith to Blackwood’s Magazine” (122-25). Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Son, 1875 supplements the positions taken. Gravenhurst (127-329) and Knowing and Feeling (331-442).

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2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Among the Ruins" Y1 - 1855 A1 - Robert Browning (1812-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem set in the ruins of a city in which the rural life and love are the eutopia.

JF - Men and Women PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. In Men and Women. Ed. Paul Turner (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1972), 5-8, 312; Men and Women and Other Poems. Ed. J.W. Harper (London: J.M. Dent/Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975), 1-3, 231; in The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations. Ed. Roman A. King, Jr. 5 vols. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1981), 5: 163-66, 360; The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Volume 5 Men and Women. Ed. Ian Jack and Robert Inglesfield (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1995), 3-8; and Robert Browning. Ed. Adam Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 157-59.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Colony. Dedicated to the Workmen of Great Britain Y1 - 1854 A1 - Robert Pemberton (1788-1879) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia designed to be established in New Zealand and based on a reformed educational system. It was never established. There are two fold out designs showing the layout of the proposed colony and of the colleges.

PB - Saunders and Otley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Benjamin Ward Richardson's Hygeia: A City of Health (1876).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved Y1 - 1850 A1 - F. A. Wilson, K.L.H., G.S. A1 - Alfred B[ate] Richards Esq. (1820-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction describing Canada incorporated within England and producing a eutopia for both.

PB - Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Social Sketch, or, Everything in Common" Y1 - 1850 A1 - John Leech (1817-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire by means of a colored frontispiece showing the conflicts arising from common ownership.

JF - Punch's Pocket Book for 1850, Containing Ruled Pages for Cash Accounts and Memoranda for Every Day of the Year; An Almanack; and a Variety of Useful Business Informations. The Illustrations by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and H.K. Browne PB - Punch Office CY - London U2 -

Illus. by John Leech.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - National Evils and Practical Remedies, with the Plan of a Model Town. Illustrated by Two Engravings. Accompanied by an Examination of Some Important Moral and Political Problems Y1 - 1849 A1 - James S[ilk] Buckingham (1786-1855) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia proposes a communal experiment and gives detailed plans for it, including, at the front, a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it.

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There is a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Woman: A Christmas Story Y1 - 1848 A1 - Charles Rowcroft (1798-1856) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man from a vaguely described ideal planet without women visits earth and experiences both the reasons for the prohibition of women on his planet and their attractiveness. An earth woman's attraction proves too strong for him, and he settles on earth.

PB - Parry & Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt., with The Triumph of Woman as the running head, as Trials and Triumphs, or Tales for All Seasons. Illus. London: Thomas Holmes, nd; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 259-387.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chronicles of Clovernook; With Some Account of The Hermit of Bellyfulle Y1 - 1846 A1 - Douglas [William] Jerrold (1803-57) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Describes a eutopia of simplicity and no government or laws. Life is based on morality and kindness. Has an element of the Cockaigne with food and wine in abundance.

PB - Punch Office CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his A Man Made of Money and The Chronicles of Clovernook. Vol. 6 of The Writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected Edition (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853), 229-344; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 1-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Book of Platonopolis: or, The Perfect Commonwealth. A Romance of the Future" Y1 - 1845 A1 - [John Goodwyn] [Barmby] (1820-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Clearly intended to be a communal eutopia, but the only section published is very general and is mostly about architecture. There will be many of what he calls communitarians. See also his "Marriage in the New Common World." The Communist Journal and Advocate of the Communist Church, no. 1 (July 1846): 9-11, which presents the details of marriage and divorce in his ideal community.

JF - The Communist Chronicle, or Promethean Magazine, The Apostle of the Communist Church and the Communitive Life; Communion With God, Communion of the Saints, Communion of Suffrages, and Communion of Goods VL - 1.35 - 37 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Christian Commonwealth Y1 - 1845 A1 - John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Proposal for a community to assist the poor with details on how they will be improved economically, morally, and religiously. Includes a plate depicting a "Self-Supporting Institution" accompanied by an explanation and description. See also 1826 and 1834 Morgan.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 8: 330-400. Exp. ed. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 with Extinction of Pauperism on the cover and with an additional plate but without the appendices. Bound with Colonie chrétienne. Traduit de l’Anglais. No translator given. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 (43-90); and Extinction du Pauperisme by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Reimprimée comme offrant des suggestions précieuses pour un état de transition dans le progrès de la société vers la réalisation d’une colonie chrétienne. No information given on prior publication (Separately paged as 1-27). And trans. from the French as Extinction of Pauperism. And Published, as Offering Some Valuable Suggestions for a Transition State in the Progress of Society Towards the Realisation of a Christian Commonwealth. No translator given (Separately paged as 1-23).

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Includes a plate depicting a “Self-Supporting Institution” accompanied by an explanation and description.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Locksley Hall" Y1 - 1842 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One section of the poem (lines 119-30 in the Ricks edition) depicts a future world war followed by a world federation and universal law. See also 1886 Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years Later”.

JF - Poems PB - Edward Moxon CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 2: 92-111. Rpt. in The Poems of Tennyson. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longmans, 1969), 2: 688-99. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), II: 120-30, with an introductory note (118-20) and textual notes as footnotes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World. By Yarbfj. Translated from the American Y1 - 1842 A1 - John Francis Bray (1809-97) ED - M. F. Lloyd-Prichard KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary nations. 

PB - Lawrence and Wishart CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 349-486. Claeys re-transcribed the text from the original manuscript.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Assassins. A Fragment of a Romance" Y1 - 1840 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ED - Mrs. [Mary Wollstonecraft] Shelley (1797-1851) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Wandering Jew discovers an isolated Christian sect that is a eutopia of innocence and purity founded on love.

JF - Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments PB - E. Moxon CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Roger Ingram and Walter E. Peck. 10 vols. (London: Published For The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn, 1929), 6: 155-71; in Shelley’s Prose or The Trumpet of Prophecy. Ed. David Lee Clark (London: Fourth Estate, 1988), 144-54; and in The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. E[ugene] B[ernard] Murray (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1993), 1: 124-39. Editorial Commentary 384-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Society Organized. An Allegory: Part I Y1 - 1840 A1 - William Augustus Gordon Hake (1811-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem with notes producing a vague utopia. Cooperation of elites, masses, and scientists.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Political Pilgrim's Progress" Y1 - 1839 A1 - [Thomas] [Doubleday] (1790-1870) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An allegory in which Radical makes his way with his family from the City of Plunder to the City of Reform. While meeting much opposition and overcoming many temptations, he arrives in the City of Reform, which has no direct taxes, no professional politicians, no standing army, and no distinctions between rich and poor. It has a citizen's militia and requires its men aged 20 to 50 to be armed both physically and morally.

JF - Northern Liberator VL - 2.66, 68 - 69, 71, 74 - 76 N1 -

Rpt. with illustrations as The Political Pilgrim's Progress. From the Northern Liberator. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. at the Northern Liberator Office by John Bell, 1839; and in Chartist Fiction. Thomas Doubleday, The Political Pilgrim's Progress. Thomas Martin Wheeler, Sunshine and Shadow. Ed. Ian Haywood (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 1999), 17-59 with "Editor's Notes (59-63).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Island" Y1 - 1837 A1 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an idyllic island.

JF - New Monthly Magazine and Humourist VL - 49 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Seraphim and Other Poems (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), 185-88; and in The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), 32-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1980" Y1 - 1835 A1 - H[enry] H[urry] Goodeve (1807-84) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Technological utopia set in India with women serving in Parliament and limited racial equality for the wealthy. 

JF - Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835 SN - 978-78-308863-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 85-108, with an editor’s introduction on 77-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Junction of the Ocean. A Tale of the Year 2098” Y1 - 1835 A1 - Henry Meredith Parker (1796-1868) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Disaster/dystopian story told by a survivor. The construction of the Panama Canal produces a massive flood when the two oceans come together, ultimately inundating most of the world. 

JF - Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835 SN - 978-78-308863-8 UR - https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up N1 -

Rev. in the author’s Bole Ponjis, Containing the Tale of the Buccaneer; A Bottle of Red Ink; The Decline and Fall of Ghosts; and Other Ingredients. 2. vols. (London/Calcutta, India: W. Thacker & Co., 1851), 1: 132-215. https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up; rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 38-75, with an editor’s introduction on 29-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doctor &c. Y1 - 1834 A1 - Robert Southey (1774-1843) ED - John Wood Warter KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Chapter CCXLI describes the doctor’s utopia, called Columbia, which is a monarchy with an aristocracy and a Parliament elected by universal (male) suffrage.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hampden in the Nineteenth Century; or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society Y1 - 1834 A1 - [John Minter] [Morgan] (1782-1854) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Vol. 1 includes a cooperative eutopia among the remnants of the Incas (344-61). Vol. 2 includes material on Thomas More (1478-1535) in Chap. II, Robert Owen (1771-1858) in Chap. IV, and William Thompson (1775-1833) in Chap. X. The Appendix (354-431) includes material from Abram Combe (1785-1827), Robert Owen, and others. See also Colloquies on Religion and Religious Education: Being a Supplement to "Hampton in the Nineteenth Century". London: Moxon, 1837, which is not utopian but supplements the discussion in the earlier volume.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lotos-Eaters" Y1 - 1833 A1 - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sailors are shipwrecked on an island that is a simple eutopia where all needs are easily met, but the implication is that such a life is ultimately not a good one.

JF - Poems PB - Edward Moxon CY - London N1 -

Substantially rev. in his Poems. 2 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1842), 1: 175-84. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 1: 175-84. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), I: 468-77, with an introductory note (467-68) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 76-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Description of an Architectural Model from a Design by Stedman Whitwell, Esq. for a Community Upon a Principle of United Interests as Advocated by Robert Owen, Esq. Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Thomas] Stedman Whitwell (1784-1840) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Description of a proposed community based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858) with some supporting essays. A large picture was drawn of the proposed community and may be seen at The Goldsmith’s Library, London University.

PB - Hurst Chance & Co. and Effingham Wilson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Cooperative Communities: Plans and Descriptions. Eleven Pamphlets 1825-1847. New York: Arno Press, 1972. Items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dialogue for the Year 2130, Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl" Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Thomas Henry] [Lister] (1800-42) ED - Frederic Mansel Reynolds KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on technology and colonialism. A future Britain with deep class divisions. Overeducated poor. Written as a play.

JF - The Keepsake for MDCCCXXX PB - Pub. For the Proprietor, by Hurst, Chance, and Co. CY - London U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London in a Thousand Years" Y1 - 1830 A1 - Eugenius Roche Esq. (1798-1829) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. While the poem begins with an almost eutopian description of London, it quickly becomes a description of London's disintegration and collapse.

JF - London in a Thousand Years; With other Poems PB - Colburn and Bentley, 1830 CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Covenant Between God and His People; or, The Hebrew Constitution and Charter, with the Statutes and Ordinances, the Laws and Regulations, and Commands and Covenants Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Very detailed constitution. See also 1801 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798. 

PB - Ptd. by A. Snell for Mr. Finleyson CY - London U1 -

By the late Mr. Brothers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Letter from Sydney, the Principal Town of Australasia. Together with the Outline of a System of colonization Y1 - 1829 A1 - [Edward Gibbon] [Wakefield] (1796-1862) ED - Robert Gouger Editor KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Some damning of the settlement process, particularly convict labor and the quality of some of the other immigrants. Shows the difficulty of working the land. Objections to the provincialism of the politics. But he sees Australia with a positive future, an “extension of Britain” that could be settled by young men and women, sent in equal numbers, which would reduce what he saw as the too-rapid growth of the population in Britain. Treated as a eutopia in Matthew Graves and Elizabeth Rechniewski. “Essays for an Empty Land: Australia as Political Utopia.” Cultures of the Commonwealth 17 (Winter 2010-2011): 37-51.

PB - Joseph Cross/Simpkin and Marshall/Effingham Wilson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Moral and Political Economy; or, the Government, Religion, and Institutions, Most Conducive to Individual Happiness and To National Power Y1 - 1828 A1 - T[homas] R[owe] Edmonds (1803-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a short section (270-82) on the founding of a eutopia on an island based on the principles presented in the book. Emphasis on equality, particularly equal administration of justice, division of labor, and "gregariousness." Mentions the need to control population and suggests a parliament for children.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyage of Captain Popanilla Y1 - 1828 A1 - [Benjamin] [Disraeli] (1804-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Imaginary voyage to contemporary England (heavily satirized). Starts from a eutopia on a South Seas island with complete sexual freedom. Parts of the novel derive from his first, unpublished novel "Aylmer Paillon".

PB - Henry Colburn CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Alroy, Popanilla, Count Alarcos (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906), 361-494; as “Popanilla.” In Popanilla and Other Tales. Vol. 3 of The Bradenham Edition of the Novels and Tales of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (London: Peter Davies, 1926), 1-107; and rpt. from The Novels and Tales of Lord Beaconsfield (London: Longmans, Green, 1881), 4: 363-463 in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 1-70. A new ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla to the glorious island of Vraibleusia, the wonderful city of Hubbabub, and the peaceable isle of Blunderland. With illustrations from drawings by Daniel Maclise. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. U.S. ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-second Century Y1 - 1827 A1 - [Jane] [Webb] (1807?-58) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia and satire. Much technical advancement. Female absolute monarch. The Roman Catholic church is the established church. Universal education has led to simple speaking by the upper classes and affected speech by the lower classes.

PB - Henry Colburn CY - London VL - 3 vols. SN - 978-1911204954 N1 -

2nd ed. as by Mrs. Loudon. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Another ed. as by Mrs. Loudon. London: Frederick Warne, [1872]. Another ed. as by Jane (Webb) Loudon abr. by Alan Rauch. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Critical ed. as by Jane Webb Loudon. Ed. Nickianne Moody and Andy Sawyer. Brighton, Eng.: EER/Edward Everett Root Publishers, [2022], with “A Note on the Text” (vii), “Preface: ‘A Strange, Wild Novel’: Jane Webb Loudon and The Mummy!” By Nickianne Moody and Andy Sawyer (viii-xix), “Endnotes” (336-49), “Sources of The Mummy: An encyclopedia of the future” (352-60), “Textual Change (361-424), and “John Claudius Loudon’s review of The Mummy!” (424-36). © 2021 but published March 2022.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sketch of a Journey Through The Western States of North America, From New Orleans, By the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, To New York, In 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, By Messrs. B. Drake and E.D. Mansfield. And a Selection from Various Authors, on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Settlers, in the Fertile and Populous State of Ohio, Containing Information Useful to Persons Desirous of Settling in America Y1 - 1827 A1 - W[illiam] Bullock (c. 1773-1849) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in that it contains a foldout plan for a proposed Town, to be called Hygeia to be located on the Ohio River in Kentucky.

PB - John Miller CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Vol. 19 of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark, 1905), 113-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man Y1 - 1826 A1 - [Mary Wollstonecraft] [Shelley] (1797-1851) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the last man on earth.

PB - Henry Colburn CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Rpt. Ed. Hugh J. Lake. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxi); 2nd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, with an “Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Judith Tarr (vii-xi); Ed. Morton D. Paley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994 with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (471-79); Ed. Anne McWhir. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 1996 with an editor’s “Introduction” (xiii-xli); and as vol. 4 of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Ed. Jane Blumberg with Nora Cook. 8 vols. London: William Pickering, 1996 with an “Introductory Note” (xi-xv) and “Silent Corrections” (366-67). Muriel Spark’s, Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. Hadleigh, Eng.: Tower Bridge Publications, 1951 contains an “Appendix--The Last Man--An Abridged Version” (195-230) that summarizes the three volumes. Chapters I-V rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 321-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolt of the Bees Y1 - 1826 A1 - John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia followed by a eutopia. Opens with a colony of bees choosing capitalism and degenerating into starvation and war. A eutopia is then presented based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), specifically his ideas on the formation of character. Most of the text is taken up with discussion of the ideas. See also J.C. Prince, "The Revolt of the Bees. Verses Suggested by Reading the Above Work; Presented to Me By My Valued Friend Quintus Hortensius." The New Moral World [6].58 (November 30, 1839): 927-28. See also 1834 and 1845 Morgan. For Owen's eutopias, see 1813, 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen.

PB - Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Rpt. London: Ptd. for Hurst, Chance and Co. and Effingham Wilson, 1830. 3rd ed. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839; rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 309-438

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rebellion of the Beasts; Or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!! Y1 - 1825 A1 - [Robert Mackenzie] [Beverley] (1798-1868) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-monarchical satire in which animals successfully revolt against human domination.

PB - J. & H. L. Hunt CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with Leigh Hunt as the author Chicago, IL: Wicker Park Press, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Australasia. A Poem Written for The Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1823 Y1 - 1823 A1 - W[illiam] C[harles] Wentworth (1790?-1872) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Australia as a eutopia. 

PB - Ptd. for G. and W.D. Whittaker CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Final Chorus" Y1 - 1822 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Earth enters a new Golden Age.      

JF - Hellas A Lyrical Drama PB - Charles and James Ollier CY - London UR - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174388 N1 -

Rpt. as Hellas. A Lyrical Drama. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1822. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; as Hellas A Lyrical Drama. A Reprint of the Original Edition Published in 1822 With the Author’s Prologue and Notes in Various Hands. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886, with an Editor’s Preface on xi-xxiv, “Notes on Hellas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” on xxvii-xxx, “Note on the Prologue to Hellas: by Richard Garnett on xxxiii-xxxiv, Shelley’s Prologue on xxxv-xlv, Editor’s Notes on the Prologue to Hellas on xlvii-li, “Errata for Hellas on liii-lviii, Notes on 55-58, and “Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon” on 59-60; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. See also Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. The Choruses Set to Music by William Christian Selle, Mus. Doc. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epipsychidion: Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V--- Now Imprisoned In the Convent of ---- Y1 - 1821 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Love poem describing a lover's eutopia on an island.

PB - C. and J. Ollier CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Epipsychidion. A Type Fac-simile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1821. With an Introduction by The Rev. Stofford A. Brooke, M.A. And a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Ed. Robert Alfred Potts. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson (London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1919), 405-19, with “Fragments Connected with Epipsychidion” (419-24) and “Notes on the Text and Its Punctuation” (893); in Shelley’s Poetry and Prose. Authoritative Texts Criticism. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers (New York: W.W. Norton, 1977), 373-88; 2nd ed. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 390-407; and in The Poems of Shelley. 4 vols. Ed. Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan, and Kelvin Everest. With the assistance of Andrew Lacey and Laura Barlow (London/New York: Routledge, 2014), 4: 126-172, with introductory notes on 115-125, and “Appendix: Fragments connected with Epipsychidion” (173-190).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christian Policy in Full Practice Among the People of Harmony, A Town in the State of Pennsylvania, North America; As Described in Melish's Travels through the United States, and Birkbeck's Notes on a Journey in America. To Which are subjoined, a Concise view of the Spencean System of Agrarian Fellowship, and some Observations on the manifest Similarity between the Principles of that System and of the truly Fraternal and Christianly Establishment of the Harmonists Y1 - 1818 A1 - [Thomas] [Evans] (b. 1763) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christian eutopia in which all land and other major goods are public. Written constitution. Politically divided into small parishes or districts. The first thirteen pages (of sixteen) are a description of the Harmony Community in the United States founded by the German religious leader George Rapp (1757-1847). See also 1816 and 1817 Evans.

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By A Spencean Philanthropist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Address of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists To All Mankind On the Means of Promoting Liberty and Happiness Y1 - 1817 A1 - [Thomas] [Evans] (b. 1763) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A critique of the current system and a summary of the proposals of Thomas Spence (1750-1814) as slightly revised by Evans and made explicitly Christian.See also 1816 and 1818 Evans and The Address and Regulations of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists With an Abstract of Spence’s Plan. London: Pub. by order of the Society, 1815 with the Regulations (7-10) and the Abstract (11-12). 12 pp. [LU].  For Spence’s utopias, see 1782, 1795, 1798, and 1801 Spence.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser Y1 - 1817 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Includes a eutopia inspired by the French Revolution and the writings of William Godwin (1756-1836). The eutopia occurs throughout the text and stresses liberty, equality, and the emancipation of women.

PB - Ptd. for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones and C. and J. Ollier CY - London N1 -

This was the original edition which was withdrawn and slightly revised because the printer objected to the suggestion of incest and the radicalism of parts of the text. It was rpt. as The Revolt of Islam; A Poem in Twelve Cantos. London: Ptd. for C. and J. Ollier, 1817 [Some copies have 1818 as the publication date] and was known under this title for some time, with the original title being restored in late 20th century editions. Rpt. as “Laon and Cythna or the Revolution of the Golden City [Usually known as 'The Revolt of Islam' 1817]”. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume II 1814-1817. Ed. Neville Rogers. 4 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1975), 99-270, including “Laon and Cyntha: Rejected Passages” (265-270) with “Note by Mary Shelley On Loan and Cyntha [The Revolt of Islam]” (270-73) and “Notes” (360-95); as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Jack Donovan. The Poems of Shelley. Volume Two 1817-1819. Ed. Kelvin Everest and Geoffrey Matthews (Hatlow, Essex, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000), 10-265, with an [“Introduction”] by the editor (10-29), extensive footnotes throughout, and “Fragments from the L&C Notebooks.” Ed. Jack Donovan (261-65); and as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Michael J. Neth. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume Three. Ed. Neil Fraisat and Nora Crook (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 109-320, with “Commentary” by Michael J. Neth (550-941), including “Supplements: Rejected Opening and Ancillary Fragments for Laon and Cyntha” (908-941) “Historical Collation” (993-1061), Mary Shelley’s “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1073-75), “The Revision of Laon and Cythna to The Revolt of Islam (1077-88), and “Shelley’s List of Errata for Laon and Cythna/The Revolt of Islam (1082). See also The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. A Facsimile Edition, with Full Transcripts and Scholarly Apparatus. Ed. Donald H Reiman. Volume XIII Drafts from Laon and Cythna Facsimiles of Bodleian MSS. Shelley ADDS. e 14 and ADDS. e. 19. Ed. Tatsuo Tokoo with an Introduction and Notes. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Melincourt Y1 - 1817 A1 - [Thomas Love] [Peacock] (1785-1866) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One theme is a satire on English politics in which an orangutan is elected as an MP.

PB - Ptd. for T. Hookham, Jun. and Co. and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -

U.S. ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia, PA: Moses Thomas, 1817.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christian Policy, the Salvation of the Empire. Being a Clear and Concise Examination into the Causes that Have Produced the Impending, Unavoidable National Bankruptcy; And the Effects that must ensue, unless averted by the Adoption of this only real and Desirable Remedy, Which would elevate these Realms to a Pitch of Greatness Hitherto Unattained By any Nation that ever Existed Y1 - 1816 A1 - Thomas Evans (b. 1763) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which all land, water, mines, houses, and feudal permanent property belong to the people. Evans was a close associate of Thomas Spence (1750-1814), and this work says that the policy of the early Christians should be adopted and then goes on to describe Spence's plan. For Spence's utopias, see 1782, 1795, 1798, and 1801 Spence. See also 1817 and 1818 Evans.

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2nd ed. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1816. The 2nd ed. is identical except for 2nd ed. on the title page.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Darkness" Y1 - 1816 A1 - George Gordon Byron [Lord Byron] (1788-1824) ED - Jerome J. McGann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

End of world dystopia.

JF - Lord Byron: The Complete Political Works PB - Clarendon Press CY - Oxford, Eng. VL - 7. vols. N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 25-27. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. A Poem Y1 - 1812 A1 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian predictive poem showing the ruin of Britain after Commerce leaves her. See 1814 Grant for a response. A detailed study of the poem and its context is E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 

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Rpt. Warrington, Eng.: The “Sunrise” Publishing Co., 1911 with the cover adding A Prophecy of England’s Downfall; in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 1: 232-50; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 1: 232-50; in The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 152-61 with “Notes and Variants” (309-17); as Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. 1812. Poole, Eng: Woodstock Books, 1995; in Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwells, 1997), 10-18, with an editor’s introduction (7-10) and notes (10-18); in her Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 160-73; and in E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 270-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women. An Eutopian Romance, in Twelve Books Y1 - 1811 A1 - James [Henry] Lawrence (1773-1840) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Largely adventure and romance but presented as a picture of a eutopia of equality for women. Men are completely free from all duties except warfare. Women are revered as mothers and supported as such by the state. No marriage and women choose their lovers as they wish. Every house belongs to some woman and men live with relatives or lovers. Lawrence drew inspiration from and refers to Mary Wollstonecraft's (1759-97) Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1782). The description of sexual freedom influenced Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); see 1817 and 1821 Shelley, both of which were so influenced. Shelley wrote Lawrence on August 17, 1812, saying "Your 'Empire of the Nairs,' which I read this Spring, succeeded in making me a perfect convert to its doctrines" (The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Frederick L. Jones. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1964), 1: 323. See Walter Graham, "Shelley and The Empire of the Nairs." PMLA 40.4 (December 1925): 881-91. The Nairs are based on an actual Hindu caste from Kerela in India. On the actual Nairs, see Élie Reclus, "The Naïrs, Warrior Nobility and the Matriarchate." In his Primitive Folk: Studies in Comparative Ethnology (London: Walter Scott, [1891?]), 143-77. Originally published in French but no translator given.

PB - Ptd. for T. Hookham and E.T. Hookham CY - London VL - 4 vols. in 2. N1 -

Rpt. as The Empire of the Nairs (1811). 4 vols. in 1. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 5: 1-328.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Publicola, A Sketch of the Times and Prevailing Opinions, from the Revolution in 1800 to the Present Year 1810. Addressed to the People of England, and now first translated from the Russian copy Y1 - 1810 A1 - [John] [Reeves] (1752-1829) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by a successful republican revolution in England.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Equality--A Political Romance" Y1 - 1802 A1 - [John] [Lithgow] KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. No money, land is held in common, and labor is required from all until age 50. No towns--houses are spread over the entire country. Everyone over 15 has a separate apartment and keeps it even when married. Gerontocracy. Deist. Every male over 18 is provided with arms and must know how to use them.

JF - The Temple of Reason (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 2. 17 - 23 N1 -

Rpt. as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: Liberal Union, 1837. This ed. rpt. in The New Moral World (London) [5].3 - 5, 7, 10, 13, 15 - 16, 20 (November 10 - 24, December 8, 29, 1838; January 13, February 2 - 9, March 9, 1839): 45-46; 51-52; 69-71; 99-100; 158-59; 206-07; 239-40; 247-49; 310-11; as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Boston, MA: Pub. by J. P. Mendum, 1863; and as Equality, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: The Prime Press, 1947. Rpt. from The Temple of Reason as by James Reynolds in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Description of Jerusalem: Its Houses and Streets, Squares, Colleges, Markets, and Cathedrals, The Royal and Private Palaces, with The Garden of Eden In the Centre, As laid down in the last chapters of Ezekiel, Also The First Chapter of Genesis Verified, as Strictly Divine and True and The Solar System, With All Its Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, and Millions of Suns, As Positively Proved To Be Delusive and False. By Mr. Brothers, Who Will Be Revealed To the Hebrews As Their King and Restorer Y1 - 1801 A1 - Mr. [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) A1 - Mr. Brothers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Restored Jerusalem as eutopia. See also 1830 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Restorer of Society to Its Natural State in a Series of Letters to a Fellow Citizen. With a Preface, Containing the Objections of a Gentleman Who Perused the Manuscript, and the Answers of the Author Y1 - 1801 A1 - Thomas Spence (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia similar to 1782, 1795, and 1798 Spence. As in all Spence's eutopias, this one stresses that land should be in the hands of the local parish with one simple tax that will support all needed services. Public granary; easy divorce; no war; free trade; improved hospitals.

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Rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 69-103. Version of 1803 rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 127-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Miss Kinder, on Receiving a Note dated February 30th" Y1 - 1800 A1 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ED - William McCarthy ED - Elizabeth Kraft KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eighteen line poem describing a day when everyone behaves well.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vagabond. A Novel Y1 - 1799 A1 - George Walker (1772-1847) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on William Godwin (1756-1836), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), David Hume (1711-76), and other mostly republican philosophers. Chaps. 7 and 8 of vol. 2 depict "a perfect Republic on the Principles of Equality and Political Justice" where nothing works the way it was intended.

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Two other editions in 1799. The 2nd ed. is identical to the 1st and the 3rd ed. has changes. There is one edition with the subtitle or, Practical Infidelity: A Novel. Harrisonburg, VA: Davidson & Bourne, 1814. Critical ed. in one vol. ed. W.M. Verhoeven. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2004, including relevant essays.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar: An African Tale Containing Various Anecdotes of the Sophians Hitherto Unknown To Mankind in General Y1 - 1798 A1 - George Cumberland (1754-1848) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two lost race eutopias in central Africa. The first, presented in the 1798 and 1810 editions, is peopled with Greek sun worshippers. These people, the Sophians, are art lovers, Deists, have gender equality, and racial, religious, and ethnic toleration. The second, presented in the second part first published in 1991, are Christians. These people, the Jovinians, have no art and proselytize their failure simple form of Protestantism and practice a general community of goods. They recognize the importance of sex, and the 1810 edition downplayed the sexual elements.

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Rpt. rev. as vol. 1 of his Original Tales. London: Miller and Pople, 1810. First ed. rpt. together with the previously unpub. second part ed. G.E. Bentley, Jr. Montréal, QC, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991, which includes “Notes on the Text” (297-306), “Epilogue The Geography of The Captive and the Historical Contexts of the Sophians, the Jovinians, and Menno” (307-22), “Appendix I Substantive Emendations to the Text of The Captive Part I (1798) found in the Second Edition (1810)” (323-48), “Appendix II Description of the Manuscript of Part 2” (349-51).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Constitution of a Perfect Commonwealth. Being the French Constitution of 1793. Amended, and rendered entirely conformable to the Whole Rights of Man Y1 - 1798 A1 - T[homas] Spence (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Another version of Spence’s cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1795, and 1801 Spence.

PB - Author CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as The Constitution of Spensonia A Country in Fairyland Situated Between Utopia and Oceana Brought from Thence by Captain Swallow (i.e. Thomas Spence). London: Author, 1801. This ed. rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 93-109. Versions are also available in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications, 1982), 54-69, 104-118; Pig’s Meat: Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Glossop (Nottingham, England: Spokesman, 1982), 166-185; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 145-161. An extract was published anonymously as The receipt to make a millennium or happy world. 4th ed. Single sheet. Np, [1805?] This was also published as Something to a Purpose. A receipt to make a millennium or Happy World. Extracts from The Constitution of Spensonia. London: Ptd. for T. Spence, [1803].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Mr Fantom, The New Fashioned Philosopher and His Man William Y1 - 1797 A1 - Hannah More (1745-1833) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on utopian projections.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Commonwealth of Reason Y1 - 1795 A1 - William Hodgson, Now confined in the prison of Newgate, London, for sedition (1745-1851) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essay including an outline of a new government and a proposed constitution. The author's crime was proposing a toast to "The French Republic" and "comparing the king to a German hog butcher".

PB - Ptd. and sold by the author, and also by H.D. Symonds, B. Crosby, J. Ridgway, J. Smith, J. Burke CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 199-247.

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A version of Spence's cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1798, and 1801 Spence.

PB - Hive of Liberty CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 82-91; and in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 25-33. First published in somewhat different form in Spence’s journal Pig’s Meat; or Lessons for the Swinish Multitude as “The Marine Republic” 2.6 (1794): 68-72; and “A Further Account of Spensonia” 2.18-19 (1794): 205-18. These versions rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 76-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar Y1 - 1795 A1 - [Thomas] [Northmore] (1766-1851) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed constitution of thirty-one articles and the positive effects of adopting it. The first articles are concerned with democratic political reform and the reduction in the number of laws. Trial by jury. No capital punishment. Reform of inheritance. Improved education. Marriage and divorce civil not religious. Freedom of the press.

PB - Ptd. by Vaughan Griffiths CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 137-97.

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By Phileleutherus Devoniensis [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters Between Mrs. Darnford and Her Friends Y1 - 1792 A1 - Clara Reeve (1729-1807) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia in the form of an epistolary novel. Begins as an essay on education but broadens into one on society as a whole and plans for the best one. Conservative in that it is hierarchical, and women's education is in those things thought suitable for women.

PB - Ptd. for T. Hookham and J. Carpenter CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House: Containing the Idea of a New Principle of Construction Applicable to Any Sort of Establishment, In Which Persons of Any Description Are To Be Kept Under Inspection; And in Particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, Houses of Industry, Work-houses, Poor-house, Manufactories, Mad-houses, Lazarettos, Hospitals, and Schools: With a Plan of Management Adapted to the Principle: In a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1787, From Crecheff in White Russia, To a Friend in England Y1 - 1791 A1 - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed plans for an ideal utilitarian building where the inmates can be kept under constant observation at low cost.

PB - Sold by T. Payne CY - Dublin, Ireland Printed: London, Reprinted N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Published Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring. 11 vols. (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843), 4: 37-172; and in The Panopticon Writings. Ed. Miran Božovič. London: Verso, 1995. Includes “Panopticon Letters” (29-95), “Postscript, Part I. Containing Further Particulars and Alterations Relative to the Plan of Construction Originally Proposed; Principally Adapted to the Purpose of a Panopticon Penitentiary-House” [printed 1791] (97-114), and “A Fragment on Ontology” (115-38), which is about fictions not the panopticon. See also “Panopticon versus New South Wales: or, The Panopticon Penitentiary System, and The Penal Colonization System, Compared. In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Pelham. By Jeremy Bentham, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq.” (Bowring 4: 173-248).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mammuth; or, Human Nature Displayed on a Grand Scale: In a Tour with the Tinkers, into the Inland Parts of Africa Y1 - 1789 A1 - [William] [Thomson] (1746-1817) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia. Anti-technology--better to use nature than the best mechanical contrivances. Reason, learning, good repute, and nobility are the bases for government. Elective monarchy. Euthanasia is allowed for the old of good character after they have been judged worthy and paid “the usual fine.”

PB - Ptd. for J. Murray CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 229-384. Another edition--London: Ptd. for G. and T. Wilkie, 1789.

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By The Man in the Moon [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter XV. For the Lewes Journal. A Midsummer-Night's Dream; or, a Trip to the Moon" Y1 - 1787 A1 - Richard Michell KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The moon is described as having luxuriant parks, with lots of flowers and other natural and artificial beauties. The parks were filled with people “. . . variously engaged, but to appearances all equally happy.” Elegantly simple dress. Huge amphitheatre that can hold the entire population of the planet filled for the Autumn Festival to given thanks for the year’s productions. “The inhabitants of the Moon, Man, are perfect strangers to all those irregular, turbulent passions, in the gratification, instead of the government of which, you mortals are madly seeking happiness. . .” (89. Original emphasis). “. . . total absence of all the disorderly affections that torment the HUMAN breast” (89. Original emphasis). “The Lunarians are wiser, and better, and therefore happier beings than you are” (90. Original emphasis). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Island in the Moon" Y1 - 1784 A1 - William Blake (1757-1827) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A satire on contemporary events, manners, and people using an imaginary society on the moon.

JF - Blake. Complete Writings With Variant Readings. PB - Oxford University Press CY - London N1 -

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Newly rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 449-65, with Textual Notes (849-50. Also pub. as An Island in the Moon. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Introduced, Transcribed, and Annotated by Michael Phillips with a Preface by Haven O’More. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press in association with Institute of Traditional Science, 1987. A different version Ed. and Decorated by Gavin O’Keefe. [U.S.] The Purple Mouth Press, 1998. A 1787 ms. was published as An Island in the Moon. Illus. Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, Eng.: Tern Press, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions Y1 - 1783 A1 - [William] [Thomson] (1746-1817) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The Man of the People is Charles James Fox (1749-1806). Mostly famous people living on the moon after death. Some minor eutopian parts, including a convent of women.

PB - Ptd. for J. Murray CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 121-215.

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By the Man of the People [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mount Henneth, A Novel Y1 - 1782 A1 - [Robert] [Bage] (1728-1801) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A small part of the novel is a description of a group of friends creating a eutopia in a castle.

PB - T. Lowndes CY - London VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

Rpt. Dublin, Ireland: Ptd. Price, Whitestone, Sleater, Moncrieffe, Walker, Mills, Beatty, E. Cross, and Burton, 1782; and as Mount Henneth, A Novel in a Series of Letters. 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: W. Lowndes, 1788. Dublin ed. rpt. New York: Garland, 1979

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Supplement to the History of Robinson Crusoe, Being the History of Crusonia, or Robinson Crusoe's Island, Down to the Present Time. Copied from a letter sent by Mr. Wishit, Captain of the Good-Intent, to an intelligent Friend in England, after being in a Storm in May, 1781 driven out of his course to the Said Island. Published by the said Gentleman, for the agreeable Perusal of Robinson Crusoe's Friends of all Sizes Y1 - 1782 A1 - [Thomas] [Spence] (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Robinson Crusoe’s island had developed the institutions found in Britain at the time, but a revolution had overthrown the system, abolished all landlords except the local parish, and established majority rule and a citizen’s militia. See also 1795, 1798 and 1801 Spence.

PB - T. Saint CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng. VL - New ed. N1 -

Also in Spence’s phonetic spelling in the same volume. The standard version is rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 5-15; in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 105-120; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 133-144.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The State of England In the Year 2199" Y1 - 1780 A1 - [Thomas] [Lyttelton Lyttelton], [Baron] (1744-79) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the downfall of England. The poem is dated March 21, 1771.

JF - Poems By a Young Nobleman, of Distinguished Abilities, lately deceased: Particularly The State of England, and the once flourishing City of London. In a Letter from an American Traveller, Dated from the Ruinous Portico of St. Paul,s, in the Year 2199 PB - Ptd. for G. Kearsley CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. (London: Ptd. for G. Kearsley, 1780), 1-16. 3rd ed. rev. (London: Ptd. for G. Kearsley, 1780), 11-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hill of Science. A Vision" Y1 - 1773 A1 - [Anna Laetitia] [Barbauld] (1743-1825) ED - J[ohn] Aitkin ED - A[nna] L[etitia] Aitkin ED - A. L. Aitkin ED - J. Aitkin KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Allegorical dream of a hill topped by the Temple of Truth with various people trying to reach the top and mostly falling by the wayside. Entry is through the Gate of Languages. Application does the best.

JF - Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose PB - J. Johnson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ptd. by James Magee, 1774), 14-19; (London: J. Johnson, 1775), 27-35; (London: J. Johnson, 1792), 27-35; and in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 2: 163-70; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 2: 163-70. Rpt. in The American Museum, or Universal Magazine 11.3 (March 1792): 82-84; and the Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 6.265 (June 8, 1793).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government." Y1 - 1767 A1 - [Catherine] [Macaulay] (1731-91) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Essay describing a formal government organization designed for Corsica, with a Senate of no more than fifty members and a house of the people of no fewer than 250 members. Generally, the Senate debates issues before the house of the people. Rotation of office; agrarian law to limit land holding. Limitations on the increase in property holding include the division of property to all male heirs on death and no dowries. Unmarried women are provided with annuities. Compare with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712-78) Constitutional Project for Corsica (Projet de constitution pour la Corse) (1763).

JF - Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli PB - Ptd. for T. Davies; Robinson and Roberts; and T. Cadell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Political Writings. Ed. Max Skjönsberg (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 103-108, with an editorial introduction on 86-88. 2nd ed. as “Short Sketch, &c Addressed to Signior Paoli. The Second Edition with Two Letters One From an American Gentleman to the Author Which Contain some Comments on Her Sketch of the Democratic Form of Government and the Author’s Answer.” In her Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’s Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli (London: Ptd. for W. Johnston, T. Davies, E. and C. Dilly, J. Allmon, Robinson and Roberts, and T. Cadell, 1769), 19-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Account of the Giants Lately Discovered. In a Letter to a Friend in the Country Y1 - 1766 A1 - [Horace] [Walpole] (1717-1797) KW - English author AB -

Satire on discovery narratives, particularly John Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a Late Expedition round the World). Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, From the Year 1740, till Their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Jago de Chili, And the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. Also a relation of the Loss of the Wager Man of War. Written By Himself. To which is prefixed, A Biographical Sketch of the Author. London: Ptd for S. Baker and G. Leich, 1768. Rpt. with slight variations in the title Aberdeen, Scot.: Ptd. and pub. by James Johnson, 1822.

PB - Ptd. for F. Noble CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Edited by Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 329-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Account of the First Settlement, Laws, Form of Government, and Police, of the Cessares, a People of South America: In Nine Letters, from Mr. Vander Neck [pseud.], one of the Senators of that Nation, to his Friend in Holland. With Notes by the Editor Y1 - 1764 A1 - [James] [Burgh] (1714-75) KW - English author KW - Scottish author AB -

A detailed, regimented eutopia presented in the founding of a colony. Each male colonist to get sufficient land for their needs and the rest reserved for their descendants. Everyone is expected to be "sober, industrious and peaceable" (Claeys 80), and anything that would lead to a different condition is illegal. There are no lawyers, and plain speaking in trials is expected. Inspectors report annually on both the condition of the people, with ministers a particular concern, and that of the infrastructure. Useful trades taught along with intellectual, moral, and religious material.

PB - Ptd. for J. Payne CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 71-136.

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Spanish ed. as Un Relato de la Colonizacion, de las Leyes, Formas de Gobierno y Costumbres de los Césares, un pueblo de Sudamérica, contenido en nueve Cartas, enviadas por Mr. Vander Neck [pseud.], uno de los Senadores de dicha Nación, a un amigo en Holanda, con nota del editor. Hay tres cosas que regulan los estados a saber: Necesidad, Leyes y Costumbres. Santiago de Chile, Chile: Centro de Investigaciones de Historia Americana, 1963

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Moon. Containing an Account of the Island of Noibla. Its Inhabitants, Religious and Political Customs, &c. Y1 - 1764 A1 - [Francis] [Gentleman] (1728-84) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia with simple laws. The head of the family is responsible for the conduct of all family members and must give a weekly account of their activities. Everyone must attend public worship at least once a day. Children are raised by a woman other than the natural mother because mothers are less likely to be willing to correct a child.

PB - Ptd. by A. Ward for S. Crowder, et al., CY - York, Eng. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Gulliveriana: I. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970), 97-204; and as A Trip to the Moon. New York: Garland, 1974.

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By Sir Humphrey Lunatic, Bart. [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Description of Millenium Hall, And the Country Adjacent: Together with the Character of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, As May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue Y1 - 1762 A1 - [Mrs.] [Sarah (Robinson)] [Scott] (1723-95) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Describes a country estate of celibate women who help support the people of the area by providing work for everyone, a start in life for young married couples, and orphans and children from large families for older women to raise. There is also an enclosure for deformed people who would otherwise have to show themselves in sideshows. Much of the novel is taken up with the stories of the women, and these provide a critique of contemporary society.

PB - Ptd. for J. Newbery CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as A Description of Millenium Hall. An 18th Century Novel. Ed. Walter M. Crittenden with a “Preface” (5-22) by the editor. New York: Bookman Associates, 1955; ed. Jane Spencer with an “Introduction” (v-xvi) by the editor. London: Virago, 1986; ed. Gary Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 1995; and the 1778 4th ed. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 183-327.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale Y1 - 1759 A1 - Samuel Johnson (1709-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A critique of utopianism. Happy Valley has a supposedly perfect life for the children of an emperor but seems dull to Rasselas, and he explores the world finding problems with almost all activities. Eutopia is found neither in the Happy Valley nor in the outside world. A continuation that is sometimes called a utopia, e.g., by Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 79, that I cannot make fit any reasonable definition of utopia is [Ellis Cornelia Knight], Dinarbas; A Tale: Being a Continuation of RASSELAS, Prince of Abissinia. London: Dilley, 1790. Rpt. ed. Ann Messenger. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1993.

PB - R. and J. Dodsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. London: Harrison and Company, 1787; and Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: Ptd. for Joseph Wennman, 1787. Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. Ed. Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins. London: Oxford University Press, 1971, with “Textual Notes” (135-39) and “Explanatory Notes” (140-45). Rpt. under the original title in Samuel Johnson. Ed. Donald Greene (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984), 335-418, with “Notes” (811-13). Rpt. as “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.” Rasselas and Other Tales. Ed. Gwin J. Kolb (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990), 3-176, with a discussion material related to the text in the editor’s “Introduction” (xxvi-lxxi), additional material in footnotes, and the editor’s “Appendix The Reception of Rasselas, 1759-1800” (251-58). Fourth ed. (1766) rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 99-181. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer Y1 - 1756 A1 - [Edmund] [Burke] (1729/30-97) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

Satire on the idealization of the state of nature.

PB - Ptd. for M. Cooper CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Ptd. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 adds The Second Edition: With a New Preface to the title. Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 1-38.

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A Late Noble Writer [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain: Interspersed with Literary Reflexions, and Accounts of Antiquities and Curious Things. In Several Letters Y1 - 1755 A1 - Thomas Amory (1691-1788) KW - English author AB -

Includes (340-45) a description of a eutopian community of women with twenty-four members and twelve boarders.

PB - Ptd. for John Noon CY - London U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreamer Y1 - 1754 A1 - [William] [King] (1685-1763) KW - English author AB -

A series of dreams, largely satirical but with the description of an Athenian-style republic and a variety of specific reforms such as suggestions for a healthy life.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crumble-Hall" Y1 - 1751 A1 - Mrs. [Mary] Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire (1722-46) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an English country house as a eutopia. Food and rest are provided for all, including the poor. The emphasis on food makes it read like a cockaigne. Stress on kitchen workers.

JF - Poems on Several Occasions PB - Ptd. for J. Roberts CY - London VL - 2 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector. With an INTRODUCTION, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Death on landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several CUTS, clearly and distinctly representing the Structure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either to swim or fly Y1 - 1751 A1 - [Robert] [Paltock] (1697-1767) KW - English author AB -

Imaginary voyage which begins with a Robinsonade in which the man then meets and marries a winged woman. She then takes him to her homeland where the man introduces reforms, with, for example slavery being abolished and democratic procedures introduced.

PB - J. Robinson and R. Dodsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Dublin. Ireland: George Faulkner, 1751; in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 201-348 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with very slight changes in the title and illus. D. H. Friston. London: John Dick, [1861]; with an “Introduction” by A. H. B. (vii-xiii). London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, [1915]; with the same “Introduction” (vii-xiii) illus. Edward Bawden. London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928; Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; Ed. Christopher Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1973 with an “Introduction” (ix-xviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88); rev. ed. ed. Bentley with a new “Introduction (vii-xxxiii) by James Grantham Turner and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88) by Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; New York: Garland, 1974; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 143-410, which reprints the first edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Capacity and Extent of the Human Understanding; Exemplified In the Extraordinary Case of Automathes; A Young Nobleman, Who was Accidentally left in his Infancy, upon a desolate Island, and continued Nineteen Years in that solitary State, separated from all Human Society. A Narrative Abounding with many surprizing Occurrences, both Useful and Entertaining to the Reader Y1 - 1745 A1 - [John] [Kirkby] (1705-54) KW - English author AB -

Opens with a shipwreck and the discovery of Christian eutopia called Soteria with a detailed description of church organization. Separation of church and state. The church runs the educational system. Separation of men and women in church, so that women will not be visible. The point is made that strict discipline is needed even in a good society due to human backsliding. The eutopia is then followed by a Robinsonade.

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Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 583-638 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 49-141.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memoirs of Sigr Guadentio di Lucca: Taken from his Confession and Examination before the Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna in Italy. Making a Discovery of an Unknown Country in the midst of the Vast Deserts of Africa, as Ancient, Populous, and Civilized, as the Chinese. With an Account of their Antiquity, Origine, Religion, Customs, Polity, & c. and the Manner how they got first over those vast Deserts. Interspers'd with several most suprizing and curious Incidents. Copied from the original Manuscript kept in St. Mark's Library at Venice: With Critical Notes of the Learned Signor Rhedi, late Library-Keeper of the said Library. To which is prefix'd, a Letter of the Secretary of the Inquisition, to the same Signor Rhedi, giving an Account of the Manner and Causes of his being seized. Faithfully Translated from the Italian, by E.T. Gent Y1 - 1737 A1 - [Simon] [Berington] (1680-1755) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Social system based on the law "Thou shalt do no wrong to anyone." This avoids legal hairsplitting. Patriarchal political system.

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Rpt. as The Memoirs of Signior Guadentio di Lucca. New York: Garland, 1973, with an “Introduction” by Josephine Grieder (5-11); and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 267-411. Excerpt rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 103-25. The book went through many editions with significant variations in the title. Variant editions were rpt. as The Memoirs of Signor Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Dublin, Ireland: Re-printed by George Faulkner, 1738; The Adventures of Sigr Guadentio di Lucca . . . . 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for W. Innys and R, Manby and H.S. Cox, 1748; The Adventures of Sig Guadentio di Lucca . . . . London: Ptd. for J. Richardson, 1763; The Life & Adventures of Sig Guadentio di Lucca . . . . First American Edition. Norwich, CT: Ptd. by John Trumbull, 1796 [This ed. is considerably shorter than the others]; The Adventures of Sig. Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Philadelphia, PA: Re-printed by William Conover, 1799; and The Adventures of Signor Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Baltimore, MD: Ptd. by Bonsal & Niles, 1800.

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Satire similar to Joseph Hall, Mundus Alter et Idem (1605), specifically the section on gluttony.

JF - Remains of the Late Learned and Ingenious Dr. William King, Some Time, Advocate of Doctors Commons, Vicar-General to the Archbishop of Armagh, and Record-Keeper of Ireland. Containing Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, upon various Subjects; with Reflections, Observations, and Critical Remarks upon Men and Books: With a particular Critick upon a Favourite Ministry; prticulaly, that of Rufinus, Favourite of the Emperor Theodossius, and his Character rendered into Verse from Claudian; together wiith the Author’s Life and Writings PB - Ptd. for W. Mears CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Posthumous Works of the late Learned William King, L.L.D. in Verse and Prose. Published from his Original Manuscripts. Purchased of his Sister, by Joseph Brownr, M.D. To which is Prefixed, An Account of his Life and Writings, with a True Copy of his Last Will and Testament made by himself the Night before he Died [Published in two separately paged parts] (London: Ptd. for Edmund Curll, 1734), [Part 2], 27-43; and with the subtitle “A Fragment, in the Manner of Rabelais.” In The Original Works of William King, LL.D. Advocate of Doctors Commons; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty and Keeper of the Records in Ireland, and Vicar General to the Lord Primate. Now First Collected Into Three Volumes: With Historical Notes, and Memoirs of the Author (London: Ptd. for the Editor, 1776), 3: 278-87. Rpt. (Westmead, Farnborough, Eng: Gregg International, 1972), 3: 278-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe Y1 - 1719 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The sequel to the much better known 1719 Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. This volume begins, after some adventures at sea, with a return to Crusoe’s island and the experiences of the people he had left there. There are conflicts with the natives from a neighboring island and many trials and tribulations, but the settlement is generally presented positively. The rest of the work is primarily adventure in various voyages. A third volume was published. See also Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by Himself. London: Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes.

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Rpt. London: Ptd. for John Stockdale, 1790; as The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974, neither of which include the foldout map; and as The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 2: The Farher Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with “Explanatory Notes” (219-45) and “Textual Notes” (247-49); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from different editions (ix), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xxxiv), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (261-268), “Textual Notes” (269-270), “Bibliographical Descriptions” (271-281), “Variants” (283-414), a “Selected Bibliography” (415-417), and an Index (421-440).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself Y1 - 1719 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

This work gave rise to a whole sub-genre of works dealing with a castaway on an isolated island, the most famous of which is The Swiss Family Robinson (1812-1827) by Johann [Rudolf] Wyss (1781-1830) that appeared in hundreds of versions. Possible to treat it and the sub-genre as eutopias of solitude. See also 1719 Defoe. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe which is much more clearly a utopia in that more people are involved. A third volume was published, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-226, 266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes. A related work is J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940), Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986.

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Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 349-582 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” (iii-xiv) by Ford Madox Ford. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930; ed. Michael Shinagel. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Owens (15-51), “Explanatory Notes” (287-324) and “Textual Notes” (325-28); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from many different editions (ix-x), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xlviii), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (253-260), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (261-289), “Variants” (291-357), “Works Consulted” (359-360), a “Selected Bibliography” (361-365), and an Index (369-379). An interesting edition for children is Robinson Crusoe In Words of One Syllable. Illus. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, 1900.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" Y1 - 1713 A1 - [Anne] [Finch] (1661-1720) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopian poem. Plea for a retreat from the troubles of life and a description of the retreat in terms of the tradition of a eutopia achieved without human effort.

JF - Miscellany Poems. Written by a Lady [pseud.] PB - Ptd. for John Barber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea. Ed. Myra Reynolds. 2nd ser., vol. 5 of The Decennial Publication (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1903), 68-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["The Vision of Mirzah"] Y1 - 1711 A1 - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory that presents heaven as a eutopia composed of islands that are "the Mansions of good Men after Death." "Every Island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective Inhabitants." Described as the first vision, but no more were published.

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Rpt. in The Spectator (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. R. Fleming, 1753), 277-81; and in The Spectator. Ed. Donald F. Bond. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 2: 121-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. Written originally in the Italian and translated from the third Edition of the French Y1 - 1709 A1 - [Delarivière] [Manley] (1660s?-1724) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fairly obvious satire on contemporary English politics and society set in an imaginary country.  A section of vol. 2 describing the "feminist Cabal" has utopian elements, including common property.

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Better known as New Atalantis. Rpt. under that title ed. Ros[alind] Ballaster. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1991 with an “Introduction” (v-xxviii). Rpt. ed. Rosalind Ballaster. London: Penguin, 1992 with the “Introduction” (v-xxviii).  U.S. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1992 with the “Introduction” (v-xxviii). L, PSt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Retreat" Y1 - 1706 A1 - [Mary] [Egerton] (1670-1723?) ED - Mrs. S[arah] F[yge] ED - Mrs. S. F. KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The English country house as a eutopia.

JF - Poems on Several Occasions Together with a Pastoral PB - J. Nutt CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language Y1 - 1705 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary life, particularly politics,  by picturing a world in the moon. See [Joseph Browne], The Moon-Calf, or Accurate reflections on The Consolidator: Giving an Account of some Remarkable Transactions in the Lunar World, transmitted hither in a Letter to a Friend. By Man in the Moon [pseud.]. London, 1705. Rpt. Augustan Reprint Society no. 269. New York: Published for the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies by AMS Press, 1996 for a response.

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Rpt. in ed. Michael Seilel, Maximillian E. Novak, and Joyce D. Kennedy. The Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition. New York: AMS Press, 2001; and in Satire Fantasy and Writing on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe. Volume 3 of The Works of Daniel Defoe. The Consolidator (1705) Memoirs of Count Tariff &c (1713) The Quarrel of the School Boys at Athens (1717). Ed. Geoffrey Sill (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003), 27-158 with “Explanatory Notes” (215-48) and “Textual Notes” (262-63). Extracts published as A Journey to the World in the Moon. By the Author of the True-born English-man [pseud.]. Ptd. at London and rpt. at Edinburgh by James Watson, 1705 (MH); A letter from the Man in the Moon. To the Author of the True Born Englishman. [London: Np, 1705] (InU); and A second, and more strange voyage to the world in the moon; containing a comical description of that remarkable country, with the characters and humours of the inhabitants, etc. By the author of the true Born Englishman [pseud.]. [London: Np, 1705]. A New Journey to the World in the Moon. . . . 2nd ed. London: C. Corbett, 1741 is an imitation not by Defoe.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Iter Lunare: or, A Voyage to the Moon. Containing Some Consideration on the Nature of that Planet. The Possibility of getting thither. With other Pleasant Conceits about the Inhabitants, their Manners and Customs Y1 - 1703 A1 - David Russen of Hythe KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly satire on moon voyage literature, but the description of the inhabitants suggests eutopian elements. For example, poetry is money, and there is a gun that when fired brings down the fowl ready plucked, dressed, and roasted. The planets and the sun are inhabited.

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Repub. without the author's name. London: Ptd. for Robert Gofling, 1707. Rpt. with the author's name Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Law Book" Y1 - 1700 A1 - Sir Ambrose Crowley (1658-1713) ED - M. W. Flinn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very odd book that presents one hundred and thirteen "laws" for the operation of the author's iron works. It is borderline as a utopia but is included because it details all the daily activities of the workers in a large factory including "welfare services" and "poor relief".  See the discussion in J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700 (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 351-55.

JF - The Law Book of the Crowley Iron Works PB - Surtees Society CY - London VL - Publications of the Surtees Society, 167 N1 -

The original manuscript in 307 folios, which is incomplete, is in the British Library Add. Ms. 34,555.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry Of All Useful Trades and Husbandry. With Profit for the Rich. A Plentiful Living for the Poor, and A Good Education for Youth. Which will be Advantage to the Government by the Increase of the People, and their Riches Y1 - 1695 A1 - [John] [Bellers] (1654-1725) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed non-fiction proposal for an institution to educate the poor and young people in useful trades and arguing that a much better society will result. The appeal is quite conservative in that it is directed to government and the rich, but the system is primarily designed to improve the lot of the poor.  See also his To the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. A Supplement to the Proposal for a Colledge of Industry, Shewing a Regular Constant Imploy for the Poor, is the best Foundation of Trade, and the greatest Improvment to the Nation, and Consequently support to the Government, whilst the want of it tends to the Poor’s Misery, Poverty of the Rich, and Governments Weakening. [London]: Np., 1696. 3 p. (L). Rpt. in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 74-76.

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2nd ed. under the author’s name London: Ptd. for T. Sowle, 1696. Rpt. as New View of Society. Tracts Relative to this Subject; viz. Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry of all useful Trades and Husbandry. By John Bellars. (Reprinted from the Original, published in the year 1696). Report to the Committee of the association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor. A Brief Sketch of the religious Society of People called Shakers. With an Account of the Public Proceedings connected with the subject, Which took place in London in July and August 1817. Published By Robert Owen. London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Hatchard; Murray; Constable and Co., and Oliphant and Co., Edinburgh; Smith and Sons, and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, 1818. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1972; in [James Peacock, attributed to], A Plan of a Public Charity, With some former Plans for the same Purpose, in Three Appendixes, Which are submitted to the Consideration of the Benevolent, that they may select and adopt from the Whole such Parts as can be most suitably connected together, in order to form “an effectual General Charity”; but more especially for affording immediate “Relief, Protection”, and Free-Labour, to all Persons who want Employment (London: np, 1790), 5-28; and in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 47-73; and with footnotes comparing the two editions in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 187-205.

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Eutopia. An essay suggesting the establishment of an institution where women would be able to live and work independently of men. See also her non-utopian A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Part II: Wherein a Method is offer'd for the Improvement of their Minds. London: Ptd. for Richard Wilkin, 1697. Rpt. in A Serious Proposal To the Ladies (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 45-162; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 67-196.

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4th ed of 1701 rpt. without the subtitle (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 1-43; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3-65. [2nd ed. enl.] as A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I and II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 49-126.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Antiquity Reviv'd or the Government of a Certain island Antiently Called Astreada, In Reference to Religion, Policy, War, and Peace. Some hundreds of Years Before the Coming of Christ Y1 - 1693 A1 - [Francis] [Lee] (1661-1719) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Largely political philosophy and an essay on religion. Defense of absolute monarchy. Force those who disobey to be identified as such together with all their relatives.

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Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 137-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of an European Dyet, Parliament or Estates Y1 - 1693 A1 - William Penn (1644-1718) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposal for a federation of European governments with the aim of establishing permanent peace. One of numerous such proposals, often called utopias; the best known is probably Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) Perpetual Peace (1795).

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Rpt. in The Political Writings of William Penn. Ed. Andrew R. Murphy (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2002), 401-19.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Folly of Love, or, An Essay Upon Satyr Against Women Y1 - 1691 A1 - Richard Ames (1643-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief eutopia of a society without women (26-27). Compare to 1688 Ames. See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698. 

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2nd ed. corrected and enlarged as The Folly of Love, or A New Satyr Against Women, to which is now added The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins, 1693. 4th ed. of 2nd ed. as The Folly of Love. or A New Satyr Against Women, together with The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand. London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins., 1700.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History Y1 - 1688 A1 - Mrs. A[phra] Behn (1640-89) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia depicting a naturally good man. See Susan B. Iwanisziw, Oroonoko: Adaptations and Offshoots. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2006 for nine works responding to Oroonoko.

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Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 5: 125-208; Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 145-224; and in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), 3: 50-119.

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Brief eutopia of a society without men (20-21). See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.

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Later ed. London: Ptd. for Samuel Clement, 1693.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Common-Wealth of Women. A Play: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, By their Majesties Servants Y1 - 1686 A1 - Mr. [Thomas] D'Urfey (1653-1723) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Standard story of a society of isolated women, in this case ruled by a man-hating woman. Handsome man appears and the women revert to traditional roles led by their previous ruler.

PB - Ptd. for R. Bentley and J. Hindmarsh CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with added title at the head of the page--Bibliotheca Curiosa. Ed. Edmund Goldsmid. Edinburgh, Scot.: Privately Ptd., 1886.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French" Y1 - 1684 A1 - Aphra Behn (1640-89) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Poem about the Golden Age adapted from the poem Aminta (1573) by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95).

JF - Poems Upon Several Occasions: With a Voyage to the Island of Love PB - Ptd. for R. Tonson and J. Tonson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. 4 vols. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering, 1992), 1: 30-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Informer's Doom, or An Amazing and Seasonable Letter from Utopia Directed to the Man in the Moon. Giving a full and pleasant Account of the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation, of all those grand and bitter Enemies that disturb and molest all Kingdoms and States, throughout the Christian World. To which is added (as a caution to honest Country-men) the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of the Knavery and Cheats that are used in every particular Trade in the city of London. Presented to the consideration of all the Tantivy-Lads and Lasses in Urope, by a true Son of the Church of England. Curiously Illustrated with about Threescore Cuts Y1 - 1683 A1 - [John] [Dunton] (1659-1733) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A trial in Utopia of those, from the Pope on down, who threaten the kingdom.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Situation of Paradise Found Out: Being a History of a Late Pilgrimage unto the Holy Land With a necessary apparatus prefixt, Giving Light Into the whole designe Y1 - 1683 A1 - [Hugh] [Hare] [First Baron Coleraine] (1606-67) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Combines a concern with the location of Paradise, with descriptions of Paradise, and two visions that are part eutopia (Paradise) and part dystopia (Hell).

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Eutopia of the Second Coming of Christ. The second part (105-48) describes the Second Coming and the actions that Christ will take in establishing his rule on earth. See also the author's The Parable of the Kingdom of Heaven Expounded. Or, An Exposition of the first thirteen Verses of the twenty fifth Chapter of Matthew. London: Ptd. for Benjamin Harris, 1674; An Exposition of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation. Wherein All those Things therein Revealed, which must shortly come to pass, are Explained. London: Np, 1679; and An Exposition Of the whole Book of the Revelation. Wherein The Visions and Prophecies of Christ Are Opened and Expounded: Shewing The great Conquests of our Lord Jesus Christ for his Church over all His and Her Adversaries, Pagan, Arian and Papal; and the glorious State of the Church of God in the New Heavens and New Earth, in these Latter Days. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1689.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream Wherein is Discovered, The Manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey; And safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey Y1 - 1678 A1 - John Bunyan (1628-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic evangelical Protestant allegory of the trip from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, from the dystopia of contemporary life to the eutopia of eternal life.

PB - Nath. Ponder CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Pilgrim’s Progress. Ed. Roger Sharrock. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965; Ed. N.H. Keeble. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984; and as The Pilgrim’s Progress: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Cynthia Wall (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 1-252.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Anti-fanatical Religion, and Free Philosophy. In a Continuation of the New Atlantis" Y1 - 1676 A1 - Joseph Glanvill (1636-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a repetition of British history and a lecture on religion and philosophy with Bacon's New Atlantis (1627) as a starting point.

JF - Essays On Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion PB - Ptd. by J.D. for John Baker and Henry Mortlock CY - London U1 -

The Table of Contents gives the title as "Antifanatick Theologie, and Free Philosophie."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Country Not Named Y1 - 1675 A1 - Francis Lodwick (1619-1695) ED - William Poole KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed records kept on all people and all "matters notable" in each division of the country. The people had been monotheists, became polytheists, then returned to monotheism, and ultimately became Christians. Ideal language, which was one of the author's interests. Compulsory education from six with separate schools for girls with women teachers, with the education for girls the same as that for boys except that they are taught sewing and not taught gymnastics. Few laws and those read out to the population once a month.

JF - A Country Not Named (MS. Sloane 913, fols. IR-33R). An edition with an annotated primary bibliography and an introductory essay on Lodwick and his intellectual context by William Poole PB - ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) CY - Tempe, AZ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gerania: A New Discovery of a Little sort of People Anciently Discoursed of, called Pygmies. With a lively Description Of their Stature, Habit, Manners, Buildings, Knowledge, and Government, being very delightful and profitable Y1 - 1675 A1 - Joshua Barnes (1654-1721) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian, monarchical eutopia. The people are Christian and appear to be naturally good. No desire for riches. The people recognize their interdependence, and everyone has an occupation that helps others.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Letter Touching a Colledge of Maids, or, a Virgin-Society. By B.C. Appended to St. Cyprian Bishop and Martyr, Anno 250. Of Discipline, Prayer, Patience. St. Basil the Great, Of Solitude Y1 - 1675 A1 - C[lement] B[arksdale] (1609-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a community of young women being educated. Most will leave for marriage. The inspiration was probably Anna Maria Schurman (1607-78), The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise. [Trans. Clement Barksdale]. [London: Ptd. by John Redmayne, 1659]. Rpt. London: Virago Modern Classic, 1986.

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Trans. C[lement] B[arksdale]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Six Days Adventure, or the New Utopia. A Comedy, as it is acted at his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre Y1 - 1671 A1 - [Edward] [Howard] (1624-1712) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in Utopia. Emphasis on women's rights. Women take over the government, but the men all decide to leave and under this threat the women choose to return to their previous subservient roles. See Aphra Behn, “To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy, The New Utopia.” The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 6: 204-07; rpt. as “To the Author of the New Utopia.” In The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd 7. vols. (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992), 1: 3-5.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Womens Conquest. A Tragi-Comedy As it was Acted by Her Highness the Duke of York's Servants Y1 - 1671 A1 - E[dward] H[oward] (1624-1712) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations in which women temporarily establish female rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scydromedia seu sermo, quem Alphonsus de la Vida Habuit Coram Comite de Falmouth, De Monarchia. Liber Primus Y1 - 1669 A1 - Antonii Le Grand (1629-99) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

A utopia similar in form to 1516 More but rejecting common ownership of property.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Appendix to the Grounds of Natural Philosophy" Y1 - 1668 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Throughout the “Appendix” Cavendish presents two parts of her mind arguing about a number of issues, including in Parts III and IV (265-309), the nature of happy and unhappy worlds and of regular and irregular worlds and, in doing so, develops some suggestions of eutopia and dystopia.

JF - In her Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: With an Appendix Containing Five Parts. The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical Opinions. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle PB - Ptd. A. Maxwell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as by Margaret Lucas Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1996), 237-311.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Convent of Pleasure. In her Plays. Never Before Printed. Written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, The Duchess of Newcastle Y1 - 1668 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A rich woman creates a eutopian all-female community on her estate.

PB - Ptd. by A. Maxwell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. separately ed. Jennifer Rowsell. Oxford, Eng.: Seventeenth Century Press, 1995; in The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1999), 217-47;and in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 97-135.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita Being A True Relation of certain English persons, who in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a Voyage to the East Indies, were cast away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women whereof one was a Negro. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole Relation follows, written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild. Licensed June 27, 1668 Y1 - 1668 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One man and four women shipwrecked on a beautiful island. They establish political and religious order based on European forms. This is followed, in the part that was originally A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines, by a period of "whoredoms, incest and adulteries" followed by the imposition of harsh laws.

PB - Ptd. by S.G. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper CY - London N1 -

This nine page pamphlet was followed shortly by A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines In A Letter from Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] a Dutch-man (who first discovered the same in the Year, 1667.) to a Friend of his in London. With a Relation of his voyage to the East Indies. Wherein Is declared how he happened to come thither, the Scituation of the Country, the temperature of the Climate, the manners and conditions of the people that inhabit it; their Laws, Ordinances, and Ceremonies, their way of Marrying, Burying, &c. The Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the pleasantness and facility thereof, with other matters of concern. Licensed according to Order. London: Ptd. for Allen Bankes and Charles Harper, 1668. The two were combined and published together as The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita, by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] Wherein is contained, A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount (as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation (written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) is here annexed with the Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the scituation and felicity thereof, with other matter observable. Licensed July 27, 1668. London: Ptd. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper, 1668.

An extract was published anonymously as “An account of certain English people, who in the year 1569, making a voyage to the East-Indies, were away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. Given by Cornelius van Sloetten, captain of a Dutch ship, which was driven there by foul weather, in the year 1667, who found their posterity (speaking good English) to the amount of 10 or 12 thousand souls.” The New-Haven Gazette and the Connecticut Magazine 1.29 (August 31, 1786): 222-24; The New-Haven Gazette 1.33 (December 23, 1794) [not found]; and The New Hampshire Mercury and General Advertiser 2:95 [sic. 94] (October 4, 1786): 1-2.

A fifty-one copy edition was published as The Isle of Pines. Katoomba, NSW, Australia: The Wayzgoose Press, 1991. One version is rpt. in Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 225-43; and in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 187-212 with “Explanatory Notes” 239-42. Another version, which includes part of A New and further Discovery of the Isle of Pines is rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 113-30. Another rpt. can be found in “The Isles of Pines: Texts.” Utopian Studies 17.1 (2006): 20-75. Includes the July 27, 1668, English edition (25-51), “Novvelle Decovverte De L’Isle Pinés Située au delà de la ligne Æquinnoctiale Faite par vn nauire Hollandois L’an 1667. Paris: Sebastien-Mabre Cramoisy, 1668 known as the Cramoisy edition in both French and English trans. Christine Reno, Peter G. Sullivan, and Vassar College students (53-61), the edition from The Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence 1 ( August 1758): 394-96 (63-71), and notes on the Hollis edition of 1768 (73-75). There is a critical text in John Scheckter, The Isles of Pines, 1668. Henry Neville’s Uncertain Utopia (Farnham, Eng.: Ashgate, 2011), 13-30 with notes on the text 183-98. The July 27, 1688, edition is rpt. in The Isles of Pines and Plato Redivivus. Ed. by David Womersley (Carmel, IN: The Liberty Fund, 2020), lvi, 1-38, with footnotes by the editor, an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-lv), Appendices (317-472), including “A Copy of a Letter from an Officer of the Army in Ireland, to his Highness the Lord Protector, concerning his changing of the government” (317-37), “Neville’s Major Speeches in Parliament, 1659” (339-49), “The Armies Dutie (1659)” (351-74), “The Humble Petition (1659)” (375-82), “Manuscripts Relating to Sir Henry Neville” [Neville’s grandfather] (383-93), “[John Somers]. A Brief History of the Succession (1681)” (395-427), “Thomas Hollis’s Life of Henry Neville” (429-32), “Corrections to the Copy-Texts The Isle of Pines (433-35) and Plato Redivivus (435-38), “Textual Collation of the First and Second Editions of Plato Redivivus (439-72), and an Index to the entire volume (473-88). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books Y1 - 1667 A1 - John Milton (1608-74) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic description of Eden that, unusually, includes substantial material on what life in Eden would have been like before the Fall.

PB - Ptd. by Peter Parker; Robert Boulter; and Matthias Walker CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. rev. and aug. London: Ptd. by S. Simmons, 1674. Critical eds. as Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Sources. Criticism. Ed. Scott. Elledge. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975; as Paradise Lost. Ed. Alastair Fowler. rev. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2007; and Paradise Lost. Ed. Barbara K. Lewalski. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World Y1 - 1666 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

World attached to Earth at the Pole. Various animals (bears, foxes, geese, etc.) with human characteristics. The eutopia is a small part of an allegory. Monarchy, religion, few laws. Peaceable world because it has only one religion, one language, and one government. 

JF - Part IV of her Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy PB - Ptd. By J. Maxwell CY - London N1 -

First separate publication London: Ptd. By A. Maxwell, 1668. Rpt. in The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World and Other Writings. Ed. Kate Lilley (London: William Pickering, 1992), 119-225 with notes 227-230; Ed. Sara H. Mendelson. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2016 with footnotes by the editor, an Introduction by the editor (9-49), a chronology (51-52), and a note on the text (53); in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 53-114; in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 151-251; and in Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Political Writings. Ed. Susan James (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-109. See also The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish. An Illuminated Edition. Illus. in color by Rebekka Dunlap. Np: Beehive Books, 2020, with “Any Mortal Creator. A Foreword” by Brooke Bolander (i-iv), “A Blazing Life. The Invention of Margaret Cavendish” by James Fitzmaurice (101-111), and “A Note on the Text Used Here and on the Early Publishing History of A Blazing World” (112).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy City: Or, The New Jerusalem: Its Goodly Light, Walls, Gates, Angels, and the manner of their standing, are Expounded: Also, Her Length and Breadth, Together with the Golden-Measuring-Reed, Explained And The Glory of all unfolded. As Also, The Numerousness of its Inhabitants: And what the Tree and Water of Life are, by which they are sustained Y1 - 1665 A1 - John Bunyan (1628-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Explication of Revelation XXI:10 - XXII:1-4 detailing the eutopia suggested there.

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Rpt. London: J. Dover, [1665]; London: Francis Smith, 1669. Dover ed. rpt. in The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan Volume IIII Christian Behaviour The Holy City The Resurrection of the Dead. Ed. J. Sears McGee (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987), 63-196, with editorial notes on 65-67 and 299-314.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Country-life" Y1 - 1664 A1 - Katherine [Fowler] Philips (1631-64) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Life in the country as eutopia.

JF - Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda. To Which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French PB - Ptd. by J.M. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (London: Ptd. by J.M., 1667), 88-91; (London: Ptd. by T.N., 1678), 88-91; and (London: Ptd. by Jacob Tonson, 1710), 111-14. An unauthorized edition of her poems was published as Poems by the incomparable Mrs. K.P. London: Ptd, for J.G. for Rich. Marriott, 1664 and withdrawn after a few days, with this poem on pages 177-82 [Wing 286:08]. The differences are minimal.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Guide: Leading the Way to the Wonder of the World. (A compleat Phisitian) teaching the Knowledge of all things, Past, Present, and to Come; viz. Of Pleasure, long Life, Health, Youth, Blessedness, Wisdome and Virtue; and to Cure, Change and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old. With Rosie Crucian Medicines, which are verified by a Practical Examination of Principles in the great World, and fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of mean Capacities Y1 - 1662 A1 - John Heydon (1629-67) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rosicrucian eutopia. The "Preface" to Book 1 (unnumbered pages) is partly plagiarized from and partly a revision of the New Atlantis entitled "Journey to the Land of the Rosicrucians." Salomon's House becomes the Temple of the Rosy Cross. Alchemy. Heydon copies Bacon in modifying More's policy of showing a couple naked by having pools where men and women bathe naked separately and can be observed by friends of the same sex.

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Also entitled The English Physitians Guide: Or A Holy Guide. Leading the Way to know all Things, Past, Present, and to Come; To Resolve all manner of Questions, viz. Of Pleasure, Long-life, Health, Youth, Blessednes, Wisdome and Vertue; and teaching the way to Change, Cure, and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old, fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of the meanest Capacities. London: Ptd. by T.M. for Samuel Ferris. Six books with separate, generally shorter, title pages, and separate pagination.

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Allegory. Book six describes a Christian eutopia called Theoprepia (The Divine State) stressing good will to others, self-knowledge, and the other Christian virtues. The eutopia appears at various points throughout the book, which is largely an allegorical life of Christ.

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2nd ed. under the author’s name, with six in the title, and with the added subtitle Wherein all the Obscure words throughout the Book are interpreted in the Margins, which makes this much more delightful to read than the former edition. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Second title page Bentivolio and Urania, The Second Part, In Two Books. 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Books I-IV and V-VI are separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rota: or, A Model of a Free-State, or Equall Common-wealth; Once proposed and debated in brief, and to be again more at large proposed to, and debated by a free and open Society of ingenious Gentlemen Y1 - 1660 A1 - [James] [Harrington] (1611-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A constitution for England thinly disguised as an imaginary country. See also 1656 Harrington.

PB - Ptd. for John Starkey CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 587-98; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; and in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 807-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chaos: or, A Discourse, Wherein Is presented to the view of the Magistrate, and all others who shall peruse the same, a Frame of Government by way of a Republique, wherein is little or no danger of miscarriage, if prudently attempted, and thoroughly prosecuted by Authority. Wherein is no difficulty in the Practice, nor obscurity in the Method; But all things plain and easie to the meanest capacity. Here's no hard or strange Names, nor unknown Titles (to amaze the hearers) used, and yet here's a full and absolute Power derivative insensibly from the whole, and yet practically conveyed to the best men: wherein if any shall endeavour a breach, he shall break himself: and if its must be so, that Cats shall provide Supper, here they shall do it suitable to the best Palats, and easie to digest. Y1 - 1659 A1 - A well-willer to the Publique Weale [pseud.] KW - English author AB -

Eutopia. Democratic system with annual election to Parliament and with various reforms aimed at establishing more unity. Anti-Roman Catholic. Complex public registry system in which all transactions are recorded. Detailed legal system.

PB - Ptd. for Livewel Chapman CY - London N1 -

Eight page version also published as Chaos. London: Ptd. for Livewel Chapman, 1659. The shorter version consists of the first eight pages of the longer one and was published three weeks before the longer one.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Christian Commonwealth: or, The Civil Policy of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written Before the Interruption of the Government. Written by Mr. John Eliot, Teacher of the Church of Christ at Roxbury in New-England. And Now Published (after his consent given) by a Server of the Season Y1 - 1659 A1 - John Eliot (1604-90) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia written in the 1640s that derives government structure from the Bible, particularly Exodus 18:25 and Deuteronomy 1:15. Millennial and based on covenant theology. Focused on political institutions combining theocracy with a democracy with widespread manhood suffrage (woman and children were included within a man’s covenant). Born and educated in England, Eliot moved to America in 1631 where he established a school in Roxbury, Massachusetts and was known as the “Indian Apostle”. Although it was reinstated, this was the first book banned by an American government.

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Rpt. in the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 3, 9 (1846): 128-64; and New York: Arno Press, 1972

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Holy Commonwealth, or Political Aphorisms, Opening the true Principles of Government: For The Healing of the Mistakes, and Resolving the Doubts, that most endanger and trouble ENGLAND at this time: (if yet there may be hope.) And directing the desires of sober Christians that long to see the Kingdoms of this world, become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ Y1 - 1659 A1 - Richard Baxter (1615-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Description of a theocracy based on obligation and consent. Mostly a treatise setting out rules for areas of possible conflict between the pastor and the magistrate.

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Rpt. as The Holy Commonwealth. Ed. William Lamont. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Examination of Tilenus before the Triers; In order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick Preacher in the Commonwealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed The Tenents of the Remonstrants touching those five Articles Voted, Stated, and imposed, but not disputed, at the Synod of Dort. Together with a short Essay (by way of Annotations) upon the Fundamental Theses of Mr. Thomas Parker Y1 - 1658 A1 - [Laurence] [Womock] (1612-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The questions and answers in an examination of a man applying to be a Christian minister in Utopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Letters from Utopia"] Y1 - 1657 A1 - [Marchamont] [Nedham] (1620-1678) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Broad ranging satire on British customs and particularly on Thomas More and James Harrington. The last letter is from Oceana.

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Rpt. in The English Revolution IV. Newsbooks Volume 15. Mecurius Politicus 1657 (London: Cornmarket Press, 1971), 39-40; 53-55; 69-71; 85-88; 101-02; and Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England 1641-1660. Ed. Joad Raymond (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 369-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Appendix To the Former Work, Endeavouring a Discovery of the Unknown Parts of the World. Especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent Y1 - 1656 A1 - Peter Heylin (1600-52) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The earliest representation of Australia in British utopian literature. Divides the unknown world into Terra incognita Borealis, or the northern lands, and Terra incognita Australis. Included in Terra incognita Borealis are “Orbis Arcticus” and the Northeast and Northwest parts of the territory, none of which are utopian. Included in Terra incognita Australis are brief presentations of “Terra del Fuego,” “Insulae Solomonis,” “Nova Guinea,” Mundus Alter et Idem (1605 Hall), Utopia (1516 More), New Atlantis (1627 Bacon), “Faerie Land,” “The Painters Wives Island,” “the Lands of Chivalrie,” and “The New World in the Moon,” discovered by Lucian of Samosata (ca. 125-ca. 180). Reference is also made to Aristophanes’s (ca. 446 BC-ca. 386 BC) Nephelococcygia.

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Other editions with the name as Peter Heglin. London: Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1667; and London: Printed for A.S., 1669.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Common-wealth of Oceana Y1 - 1656 A1 - James Harrington (1611-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Classic work on the reform of England stressing the need for a balanced constitution. Argues for an “agrarian law”, a limit on the size landed estates to reduce inequality. The Introduction contains a two page utopia suggesting that Jews should be settled in Ireland. See also 1660 Harrington and Decrees and Orders of the Committee of Safety of Oceana. London: Ptd. 1659, a satire on Oceana.

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Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 31-210; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 155-359; and in The Commonwealth of Oceana and A System of Politics. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 1-266.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Excellent Comedy, called The Old Law: Or A new way to please you. Acted before the King and Queene at Salisbury House, and at severall other places, with great Applause. Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all Players, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed than ever before Y1 - 1656 A1 - Phil[ip] Massinger (1583-1640) A1 - Tho[mas] Middleton (1580-1627) A1 - William Rowley (1585?-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The establishment of a fixed period for the length of life and its effects. It was all a test of the people by the rulers.

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Rpt. Ed. Catherine M. Shaw. New York: Garland, 1982. Critical ed. as "An/The Old Law Or, A New Way to Please You". Ed. Jeffrey Masten. In Thomas Middleton, Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1335-96 (Comment by Masten 1331-34). Additional textual commentary by Masten in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1123-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth, the Author cares not in what World it is established" Y1 - 1655 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) ED - Lady M[argaret] of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. The author provides something close to a constitution for a monarchical system detailing the relations between the King and the people and relations among the people.

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2nd ed. (London: A. Maxwell, 1671), 399-412. Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 128-37; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 145-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Briefe Description of the Fifth Monarchy, or Kingdome, That shortly is to come into the World. That Monarch, Subjects, Officers, and Lawes thereof, and the surpassing Glory, Amplitude, Unity, and Peace of that Kingdome. When the Kingdome and Dominion, and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people, the Saints of the Most high, whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome, and all Soveraignes shall serve and obey him. And in the Conclusion there is added a Prognostick of the time when this fifth Kingdome shall begin Y1 - 1653 A1 - William Aspinwall (fl. 1630-57) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fifth Monarchist eutopia or the belief, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Millennium in which Christ will be the Monarch and lawgiver. Gives details of the structure of government under Christ, the laws that will be put in place, which will “be few and brief” (10). This will be the period where the saved will no longer be ruled by the sinful. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twelve Humble Proposals To the Supreme Governours of the three Nations now assembled at Westminister concerning The Propagation of the Gospel, The New modling of the Universities, The Reformation of the Laws, The Supply of the necessities of the poor; And many other things of great moment, which may conduce to the honour of God, and the comfort and joy of his people. By M[ary] R[ande] an admirer and adorer of the good providence of God, in making such happy changes in these Nations Y1 - 1653 A1 - [Mary] [Cary] (fl. 1636-53) ED - M[ary] R[ande] [pseud.] KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A reform tract based on the assumption that Christ is to return soon. Generally, rule well but with a list of specifics. See also 1651 Cary.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Joviall Crew: or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, At the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, in the yeer 1641 Y1 - 1652 A1 - Richard Brome (1590-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Comedy but presents an ideal beggars commonwealth. See also 1640 Brome.

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Rpt. in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes. A Jovial Crew [341-452]. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; London: Ptd. for Henry Brome, 1661; London: Hindmarsh, 1684; and ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. See also The Jovial Crew by Richard Brome. Adapted by Stephen Jeffreys. London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1992, which was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, April 13, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths Army in England, Scotland, and Ireland. And to all Englishmen my brethren whether in Church-fellowship, or not in Church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the Order of The Gospel: and from them to all the Nations in the World. Wherin is Declared, What is Kingly Government, and what is Common-wealths Government Y1 - 1652 A1 - Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia including detailed economic, legal, political, and social reform.

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Rpt. as by Jerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform. Sutro Branch California State Library. Occasional Papers. English Reprint Series No. 3. Sutro: California State Library, 1939; as by Gerrard Winstanley, “The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored.” The Works of Gerrard Winstanley with an Appendix of Documents Related to the Digger Movement. Ed. George H. Sabine (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1941), 499-600 (Rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965), 499-600); under the full title in The Law of Freedom and Other Writings. Ed. Christopher Hill (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 273-389; and in The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley. Ed. Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes, and David Loewenstein. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2009), 2: 278-404.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lady-Errant. A Tragi-Comedy Y1 - 1651 A1 - William Cartwright (1611-43) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief satirical description of an intended women's Parliament in Cyprus when most of the men are absent fighting in a war.

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The publication information is from the separate title page for the play in his Comedies Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems. London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1651, which, although it probably had been staged between 1634 and 1637, was the play’s first publication. Rpt. in The Plays and Poems Of William Cartwright. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1951), 89-161 with the editor’s “Introduction” (81-88) and “Textual Notes” to the play (575-87).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Horns Doom & Downfall: Or A Scripture-Prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late Tragedies that have bin acted upon the Scene of these three Nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared. And What the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the Second Part. Y1 - 1651 A1 - M[ary] Cary (fl. 1636-53) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fifth Monarchist eutopia. Description in some detail of life as it will be lived during the millennium. The Little Horn is Charles I (1600-49). See also 1653 Cary. Fifth Monarchists believed, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Female author.

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Second title page--A new And More Exact Mappe Or, Description of New Ierusalems Glory when Jesus Christ and his Saints with him shall reign on earth a Thousand years, and possess all Kingdoms. Wherein Is discovered the glorious estate into which the Church shall be then put both in respect of externall and internall glory, and the time when. And also, What hath been done these eight yeares last past, and what is now a doing, and what shall be done within a few years now following in order to this great work. Wherein also That great Question, whether it be lawfull for Saints to make use of the materiall Sword in the ruining of the enemies of Christ, and whether it be the mind of Christ to have it so, is at large debated and resolved in the Affirmative from clear Scripture, and all others answered. London: Ptd. by H.W.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Female Rebellion: A Tragicomedy. From a MS. In the Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow Y1 - 1650 A1 - [Henry] [Birkhead] 1617?-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The play presents a conflicted Amazonian society where the main body of Amazons plot to overthrow their queen as being too soft. While she is overthrown, she then is restored and marries.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newes from the New Exchange Y1 - 1650 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the behavior of women with specific references to individuals. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Poore Mans Advocate, or England's Samaritan. Powring Oyle and Vyne into the wounds of the Nation. By making the present Provision for the Souldier and the Poor, by reconciling all Parties. By paying all Arreares to the Parliament Army. All publique Debts, and all the late Kings, Queenes, and Princes Debts due before Session Y1 - 1649 A1 - [Peter] [Chamberlen] (1601-83) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Better society brought about by nationalizing all unused lands and mines and the remains of the estates of the king, the bishops, and the nobility. The purpose is to provide work for the poor. The author was a physician, a Seventh Day Baptist, and a Fifth Monarchist or a believer, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the "son of man" followed by the physical return of Christ.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Novae solymae. Libri Sex Y1 - 1648 A1 - [Samuel] [Gott] (1613-71) ED - Rev. Walter Begley KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with emphases on the family and education for developing good citizens. Jews have been converted. Annual elections. Class distinctions are very strong.

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Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum. London: Typis Johannis Legati, 1649. Trans. as Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton. 2nd ed. Ed. and trans. Rev. Walter Begley. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1902. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. Begley includes extensive notes defending his attribution.

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Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum.

Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Exact Diurnall of the Parliament of Ladies. Ordered by the Ladyes in Parliament, That they declare the Prince Rupert, Lord Digby, Lord Capell, Lord Cottington, Dr. Williams, Mr. Walter, L. Hopton, L. Culpepper, Dr. Duppa; Sir Greenvill L. Jermine, and Major Gen. Virey, Have all had their Pardons granted to them by this Covrt Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations in which the named men are accused, found guilty, sentenced to various extreme punishments, and then all pardoned. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament. A Continuation of the Parliament of Ladies. Their Votes, Orders, and Declarations. Die Martis August 2, 1647. Ordered by the Ladies assembled in Parliament, that their Votes, Orders, and Declarations, be forthwith Printed and Published. T. Temple. Cler. Mrs Martha Peele Messenger Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary issues, with a focus on religion. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is a sequel to his 1647 The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled. Vespre Veneris Martis: 16. 1647. Ordered by the Ladies in Parliament Assembled, That their Orders and Votes be forthwith Printed and published, to prevent such misreports and scandals, which either malice, or want of wit, hightned with snoffes of Ale or stayned Claret may cause, in the dishonour of the said Votes and Parliament. Betrice Kingsmill Clar. Parliament Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary society, politics, and gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. His 1647 The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament is a sequel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Parliament of Ladies With Their Lawes Newly Enacted Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is somewhat different from the others in that it is set in ancient Rome rather than contemporary Britain. It also includes tradesmen’s wives, while in most of the others, the women are primarily from the aristocracy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea-Voyage Y1 - 1647 A1 - [John] [Fletcher] (1759-1625) A1 - [Philip] [Massinger] (1583-1640) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing an Amazonian society. The play was first performed in 1622. The Sea Voyage originates with Shakespeare's Tempest (1611) and copies some of the scenes and wording. D'Urfey's Commonwealth of Women (1686) is a revision of The Sea Voyage.

JF - Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, And now published by the Authors Originall Copies PB - Ptd. for Humphrey Robinson, and for Humphrey Moseley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: The First Printed from the Text, and With the Notes of Peter Whalley; the Latter from the Text, and with the Notes of The Late George Colman, Esq. 4 vols. (London: Ptd. For John Stockdale, 1811), 4: 225-50; in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher Gentlemen. All in one volume (London: Ptd. for J. Maddock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679), 339-57; in The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher. Ed. Alexander Dyce. 11 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1845): 291-369; in The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Ed. Fredson Bowers (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 9: 1-94 (“Textual Introduction” 3-9; “Textual Notes, etc. 79-94); and in Three Renaissance Travel Plays. The Travels of the Three English Brothers The Sea Voyage The Antipodes. Ed. Anthony Parr (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1995), 135-216.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abstract or Lawes of New England, As they are now established Y1 - 1641 A1 - [John] [Cotton] (1584-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of laws taken from Scripture and for adoption.

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Rpt. as An Abstract of Laws and Government: Wherein as in a Mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the Government of Christs Kingdome. Accomodable to any State or form of Government in the world that is not Antichristian or Tyrannicall. Collected and digested into the ensuing Method, by that Godly, Grave and Judicious Divine, Mr. John Cotton of Boston. And now published after his death by William Aspinall. London: Printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655. Rpt. in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 5 (1798): 173-87 (See “To the Reader” by William Aspinwall [187-92]); and in Tracts and Other Papers, relating principally to the origin, Settlement and Progress of the Colonies in North America, from the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776. Comp. Peter Force. 4 vols. (Washington, DC: Ptd. by Wm. Q. Force, 1836-46), 3: No. 9. Rpt. (New York: Peter Smith, 1947), 3: No. 9; and (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1963), 3, No. 9.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Description of the famous Kingdome of Macaria; shewing its excellent Government: Wherein The Inhabitants live in great Prosperity, Health, and Happinesse; the King obeyed, the Nobles honoured; and all good men respected, Vice punished, and Vertue rewarded. An Example to other Nations: In a Dialogue between a Schollar and a Traveller Y1 - 1641 A1 - [Gabriel] [Plattes] (d. 1644) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A short dialogue covering economic organization, religion, and some governmental organization. Monarchy with power in a grand or general council or parliament and five under-councils. Government revenues are mostly derived from the king's lands. Practical orientation. Includes a College of Experience similar to Bacon's Salomon's House in his New Atlantis (1627). Macaria means "blessed" or "happy". More used it for a country near Utopia.

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Rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 1: 564-69. Collection rpt. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 1: 580-85; as A Facsimile Edition of Samuel Hartlib’s 1641 Pamphlet A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria. Ed. Richard H. Dillon. Sausalito, CA: Élan Under the direction of Wallace Kibbee Corte Madera, CA, 1961, with an unpaged four page “Introduction” by Dillon; in Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning. Ed. Charles Webster (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1970), 79-89; and in Charles Webster, Utopian Planning and the Puritan Revolution: Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Hartlib and “Macaria”. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Research Publications II (Oxford, Eng.: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1979), 65-73 with annotations (74-89).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Antipodes: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638 by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street Y1 - 1640 A1 - Richard Brome (1590-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Comedy in which a man and a woman have their fantasies encouraged. The man's fantasies come mostly from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (14th c). Includes a comedy of reversal in which women rule men and the people rule the magistrates. See also 1652 Brome.

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Rpt. London: Ptd. by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, 1646; in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes [225-340]. A Jovial Crew. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966; ed. Anthony Parr in Three Renaissance Travel Plays: The Travels of the Three English Brothers The Sea Voyage The Antipodes (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1995), 217-326; and ed. David Scott Kasan and Richard Proudfoot. New York: Globe Education and Theatre Arts Books/Routledge, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Felicitas Ultimi Saeculi: Epistola In Qua, Inter Alia, Calamitosus aevi praesentis status seriò deploratur, certa felicioris posthac spes ostenditur, & ad promovendum publicum Ecclesiae & Rei literariae bonum omnes excitantur: In gratiam Amici cujusdam paulo ante obitum Y1 - 1640 A1 - John Stoughton (1593-1639) ED - Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600-1662) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Protestant eutopia in which the Papacy and its supporters are overthrown, and a premillennial golden age is established. Refers to Francis Bacon (1561-1626), John Dury (1596-1680), and John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský) (1592-1670) as the intellectual leaders of the change. 

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The country estate Saxham Parva as a eutopia with elements of a cockaigne.

JF - Poems PB - Ptd. by I.D. for Thomas Walkey CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Thomas Carew, Poems. Ed. Arthur Vincent (London: Lawrence & Bullen/New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899), 36-38; and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, with His Masque Coelum Britannicum. Ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1949), 27-29.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man in the Moone; or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither Y1 - 1638 A1 - [Francis] [Godwin] (1562-1633) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through the innate disposition of the people. Land provides plenty without labor.

PB - Ptd. by John Norton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Melstom, Eng.: Scolar Press, 1971; and in Smith College Studies in Modern Languages 19.1 (October 1937): 1-48; rpt. as The Man in the Moon 1638. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum & New York: Da Capo Press, 1972; as The Man in the Moon. Ed. John Anthony Butler. Vol. 3 of the Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Dovehouse Editions, 1995; and as The Man in the Moone. Ed. William Poole. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2009. Excerpt rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 3-40. Repub. as A View of St. Helena, An Island in the Ethiopian Ocean, in America, now in Possession of the honourable East-India Company, where their Ships usually refresh in their India Voyages. With an account of the admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales [pseud.]; the little Spaniard, to the World in the Moon, by the Help of several Gansas, or Large Geese. An ingenious fancy, written by a late learned Bishop. Np: np. Rpt. in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 8: 332-48. Collection rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in the later ed. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 8: 344-61; and 12 vols. (London: Ptd. for Robert Dutton, 1810), 11: 511-44. This version appears to exist only in The Harleian Miscellany reprints.

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Repub. as A View of St. Helena, An Island in the Ethiopian Ocean, in America, now in Possession of the honourable East-India Company, where their Ships usually refresh in their India Voyages. With an account of the admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales [pseud.]; the little Spaniard, to the World in the Moon, by the Help of several Gansas, or Large Geese. An ingenious fancy, written by a late learned Bishop. Np: np. Rpt. in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 8: 332-48. Collection rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in the later ed. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 8: 344-61; and 12 vols. (London: Ptd. for Robert Dutton, 1810), 11: 511-44. This version appears to exist only in The Harleian Miscellany reprints.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New English Canaan or New Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes. The first Booke setting forth the originall of the Natives, their Manners and Customes, together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the English. The second Booke setting forth naturall Indowments of the Country, and what staple Commodities it yealdeth. The third Booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their Tenets and practise of their Church Y1 - 1637 A1 - Thomas Morton (c. 1579-1647) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Morton founded the colony of Merrymount, located in the area that is now Quincy, Massachusetts, where he developed good relations with the Indians, which drew the ire of the Puritans in Plymouth, who banished Morton, ostensibly for blasphemy and selling weapons to the Indians. Morton then sued the Massachusetts Bay Company and won. This book was a critique of the Puritans and lauded the Indians, presenting them in eutopian terms.

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Rpt. in 1 vol. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

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Apparently intended as a serious analysis of Ireland and its people, it proposes the complete suppression of the Irish people, the expropriation of all the land, exchange of the Irish among counties where they will work for English landlords, slaughter of cattle, and taxing the Irish to pay for the military that will suppress them. Argues that the Irish are descended from the barbarian Scythians and that resisting English law indicates that the Irish are “the lowest form of savages” (Hadfield and Maley ed., xx). Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 

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Rpt. as "A View of the Present State of Ireland." In The Works of Edmund Spenser. A Variorum Edition. Ed. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Frederick Morgan Padelford, and Ray Heffner. Vol. X Spenser’s Prose Works. Ed. Rudolf Gottfried (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), 39-231 with “Appendix III A View of the Present State of Ireland (497-532); and as A View of the Present State of Ireland. Ed. W. L. Renwick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1970. Critical ed. as A View of the State of Ireland. From the first printed edition (1633). Ed. Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. “Ware’s Annotations” (162-69), “Passages Omitted from Ware’s Text” (170-76), “Glossary” (190-92). 

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Christian eutopia with the emphasis on a traditional paternal family system and science. Continuations include 1660 H., R.; 1936 Samuels-Bacon; and 1942 Samuel. John Heydon (b. 1629) is reported to have republished New Atlantis under his own name with minor changes and with the subtitle or The Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians (1660). No copy appears to exist.

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In Latin with variant text in a translation that may be by Bacon as Nova Atlantis Fragmentorum alterum. Per Franciscum Baconum, Baronem de Verulamio, Vice-Comitem S. Albani. Londoni: Typis Ioh. Haviland, 1638 in Francisci Baconi, Baronis De Vervlamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Opervm Moralivm Et Civilivm Tomus: Qui continet: Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliæ. Sermones Fideles, sive Interiora Rerum. Tractatum de Sapientiâ Veterum. Dialogum de Bello Sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso Honoratissimo Auctore, præterquam in paucis, Latinate donatus. Ed. Guilielmi Rawley (Londin: Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini, 1638), 351-86. There are many reprints of the English original. Among the most important are in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Vol. 5 Philosophical Works. Coll. and ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Robert Denon Heath (New York: Hurst and Houghton, 1864), 355-413 with a “Preface” by Spedding (347-57); New ed. Vol. 3 Philosophical Works (London: Longmans; Simpkin, Marshall; Hamilton; Whittaker; J. Bain; E.H. Hodgson; Richardson; Houston; Bickers; H. Sotheran; J. Cornish & Sons; J. Snow; A. Hall; and Virtue, 1887), 125-66, with “Preface” by Spedding (119-24); in his Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis. Ed. Arthur Johnston (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1974), 213-47, with “Notes” 289-91; in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. [Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 149-86 with “Explanatory Notes” 231-39. Critical ed. in Francis Bacon. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802). Rev. as Francis Bacon: The Major Works including “New Atlantis” and the “Essays”. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fortvnate Isles and Their Vnion celebrated in a Masqve design'd for the Court, on the Twelfth Night. 1624 Y1 - 1625 A1 - Ben[jamin] Jonson (1573?-1637) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Masque performed before King James I/James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) just before his death. It depicts Britain as one of the Fortunate Isles of classical mythology. One of the islands is Macaria or blessed and is joined to Britain. Includes anti-Rosicrucian satire.

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Rpt. in Ben Jonson: Complete Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969), 433-53; in Ben Jonson: Selected Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970), 275-95; and. ed. Martin Butler in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 685-714.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange News Out of Divers Countries, Never discovered till of late, by a strange Pilgrime in those parts Y1 - 1622 A1 - [Nicholas] [Breton] (1545-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary society using a series of imaginary countries with their laws and practices. See also 1606 Breton.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Countess of Montgomeries Urania Y1 - 1621 A1 - Lady Mary Wroath (ca. 1586-ca. 1640) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A wide-ranging romance set in an Arcadia. This is the first known original prose fiction by an English woman and one of the main concerns of the book is gender relations. Female author.

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Rpt. as The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995 with a “Critical Introduction” (xv-civ) and a “Textual Introduction” (cv-cxx). A continuation still in manuscript was published as The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Completed by Suzanne Gosset and Janel Mueller. Tempe: Renaissance English Text Society in conjunction with Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999 with a “Textual Introduction” (xvii-xliv), “Textual Notes” (419-71), “Commentary” (473-550), “Genealogical Tables” (552-53), an “Index of Characters in Part Two” (555-73), and an “Index of Places in Part Two” (574-75). A volume containing parts of both volumes was published as The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (Abridged). Ed. Mary Ellen Lamb Tempe: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2011 with an “Introduction” by the editor (1-38), an “Episode List” (255-64), an “Index of Characters” (265-78), and “Family Relationships” (279). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["An Utopia of Mine Owne"] "Democritus Iunior to the Reader" Y1 - 1621 A1 - [Robert] [Burton] (1577-1640) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A formal, conservative eutopian fragment. Detailed regulation of behavior and a regulated economy. Few laws but those strictly adhered to. Few lawyers and those maintained by the public.

JF - The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Severall Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions with their seuereii Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and PB - Ptd. by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Later eds. have minor variations in the title, and over the various eds. this section tripled in size.

Critical ed. as The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ed. Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kessling, & Rhonda L. Blair. Commentary by J.B. Bamborough and Martin Dodsworth. 6 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1989-2000), 1: 85-113 with textual notes 1: 486-97 and commentary 4: 6-168.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Treatise of Paradise. And the Principall contents thereof: Especially Of the greatnesse, situation, beautie, and other properties of that place: of the trees of life, good and euill; of the Serpent, Cherubim, fiery Sword, Mans creation, immortalitie, propagation, stature, age, knowledge, temptation, fall, and exclusion out of Paradise; and consequently of his and our originall sin: with many other difficulties touching these points. Collected out of the holy Scriptures, ancient Fathers, and other both ancient and moderne Writers Y1 - 1617 A1 - [John] [Salkeld] (1576-1660) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eden. Pretty much what the title says.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Penshurst" Y1 - 1616 A1 - Ben[jamin] Jonson (1573?-1637) ED - C. H. Herford Perry ED - Evelyn Simpson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An English country estate as a eutopia with elements of the cockaigne.

JF - The Forrest.” In The Workes of Benjamin Jonson: neque me vt miretur turba, laboro: contentus paucis lectoribus PB - W. Stansby CY - London N1 -

Rpt in in Ben Jonson. Volume VIII The Poems The Prose Works. Ed. C.H. Herford Percy and Evelyn Simpson. Corr. ed. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 93-96; in Poems of Ben Jonson. Ed. George Burke Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955), 76-79; and ed. Colin Barrow in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 209-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Description of Cooke-ham" Y1 - 1611 A1 - Aemilia [Bassano] Lanyer (1569-1645) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An English country house as a eutopia with much of the emphasis on the grounds surrounding the house.

JF - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum PB - Valentine Simmes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Ed. Susanne Woods (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 130-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tempest Y1 - 1611 A1 - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a very brief description of the Golden Age.

PB - Ptd. Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount CY - London N1 -

A standard ed. is The Tempest. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan in The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Ed. Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan (London: Methuen Drama, 2011), 1071-95 with a brief editor’s note on 1071. A recent critical ed. is The Tempest. Fully Annotated, with an Introduction, by Burton Raffel (xv-xxix). The Annotated Shakespeare. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, with “An Essay by Harold Bloom” (137-48). A critical edition that emphasizes performance history is The Tempest. Ed. David Lindley. Updated ed. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Most Approved, and Long experienced VVater VVorkes. Containing, The manner of Winter and Summer drowning of Medow and Pasture, by the aduantage of the least, Riuer, Brooke, Fount, or Water-prill adiacent; there-by to make those grounds (especially if they be drye) more Fertile Ten for One. As also a demonstration of a Proiect, for the great benefit of the Common-wealth generally, but Hereford-shire especially Y1 - 1610 A1 - Rowland Vaughan (1559-1631) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Plan for a paternalistic eutopia designed to be profit-making in which the author will build a mill, water works, and related buildings and twenty looms that will allow him to provide work for more than two thousand people, a dining room, a chapel, a preacher, and a curate, and also support trades.

PB - George Eld CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as His Booke Published 1610. Republished and Prefaced by Ellen Beatrice Wood. London: John Hodge, 1897

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Choice, Chance and Change: or, Conceites in their Colours Y1 - 1606 A1 - [Nicholas] [Breton] (1545-1626) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A brief dialogue including some satire. Part is on a variety of imaginary countries which have generally good laws. A country is described that has specific laws for relations between neighbors, stating that they should not depend on each other financially and otherwise should treat each other kindly and fairly. There are other rules regarding relations between husbands and wives. Another country is described where the rural population led a simple agricultural life. The cities have detailed laws on personal and business relations. The other parts are not utopian. See also 1622 Breton.

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Rpt. as "Choice, Chance and Change" (1606) or Glimpses of "Merry England" in the Olden Time. Ed. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Vol. 17 of Occasional Issues of Unique or Very Rare Books. Ed. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Manchester, Eng.: Ptd. for the Subscribers by Charles E. Simms, 1881.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mundus Alter et Idem siue Terra Australis antehac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrime lustrata Y1 - 1605 A1 - [Joseph] [Hall] (1574-1656) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the new world is divided into the states of Tenter-belly, with its provinces of, in the Healy trans., Eat-allia (Gluttonia) and Drinke-allia (Quaffonia), Shee-Landt or Womendecoia [with its provinces of Tattlingen, Scoldonna, Blubberick, Giggot-tangier, Cockatrixia, Shrewes-bourg, and Blackswanstack (Modestiania),] Fooliana, and Theeve-ingen, with its provinces of Robberswaldt and Liegerdemaine, which are, in the Wands, trans., Crapulia with its provinces of Pamphagonia (Land of Gluttons) and Yvronia (Drinkers), Viragina (Land of Women) with its regions of Linguadocia, Rixatia, Ploravia, Isia major and Risia minor, Aphrodysia, Amazonia (Gender reversal), and Eugynia with Hermaphroditica Island is nearby, Moronia (Stupid), Lavernia (Rogues & thieves).

PB - Ascanij de Rinialme [Actually Humphrey Lownes] CY - Frankfort [London] N1 -

Rpt. in Mundus alter et idem. Sive Terra Australis antehac semper incogita; longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrimè lustrate. Authore Mercurio Britannico [pseud.]. Accessit propter assinitatem materiæ Thomæ Campanellæ, Civitas Solis. Et Nova Atlantis. Franc. Baconis, Bar. de Verulamio. Np: Apud Joannem à Waesberge, 1643. The three items are separately paged.

Trans. as The Discovery of A New World or A Description of the South Indies, Hetherto Unknowne. By An English Mercury [pseud.]. [Trans. John Healey]. [London:] Imprinted by G. Eld for Ed. Blount and W. Barrett, [1609]. Rpt. ed. Huntington Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. New trans. and critical ed. as Another World and Yet the Same: Bishop Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem. Trans. and ed. John Millar Wands. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981 with a "Commentary" (127-200).

Repub. rev. with erotic content as Psittacorum Regio. The Land of Parrots: Or, The She-lands. With A Description of other strange adjacent Countries, in the Dominions of Prince De L'Amour, not hitherto found in any Geographical Map. By One of the Late Most Reputed Wits [pseud.]. London: Ptd. for F. Kirkman, 1669; and as The Travels of Don Francisco De Quevedo Through Terra Australis Incognita. Discovering the Laws, Customs, Manners and Fashions Of The South Indians. A Novel. Originally in Spanish. London: Ptd. for William Crantham, 1684.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lunarian [Seleno-Graphia--crossed out and re-entered in pencil] Or News from the World in the Moon to the Lunaticks of this World. Wherein are accurately described their Citties, Towns, Countries, & Provinces, with ye Seas, Sinuyes, Lakes, Rivers, Ports, Forts & Castles thereunto belonging: with the manner & means of Travelling [sayling--crossed out] thither through the vast Ocean of Air[e--crossed out], & ye ready Roade to the Citty of Cynthea-polis, the Metropolis of that World: as also the shape, conditions & qualities of ye Inhabitants, with the Manners, Lawes, Religion, Liberties, Properties, Priviledges, [Plottes--crossed out], & Policy of the People now in possession thereof. First discovered by Cornelius van Drebble of Alcmar in Holland, but since more perfectly described [pierced into--crossed out] by ye famous Tudeskin Vertuoso, Lucas Lunarismus of Lunenberge [pseud.], & originally written by the same hand in the Lunick Language: and now transposed out of the Bobelonick meeter into plain English [Coffee Dialect & exposed to ye luminaried of all illuminated Lunaticks by a lover of Light & so forth By the way of Romance--crossed out] Adapted to the humours of our Times qua ad Fabulas Convertuntus. Y1 - 1600 KW - English author AB -

The first part is a general satire on human foibles, particularly in England. The second part focuses on religion. Travel is by balloon.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia Y1 - 1590 A1 - Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Arcadian, sentimental eutopia with the emphasis on romance and knightly virtue.

PB - William Ponsonbie CY - London N1 -

While this is the standard, often reprinted text, it is deeply flawed. See The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The Old Arcadia). Ed. Jean Robertson. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1973, with a “General Introduction” (xv-xli) and a “Textual Introduction” (xlii-lxxii); Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1985, with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxiv); Reissued with a new bibliography, 1994; and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The New Arcadia). Ed. Victor Skretowicz. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987, with “Textual Introduction” (liii-lxxxii) and “Commentary” (507-82). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discoverie, or Briefe Summarie of such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ILANDE called AILGNA: Together, with most fearefull Examples of Gods Iudgements, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in AILGNA of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie Godly, to be read of all true Christians euerie where: but most needefull to be regarded in ENGLANDE Y1 - 1583 A1 - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on England using the imaginary country approach. Stubbes begins his attack by focusing on pride and a lengthy critique of the clothes worn by both men and women. He then moves on to sexual relations, eating and drinking, usury, Sabbath-breaking, and other topics. Generally read as anti-theatre. See also 1583 Stubbes. The Second part.

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This ed. was published May 1 and was rpt. ed. John Payne Collier. London, 1870, with an “Introduction” by the editor (i-ii); and New York: Garland, 1973, with a “Preface(5-7)” by Andrew Freeman. A variant issue dated May 29. A 2nd ed. was published August 16 and a 3rd ed. on October 12, 1584, with a variant issue of the 3rd in 1585, all with minor variations in the title. The 1585 ed. was rpt. as The anatomie of abuses by Philip Stubbes; reprinted from the third edition of 1585 under the superintendence of William B.D.D. Turnbull. London: W. Pickering, 1836. with “Prefatory Remarks” by Turnbull (v-xi). The 4th and final ed. eliminates the pretense of the book being about an imaginary country, and is entitled The Anatomie of Abuses. Containing A Description of such notable Vices, as raigne in many Countries of the world, but especiallie in the Realme of England: Together with most fearefull examples of Gods heauie Iudgements inflicted vpon the wicked for the same as well in England of late, as in other places else where. Verie godly to be read by all true Christians euery where, but most chiefly, to bee regarded in England. Made dialogue-wise by Phillip Stubs, Gent. Now, the fourth time, newly corrected and enlarged by the same Author. London: Imprinted by Richard Iones, 1595. Rpt. as Phillip Stubbes’s Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere’s Youth, A.D. 1583. Part I. (Collated with Other Editions in 1583, 1585, and 1595.) With Extracts from Stubbes’s Life of His Wife, 1591, and his Perfect Pathway to Felicitie, 1592 (1610), and B.P. Babington on the Ten Commandments, 1588; also the Fourth Book of Thomas Kirchmaier’s (or Naogeorgus’s) Regnum Papismi, or Popish Kingdome, (Englisht by Barnabe Googe, 1570,) on Popular and Popish Superstitions in 1553. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1877-9 (LLL); and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum/New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. A critical ed. of the 4th ed. was published ed. Margaret Jane Kidnie. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second part of the Anatomie of Abuses, conteining The Display of Corruptions, with a perfect description of such imperfections, blemishes and abuses, as now reigning in euerie degree, require reformation for feare of Gods vengeance to be powred vpon the people and countrie, without speedie repentance and conuersion vnto God: made dialogwise by Phillip Stubbs. Y1 - 1583 A1 - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1583 Stubbes published six months after the first part and divided into abuses of temporality and spirituality. The former includes a continuation of the critique of fashion, but stresses is more concerned with law, education, trade, poor relief, farming, and so forth. The latter attacks the church. The running head is "The display of Corruptions," which gives a generally accurate idea of the contents.

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Rpt. of an abbreviated ed. as Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere's Youth, A.D. 1583. Part II. The Display of Corruptions Requiring Reformation. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1882 (LLL); and as The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses. New York: Garland, 1973, with a "Preface" by Arthur Freeman (5-6).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second part and Knitting up of the Boke entituled Too good to be true. Wherein is continued the discourse of the wonderfull Lawes, commendable customes, and strange manners of the people of Mauqsun Y1 - 1581 A1 - Thomas Lupton (fl. 1572-84). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1580 Lupton. Anti-Roman Catholic with an emphasis on landlord-tenant relations. Mauqsun = Nusquam = Nowhere. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Siuqila. Too Good, to be true: Omen. Though so at a vewe, Yet all that I tolde you, Is true, I upholde you: Now cease to aske why For I can not lye. Herein is shewed by waye of Dialogue, the wonderfull maners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not frivolous Y1 - 1580 A1 - [Thomas] [Lupton] (fl. 1572-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Standard Christian eutopia. Very similar to 1516 More. Emphasis on the hierarchical nature of society and the responsibility of the superior for the inferior. Very strong concern with the purity and obedience of women. Stresses quick and sure punishment as the means of social control. Siuqila = Aliquis = Anyone. Mauqsun = Nusquam = Nowhere. See also 1581 Lupton.

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[2nd ed.] London: Henry Bynneman, 1584. [3rd ed.] London: Abel Ieffs, 1587.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dialogue both pleasante and pietifull, wherein is a godly regimente against the fever Pestilence with a consolacion and comfort against death Y1 - 1573 A1 - William Bullein (1500-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a brief eutopia (105-11 of the 1888 Early English Text Society edition) describing a reformed Protestant society in Taerg Natrib (Great Britain) and its capitol city Nodnol (London) or Ecnatneper (Repentance). 

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Rpt. as Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence. From the edition of 1578, collated with the earlier editions of 1564 and 1573. Ed. Mark W. Bullen and A.H. Bullen. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner, 1888. Early English Text Society. Extra Series, Vol. 52. Rpt. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The maner of her Wyll, and what she left to London, and all those in it: at her departing” Y1 - 1573 A1 - Isabella Whitney (b. 1545?-1578? fl. 1566–1573)73) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The poem describes in detail a London that is prosperous, clean, and safe.

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Rpt. in The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Plat and A Sweet Nosegay (1573) and The Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1982), unpaged; in Michael David Felker, “The Poems of Isabella Whitney: A Critical Edition.” Dissertation. Texas Tech University, 1990: 99-112 with “Notes on the Poem” (160-68); and in Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets. Ed. Danielle Clarke (London: Penguin Books, 2000), 19-28 with “Notes” (291-98). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A letter sent by I.B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Maystet [sic] R.C. Esquire: vvherin is conteined a large discourse of the peopling & inhabiting the cuntrie called the Ardes, and other adiacent in the north of Ireland, and taken in hand by Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel, and Thomas Smith Esquire, his sonne Y1 - 1572 A1 - Thomas Smith (1513-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The work uses the word “eutopia” in discussing a plan for the colonization of the Ards Peninsula of Ireland and designed to recruit appropriate colonizers. Published at the end of the book is The offer and order giuen for the by Sir Thomas Smythe Knighte and Thomas Smythe his sonne, unto suche as be willing to accompanie the sayd Thomas Smythe the sonne, in his voyage for the inhabiting some partes of the north of Irelande. London; Ptd. by Henry Binneman for Anthonhson, nd. 8 pp. Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo reip[ublicae] statu, deq[ue] noua Insula Vtopia Y1 - 1516 A1 - Thomas More (1478-1535) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The classic work presenting a better society on an isolated island and commenting on the current situation in England.

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The first English translation was published as A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. Trans. Ralphe Robynson. London: Ptd. by Abraham Vele, 1551. For early editions and translations, see R.W. Gibson, comp. St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography of His Works and Moreana to the Year 1750 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961), 3-57; and Constance Smith, An Updating of R.W. Gibson’s St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography. Sixteenth Century Bibliography, No. 20 (St. Louis, MO: Center for Reformation Research, 1981), 20-29. For a consideration of some translations, see Elizabeth McCutcheon, “Ten English Translations/Editions of Thomas More’s Utopia.” Utopian Studies 3.2 (1992): 102-20. Important recent eds. are Utopia. Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Ed. Edward Surtz, S.J. and J.H. Hexter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965 [The trans. is based on the 1923 trans. by G.C. Richards] with an Introduction” by the editors (xv-cxciv), “Commentary” (255-70, 585), “More’s Visit to Antwerp in 1515” by Hexter (571-76), “Vocabulary and Diction in Utopia” by Surtz (577-82), and an Index (587-629); Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Ed. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence M. Miller. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Utopia. Ed. and trans. David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999 with an “Introduction” by Wootton (1-37); “Utopia” in Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-148 with and “Introduction” to all three texts (ix-lxi) and “Explanatory Notes” to Utopia (213-31); Utopia. Trans. Paul Turner. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 2003 with an “Introduction” by Turner (xi-xxviii), “Appendix: More’s Attitude to Communism” (114-17), “Glossary” (118-20), and “Notes” (121-35); Utopia A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. and with a rev. trans. by George M. Logan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; Utopia. Trans. Clarence H. Miller. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), “Notes” (141-162), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (163-165); and an Index (167-173); 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014, with the same “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), an “Afterword” by Jerry Harp (141-60), “Notes” (161-187), “Suggestions for Further Reading” Updated by Jerry Harp (189-194), and an Index (195-201); Utopia. Trans. and ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith. London: Penguin Books, 2012 with an “Introduction” by the editor (xi-xxxix), “Appendix 1 ‘Between friends all is common’ (123-25), “Appendix 2 An Account of the Taíno People” (127-29), “Glossary of Names: (131-32), and “Notes” (132-46); as Open/Utopia. Ed. Stephen Duncome. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2012, with an editor’s “Preface Intellectual Commons” (v-vii), “Introduction” (ix-lxv), a “Cast of Contributors” (23-34), “Sources’ (235-40), footnotes throughout the text, and the translation is “assembled from translations and editions of More’s Utopia that are in the public domain (v); Utopia. Ed. George M. Logan and trans. Robert M. Adams. 3rd ed. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2016, with “Ancillary materials from the first four editions: (114-35), introductory material by the editor (vii-xli), and an “index” (136-41); as Utopia The Island of Nowhere. Trans. Roger Clarke. Richmond, Eng.: Alma Classics, 2017, with “A Pen Portrait of Thomas More by His Friend Desiderius Erasmus” (vii-xvii), “Correspondence Relevant to Utopia and Other Contributions from More’s Contemporaries” (133-92), “Index of Contemporary Europeans Mentioned in Utopia and Related Documents” (193-205), “Index of Utopian and Other Exotic Names” (206-208), “Notes” (209-44), and “Extra Material on Thomas More’s Utopia (245-65); based on the March 1518 edition with the two books using Clarence H. Miller’s New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001 translation and the all other material using the translations in the 1965 Collected Works. In The Essential Works of Thomas More. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), 143-215, with an introduction on 141-42; and, also using the March 1518 edition, Utopia & Selected Epigrams. Utopia. Trans. Gerald Malsbary. Epigrams. Trans. Bradley Ritter, Carl Young, and Erik. Ellis. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer Stephen W. Smith (Dallas, TX: CTMS Publisher at the University of Dallas, 2020, with “Notes and Commentary” on 115-62. https://thomasmorestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Utopia-Selected-Epigram-Notes-11-23-2020-compressed.pdf. An edition using a 1901 translation by Gilbert Burnet (London: Verso, 2016), includes an “Introduction” by China Miéville (1-27), part of which, “The Limits of Utopia” (11-27) was originally published in Salvage #1: Amid This Story Rubbish (2015) and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin (161-216), parts of which were originally published  as “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be (1982).” The Yale Review 72 (Winter 1983): 161-80, Rpt. with (1983) at the end of the title in her Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 80-100; and “The Operating Instructions.” The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004), 206-10. [Book Two] rpt. with no indication of the translation used in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 231-91. 

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The first English translation was published as A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. Trans. Ralphe Robynson. London: Ptd. by Abraham Vele, 1551. Important recent eds. are Utopia. Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Ed. Edward Surtz, S.J. and J.H. Hexter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965 [The trans. is based on the 1923 trans. by G.C. Richards] with an Introduction” by the editors (xv-cxciv), “Commentary” (255-70, 585), “More’s Visit to Antwerp in 1515” by Hexter (571-76), “Vocabulary and Diction in Utopia” by Surtz (577-82), and an Index (587-629); Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Ed. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence M. Miller. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Utopia. Ed. and trans. David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999 with an “Introduction” by Wootton (1-37); “Utopia” in Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-148 with and “Introduction” to all three texts (ix-lxi) and “Explanatory Notes” to Utopia (213-31); Utopia. Trans. Paul Turner. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 2003 with an “Introduction” by Turner (xi-xxviii), “Appendix: More’s Attitude to Communism” (114-17), “Glossary” (118-20), and “Notes” (121-35); Utopia A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. and with a rev. trans. by George M. Logan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; Utopia. Trans. and ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith. London: Penguin Books, 2012 with an “Introduction” by the editor (xi-xxxix), “Appendix 1 ‘Between friends all is common’ (123-25), “Appendix 2 An Account of the Taíno People” (127-29), “Glossary of Names: (131-32), and “Notes” (132-46); Utopia. Ed. George M. Logan and trans. Robert M. Adams. 3rd ed. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2016, with “Ancillary materials from the first four editions: (114-35), introductory material by the editor (vii-xli), and an “index” (136-41); and as Utopia The Island of Nowhere. Trans. Roger Clarke. Richmond, Eng.: Alma Classics, 2017, with “A Pen Portrait of Thomas More by His Friend Desiderius Erasmus” (vii-xvii), “Correspondence Relevant to Utopia and Other Contributions from More’s Contemporaries” (133-92), “Index  of Contemporary Europeans Mentioned in Utopia and Related Documents” (193-205), “Index of Utopian and Other Exotic Names” (206-208), “Notes” (209-44), and “Extra Material on Thomas More’s Utopia (245-65). An edition using a 1901 translation by Gilbert Burnet (London: Verso, 2016), includes an “Introduction” by China Miéville (1-27), part of which, “The Limits of Utopia” (11-27) was originally published in Salvage #1: Amid This Story Rubbish (2015) and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin (161-216), parts of which were originally published as “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be .” The Yale Review 72 (Winter 1983): 161-80. Rpt. with (1983) at the end of the title in her Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 80-100; and “The Operating Instructions.” The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004), 206-10. [Book Two] rpt. with no indication of the translation used in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 231-91. 

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