TY - ABST T1 - "Deep Blue Jump" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Dean Whitlock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts the exploitation of vulnerable children and adults that, while this is set in what appears to be the near future, the author says is common in most times and places.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 47.9 & 10 (612 & 613) SN - 1065-6298 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Democracy in America” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Allegra Hyde KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on “consignment” by which poor, young women, and some men, can sell their youthful looks to the rich elderly. Also notes the exploitation of immigrants; “desperation could be monetized” (155). In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/

JF - The Massachusetts Review VL - 64.1 SN - 978-0-593-31526-2 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 143-173.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deluge Y1 - 2022 A1 - Stephen Markley (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia that follows quite a few rather different activists from the present into a rapidly worsening future to the 2040s.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York SN - 978-1-98212-309-3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert Spiral Initiative” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Gaukrodger, Howard ED - D[enise] A. Baden ED - D. A. Baden KW - Male author KW - Norwegian author AB -

The story concerns an Egyptian peasant who develops a new way of planting in the desert and manages to convince his neighbors to collectively try it. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/desert-spiral-intitiative/ 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 - "Dispatch" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Zena Cumptson ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Aboriginal Australians had survived the COVID pandemic much better than other Australians because, given systematic neglect by government, Aboriginal communities had evolved effective grassroots services. The story is presented as The Moreton-Robinson Annual Address Barak University BLAKFULLAS Campus in 2029. BLAKFULLAS stands for Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamental University Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity). The lecture follows the development of the university and its teaching and development of Aboriginal knowledge in response to the ongoing crises.

JF - Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction PB - Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press CY - North Fremantle, WA, Australia SN - 978-1-760990701 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dissent: A Five-Course Meal [With Suggested Pairings]” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Aimee Ogden KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the form of a menu with courses and pairings, the stages of dissent against a regime suppressing the LBGTQA+ people are shown, starting with protests.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 140 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dissent-a-five-course-meal-with-suggested-pairings/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dogman relates the parable of context” Y1 - 2022 A1 - [J. Stephen] [Pendergast] (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian “Collective.” Dogman is a robot that was once a man that serves hotdogs.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doloriad Y1 - 2022 A1 - Missouri Williams (b. 1992) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Odd survivalist dystopia centering initially on a brother and sister and the children they have, most of whom are born without various limbs.

PB - MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York SN - 978-0374605087 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Doomsday Derby” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Micah Epstein KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The brief story is told from the point-of-view of a member of a roller derby gang that has repurposed a garage as a track when it is proposed to tear the garage down to build a high rise. The background is quite complex. There are automated cars, but solar power is gone and drilling for oil allowed. Gardens are everywhere.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 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 -

Illus. Sean Bodley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where a drone delivery runs the area like a company town with the workers required to pay rent to live in barracks and buy everything they need from the company store with any, even slight, dissent leading to being fired. The focus, though, is on three teenagers who develop a system for capturing the drones and stealing what they are carrying.

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 - "Data Migration" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Melanie Harding-Shaw KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change story as it impacts the life of a child. Land disappears and refugees arrive. What and how much people eat, the clothes they wear, and myriad other things are gradually changing, and the scope of life is diminishing.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/data-migration/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Day in the Life of Anmar 20X1” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Abdulla Moaswes KW - Male author KW - Palestinian author AB -

A day in the life of a future President of the Palestinian Authority who has no interest in the lives of the averag.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-day-in-the-life-of-anmar-20x1/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep Shade Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Geoffrey S.] [Bok] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In near future Florida, the eco-system has collapsed, and the protagonist is fighting a Genetically Modified fiberweed that is taking over.

PB - Montage Press CY - San Fransisco, CA SN - 978-1-940233-92-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deer, Tiger, and Witch” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kate V. Bui ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - Vietnamese-American author AB -

The story is set in a future Vietnam when the agricultural system has been destroyed by pollution.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 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 -

U.S. ed. (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2021), 249-59.

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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 - "Drumming Song" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ashley Bao KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an island in the Indian ocean that has become popular with tourists, with crops grown to feed them and send to the mainland rather than to feed the indigenous inhabitants and damaging the environment. In the story, a little girl talks to the land and seas with her drum and is taught how to begin to reverse the damage.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/11/26/drumming-song/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dust" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kwasi Adi-Dako KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change story set in a future Ghana when the rains stopped. In the story an old man who stayed in his village is being interviewed by a young man from the city and reminds the young man of how hard life had always been for people in the countryside.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 20 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/dust-by-kwasi-adi-dako/ 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 - Deal with the Devil. A Mercenary Librarians Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - [Donna] [Herren] A1 - [Bree] [Bridges] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Postapocalyptic (solar storm that downed satellites and the power grid) dystopia that fragmented the United States. The Mercenary Libraries are information brokers traveling the country. First volume in a series. 

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-1-250-25629-4 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 - “The Department of Talent Resources. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first part of a three-part story developed over three volumes. In this part, a young woman who is struggling to survive financially after a bad accident is approach by a recruiter for a corporation that promises to take care of everything if she signs on. In the second part, “Keep Your Streak Going! We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 3-16, she has been working for the corporation for six years, health problems solved, living on its campus, which she never leaves, and appears happy while under constant pressure to fulfill set tasks within specified time periods to gain or lose credits, which are needed for everything. She and a man she just met even conceive a child to gain credit. The man is not a hard worker and falls down in the system. The woman does well, but at the end of the story her now-grown daughter chooses to leave the corporation and strike out on her own. In the third part, “You Have Been Crowdfunded. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant  Press, 2020), 3-16, she and three friends are looking to retire at one of the corporation’s retirement homes but cannot actually confirm their existence or contact anyone they know who has retired.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 ‎ 979-8677298424 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Depth of Simulation” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gavin Inglis ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people can be enhanced in many different ways, not all of them producing positive results. 

JF - Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology PB - Shoreline of Infinity CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U2 -

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert in Me” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Priya Chand KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the environment has been severely damaged. At eighteen everyone experiences being an aspect of the natural world through virtual reality, and those who damage the environment are punished in the same way. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/04/24/the-desert-in-me/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 7-19, with a note on the author on 11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Diary in the Age of Water. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is in the form of an incomplete diary from 2045 to 2066 describing the depletion of water on Earth, the attempts to control the weather to produce rain, bedeviled by corporal and nationalist disputes, the movement of people, plants, and animals north, and the way Earth revolts. It is framed by, at the beginning, an epilogue from 125 AW (After Water) and a chapter that introduces the blue, four-armed reader of the diary, and, at the end, a chapter of explanation of what happened after the diary ends. See also 2016 Munteanu, The Way of Water/Natura dell'acqua.

PB - Ianna Publications and Education CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 9781771337373 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Displaced” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Zoya Patel ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Fijian author AB -

The story is set in a future in which Fiji and many other islands and coasts have been flooded. The protagonist is a Fijian who immigrated to Australia and become a citizen, who is hoping that her relatives will be accepted for immigration. It also notes the racism of the immigration process, and the growing racism directed at people of color.

JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melbourne, VIC, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Docile [The dust jacket has the subtitle There Is No Consent Under Capitalism] Y1 - 2020 A1 - K. M. Szpara KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

In the future the debts of the parents must be paid by the children, and this is done by selling oneself as a Docile through the Office of Debt Resolution. Normally the period as a Docile is undertaken using the drug Dociline. The novel centers on one man who refuses to take Dociline whose contract is bought by a man from the family who created the drug and the program.

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 9781250216151 U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Mind Me” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) ED - Sheila Williams AB -

The story is set in a future where, using technology, parents can control what their children read, even in school. The “Minder” deletes material the parents would not approve, which makes understanding lessons rather difficult.

JF - Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families and Friends PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262539258 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 379-400, with a note about the author on 379.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Double-Cab Club” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2030 as the country cuts its carbon usage in an attempt to reverse climate change. Showers are already limited to three minutes. After secondary school. everyone must spend a period working for the in the Climate Corps. The story is told from the point-of-view of a man who still owns an SUV, although he mostly drives an electric car.

JF - Stuff SN - 978-1-99-115031-8 UR - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/119374933/climate-fiction-the-doublecab-club N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drones to Plowshares” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sarah Gailey KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which agriculture and farming in strictly regulated by the Department of Agricultural Enforcement using drones to ensure that the rules are being followed. The point-of-view character is a drone that has been captured by a farming settlement that is breaking all the rules.

JF - Terraform SN - 978-1-5344-4962-6 UR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kzx7g/drones-to-ploughshares N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 51-64, with a note on the author on 51; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 239-253.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On a Dusty Trail” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cat[herine] Scully ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally damaged future experiencing a long, severe drought. It is concerned with what is supposed to be a system to take women to freedom in the north where there is still water, but it is being used for a different 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 - "Dead Wings" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rachel Chimits ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which bodies are replaceable. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deaf Republic Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ilya Kaminsky KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story/parable is told in poems and is set in the current world. In it a soldier breaking up a protest, shoots and kills a deaf boy, and the entire town becomes deaf. The people resist to the further brutality through signing, and throughout the book signs are illustrated. The specific ways of resisting by different people are depicted. Many of the poems were originally published separately, often in different form, in various outlets.

PB - Graywolf Press CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 978-1-55597-831-0 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dealing in Dreams Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lilliam Rivera KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set after a large earthquake destroyed most cities. The action is set in a city that was founded on feminist, women-only principles that has degenerated into a system of competition among girl gangs. 

PB - Simon and Schuster BFYR CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dear Machine: A Letter to a Super Aware/Intelligent Machine (SAIM) Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gary Kieser KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is, as the subtitle says, in the form of a long letter to a future super aware/intelligent machine in which he tries to explain humanity to the machine and suggest things it should research and ways that it should behave. The author is alternatively frightened and hopeful about the coming impact of such machines on Earth and its inhabitants.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Death of an Air Salesman” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where the rich get fresh air delivered by drones, the poor mostly breathe the deadly air, and the middle-class buy canisters of fresh air when they can. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 150 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_03_19/ 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 - “Discobolos” Y1 - 2019 A1 - James [N.] Wood ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which one corporation, more powerful than the government, has taken complete control of the food supply and destroys any natural food. Discobolus of Myrton is an early classical Greek sculpture of a discus thrower.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Divers’ Game. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society divided into two class, one of which can kill a member of the other at will.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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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 - "The Divided" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on the wall be between Mexico and the U.S. 

PB - Mason Jar Press CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Divided Island” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A very brief story about an island in which one part was rational and ordered and the other part was chaotic. Each had a zoo that replicated the other’s way of life. 

JF - Diabolical Plots VL - no. 47A UR - http://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-47a-the-divided-island-by-rhys-hughes/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi” Y1 - 2019 A1 - E. Lily Yu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Kenya where, after a conflict called the Howl, the country came together in what was called the Compassion. Now, some years in the future society has divided into the Doers and the Don’ts, those who are creative and run everything and those who live off the basic income.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.5 & 6 (520 & 521) SN - 978-1-64566-048-4 N1 -

Rpt. in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 297-310; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 89-103.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dreaming of the Green River” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Priya Sarukkai Chabria ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The story is set in a future in which all “Objectionable Art” is removed and replaced with sanitized versions. 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-88322-05-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drones Above the Coral Sands” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in Far North Queensland, Australia and is concerned with the death of the coral reefs from the point-of-view of someone who is documenting the continuing destruction of the reef. Collecting such information has been outlawed by the “eco-fascist” government that only pretends to be protecting the environment while actually helping the corporations exploiting the country’s natural resources.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Dropped Twenty” Y1 - 2019 A1 - John McLaughlin KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where jobs are so scarce that people are paid $2000.00 per year of their expected life to be euthanized so that their body parts and fluids can be reclaimed, the money going to their family.

JF - Kasma Magazine UR - https://www.kasmamagazine.com/the-dropped-twenty.html U2 -

Illus. Jose Baetas

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dumb House" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrea Hairston (b. 1952) ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a heavily surveilled future largely under corporate control. 

JF - New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - During-the-Event. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Roger Wall (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist, During-the-Event or D.E., is a seventeen year old boy who has lived with his grandfather in rural North Dakota. After their town his destroyed and his grandfather has died, he must travel through the dystopia of a collapsed United States.

PB - University of Alaska Press CY - Fairbanks, AK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dancers in the Dark” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Milton Callow ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Austrian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on continuing war. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dancing East to West” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Simon Petrie A1 - Edwina Harvey ED - Grace Bridges ED - Lee Murray ED - Aaron Compton KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Australia in a future after multiple catastrophes destroy the world’s technological civilization. The small community that the survivors have created is presented in eutopian terms, and at the end of the story contact is made by people from New Zealand travelling in an airship. 

JF - Te Korero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning PB - SpecFicNZ: Speculative Fiction New Zealand CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dangerous" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lisa Mason (b. 1953) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy in a 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 - “Data: They’ve got your number” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ramalho-Santos, João KW - Male author KW - Portuguese author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone’s health is monitored constantly, and if they violate best-practice, they lose insurance. 

JF - Nature VL - 555.7696 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Day At the Park" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eliot Rahal ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief positive future story in comic form in which a girl and a young girl who is a robot play in the park.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Illus. Jason Copland. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Bhaskar Sunkara (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay in which the author compares of precarious life of an average citizen in contemporary capitalist Edison, New Jersey, with such a life in a “slightly idealized version of Sweden” where a eutopian socialist system exists. The title is taken from Michael Walzer’s “A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen: Two Cheers for Participatory Democracy.” Dissent (May-June 1968): 243-47, which focuses on the subtitle.

JF - The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for a Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality PB - Basic Books/Hachette CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day the Sun Changed Colors Y1 - 2018 A1 - Scott Talbot Evans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous novel that begins in a high tech eutopia in 4377 in which the sun changes colors that reflect increased radiation that will ultimately destroy the planet. The novel follows the exploits of two families trying, with the help of a robot, to build a spaceship to escape. There is a glossary that describes the way time is noted, clocks, categories of the ages of people, the sky colors, length, various sizes, volume, speed, and “infinite math.”

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - Np SN - 978-1987486179 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day the White People Walked into the Sea” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Stacy Hardy KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Just what the title says.

JF - The Johannesburg Review of Books VL - 2.2 UR - New short fiction: ‘The day the white people walked into the sea’ by Stacy Hardy – The Johannesburg Review of Books ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Derisyone High-City” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ahmet Mesut Ateş ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Turkish author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian society in which individuals choose their name at a specific time on a specific day. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Designed for Your Safety” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elizabeth Bourne ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a dystopia riddled with disease, a building controlled by an artificial intelligence locks the workers inside. 

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 - "Dessert Heads" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rajendra Shepherd KW - Male author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - 10 UR - http://mithilareview.com/shepherd_09_18/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destiny: Quest for a New World Y1 - 2018 A1 - Donald Morgan Edwards KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series in which, given the collapse of Earth’s environment and a developing authoritarianism on Earth, a successful search for a habitable planet is made and the first settlers struggle to get the colony established. A sequel is Kairos: Book Two of “Quest for a New World”. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2018, which describes the successful settlement, but new settlers with different ideas cause problems. The novel’s ending suggests a sequel.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Detonation. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Erik A. Otto KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided between two countries, one of which accepts and the other rejects Artificial Intelligences, which have become more intelligent and powerful than humans. 2021 Otto, Proliferation. A Novel is set in the same future.

PB - Sagis Press CY - [Charlottesville, VA] U5 -

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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 Diggers 2.0” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kevin Christopher Jesse ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a polluted city in which the rich have clean air, and the poor are left to suffer and die, and the poor, predominantly Hispanic community decide to improve their lot.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Divided Light” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Pressman, Corey S. A1 - Clark A. Miller A1 - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which Phoenix, Arizona, is completely under a covering that collects solar power and outside the city is a settlement where the people have modified themselves and the countryside to live without water. 

JF - The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures PB - Center for Science and the Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/961pb8yve314a8r/Weight_of_Light.epub?dl=0. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America: A Novel of the Digital Revolution Y1 - 2018 A1 - Damien Lincoln Ober KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An alternative history dystopia in which the internet is an integral part of the culture at the time of the American Revolution. The British take control of it, killing everyone who uploads the Articles of Confederation. An off-grid George Washington saves the day, but then disagreements develop over the centralized control of the internet.

PB - Night Shade Books/Skyhorse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Doner" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tabitha Sin ED - Joanne Merriam KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A zombie story set in a climate-change dystopia in which New York city that is slowly disappearing under the ocean. 

JF - Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good PB - Upper Rubber Boots Books CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Don't Be Evil" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia set in a city divided by those in employment and the “unconnected” told from the point of view of a woman who had worked her way up to a good job with guilty and feels guilty about her feelings about the unemployed, unwashed, unconnected. 

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 7, Part 1 UR - Don't Be Evil — Big Echo 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.

PB - Troubador/Matador CY - Knebworth Beauchamp, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dry Y1 - 2018 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) A1 - Jarrod Shusterman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A climate change dystopia when the water runs out. 

PB - Simon & Schuster BYFR CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dairy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ashley Sutherland KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of women treated in a way similar to cows with artificial insemination and their children taken away at birth. 

JF - Social Alternatives VL - 36.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Intercept Y1 - 2017 A1 - Julia Keller KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia set on New Earth where people have given up freedom for stability. In the second volume, Dark Mind Rising. New York: Tor Teen, 2018, the system that protected them has failed, and the young female protagonist has opened a detective agency. In the third volume, Dark Star Calling. New York: Tor Teen, 2019, the system is failing altogether and the people look to find another planet and start over. A related novel is A Screaming in the Mind: A Dark Intercept Novel. New York: Tor Teen, 2018.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darlingtonia Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alba Roja [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Dylan is a bored graphic artist working for OingoBoingo, a copy that makes electronic psychological memory games. Ricky, her only friend and the only brown person at the company is found murdered. Dylan, who love lifestyle her work her. The novel contrasts the easy life of tech works like Dylan with the poverty of everyone else in the SF Bay area, and she gradually becomes disillusioned as she discovers what OnigoBoingo is actually doing. “Alba Roja is an anonymous collective of individuals strewn along the West Coat of the United States.”

PB - Left Bank Books CY - Seattle, WA SN - 978-0939306138 U3 -

Alba Roja [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Day 3658” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dylan Siegler ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which what appears to be a successful community after most plants and animals have died breed children for meat.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day the Earth Turned Day-Glo” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rick Shingler ED - James E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a colony is established on the moon and then simply abandoned leaving the people there to die while pretending that they had been brought back. This is followed by the launch of an immense satellite with moveable panels that can block the sun’s rays from reaching Earth, or, for an extortionate price, allow the sun’s rays to reach some part of the Earth.

JF - American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia PB - Psycho Drive-In Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Decelerate Blue Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adam Rapp (b. 1968) A1 - Mike Cavallaro KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A graphic novel dystopia in which everyone believes in speed and efficiency. The novel follows one young girl who doesn’t fit in and who discovers that there are others who believe that slower is better. 

PB - Roaring Brook Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Degas’ Ballerinas” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Leslie Goodreid ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. The story is set in Toronto, which, even though the border with the U.S. is now closed, is flooded with U.S. climate refugees. Nothing grows in the U.S. All birds have died. Malarial mosquitos are common in Canada. People are starving, and corruption is common. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert, Blooming” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lev Mirov ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Filipino-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set on a planet, which may be Earth, that is toxic, with people living in domes. Some are learning to terraform the planet by planting trees and others are searching abandoned cities for any seeds or other things that might help. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U4 -

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Disabled Filipino-American author who self-describes as queer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Desperate Resolve" Y1 - 2017 A1 - John A. Pitts ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in West Virginia, which has been destroyed by current policies on the environment.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destination Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided physically been the powerful and those without power with the latter fighting back by taking control of the web.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 41.1 & 2 (492 & 493) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Detour in Space" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Emad El-Din Marei Aysha KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Palestinian author KW - UK author AB -

A brief dystopia in which Mars has been settled by countries from the middle east, bring with them all the same issues as on Earth. For an interview with the author that discusses the origins of the story, see https://the-levant.com/egyptian-science-fiction-criticises-arabs/

JF - Reconnecting Arts UR - https://reconnectingarts.com/2017/05/01/a-detour-in-space-by-emad-el-din-aysha/ U2 -

Illus. Ayham Jabr

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Diaspora Electronica” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Blaize [M.] Kaye ED - Helen Moffett ED - Efemia Chela ED - Bongani Kona KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future in which an Institute for the Future of Humanity is established as a solution to “exponential population growth” (59). It uploads people into a computer in exchange for all their worldly goods. The protagonist is a man who wants to be uploaded to join his wife but because has one of the flaws the system cannot handle, he is regularly turned down. 

JF - Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa PB - New Internationalist Publications CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 9781780264059 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Disconnected” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ramez Naam ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all jobs are being replaced by automation as seen through the eyes of one family.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 41.11 & 12 (502 & 503) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that tries to eliminate anyone who doesn’t fit in. The story focuses on the oppression of people who are transgender. 

JF - Boston Review SN - 9781590217061 978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-78108-573-8 978-1-60701-5260 N1 -

Rpt. in Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2018), 197-213; in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 170-87; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 639-657; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 141-55.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Serena Johe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where, to counter verbal abuse, people are fitted with a device that keeps them from insulting another person, which has unexpected consequences. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 10 U2 -

Illus. Sara Julia. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drafting the President" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lou J Berger ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the impeachment and arrest of President Trump, the procedure for electing the President of the United States is completely changed. Five candidates are vetted and put through a series of complex tests to ensure their ability to handle the issues, and the most successful becomes the only candidate.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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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 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Darkout" Y1 - 2016 A1 - E. Lily Yu ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone can see what anyone else is doing at any time, which was justified as a way of reducing violence, which it did. The story focuses on a man compulsively viewing one woman. At the end of the story, the system goes down. 

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

Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 32-49.

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Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On Darwin Tides” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Shauna O’Meara ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia set in Malaysia in which indigenous people and immigrants are not allowed to work unless they have enough money for bribes and the technology that is required. 

JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day No One Died” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gwen Bellinger ED - Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where people who left Earth to avoid its conflicts have returned and religion is outlawed because it is believed to have brought about the last nuclear war, and the protagonist is a believer.

JF - Islamicates Volume 1: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures PB - Mirza Book Agency CY - Np VL - 1 UR - http://www.islamscifi.com/islamicates-volume1/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday Y1 - 2016 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) A1 - Danny Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A volume in Farmer’s Dayworld universe (See 1971 and 1985 Farmer) that he had not completed that has been finished by his great nephew based on manuscript and notes. This volume is set before 1985 Farmer and sets the stage for it and the following volumes.

PB - Meteor House CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Delight®” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Allegra Hyde KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on planned communities. In this one absolutely everything is trademarked and is supposedly the ideal 1950s community. At the end, it seals itself off from the rest of the world. 

JF - Black Warrior Review VL - 42.2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Of This New World (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016), 104-09. The collection won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Department of Correction: A lesson learned” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ninian Tan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future punishment in which the offender must relive the crime from the point-of-view of the offender for as many times as determined by the court. 

JF - Nature VL - 535.7611 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Depot 256" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lisa Allen-Agostini ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 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 - “Did We Break the End of the World?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tansy Rayner Roberts (b. 1978) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia inhabited only by teenagers in which an electrical pulse has destroyed all equipment that runs on electricity, including the “foster mothers,” the robots that have cared for the teenagers. The protagonist is deaf and gay.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from the Cradle; The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change story set when most people live either in space or on submersible rafts on Earth. Mars is being terraformed and plans are underway to try to dry out Earth. Whether this is a good or bad idea is left up the reader.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020), 254-271.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Distant Glimpse” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kewin, Simon KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The story is primarily told from the viewpoint of a young girl who is the leader of a group of children living on and making their living from trash dumps by providing useable scrap to men who whip them if they fail to find enough. Her discovery of a telescope, which she keeps, leads her to dream of escape. Given that we know that such conditions exist in many places, it could be read as a straightforwardly realistic story.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 37 SN - 978-1999339517 UR - The Future Fire: 2016.37 fiction distantglimpse U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Drowned City” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which half of The Netherlands has disappeared and the Dutch are building a New Amsterdam on an island they have built on the Australian coast. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] 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 - "Daedalus" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Niall Bourke KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a failing city that is gradually taken over by a sentient computer and creates what the population generally perceive as a better life. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 6 UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/daedelus-fiction-issue6/4589770052 U2 -

Illus. Sylvia Carrus

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EJournal

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day Without Body Shame” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Erin Matson (b. 1980) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief feminist utopia in which all people are accepted for who they are rather than for how they look.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deadmonton” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alexandrea Flynn ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia set in Edmonton, Alberta in which survivors have formed cooperative communities to protect themselves. 

JF - Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR 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 - Depth Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lev A. C. Rosen (b. 1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The adventure and mystery novel is set in a climate change dystopia in which the U.S. coastline is at Chicago. The novel is set on the island of New York City.

PB - Regan Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dara Lind ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Speech describing the changes in immigration policy from rejection to welcome and the awareness of what even so-called unskilled immigrants contribute.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Desolation Wilderness” Y1 - 2015 A1 - R. A. Bennett ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary AB -

The story is set on an environmentally damaged, overpopulated Earth where all the trees have been destroyed to get at the last remaining oil and takes place in Death Valley, where all criminals are sent.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Devil’s Village” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dayo Adewunmi Ntwari ED - Emmanuel Sigauke ED - Lee Sumaya KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Rwandan author AB -

A story that, except for its futuristic trappings, could be contemporary concerns the decision to rescue children supposedly kidnapped and held hostage by Nigerian dissidents in what is labelled a “Devil’s Village”.

JF - Roses for Betty and Other Stories: The Writivism Anthology 2015 PB - Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) CY - Kampala, Uganda SN - 9789970921713 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Disconnected" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Vanessa Fogg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which most people have implanted “mods” that allow them to become deeply connected with computers for their work in virtual reality environments and which constantly monitor them both in those environments and at all other times. The story focuses on a woman with mods, her live in one of the few remaining cities, all of which are falling apart, and her interaction with her mother and sister, who could not be modified.

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

Illus. Miguel Santos

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatch From the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Maya Dusenbery ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on the past from someone living in a future where the word “rape” no longer exists.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from a Body Perfect World” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jenny Trout ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief depiction of a feminist eutopia where all bodies are considered perfect.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution Y1 - 2015 A1 - Benjamin H. Bratton (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A combination of theory and fiction that includes both utopian and dystopian elements. 

PB - e-flux Sternberg Press CY - Berlin, Germany U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don’t Mess With These Kids! Y1 - 2015 A1 - [J.] Doug[las] Wilson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Children’s book in which a class of students and their teacher take the lead in defeating a dystopia that a group are trying to impose on New Zealand. 

PB - Bateman CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dove Arising Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karen Bao KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia on the moon in which a young woman joins the militia to protect her siblings from the government. First volume of the Dove Chronicles. In the second volume, Dove Exiled. New York: Viking, 2016, the protagonist is on the Earth she had been taught to fear but where she finds the people welcoming until the moon attacks Earth, and she must find a way to bring the two together. In the third volume, Dove Alight. New York: Viking, 2017, the protagonist leads a revolution by people on both the Earth and the moon against the dictatorship. 

PB - Viking CY - New York 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 - Dub Steps Y1 - 2015 A1 - Andrew Miller KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia set in South Africa after most people disappear. The novel follows the male protagonist, who is first alone, then meets a woman, and then they find some others and they gather in a Johannesburg that is returning to nature. The protagonist, who has a long life reflects on human nature, including his own, deeply flawed character, and he grows throughout the novel. 

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa SN - 978-1431422203 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Duller’s Peace” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jason Sanford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technology controls everyone in an authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.9 (476) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Days Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ormand, Kate KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Violent, authoritarian young adult dystopia in which the authorities are isolating sectors and killing everyone in the sector. Successful resistance.

PB - Sky Pony Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Windows Y1 - 2014 A1 - Louis Greenberg KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia/thriller set in South Africa in which the political leader has been convinced that a New Age mystic can bring about the needed changed through supernatural means. 

PB - Umuzi CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dead Kelly” Y1 - 2014 A1 - C. B. Harvey ED - David Moore AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story takes place in Australia.

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 - “Degrees of Freedom" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deliver Me Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate Jarvik Birch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are chosen at sixteen to be bred to produce the next generation.

PB - Bloomsbury Spark CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Disruption Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jessica Shirvington (b. 1079) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

In the future of this YA dystopia, the smartphone has been replaced by M-Bands, mandatory bracelets controlled by the M-Corp that includes “microchips for GPS, identification and potential medicinal purposes” (5). The system is, of course, misused. A prequel is Corruption. Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2014. 438 pp.

PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia SN - 9780732298104 Corruption 9780732298104 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Divided States of America" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. has divided into four political districts (conservative, liberal, libertarian, and socialist) that are about to become four separate countries, for good or ill. The book is a textbook with the fiction followed by questions about the selection and a number of readings from a variety of thinkers.

JF - Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings PB - Wiley Blackwell CY - Chichester, Eng./Malden, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divided We Fall Y1 - 2014 A1 - Trent Reedy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which the state of Idaho tries to separate from the U.S. because the U.S. is not supporting the Constitution. In the second volume, Burning Nation. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2015 the U.S. government invades Idaho, and more states secede and is mostly on the war. In the third volume, The Last Full Measure. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2016 the protagonist of the first two volumes concludes that groups within the now free Idaho are as bad as the U.S. government was and sets off to find a safer and more congenial place.

PB - Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dust and Blue Smoke” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robert Dawson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is about the last car in a climate-change dystopia. 

JF - The Colored Lens Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 13 UR - http://thecoloredlens.com/?page_id=33814#bluesmoke N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rivera Sun (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of an intended trilogy in which a couple work to sow the seeds for a nonviolent revolt against the corporate dominated U. S. government. Followed by The Roots of Resistance. El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2018. 391 pp. in which the revolution appears to have succeeded, but the powerful still resist and a violent fringe group develops that challenges the nonviolent ethos of the revolution. There is also a companion volume, The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide. EL Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2015. 124 pp.

PB - Rising Sun Press Works CY - El Prado, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dare" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sophie Clarke KW - Female author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of a teenage girl who, under the Bill for the Protection of Young, Girls is living in the Academy of Virtue and Integrity where she is being prepared to be given to a “good man”.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 26 UR - The Future Fire: 2013.26 fiction dare U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Immortality Y1 - 2013 A1 - J. M. Cobb KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The “Introduction” (v-viii) gives an almost entirely positive picture of the eutopia that will result from an immortality achieved through scientific advances. No disease, no crime, hence no prisons, no religion, and no war. “Unfortunately,” no family because no children and marriage will fade away. But the novel is about a murder that does occur committed by members of a secret society that believed immortality was the wrong choice for humanity. The novel contradicts the introduction in that there is a detective available, doctors are busy, and there is a priest. 

PB - Archway Publishing CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Defenders of the Flame Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 and 2009 Engdahl set two hundred years later in which a positive future is found. 

PB - Ad Stellae CY - Eugene, OR 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 - “Difference of Opinion” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Meda Kahn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which those with disabilities are treated as less than human and called “litches,” which is derived from leech. Autistic female author.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion N1 -

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/Podcast. 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), 227-42; and in Strange Horizons (September 9, 2017). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion-2/. Podcast http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-difference-of-opinion-2/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearance of Ember Crow Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume one of the young people with special talents goes missing. See also 2015 Kwaymullina.

PB - Walker Books CY - Newtown, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2016. 

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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 - “The Discovered Country” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

The story is set in what appears to be a heaven, called Farside, established specifically for the very rich. Current life, called Lifeside, is depicted in dystopian terms. 2013 MacLeod, “Entangled” is something of a sequel.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 37.9 (452) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 1-22 with an editor’s note on 1; and in Macleod’s Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 3-33, with an “Afterword Silver Machines” by the author (34-36).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Do Shepherds Dream of Electric Sheep” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Fleming, Sam ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on a future in which most agriculture has been automated. 

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 - "Dogsbody" Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia that simply kills thousands of children in order to save the money of feeding them. The ones they allow to live work for the corporate at the lowest level, Dogsbody, at the worst jobs. The work focuses on a few young people fighting back.

JF - Shards & Ashes PB - Harper CY - New York U3 -

Rachel Caine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Domechild Y1 - 2013 A1 - Shiv Ramdas KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist is a man living in an authoritarian, surveilled dystopia who works in a small cubicle checking up on other people. “Perfection is vigilance. Nobody is perfect until everybody is perfect. Everybody is guilty until nobody is.” Any dissent means being taken away by “lawbots” to never be seen again. The man loses his way going to home and discovers people living rough outside the controlled area, saves one from the “lawbots,” takes her home, and then is blackmailed by an AI, with most of the rest of the novel about him dealing with the resulting problems. The novel ends with the suggestion of a sequel, but none has been published.

PB - Penguin Random House India CY - New Delhi, India SN - 9780143332985 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamer in the Dry Y1 - 2013 A1 - Peter Hannaford KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Australia as a dystopia effected by climate change that has brought drought. Australia is divided between the Islamic north, now known as Capricornia, and the United States of Southern Australia, with Tasmania having joined the regional economic powerhouse, New Zealand. Sheep and cattle can only be raised in the Islamic north with the south dependent on kangaroo farming.

PB - AuthorHouse UK CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Droplet" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) ED - Fabio Fernandes ED - Djibril al-Ayad KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is poor and ravaged by climate change and has become extremely parochial and has pushed out most non-citizen immigrants and even many immigrants who had become citizens. Those who stay are subject to random violence.

JF - We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology PB - Futurefire.net Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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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 - Darkest Minds Y1 - 2012 A1 - Alexandra Bracken (b. 1987) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman in a world in which most children have been killed by a disease that gave her and some others an unusual talent. All the children identified with such talents are incarcerated in a so-called rehabilitation camp. She escapes and becomes a leader of other children who are searching for a safe haven. A film, Darkest Minds, with a screenplay by Bracken and Chad Hodge (b. 1977) and directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (b. 1972) was released in 2018. Sequels include Never Fade. New York: Hyperion, 2013 in which the protagonist from the first volume leaves the other children to search for the answer to the disease; In the Afterlight. New York: Hyperion, 2014 in which the same protagonist works with others to find the solution to the disease and defeat the government; and The Darkest Legacy. New York: Hyperion, 2018, which concludes the series. A collection of related stories focusing on characters other than the main protagonist is Through the Dark. A Dark Minds Collection. New York: Hyperion, 2015. The stories had previously published online in 2013, 2014, and 2015. 

PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day The Music Stopped" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Randy McCharles ED - Mark Leslie KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future that tried to cure mental illness and eliminated all emotion.

JF - Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound PB - Edge CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deciding for Ourselves” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Milstein, Cindy A1 - Erik Ruin (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic eutopian story with words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. In the story a neighborhood where no one interacts builds a community; it later falls apart, but some people decide to start again.

JF - Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1-60486-502-8 U2 -

Illus. Erik Ruin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Declaration" Y1 - 2012 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story involves students, who live most of their lives as avatars online are required to participate in a cooperative group project, and they choose the “Declaration of Independence.” They decide to try to bring about their own independence, each with a different motive, each hoping for a better life for themselves.

JF - Rip-off! PB - Audible Studios CY - Np N1 -

The paperback version is entitled Mash Up: Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (London: Titan Books, 2016), 371-411. Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 140-72. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Defiance Y1 - 2012 A1 - C. J. Redwine KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia stressing adventure and romance.

PB - Balzer + Bray CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Devil’s Hit List. Book Three of the Underground Y1 - 2012 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 and 2010 Creed. In this volume, the government and a large corporation introduce a lethal virtual reality experience in an attempt to reduce the world’s population. The Christian underground fights back.See also Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising

PB - Splashdown Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Distant Eden Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lloyd [L.] Tackitt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist eutopia after the electrical grid is destroyed. Most people die, but a few, who had prepared in advance, survive and prosper. First volume in a series. The second volume is Adrian’s War. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2012, in which one of the survivors travels from Texas to Colorado, where, when he arrives, he runs into an armed gang who want to make him a prisoner. The third volume is Eden’s Hammer. Book III of the “Distant Eden” Series. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, which deals with a threat to the village. The fourth volume is Eden’s Warriors. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, in which the protagonist leads the fight against a Mexican invasion.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dog Stars Y1 - 2012 A1 - Peter Heller (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the world is largely depopulated by a flu pandemic, the protagonist lives next to a small airfield Colorado with his dog and a heavily armed survivalist who also ended up there. The protagonist rations the small amount of aviation fuel left and regularly survey the area looking for game and the scavengers they have to fight off. Ultimately, he hears an odd signal on his radio and discovers other survivors.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York SN - 978-0307959942 U5 -

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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 - Don’t Mess with Travis Y1 - 2012 A1 - Bob Smiley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel depicts the U.S. under a Democratic president (clearly modeled on President Obama) as a tyranny. The governor of Texas leads a movement to allow states to secede.

PB - Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Dream Eater” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society built around one suffering individual. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drowned Cities Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia described as a companion to his 2010 Ship Breaker. In this novel two young people try to escape the poverty and violence of the cities only for one of them to be captured by a group of child soldiers.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Grid: When the Lights Go Out . . . Permanently Y1 - 2011 A1 - David C. Waldron KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which unusual activity on the sun knocks out Earth’s entire electrical grid. Similarities to survivalist dystopias in that people form an isolated community to protect themselves. Continued in Dark Road: Second Book of the DARK GRID Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012, which follows a different family from the one in the first volume; and Dark Coup. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013, which brings together the people of the first two to fight against a conspiracy to establish a dictatorship. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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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 - Daybreak Zero Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 Barnes. This novel shows the dystopia created by the catastrophe of the previous one. See also 2013 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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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 - Delirium Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Laura Suzanne] [Schecter] (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which people are inoculated against love at eighteen. Followed by her Pandemonium. New York: HarperCollins, 2012, which follows the main protagonist and is clearly a middle volume; and her Requiem. New York: Harper, 2013 where more and more people come to be able to love. The first printing of Requiem contains a short story, “Alex,” about the protagonist separately paged at the end of the novel. Other related stories can be found in her Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, & Raven. New York: Harper, 2012. The stories were originally published online in 2011 and 2012.

PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.

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Lauren Oliver [pseud.]

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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 - The Dewey Decimal System. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nathan Larson (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in a post-catastrophe dystopian trilogy set in New York City after a flu epidemic and terrorist attacks. Corruption, violence. In the second volume, The Nervous System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2012, the same protagonist dealing with similar issues in the same future. In the third volume, The Immune System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2015, the same protagonist struggling to deal with the completely corrupt future system.

PB - Akashic Books CY - New York 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 - Divergent Y1 - 2011 A1 - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy presented initially as a flawed utopia. At sixteen each person must choose among the five factions (Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite) to which they will devote their lives. The novel focuses on a young woman’s choice and her struggles to fit in.  A companion volume that tells the story of two characters and is set before the first volume of the trilogy is Four: A Divergent Collection. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014. An additional story is We Can Be Mended. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2018 was published as an ebook. The second volume, Insurgent. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2012, explores the personal loyalties and conflicts that develop as a result of the choices made in the first volume. In the third volume, Allegiant. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013, the dystopia is defeated, and, after many adventures, the people of the former dystopia and the people from outside it are brought together. A film of Divergent, directed by Neil Burger was released in 2014 with a screenplay with Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor. A film of Insurgent, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman (b. 1962), and Mark Bomback (b. 1971) was released in 2015. A film of Allegiant, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, and Bill Collage was released in 2017. 

PB - Katherine Tegen Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One Y1 - 2011 A1 - Linda Hawley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on the author’s interpretation of the recent past (see “The Author’s Views” in the third volume ([281-83]). The dystopia is primarily concerned with the authoritarian nature of government and its attempts to control the population. Over the course of the three volumes people successful fight back against the government and win back their freedom. The other volumes of the trilogy are Guardian of Time. The Prophecies Book Two. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012; and Wisdom Keepers. The Prophecies Book Three. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012.

PB - Nouveau Publishing CY - Np N1 -

2nd ed. as Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012. The three volumes were released together on Kindle as The Prophecies Trilogy. Np: 21st Publishing, 2012.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drought Y1 - 2011 A1 - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a girl living in a religious enclave in which the people are essentially slaves living a lifestyle of the early nineteenth century. She is essential to the existence of the community, everyone will die if she leaves, and she has the opportunity to escape.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dry Souls Y1 - 2011 A1 - Denise Getson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future where there is an extreme water shortage, and rationing is the basis of political power. The focus of the novel is a girl who discovers that she can produce water from the ground. The Last Tree. Austin, TX: CBAY Books, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist uses her talent to provide water while being pursued by those who want to control her for their own benefit.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dial Tone" Y1 - 2010 A1 - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-pandemic “last man” story. 

JF - Kasma Magazine SN - 978-0-9848301-0-7 UR - https://www.kasmamagazine.com/dial-tone.html N1 -

Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 23-25, with an author’s note on 210.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Diaspora" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul Lamb KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set as a history lesson in which students learn about how a few people escape from the collapsing Earth and the racial conflicts that took place in the process.

JF - Crossed Genres VL - no. 24 UR - http://crossedgenres.com/archives/024-charactersofcolor/diaspora-by-paul-lamb/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Directive 51 Y1 - 2010 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a catastrophe that pushes the U.S. back to a primitive time. See also 2011 and 2013 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drafting Zoë” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kelly Jennings KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future, after an unexplained “Big Melt,” that extremely intelligent children are drafted at age four to be integrated into the computer system as part of national security. The story is told from the viewpoint of a widowed father whose child is drafted.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 21 UR - The Future Fire: 2010.21 fiction zoe ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drown or Die” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Arkenberg, Therese KW - Female author AB -

Having destroyed Earth, three billion humans are sent to various colonies on other planets, leaving another five billion behind on Earth to die. The other planets, some of which are inhabited, are being terraformed, thus destroying well-established ecosystems. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no., 19 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duncan the Wonderdog Y1 - 2010 A1 - Adam Hines KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel in which animals can talk, and, as a result of their treatment, start a revolution against humans. Won the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize from the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Originally said to be the first of nine volumes, with the second scheduled for 2014. 

PB - AdHouse Books CY - Richmond, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daemon. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the entire world is run by computers that develop a glitch. See also 2010 Suarez.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ben Burgis ED - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) ED - Sean Wallace KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the Palestinians defeated Israel and now treat Jews the way Israel treat the Palestinians and the way this turns a secular Jew into a suicide bomber.

JF - People of the Book ([In Hebrew]): A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] N1 -

Originally published in AtomJack Magazine (October 2009), an online journal that is no longer available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Got No Mercy Y1 - 2009 A1 - Al Ewing (b. 1977) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of extreme violence. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 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), 439-623.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.

JF - Live Without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dominion Y1 - 2009 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future world largely under the control of the U.S., which is led by a capitalist, fundamentalist religious group of men who have abolished all freedoms and placed everyone under constant surveillance. The protagonist is a news reader who knows that he is reading lies. Ends with a nuclear war with China.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance Dance Revolution Y1 - 2008 A1 - Les Freres Corbusier Dance Company AB -

Dystopia where dance is outlawed. Musical based on Japanese music of the title. See the film and play “Footloose” for a treatment of the same subject but limited to a school. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn Over Doomsday Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jaspre Bark (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of cults in conflict with Native Americans trying to reclaim the U.S. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Kane, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U1 -

Afterblight Chronicles at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day Out" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Ukrainian author AB -

Dystopia. The story is particularly concerned with genetic engineering. While the people are healthy and have long lives, they live in a world where food animals have been engineered for less fat and more flavor, the trees are dying, being out in the sun is dangerous, and whole areas have been depopulated by viral infections. Those remaining in such areas could not leave and depended on food drops from China. No medical care for any condition that could conceivably be the fault of the person. All the poets had been shot.

JF - The Garden of Bad Dreams PB - Atlantic Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deadly Verdict Y1 - 2008 A1 - Andrew Neiderman (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Mystery novel set in a future where the jury system has been replaced by professional jurors trained to make decisions objectively. The jurors and their families are being murdered.

PB - Severn House CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dee Dee Does Utopia Y1 - 2008 A1 - Deborah Faye Lawrence (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Art book with each page given to a different satirical depiction of a utopia plus two separate pages of comments by others. 

PB - Marquand Books CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diamond of Darkhold Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fourth book in the Ember series. See also 2003 and 2004 DuPrau. The Prophet of Yonwood. New York: Random House, 2006 is a prequel to the series. In this volume, the protagonists revisit Ember.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Digital Destiny. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeromie Carr (b. 1980) A1 - James Dunn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violent conflict between those favoring and opposing technology in a high-tech future.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Digital Plague Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a nanotech plague. Sequel to 2007 Somers.

PB - Orbit CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamer Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul L. Bates KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the resistance movement. Companion to 2005 Bates and is set in roughly the same timeframe. Considerable fantasy.

PB - Five Star CY - Detroit, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of a Lesbian Feminist Utopia” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tanager [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A brief lesbian eutopia that stresses what the eutopia no longer has with the end of phallocracy. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 U3 -

Tanager [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance Dance Revolution. Poems Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cathy Park Hong (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Korean American author AB -

Poem sequence set in 2016 in a new town that recreates great cities of the past, where the main character has been exiled as a political dissident.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published online as “6 Poems.” ActionYes 1.2 (Spring 2006). actionyes.org/issue 1/hong/hong1/htm#. Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 945-47 with an editor’s note on 945. Other parts were previously published, sometimes in earlier versions, in several publications.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dark Net Y1 - 2007 A1 - James R. Riordon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia and catastrophe in the near future with a focus on the underground both in and outside the net. Based on the blognovel The Dark Net www.the-dark-net.blogspot.com.

PB - [LuLu.com] CY - Greenbelt, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkest Days Y1 - 2007 A1 - Stanley Gallon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Collapse of civilization driven by competition among countries for the few remaining natural resources.

PB - Pan Books 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 - "The Depths of Heaven" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Mark Anthony Brennan KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 11 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Desert Called Peace Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel, generally classified as military SF, begins with a man’s family being killed by Safafi from the Caliphate (See 2008 Kratman) and continues throughout the novel and all its sequels to detail his revenge. Sequels include Carnifex. New York: Baen, 2007; The Lotus Eaters. New York: Baen, 2010; The Amazon Legion. New York: Baen, 2011; Come and Take Them. New York: Baen, 2013; and The Rods and the Axe. New York: Baen, 2014. 

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Designing the Future Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia with designs for many different projects. Law will be necessary, and people will be changed. See also 1995 and 2002 Fresco, 1969 Keyes and Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material.

PB - The Venus Project CY - Venus, FL U2 -

Illus. Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Matthews

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dirt People Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ray Bawarchi KW - Male author AB -

Corporate and environmental dystopia.

PB - Blue Throat Press CY - Asheville, NC 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 - "Domine" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rjurik Davidson ED - Bill Congreve ED - Michelle Marquardt KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The background to the story is a dystopia of extreme rich-poor divisions.

JF - Aurealis VL - no. 37 N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fourth Annual Volume). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Chatswood, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Books, 2008), 218-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Double Helix, Downward Gyre" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Carl[ton] Frederick KW - Male author AB -

The U.S. Genetic Patriotism Act requires forced sterilization of the carriers of a Genetic Component Disease and their children, although there are exceptions for political leaders, televangelists, and large donors to the White House. There is Real Time Conversation Analysis of phone calls looking for the use of words such as embryo, abortion, revolution, and so forth. There is a Genetic Terrorism Act that defines conspiracies to propagate defective groups. There is an American Government in Exile in Canada, and New Zealand provides a refuge.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 127 1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Id-entity, OR, Farewell to Plaquedemia. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book One of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition Y1 - 2007 A1 - D. Harlan Wilson (b. 1971) ED - Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach, Esquire, ed. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian humor and satire with a stress on violence. His Codename Prague. An Unfinished Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book Two of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City, 2011 continues the same themes. The third volume of the trilogy is The Kyoto Man. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel “Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow” Book Three of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Bliptown, 2012.

PB - Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City CY - Hyattsville, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drosophila Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nick Sapien KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which initially a machine is developed that gives I.Q. within three points. This produces a rigid caste society. Things get worse when someone develops a means of enhancing intelligence. 

PB - PublishAmerica CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Matter Y1 - 2006 A1 - Greg Reeves KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Christian religious fundamentalism in which a fundamentalist preacher becomes President of the U.S. and sets about to eliminate all opposition. The few survivors mount a fight back and ultimately win.

PB - Great Authors Online CY - Elsinore, CA U5 -

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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 - ". . . the darkest evening of the year. . ." Y1 - 2006 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Richard Labonté ED - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with threatened eutopian enclaves. The eutopian elements are composed of those who practice an old religion based in nature; the dystopia is the official oppression of the eutopia.

JF - The Future Is Queer PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in her in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 189-209, with a note on the story (304-05). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Debt of the Innocent" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia that requires reduced electricity supplies even to hospitals. This results in babies being allowed to die or even being killed to save others.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Demoskratos: New Democracy Y1 - 2006 A1 - K. Yil. Karademir AB -

An idiosyncratic eutopia focusing on eliminating most of the U.S. political structure and replacing it with a system of referenda. The states will be eliminated and replaced with five districts. The President, Congress, and political parties will be eliminated along with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All overseas U.S. military bases will be closed. There will be a publicly owned independent National News Bureau and all major newspapers will use news from the Bureau for their first three pages and all major broadcasters will give the 6:30-7:00 p.m. slot to the Bureau.

PB - Washington Educational Organization CY - King of Prussia, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Derelict" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of the habitats built in space which cannot have conflict because they are so fragile. The story is about children pushing the limits of what is possible for them in the strictly regulated lives necessary for the habitats to function safely.

JF - Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space PB - Science Fiction Book Club CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Die Umkehr" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) ED - Don Sakers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia.

JF - Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006 PB - Speed-of-C Productions CY - Linthicum, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disunited States of America Y1 - 2006 A1 - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This novel is set in a future in which the United States has disintegrated into a number of regions and states, some of which are at war with each other. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Down in The Corridor" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Lopresti ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Pacific states have seceded from the U.S. as a result of U.S. policies under George W. Bush. The P.S.A. is presented more positively, but the story concerns the continuing struggle between the two countries.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of an Emerald Dusk Y1 - 2005 A1 - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1984 and 2002 Forrest. In this novel the women from Earth and the new planet get back together on the new planet. But those born on the new planet become more and more adapted to it and separated from their mothers. At the end of this novel, most of the women born on Earth, return to it. 

PB - Alyson Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death by Chocolate Y1 - 2005 A1 - Toby Moore KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. A religious and political crusade against obesity using the image of Our Lord, Christ the Fit. Those who are f*t get the attention of the Health Police. Set in New York City.

PB - Viking CY - London 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 - Destroying Worlds: Second Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers Y1 - 2005 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Second of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, but in this volume one of the themes is a hierarchical planet with slavery. See also 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007 (2).

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Utopia. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - J[ason] Schimschal KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which young people, as a rite of passage, must search the wasteland for relics and lost technologies. None have ever returned among those who went east, and the novel focuses on a new group who choose to go east. Sequels that are concerned with what they find there include Ruins of America. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2006, which sets the scene of war and mass destruction; Iron Messiah. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2007 about the search for an ultimate weapon; Prophet of Sorrow. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2010 about the problems faced in protecting the homeland; and Heroes of the Rising Moon. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2012 where success is achieved. See also http://www.darkenrealm.com/

PB - Trident Publishing CY - Sandy, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dexta Y1 - 2005 A1 - C. J. Ryan [pseud.]. AB -

Volume one of a series in each volume of which the heroine must defeat another dystopia on one of the planets she oversees for the Bureau of Extraterrestrial Affairs and combat the bureaucrats she works for. The other volumes are Glorious Treason. New York: Bantam Books, 2005; The Fifth Quadrant. New York: Bantam Books, 2006; Burdens of Empire. New York: Bantam Books, 2007; and Kiss of the Gods (2008).

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

C.J. Ryan [pseud.].

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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 - "A Digital Day" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jan [Johannes] Amkreutz ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Moving Along: Far Ahead. Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Disposable Children" Y1 - 2005 A1 - M[arcia] Lynx Qualey KW - Egyptian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Just what it says. Purchase a kit at your genetics superstore, give birth in six days, and have the child grow from birth to teen in nineteen weeks, at which point they die.

JF - Lenox Avenue VL - no. 5 UR - http://www.lenoxavemag.com/issue5/issue5disposable.htm 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 - "Do No Harm" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Brian E. Moore KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Nonconformists are required to use a complex of drugs that make them "normal".

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 17.1 (60) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Salt Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gerard Donovan (b. 1959) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate medicine.

PB - Scribner CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Warpenstein: The Invisible Foe Y1 - 2005 A1 - Beaver, Bennie M KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projected dystopia that fails to achieve its ends, which includes control of all humanity.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U1 -

Added subtitle on the cover An Original (LONG) Screenplay.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamhunter Y1 - 2005 A1 - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult fantasy novel with dystopian elements. In a re-imagined New Zealand, Southland was settled in the eighteenth century by people from an island in the Aegean Sea, and some of their descendants can read dreams and then project them to an audience. This talent is used by some in the government to torture prisoners.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Rainbow Opera. London: Faber & Faber, 2005. U.S. ed. as Dreamhunter. Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet. New York: Frances Foster Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deletion" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Steven Bratman KW - Male author AB -

Genetic engineering in a world in which genes for emotional connection had been removed and which shows the flawed utopia produced.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 124.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Delhi" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story contrasts the dystopian present of India with brief flashes of eutopian and dystopian futures.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 229-42; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 125-47

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Devil's Star" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with a barter economy, custom, and altruism contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia fearful of all free societies.

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), 431-51; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 369-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dogs and Water Y1 - 2004 A1 - Anders Nilsen (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel dystopia with no words in which a boy wanders through a largely destroyed landscape.

PB - Drawn & Quarterly CY - Montréal, QC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. with a few additional pages Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darwin’s Children Y1 - 2003 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to Darwin’s Radio. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which concerned the discovery of the DNA that brought about the disease that resulted in the children. The volume includes an “Afterword” (419), “A Short Biological Primer” (422-23) and a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (423-27). The advanced children described in that novel have matured and ae threatened by those who resent their powers. As a result, they are interned in special schools and targeted by bounty hunters as part of a plan to eliminate them. The volume includes “Caveats” (375-76), a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (377-83), and “A Brief Reading List” (385-87).

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine CY - New York SN - 978-0345448361 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dear Abbey Y1 - 2003 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Time travel tale which takes two people through many future stops to the end of the human race millions of years in the future. The first stops include environmental catastrophes, while later stops briefly depict eutopias built on the ruins.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Harrogate, Eng. U5 -

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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 - Drop City Y1 - 2003 A1 - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel uses the name of an actual intentional community but has little to do with that community. The community the novel presents is dystopian in all the ways that the Sixties communities were assumed to be but rarely were, a depiction disputed by those who lived there.

PB - Viking CY - New York 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 - Daughters of an Amber Moon Y1 - 2002 A1 - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Forrest. This volume concerns the women who chose to stay on Earth and their struggle to survive in the face of the dystopia that is the Earth. At the end of the novel, some of the women from the new planet return to Earth, which is converted from a dystopia to a eutopia. See also 2005 Forrest.

PB - Alyson Books CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daughters of the Distant Dream" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Yvonne Eve Walus KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Series of stories about women in the future. "The Learning Experience" (31-34) is about a visit to a eutopian (?) world. All subservient positions are filled by robots. All flora and fauna protected (said to be a fad that would last a century or two). High noise level (speech and broadcast) to avoid seeming clandestine. All virtual reality. "Glance at Eden" (36-40) includes gender-role reversal in which men do the physical tasks that are considered less important. Another world advanced in bio-technology, genetic engineering. A character from that planet says, "'We created everything around here. We also engineered ourselves, rooting out the undesirable characteristics until we achieved total perfection'" (38). "The Vanishing Race" (42-44) depicts a world where people never go outside; "no more inter-human contacts" (43).

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com U1 -

Cover says All Our . . . 'Writers of the Future' 1st Lincoln Edition--comprising all our science fiction short stories by: Val Kyrie, Yvonne Eve Walus, Lyn McConchie, Neal Asher, David Murphy, Malcolm Twigg, Tansy Lovage, Teresa Holmes & Science Fiction Writers of New Zealand.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn of the New Man: A Futuristic Novel of Social Change Y1 - 2002 A1 - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2001 Prugovecki. This volume continues the story of two countries described in the first volume, the libertarian Terra and the authoritarian FWF (Free World Federation). The citizens of the FWF are enslaved and the protagonist initiates a successful struggle to free them.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Design Your Own Utopia Y1 - 2002 A1 - Chaz [Charles] Bufe A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a lengthy questionnaire intended to assist people thinking about utopia but includes short descriptions of a local eutopia or intentional community and a global eutopia. See also 1988 and 1994 Hubbard; and 2012 Bufe and Hubbard.

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ UR - http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html N1 -

The text can also be found at http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html.

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Chaz Bufe and Doctress Neutopia [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destiny Restored Y1 - 2002 A1 - Arthur M. Becker KW - Male author AB -

A near future dystopia in which the United States is collapsing and terrorism is common with hope for a eutopia held out at the end.

PB - Elderberry Press CY - Oakland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Discarded Faces Y1 - 2002 A1 - Steve Cross KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia on another planet and the revolt against it. Hierarchical social structure with whites at the top. Gays and lesbians eliminated. 

PB - King Roy Publishing CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on utopias and dystopias.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance of Knives Y1 - 2001 A1 - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-ecological disaster dystopia set in Vancouver. Tongs, violence. First volume in a series; see also 2010 McMahon. 

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Gibsons Landing, BC, Canada: Drowned City Press, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Millennium Y1 - 2001 A1 - Gerald James McManus KW - Male author AB -

The novel follows the life of an ambitious white boy who becomes president of the U.S. with plans to conquer the world and eliminate all non-whites. A world government is created with the protagonist as President of Earth for life with a World Senate composed of other white leaders. Later they will be elected with voting limited to Caucasian college graduates. White women college graduates will be able to vote, but their primary role is defined as producing children. All non-whites and all Caucasians with “defective genes or had IQs below 90” were sterilized. An exception is made for Asians with an IQ over 140, who are not sterilized but are only allowed to reproduce with whites. These policies produce a eutopia by reducing the world’s population, cutting crime dramatically, and improving health and intelligence. See the author’s poem, “Crusade” at http://www.newnation.org/Archives/NNN-Guest-Column-26.html.

PB - CeShore CY - Pittsburgh, PA U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle A Visionary tale.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Delectation Debates" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Renée M. Charles ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A future in which heterosexuals are in a minority and the multi-gendered get additional votes.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dear Nestor: A Letter from 2050” Y1 - 2000 A1 - William Douglass KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in a letter from a twelve year old boy living in Bangladesh, which is part of the South Asian Block of nations, in a high tech future. The U.S. is a member of the North American Trading Block, and power now resides in these blocks rather than in the individual countries; e.g. the U.S. President is largely a ceremonial position. The U.S. is somewhat backward in that it still requires human pilots on airplanes. There is a tunnel from Miami to Habana, Cuba. Genes are implanted to keep a child from developing cancer or HIV and to slow the aging process and increase intelligence. Trial marriages are common. People travel to Mars for holidays.

JF - Whole Earth VL - no. 103 N1 -

Originally published in Dudley Fishburn, ed. The World in 2001. London: Economist, 2000 [Not found].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dervish is Digital Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia that is something of a sequel to her Tea From an Empty Cup (1998) in that the central character and some of the setting are the same. The female author was born in the U.S. and lives in England. Other cyberpunk dystopias by the author are 1991 and 1992 Cadigan.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dove's Song Y1 - 2000 A1 - Eloise Rodkey Rees KW - Female author AB -

A Christian, spiritualist eutopia. Other planets are more advanced than Earth, but an alien visits Earth and prods it in the right direction. There is a sequel to the alien’s visit in her Dove’s Duet. Novel. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2001, which is a love story helped along by the return visit of the alien. 

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream of Venus Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the same universe as 1986, 1988, and 2001 Sargent, but earlier than those novels, and focuses the development of a representation of Venus and the personalities and politics involved. 

JF - Star Colonies PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 325-57 with "Afterword to 'Dream of Venus'" on 358-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dynamo Y1 - 2000 A1 - Hank Deadwood (b. 1959) AB -

The novel begins in a San Francisco dominated by sex and drugs seen through the eyes of a musician/poet struggling to survive playing on the streets and in clubs. The eutopia comes at the end of the novel with the development of a way for everyone to get high without side effects, a complete collective economy, a network of communities, and a new energy system.

PB - Regent Press CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dark Entity Y1 - 1999 A1 - J. T. Best (d. 2009) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Much of the novel is concerned with one man's struggle with evil, but it is set within an authoritarian dystopia called Flatland, which has quite traditional gender roles, with status for men achieved through competitive games. The people are generally uneducated.

PB - Certes Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand N1 -

Rev. without any reference to the earlier version as When Darkness Fell. Cook Islands: Jaala, 2005.

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Rev. without any reference to the earlier version as When Darkness Fell.

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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 Deep Field Y1 - 1999 A1 - James Bradley (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Prologue is set far in the future, written by an author who is over 280 years old and describes an old book published in 2031. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan had occurred, and the U.S. had gone through another civil war. The rest of the book starts about 2010 and describes an authoritarian Australia.

PB - Hodder Headline CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Review, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Deepness in the Sky Y1 - 1999 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian science fiction.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dementia Island Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ernest [Michael] Hekkanen (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia describing an island where those considered undesirable are sent.

PB - New Orphic Publishers CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down There In Darkness Y1 - 1999 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a future dystopia of class-stratification and then shifts a hundred years further into the future where an attempt to create a eutopia is being worked out. There is considerable reflection on the nature of utopianism. Sequel to 1993 Turner and related to 1989 Turner.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Chapter 2 was originally published as "Worlds." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 4 (1.4) (March 1991): 36-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Downsiders. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which there is an entirely separate society beneath the streets with the focus on a relationship between a girl from above and a boy from below.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York 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 - "Dark Water" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Danel Spragg ED - P[eter] G. R. Hamilton KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Science fiction story that begins on the Utopia Habitat, a huge Dyson Sphere that is a technological eutopia. Most of the story is an adventure tale that takes place on a space ship.

JF - Millennium Nights PB - Campus Press CY - Palmerston North, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Days of Solomon Gursky" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Sequel to his Necroville (1994) but with eutopian possibilities.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 22.6 (270) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Distraction Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Political novel set in a future United States that is disintegrating as a result of various environmental and other problems.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream" Y1 - 1998 A1 - John Seymour KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set on the Aran Islands, which have become dependent on tourists and government handouts. Proposal, originating in a dream showing the life being sucked out of the islands, that they return to the eutopian self-sufficiency (described at the beginning of the story). Specifically, re-establish dairying, fishing, gardening, and other farming and wool-production, work toward energy self-sufficiency through wind power, and get rid of cars.

JF - The Aisling Quarterly (Aran Islands, Ireland) VL - 23 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Day in 2020" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Judith Mandel AB -

A half page eutopia presenting a summary of a day in the life of a woman in 2020 stressing technology, cohousing, and a fifteen-hour work week. 

JF - The Futurist VL - 31.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dazzle of Day Y1 - 1997 A1 - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Critical eutopia. Troubled Quaker society near the end of a multi-generation space flight trying to decide on settling a rather undesirable planet. Ends with a picture of the society established there after a few generations.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Saga Press, 2019 with the story “Lambing Season” appended unpaged at the end. It was originally published illus. Lourie Harden. Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.7 (318) (July 2002): 83-91; rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 200-13; and in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 203-19. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Demokratus." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Victor [Paul] Koman (b. 1954) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 0-312-85957-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dra-- Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stacey Levine AB -

Dystopia. Kafkaesque future society. The novel describes a woman caught up in a torturous employment bureaucracy.

PB - Sun & Moon Press CY - Los Angeles, CA VL - New American Fiction Series: 39 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkest England Y1 - 1996 A1 - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

Satire in which a black South African is sent by his tribe to ask the English Queen for the help that had been offered at the time of the Boer War.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Designated Mourner Y1 - 1996 A1 - William Shawn (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the near future with a regime supressing all dissent. Play directed by David Hare (b. 1947) first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London April 18, 1996.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.

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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 -

CU-Riv

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 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Delenda” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrea Thomas KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Last woman story in which sickness was followed by madness and violence with a few immune left. The story focuses on a woman and the man who rescues her from final violence, the problems they have, and the freedom she feels after he is killed by dogs. 

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland VL - no. 9 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deucalion Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Paul] Caswell (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia describing the development of an effective world government on Earth, the colonization of the planet Deucalion, the positive and negative interactions with the indigenous population, and the establishment of a new, separately located society by the indigenous people.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, QLD, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: Flyways, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Y1 - 1995 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological Victorian age of the future and some alternatives.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Distress. A Novel Y1 - 1995 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A science fiction novel that includes two eutopias. One is a small South Pacific island, called Stateless that welcomes immigrants from anywhere and is essentially anarchist. The second is a world-wide one that develops after the discovery of TOE or the Theory of Everything which creates a completely diverse but united world population. Australian author.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperPrism, 1997. 341 pp. 0-06-105264-7

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Scenario: A story set in an imaginary Britain of the present in the very near future, whenever that may happen to be Y1 - 1995 A1 - Jack Ramsay KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia where crime, both violent and nonviolent, is the norm. The middle class is hiring armed security forces and building fences around their suburbs. Police all armed with silenced automatic pistols. One focus of the novel is the controversy surrounding the proposal to re-introduce capital punishment.

PB - Publishing Associates CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream that needs abuildin' Y1 - 1995 A1 - Russell Voorhees ED - John Pritchard KW - Male author AB -

Architectural eutopia.

PB - Chayah Press CY - Phoenix, AZ U5 -

CaOUP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dryland's End Y1 - 1995 A1 - Felice Picano KW - Female author AB -

A matriarchy with problems set in the far future. 

PB - Richard Kasak CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead Space for the Unexpected" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate life in the future. The author was born in Canada and left at age 11, but he identifies himself as Canadian.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 88 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 406-19; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 243-56; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 243-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deadly Care Y1 - 1994 A1 - Richard W. Fulmer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by government involvement in health care in which patients have absolutely no choices. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

Howard

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deersnake Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements which may be LSD-induced visions.

PB - Hodder Headline CY - Rydalmere, NSW, Australia 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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MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr Orwell and Mr. Blair Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Caute KW - Male author AB -

A retelling of Orwell's Animal Farm.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dancing on the Volcano Y1 - 1993 A1 - Anne Gay KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure set in an authoritarian matriarchal dystopia from which the protagonists escape. Much fantasy. Continued in her To Bathe in Lightning. London: Orbit, 1995. 

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Darwin's Children" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Grey Rollins KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. Sequels include “Survival of the Fittest.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.6 (May 1994): 110-58; “The Missing Link.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.12 (October 1994): 90-121; and “Evolution.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.14 (December 1994): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-31, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-67.​

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 113.12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughter of Elysium Y1 - 1993 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Set in same world as her 1986 Door Into Ocean. In this volume the people of Elysium have achieved immortality which brings with it complacency and arrogance and the desire of other peoples to steal their secret.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Defense of the Social Contracts" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Martha [Clare] Soukup (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which a system of contracts regulates human interaction. The story illustrates that the system has flaws.

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 1.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996), 222-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy (b. 1984) Y1 - 1993 A1 - Robert Leon KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for the direct election of the U.S. President after candidates have been pre-approved by computers. No direct presentation of the expected eutopia, but discussion throughout the book suggests its outlines. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Demolition Man: A Novel by Richard Osborne based on a story by Peter M. Lenkov and Robert Reneau and a Screenplay by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, and Peter M. Lemkov Y1 - 1993 A1 - Richard Osborne KW - Male author AB -

A behavioral engineering dystopia set in San Angeles in 2032.

PB - Signet CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Destiny Makers Y1 - 1993 A1 - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of extreme overpopulation, corruption, and a radical gap between the rich and the poor. A plan had been developed to kill much of the world’s population so that the earth can recover and much of the novel centers on personal and political intrigue. See also 1999 Turner.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deus X Y1 - 1993 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting of the novel is a future Earth so devastated by the results of current environmental policies that human life on Earth is in danger. The novel focuses on the creation of people within an electronic net and the problems this poses for the Catholic Church and its female pope.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Deus X and Other Stories (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 90-140. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Distances" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Apocalyptic story based on the recovery of Native American Indian lands through the intercession of the Indian ancestors. In the book, the story is told by Thomas Builds-the-Fire, an Indian visionary. 

JF - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Grove Press, 2005), 104-09. Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 143-48 with an editor’s note on 143-45.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doc Forest and the Blue Mountain Ecostery: A Narrative of Creating Ecological Harmony in Daily Life Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alan R[odney] Drengson (b. 1934) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia based on an intentional community called an Ecostery or “a place where ecological wisdom and harmony (ecosophy) is learned, practiced and taught” (xii) that reflects deep ecology, which is based on the ideas of Arne Naess (1912-2009). Ecosophy, coined by Naess, comes from the Greek “oikos” or household place and “sophia” or wisdom and “refers to the wisdom to dwell harmoniously” (23). There are appendices that include the “Ecostery Foundation of North America (TEFNA): Statement of Philosophy” (175-86), an “Ecostery Brief Constitutional Model” (187-87), and an “Ecostery Long Constitution & Bylaws Model” (188-99) plus a “Select Ecostery Booklist” (201-05). 

PB - Ecostery House CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream of Glass Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jean Mark Gawron (b. 1953) KW - US author AB -

Resistance to a fascist dystopia.

PB - Harcourt, Brace & Co CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drylands Y1 - 1993 A1 - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as a result of a long drought. Three related stories are “Water Bringer.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.3 (168) (March 1991): 16-21, 24-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-47; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 12-35; “Celilo.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.7 (172) (June 1991): 88-109; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 36-55; and “The Bee Man.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.10 (175) (September 1991): 44-48, 50-52, 54-63; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 56-72. 

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with a brief "Foreword" (10-11) by the author in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 73-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Streets Y1 - 1992 A1 - Huw [Thomas] Merlin (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in Australia and the resistance to it. New South Wales is an independent country with a "Gratification District" served by "Pleasure Technicians" controlled by the State Army.

PB - S.T.W. Publishing CY - Windsor, NSW, Australia U5 -

M, Sydney

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 - Deus Ex Machina Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ivan Millett (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Machine run future. Variety of worlds presented. Some good and some not. See also his related but non-utopian Tu. Auckland, New Zealand: TTTM, 1994; and Nummus. Auckland, New Zealand: TTTM, 1993.

PB - TTTM CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. on disk 1993. 2nd ed. 1994 on disk only.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time Y1 - 1992 A1 - James Gurney (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fantasy in which dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony. Sequels include Gurney, Dinotopia: The World Beneath. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1995; Midori Snyder (b. 1954), Dinotopia: Hatchling. New York: Bullseye Books, 1995; Scott Ciencin (b. 1962), Dinotopia. Windchaser. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1995; John Vornholt (b. 1951), Dinotopia. River Quest. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1995; Ciencin, Dinotopia: Lost City. New York: Bullseye Books, 1996; Ciencin, Dinotopia. Thunder Falls New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1996; Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946), Dinotopia Lost. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing Co., 1996; U.K. ed. London: Severn House, 1998; John Vornholt (b. 1951), Dinotopia. Sabertooth Mountain. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1996; Gene DeWeese, Dinotopia. Firestorm. New York: Random House, 1997; Ciencin, Dinotopia. Sky Dance. Illus. Michael Welpy. New York: Random House, 1999; Peter [Allen] David, Dinotopia. The Maze. New York: Random House, 1999; Foster, Hand of Dinotopia. New York: Harper Collins, 1999; Mark A. Garland, Dinotopia. Rescue Party. New York: Random House, 1999; Gurney, Dinotopia: First Flight. [New York]: HarperCollins, 1999; Ciencin, Dinotopia: Return to Lost City. New York: Random House, 2000; Donald F. Glut, Dinotopia. Chomper. New York: Random House, 2000; Ciencin, Dinotopia. The Explorers. New York: Random House, 2001; Brad Strickland, Dinotopia. Survive! New York: Random House, 2001; Cathy [Catherine] Hapka, Dinotopia: Oasis. New York: Random House, 2002; Vornholt, Dinotopia: Dolphin Watch. New York: Random House, 2002; and Gurney, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2007. There was a three-part TV miniseries as Code of Dinotopia written by Gurney and Simon Moore on the Disney Channel in 2002. This was followed by a thirteen-part miniseries.

PB - Turner Publishing Co CY - Atlanta, GA N1 -

20th Anniversary ed. New York: Calla Editions, 2011.

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DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Don'ts of Whistling" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Albert Wendt (b. 1939) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Samoan author AB -

The story is about the relationship of a boy to his mostly absent father and other family members, but the background to the story is the dystopia developed in his 1992 Black Rainbow.

JF - Landfall 184 (New Zealand) VL - 46.4 N1 -

The Table of Contents adds the subtitle "(Chapter 1 of The Guide to Whistling, a sequel to Black Rainbow). No more appears to have been published.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dalereuth Guild House" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Priscilla W. Armstrong A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Danila's Song" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Vera Nazarian (b. 1966) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Paradise Y1 - 1991 A1 - Catherine Brophy KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia. One group has evolved on mental lines, losing their legs, and becoming extremely weak and dependent on technology while being extremely powerful mentally. Another group, expelled by the first, are called bipeds in that they still have legs and live outside the controlled environment. The novel includes descriptions of the evolution of and stages in the lives of the first group. Food is developed to the point that elimination is no longer necessary. Artificial womb allowed early removal of the defective.

PB - Wolfhound Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day of the Sun" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Maria McKernan KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian fantasy in which extremely poor people working under very harsh conditions to produce paper clothing experience the sun irregularly. On those days they have sex, but they forget everything about those days between them.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dealer" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michaelene Pendleton (1946-2019) KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia in which America has rejected everything foreign.

JF - Amazing Stories (Lake Geneva, WI) VL - 66.5 (562) N1 -

Rpt. in Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science fiction from the Corridor. Ed. M. Shayne Bell (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1993), 277-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death of a Sparrow Y1 - 1991 A1 - Barbara Ker-Mann (b. 1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in 2000 in a New Zealand with a corrupt government and society divided between the power brokers and the displaced with Australian and U.S. corporations dominating New Zealand. The novel centers on the construction of an American-built nuclear power plant and a nuclear accident that releases significant radioactivity, which, at the end, is killing people and wildlife. The author writes that she began the novel at the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.

PB - Leafgreen CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, Public, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dog's Chance Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael Haughney (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Surreal dystopia set in 2002 with lots of sex and violence.

PB - The Book Guild CY - Lewes, Sussex, Eng. U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dominant Style" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Far future genetically engineered eutopia which has produced an unchanging, inflexible society because everyone’s position in life, including occupation, is genetically determined. Following the story is a footnote on 245 that concludes “Imagine a world where industry and population are balanced and sustainable, where war is a hazy memory, and where crime seldom amounts to more than petty theft. If the people were happy, healthy and free, would it matter that they lived under some constraints?

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 4 SN - 1-875356-06-6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Call to the Edge (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion, 1992), 225-45.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath) A Narrative in Twelve Tales Y1 - 1991 A1 - Iain [MacGregor] Sinclair (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of the East End of London being destroyed under the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. Prime Minister 1979-90).

PB - Paladin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1992.

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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 - Dead Morn Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Roberto Fuentes (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future repressive dystopia and time travel into the past.

PB - Tafford Publishing Co CY - Houston, TX U3 -

Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death of a Native Alien Y1 - 1990 A1 - Stephen W. DeBrew (b. 1956) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Race relations in the United States in the twentieth century, depicted through the experiences of a Zirconian on the planet Terra where the Gringoa are Dominant.

PB - [Steladon Press] CY - [Upper Marlboro, MD] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Death of Hieronymus Bosch" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future U.S. of extreme poverty, violence, and corporate power that uses some of the imagery of Bosch's (1450-1516) paintings.

JF - Another Chicago Magazine VL - no. 22 N1 -

Rpt. in his Scherzi, I Believe: Short Fiction with collages by Andi Olsen. Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series (La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1994), 91-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Difference Engine Y1 - 1990 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the computer age emerges in Britain in the nineteenth century, and, as a result, the British Empire is even stronger than it was in our history. There was no famine in Ireland and, therefore, no Irish Diaspora and no independent Ireland. The United States has fragmented. The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London SN - 9780575047624 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doc and Fluff: The Distopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker Y1 - 1990 A1 - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian dystopia that includes a description of a lesbian intentional community that could be considered a eutopia.

PB - Alyson Publications CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Publications, 1996.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Double Helix Fall Y1 - 1990 A1 - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia after a large earthquake in San Francisco and the takeover of the U.S. by an organization that controls everything through computers. Rebels manipulate their own DNA in the struggle against the rulers.

PB - Abacus CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dr. Pak's Preschool" Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Japan and South Korea in which the gender of a child is ensured and then education is provided for the fetus. The story is told by a mother who is unhappy with the process. Surprise ending.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 79.1 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #45; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 30-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dollarville Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pete Davies (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Satire. One theme is a near future right wing Christian dystopia.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. 

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 - Dydeetown World Y1 - 1989 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent dystopia with very strict population control. People are generally illiterate. A volume in a series set in the so-called LaNague Federation; see his Healer (1976). Three non-utopian sequels are “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971): 149-64]; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307)[originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-45]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts were previously published as "Kids." New Destinies 7 (Spring 1989). Ed. Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1989), 229-87; and "Dydeetown Girl." Far Frontiers 4 (Winter 1985). Ed. Jerry Pournelle [Eugene] and Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1985), 9-69. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance of the Warriors Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kevin Esser (b. 1953) KW - Male author AB -

Story of man-boy love and sexual relations set in a future dystopia.

PB - Acolyte Press CY - Amsterdam, The Netherlands U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Death and Morning" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Fantastic dystopia in which a person is re-shaped for the purpose of political assassination.

JF - Machine Sex. . . and Other Stories PB - Porcépic Books CY - Victoria, BC, Canada N1 -

Book rpt. as Machine Sex and Other Stories (London: Women's Press, 1990), 17-26.

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of Flesh & Sand Y1 - 1988 A1 - W[illiam] T[homas] Quick (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a technological adventure story, but as background the world is totally dominated by private corporations. 1989 Quick Dreams of Gods and Men. New York: New American Library, 1989, in which an artificial intelligence is taking over all the corporations and 1990 Quick, Singularities. New York: ROC, 1990, are sequels.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of Khaton Y1 - 1987 A1 - [Merril] [Harris] (b. 1942) KW - Female author AB -

Lesbian feminist eutopia on another planet visited by a spaceship with a mostly male crew and the problems that ensue. 

PB - Lace Publications CY - Denver, CO N1 -

Part originally published as by Merril Harris. "From Sisterworld." Sinister Wisdom (Charlotte, NC), no. 3 (July 1976): 57-59.

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Merril Mushroom [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. See her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books, 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books, 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. see her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books. 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books. 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Lilith's Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death Arms Y1 - 1987 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of a Los Angeles abandoned to criminals.

PB - Morrigan Publications CY - Bath, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Death of Honor Y1 - 1987 A1 - Joe Clifford Faust (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A mystery set in an overpopulation dystopia that encourages people to have more children, which are then taken and raised by the state with payment to the parents.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Different Paths" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Penny Buchanan ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Red Sun of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

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 -

PSt

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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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day of No-Judgement” Y1 - 1986 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of three dystopian stories in which an unexplained “effect” unravels reality. Seen through the eyes of a professor who appears to be immune to whatever is causing the problem who is trying to understand the changes in things and people, including one of his female students who seems to both hate and love him, and with whom he falls in love. See 1987 and 1988 Wagar for the other stories. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 70.4 (419) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deathwish World Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Story of the ultimate gamble where one becomes the target for hired killers in exchange for great wealth for life, albeit usually a short one. One who survives and, as a result, is targeted by the government, plots, successfully to overthrow it.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Door Into Ocean Y1 - 1986 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex feminist and ecological eutopia on an ocean planet with no men that practices cooperation and nonviolence in conflict with a male dominated, authoritarian society that wants to take the knowledge that the women have by force and control the planet. Her eutopian Daughter of Elysium (1993) is also part of her Elysium Cycle as are her non-utopia “The Children Star.” Illus. Darryl Elliott in Analog 118. 4 – 7/8 (April – July/August 1998): 10-16, 18-59; 10-54; 58-97; 180-218, 220-222; rpt. without the illus. New York: Tor, 1998; and Brain Plague. New York: Tor, 2000.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Collector's Edition illus. Michael Mariano and with an "Introduction" by Pamela Sargent (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Double Nocturne Y1 - 1986 A1 - Cynthia [Lindgren] Felice (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Background of an authoritarian dystopia in which women suppress men.

PB - Bluejay CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: DAW, 1986

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IQ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Down and Out in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of being poor in a future failing United States.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 10.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987), 530-43 with an editor’s note on 529; in Robinson’s Remaking History (New York: Tor, 1991), 198-215; and in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 089-106.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Catcher Y1 - 1986 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1984 Hughes. Continuing struggle for freedom from a girl's perspective. Young adult.

PB - Methuen CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of an Unseen Planet Y1 - 1986 A1 - Teresa [Irene] Plowright (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is about the interactions between humans and planet Gaea, which is alive. The novel deals in particular with the responses of women. Canadian female author.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dad's Nuke Y1 - 1985 A1 - Marc Laidlaw (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future armed U.S. suburbia.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Darkling Wind Y1 - 1985 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Last volume of a series. This volume sees the defeat of the dystopia. See also 1982, 1983, and 1984 Sucharitkul.

PB - Tiger Eyes Press CY - Lemoyne, PA N1 -

Rpt. as The Darkling Wind: Chronicles of the High Inquest. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dayworld Y1 - 1985 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of series set in the conditions of 1971 Farmer, “Sliced Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World” in which individuals only live one day a week. This novel focuses on those who are capable of defeating the system and living seven different lives in a week. In Dayworld Rebel.  New York : Ace/Putnam, 1987 the protagonist of the first volume flees across the country with others who can live seven days a week. And in Dayworld Breakup. New York: Tor, 1990 it is revealed that the population has fallen and that the only reason for keeping people in suspended animation is so that those in power can stay in power. See also 2016 Farmer and Adams.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Diasporah Y1 - 1985 A1 - W[illiam] R[olla] Yates (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of an Arab-Israeli conflict in space.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Different Kind of Courage" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a healer.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dinner at Deviant's Palace Y1 - 1985 A1 - Tim[othy Thomas] Powers (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia a generation after a nuclear war focusing on a religious cult.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1986.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogfight" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society divided into the employed and unemployed. Drugs. Cyber-based control of individuals.

JF - Omni VL - 7.10 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 51-68 with an editor's note on 50; and in William [Ford] Gibson, Burning Chrome (London: Victor Gollancz, 1986), 150-75. Rpt. (London: Grafton, 1988), 167-94. U.S. ed. (New York: Arbor House, 1987), 150-75; in The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, 1989), 85-115; and in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 249-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream Games Y1 - 1985 A1 - Karl Hansen (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future pleasure oriented dystopia controlled by computers and a rebellion that overthrows the system.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

The section entitled "Dreams Unwind" (119-87) was originally published in Omni 7.8 (May 1985): 62-64, 66, 98, 100, 102, 105-06, 108, 112.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duende Meadow Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [Harlin] Cook (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After centuries underground following a war, some humans emerge to find that the Soviet Union had conquered the United States but that a spiritual awakening was occurring that might lead to a better society.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of a Coral Dawn Y1 - 1984 A1 - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian eutopia on another planet, called Maternas, with a women-only society. See also 2002 and 2005 Forrest.

PB - Naiad Press CY - [Tallahassee, FL] N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1993. 10th anniversary ed. [Tallahassee, FL]: Naiad Press, 1994. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawnwatchers Y1 - 1984 A1 - Hiram Anthony Bingham (1935-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A behaviorist, secular humanist dystopia rules in 2004, but the Dawnwatchers, a group of spiritually aware individuals, is beginning to provide an alternative. The author was influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy.

PB - Triune Books CY - New York SN - 9780961360207 9780961360207 N1 -

2nd ed. Greenwich, CT: Triune Books, 1999. 342 pp. 

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CtY, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep Breathing Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lora Mountjoy (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A novel set after a nuclear catastrophe that includes a number of eutopias. Survivors in Antarctica have created a society centered on survival, including eugenic controls. A woman from that society visits New Zealand and finds a number of surviving groups. Rainy Springs tribe, a community based loosely on the commune combined with traditional Maori practices, includes sexual freedom and the recognition that some of the mutations are positive. The Roadwomen travel around the country dealing in herbs and healing and include no males over puberty. Redemption is a Christian community dominated by one preacher. The Healing Centre at Rotorua is a community built around healing. Taramatatuhi is a Maori settlement practicing the old ways. She also encounters other individuals, groups, and settlements with both negative and positive experiences.

PB - New Women's Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Descent Into Silence" Y1 - 1984 A1 - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian novel set after a nuclear war. Set in the 1940s with New Zealand collapsing, reverting to savagery. Initially the government establishes an Office of Public Co-ordination (OPC) with powers equivalent to the government to ensure the continued functioning of New Zealand, but it fails and moves to a military base where military dictatorship is established in the surrounding area. The protagonist leaves the military area and ends up joining a group of religious tribes which is also presented in dystopian terms. The manuscript is accompanied by correspondence with Wren Green, the project leader and principal author of the New Zealand Planning Council report "New Zealand After Nuclear War". Green agreed to read the novel and reported back to Gilbert in 1987 that it was an accurate reflection of the issues New Zealanders would face. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.

PB - G. R. Gilbert Papers CY - Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury ER - TY - ABST T1 - Devil on my Back Y1 - 1984 A1 - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe computer dystopia. The story focuses on the rigid class divisions that developed, based on the ability to interface with the computer and the struggle of some people to free themselves from the computer. See also 1986 Hughes.

PB - Julia MacRae Books CY - London U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomsday Plus Twelve Y1 - 1984 A1 - James D[ouglas] Forman (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe novel in which teenagers living where a simple, peaceful life has been created cooperate to defeat a new group of militarists.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Adder Y1 - 1984 A1 - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Bluejay Books CY - [New York] ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dear God" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gayle N. Netzer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on and critique of religious homeschooling. 

JF - Aurora Speculative Feminism VL - no. 23 (8.3) UR - 23-Vol-8-No-3.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Diary of Ian Frank: A Ghost Story for Refuge Children" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Jon Kalina (b. 1948) ED - Josh Freed ED - Jon Kalina (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author AB -

Satire. An Anglo is arrested by the Language Police and re-educated. Most Anglos have tried to flee Québec but have not been accepted elsewhere. Toronto is inaccessible. Anglo boat people sail permanently on Lake Champlain, having been turned back from the U.S.

JF - The Anglo Guide to Survival in Québec PB - Eden Press CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World Y1 - 1983 A1 - Colin Johnson (b. 1938) KW - Australian author AB -

Australian treatment of the Aborigines described as a dystopia. Includes the description of a racist commune designed to civilize the Aborigines.

PB - Hyland House CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with the author given as Mudrooroo. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hyland House, 1987. 

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A, CU-I, M, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duluth Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gore Vidal (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous, rather surrealistic dystopia, which ends with an insect writing a new story of Duluth. None of the stories have any relation to the real Duluth, Minnesota, which is described on the back endpaper. Vidal's Duluth is a corrupt city with a deep division between the rich and the poor, which includes a large Spanish-speaking barrio.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogsworld" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point of a dog, with much of it satire aimed at human behavior. But then aliens arrive and ask it about humans, and, in response, they apparently improve the behavior of some of the people and provide a massive infusion of material goods, which initially produces a eutopia but then corrupts them.

JF - Pig Iron (Youngstown, OH) VL - no. 10 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamrider Y1 - 1982 A1 - Sandra [Louise] Miesel (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. The dystopia is a future authoritarian United States in which those found violating any of the many rules have their minds wiped. The eutopia is a fantasy world where humans and animals like otters have a complex society in which some of the inhabitants find people on various timelines capable of using their mental powers for good. The novel includes quite a bit on life in both the eutopia and the dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams in a Wasteland Y1 - 1982 A1 - Franklin Camuti KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future feudal world ruled by a man using science from the past.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Ardmore, PA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duncan's Colony Y1 - 1982 A1 - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian future set in a small intentional community where four people come together in hopes of surviving an expected nuclear war.

PB - Swallow Press/Ohio University Press CY - Athens, OH U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of Copper Woman Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Barbara] Anne Cameron (b. 1938) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

North American Indian matriarchal society presented as a eutopia.

PB - Press Gang Publisher CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Devil We Know" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A women's society that struggles to sustain itself while rejecting the technology that would allow them to produce more. The story is driven by the arrival of a man farming with technology near them and the tensions this produces.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doors of the Universe Y1 - 1981 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of a trilogy following 1972 and 1973 Engdahl. In this volume, the protagonist of the first two still doubts his ability to solve the problems his culture faces, but he ultimately succeeds. 

PB - Atheneum CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with minor revisions in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 423-717 together with 1972 and 1973 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21), in which she notes that this volume was intended for adults, and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]).

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Public

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 - 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 - Delos Y1 - 1980 A1 - Veronica Robinson KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel about the attempt to establish a society on a planet after years traveling in space. Success is achieved after many problems and a good society is created.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Demeter Flower Y1 - 1980 A1 - Rochelle Singer (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia in which a successful women-only community has to face a generational conflict and a visit of a couple from a patriarchal community.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Demeter's Palace" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Debi [Deborah L. Hodgeson] Kean KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia in which business has taken over government. There is a rigid separation of the rich and the poor and between men and women.

JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 19 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Docket, 2028: Supreme Council on Psycho-Ethics" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gertrude J. Rubin Williams (1927-86) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Briefly presents a series of cases to come before the Council on Psycho-Ethics that give a picture of the world in 2028, whether it is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader. The cases include such issues as psychotropic drugs that are required to prevent mental illness, required licenses for parenthood (contraceptives are in the water supply), rights for clones, applications for euthanasia (117), surrogacy (117-18), and the sale of body parts (118).  Half the world’s population had requested exemption from the military on moral grounds (118). 

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreamers Y1 - 1980 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia which leaves people no challenges.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Mind Master. New York: Timescape, 1981.

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Rpt. as The Mind Master

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dustland Y1 - 1980 A1 - Virginia [Esther] Hamilton (1934-2002) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The second volume of the Justice Cycle. The first volume, Justice and Her Brothers. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1978, is not utopian but introduces the characters, who have exceptional powers. In this volume, they travel to a barren future characterized by the title. See also 1981 Hamilton.

PB - Greenwillow Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, DLC, Merril, 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Wing Y1 - 1979 A1 - Carl West A1 - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which medical care is illegal and the ill are put to death. Corporate power.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Saint Louis Bearheart Y1 - 1978 A1 - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Future U.S. with a collapsed economy and the rebirth of a Native American Indian culture. See also 1991 and 2016 Vizenor.

PB - The Truck Press CY - St. Paul, MN N1 -

Rpt. as Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990. An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 116-20 with an editor’s note on 116-17, 247. 

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MoU-K, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future Y1 - 1978 A1 - William Irwin Thompson (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future speculation by the founder of the Lindisfarne Community, in Southampton, NY, which was established in 1973. Although much of the text uses the language of the New Age and is vague about the eutopia to be produced, he suggests what he calls "The Metaindustrial Village" that will involve both agricultural and industrial work and be connected to the world through computer technology.

PB - Anchor Books CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Parts of the first two chapters were originally published as "Beyond Civilization: Auguries of Planetization." Quest/77 1.2 (May/June 1977):69-72, 74, 92-93; and "Auguries of Planetization: Braving a New World." Quest/77 1.3 (July/August 1977): 55-60, 94-95. 

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TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death in Florence Y1 - 1978 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Utopia 3 is a postwar project designed to reform humanity and lead to a eutopia of common understanding. The novel follows three people who become part of the project and the various problems they and the project encounter.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. as Utopia 3. New York: Playboy Press Paperbacks, 1980.

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Rpt. as Utopia 3

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Differences Are Cause For Joy. View from the Year Twenty-two Hundred. Essay in Feminist Theory" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction feminist eutopia with gender equality, a population in balance, no more violence or war, a balanced ecology, agism and racism gone, and there is no religion.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Diggers: The Story of a Commune Y1 - 1978 A1 - David Starsmeare KW - Male author AB -

Play about 1652 Winstanley and the Diggers.

PB - Blackie CY - Glasgow, Scot. U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dolphins and Killerwhales Y1 - 1978 A1 - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the struggle against it. Sequel to 1976 and 1977 Fisher.

PB - Mother Sea Publications CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don't Pay Taxes Y1 - 1978 A1 - Wayne Innes (b. 1943) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia describing the Suburban Work Alternative, a work-based community which is suburban with separate housing. Cottage industries. The author expects about 10% of the population to live in them. The title suggests one thing that everyone can do to help bring about change. The second edition is roughly twice as long with Part Two "Economic Restructuring" (88-136) added, which, except for a few lines reiterating what was said in the first part, is a critique of current government policy.

PB - Social Analysis Ltd CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Social Analysis Ltd., 1979.

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ATL, NZ, VUW

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 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Design for the City of Women" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Lapidus, Jacqueline KW - Female author AB -

Short sketch of a primitive lesbian eutopia with the rituals connected to their bodies and life stages.

JF - Heresies VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Double E Y1 - 1977 A1 - Percival Goodman (1904-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia intended to revisited some of the issues raised in 1947 Goodman and Goodman. Double E refers to environment and economy. Includes both consideration of varied plans for ideal cities and proposals for ideal built environments. Some of the material is based on 1973 Goodman.

PB - Anchor Books CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

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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U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover

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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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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dwarf's Legacy Y1 - 1977 A1 - Tolly [Apostolos P.] Kizilos KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia bent on forgetting the past.

PB - Ashley Books CY - Port Washington, NY U5 -

MnM, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Day After Tomorrow Y1 - 1976 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conformist corporate dystopia and the revolt against it, which fails.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

A shorter version was published earlier as "Status Quo." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 67.6 (August 1961): 4-64.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day of the Big Test" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Testing of children in their seventh year determines family status, income, leisure, etc. Presented generally positively.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

PSt

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 - Deus Irae Y1 - 1976 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) A1 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dystopia. Deus Irae is God of Wrath and is the head of a religion sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980; New York: DAW Books, 1983; and New York: Vintage Books, 2003.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Diary of the Rose" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis. 

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divers of Arakam Y1 - 1976 A1 - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an imaginary country that is obviously New Zealand with an authoritarian government. See also 1977 and 1978 Fisher.

PB - [Bert Fisher] CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

VUW

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 - Double Time Y1 - 1976 A1 - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulation and conflict over agricultural property.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day They Cut Off the Power" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Vera Johnson ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Female author AB -

Students of every college of the United States of Europe plan a revolt, but all the colleges are closed and turned over to the local governments to use as housing. All education will be by television. Extreme pollution. Neo-Luddites destroying cars and planes.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (27) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Death in Coventry" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Joseph [Lee] Green (b. 1931) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of human alien relations on a developing planet, with the humans entirely at fault.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dhalgren Y1 - 1975 A1 - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Complex dystopia set in a city called Bellona in what appears to be a post-catastrophe America where reality is constantly shifting. Much violence, including sexual violence. Includes a commune in a park.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomsday Clock Y1 - 1975 A1 - Elizabeth S. Benoist (1901-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A novel about the build-up to nuclear war and the aftermath of the war. A small group of survivors is shown in an almost eutopian underground shelter. Conflicts develop among them, and they work to return to the surface.

PB - Naylor Co CY - San Antonio, TX U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drumble" Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Charles Dodd] [Naylor] (1941-2005) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which an English village is encapsulated and kept forever unchanged as a tourist attraction. Everyone inside, who live forever, is provided with all material needs.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U3 -

Cassandra Nye [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dybbuk Dolls" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of poverty and anti-Semitism. Most groups live in high-rise ghettos. The dybbuk dolls are alien artifacts that reinforce a person's worst characteristics.

JF - New Dimensions Number 5 PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time. Ed. Michael Bishop (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 78-92.

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MoU-St, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day Before the Revolution" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story of Odo, theorist of the revolution in 1974 Le Guin, The Dispossessed, as an old woman just before the revolution. The Galaxy version is dedicated “in memoriam Paul Goodman 1911-1972”. Although the story takes place before the novel, it was written after it. See the note on the story in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, where she also says, “This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas” [1973 Le Guin] (232).

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.8 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 232-46; in Nebula Award Stories Ten. Ed. James Gunn (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 129-45; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 279-301; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 391-401, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 390; in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 344-57; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 407-22; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 483-96; in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 975-89 with a “Note on the Text” (1084); and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 218-237, with a biographical note on 454-456 and notes on the text on 485-486. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depression or Bust Y1 - 1974 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on economic cycles. One man decides he can't afford the new freezer he bought and sends it back; the seller of the freezer cancels the new car he had ordered; the car dealer cancels the house he was to have built; and so forth. The economic downswing becomes a full-blown depression until the government gives money to the first man to start buying and the cycle is reversed.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, NBeU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia Y1 - 1974 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed anarchist eutopia with problems.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Avon, 1975; and with the subtitle as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" (unpaged) by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.]; New York: Harper, 1991. U.K. ed. without the subtitle and with a brief introduction, "Welcome (back) to Anarres" by Richard Morgan (ix-xii). London: Gollancz, 2006; and, with the subtitle, in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 613-919 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and “Notes” (1091-92).  An extract was published as “News from Anarres.” Social Revolution: Paper of the Social Revolution Group (Aberdeen, Scot.), no. 4 ([1977]): 12. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of China, Europe and . . . (The World Ecological Catastrophe). A Very Amusing Satire. A Scientific Tragi-Comedy in 3 Acts Y1 - 1973 A1 - Apollo Silva (b. 1920) KW - Male author KW - Portuguese author AB -

The first act is set in Rome in 1990, the second on the moon, and the third on a eutopian island called the Model Country off Sardinia.

PB - Author CY - Oporto, Portugal ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Desirable Lakeside Residence" Y1 - 1973 A1 - André Norton (1912-2005) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 69-88. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Disneyland Man" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Gustav Hasford (1947-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia--poverty, conflict. Unfit humans used for food.

JF - Edge VL - [1].5/6 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Don't Hold Your Breath" Y1 - 1973 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 203-24. Story rpt. in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 523-39.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Gene Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A gene for short, intense life to help control population growth creates a dystopia.

PB - Weybright & Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daughter" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Anne [Inez] McCaffrey (1926-2011) ED - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Coming of age story with a background of a society that carefully chooses the occupations of its citizens based on their aptitudes.

JF - The Many Worlds of Science Fiction PB - E.P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

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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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance the Eagle to Sleep Y1 - 1970 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia which has a required "19th Year of Service" seen through the eyes of various young people who are suppressed by their parents, their schools, and the social order in which they live. This part of the novel reads like a realistic novel which then shifts to the youth rebellion and the rest of the novel focuses on the rebellion, the people involved in it, their relations and conflicts, and the organizations they establish including urban and rural communities. See also 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971; and Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, with an "Introduction to the New Edition" by the author (vii-ix).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dear Aunt Annie” Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future after the Last War in which the United States killed off most of the population of the rest of the world. As a result, the entire culture came to center eliminating violence control by a robot agony aunt and centers where everyone is required, at least once every three months, to take an anti-violence pill. In the story, people are becoming immune.

JF - Fantastic VL - 19-4 N1 -

Rpt. in Second Creation: Selected Stories Volume One ([Vancleave, MS]: Ramble House, 2016), 11-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution Y1 - 1970 A1 - Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

One of the more radical feminist texts of the time, which ends with a chapter entitled "The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations" (183-224) [called "Conclusion: The Ultimate Revolution" (232-74) in the U.K. ed.]; and, in the rev. ed. a section called "Alternatives" (226-42) outlining a future feminist eutopia. The book ends with a chart outlining the history of the position of women from the beginnings into a far future "cosmic consciousness".

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Rev. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.

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 - Dragon Feast Y1 - 1970 A1 - John Elliott KW - Male author AB -

United States occupied by Chinussian alliance. Dystopia but mostly about the counter-revolution.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dancing Gerontius" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one.

JF - Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of the Drones Y1 - 1969 A1 - A[lice] M[artha] Lightner (1904-1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a future post-catastrophe Africa, Blacks rule and believe that their civilization is the only one left. Whites are drones. An expedition led by a young African woman is allowed to search for others and finds both that others do exist and that there are the remains of Western civilization, both of which are likely effect to African civilization.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of the Women Y1 - 1969 A1 - [June] Pamela Kettle (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which women dominate.

PB - Leslie Frewin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: New English Library, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Days After Y1 - 1969 A1 - T[homas] E[dwin] Dorman (b. 1914) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drag Hunt Y1 - 1969 A1 - James Broom Lynne KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Mixed future. General tolerance and economic prosperity, but there is a human hunt replacing fox hunting. Violence is encouraged in political protests. Young Purity Party.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

Merril, O

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 - Day of the Republic Y1 - 1968 A1 - Geoff[rey] Taylor (b. 1920) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting Australia on the day it became a republic under what is essentially a fascist dictatorship. The novel is presented from the point of view of those preparing the last issue of the last independent newspaper as all opposition is being suppressed. Ends with nuclear war.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U5 -

A, ATL, CLU, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead to the World" Y1 - 1968 A1 - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. Computer and robot controlled world and the effect on a man whose identity card is accidentally marked deceased.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in New Writings in S-F 8. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 125-42; and in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 3-15.

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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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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Y1 - 1968 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia.  Basis of the 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott (b. 1937) with a screenplay by Hampton Fancher (b. 1938) and David Peoples (b. 1940). The screenplay by Fancher was published Hollywood: Script City, 1981. Unrelated to 1974 Nourse. See 1995 Jeter.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City N1 -

Rpt. in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan [Allen] Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 431-608. “Notes” 828-29. Rpt. as Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. During his lifetime Dick refused to allow the title change. Graphic Novel version as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6 vols. Art Tony Parker, Colors Blond, Letters Richard Starkings of Comicraft, Cover Bill Sienkiewicz, Ed. Ian Brill [vol. 1 only] and Bryce Carlson, Design Stephanie Gonzaga. Los Angeles, CA: Boom Studios, 2009-11.

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Rpt. as Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dome Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Thomas Frederick] Gonnar Jones KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a machine that can project feelings into the brain.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -

DLC, NLS

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 - "The Day Before Forever" Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia focusing on transplants.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 33.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 7-112; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 283-370.

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IU, PSt

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 -

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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 - “Day of Absence: A Satirical Fantasy” Y1 - 1966 A1 - Douglas Turner Ward (b. 1939) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The play takes place in one typical dystopian small Southern town in which all the Negroes disappear for one day and shows how completely the whites are dependent on them. The play was first performed November 15, 1965, at the St. Mark’s Playhouse, New York.

JF - Happy Ending and Day of Absence. Two Plays PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil and Democracy” Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian [Brendon Talbot] Cleeve (1921-2003) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the unionization of Hell. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 31.5 (186) U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Davy Y1 - 1964 A1 - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future barbarianism but with elements of a dystopia dominated by religion.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1966. Expanded from "The Golden Horn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 22.2 (129) (February 1962): 98-129; and "A War of No Consequence." 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 51-73.

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DLC, O, PSt, WiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day the Machines Stopped Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All electrical power disrupted. This produces authoritarian dystopias plus an attempt to rebuild civilization.

PB - Monarch Books CY - Derby, CT U3 -

Christopher Anvil [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deathworld 2 Y1 - 1964 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Bantam CY - New York N1 -

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

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UK ed. as The Ethical Engineer.

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Merril

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 Day Natal Took Off. A Satire Y1 - 1963 A1 - Anthony [Ronald St. Martin] Delius (1916-89) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Satire on contemporary South African politics and race relations.

PB - Insight Publications CY - Cape Town, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Pall Mall Press, 1963.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Day of Truce" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Suburbs have become a war of strongholds versus the punks.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 21.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 111-34; and in Grotto of the Dancing Bear and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Four. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016. 

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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InTI, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Deer Park" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Mary Russell] [Standard] (b. 1926) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that would now be characterized as with people living in Virtual Reality. In the story, told from the point of view of the man, the protagonist lives the world he created with a woman he created. He is challenged by a woman from outside his reality who completely rejects his sense of reality. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 22.1 (128) SN - 9781951320003 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 3.6 (May 1962): 38-; and in Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963). Ed. A. J. Howells, Janice Marcus, and Erica Frank (Visa, CA: Journey Press, 2019), 142-54, with an introduction by Claire Weaver on 142-43. 

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Maria Russell [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Different Drummer Y1 - 1962 A1 - William Melvin Kelley (1937-2017) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in the South that is a dystopia for all African Americans. One man revolts, salts his fields, kills his livestock, burns his house down, and leaves. All the other African Americans in the town follow his example. 

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 1989 with a “Foreword” by David Bradley (xi-xxxii); and London: riverrun, 2018, with a “Foreword: ‘The Lost Giant of American Literature’” by Kathryn Schulz (ix-xxxiv), which was originally published in The New Yorker 93.36 (January 29, 2018): 26-31 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-lost-giant-of-american-literature); and “A Biography of William Melvin Kelley” by Jessica Kelley (his daughter) (295-302).

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PSt

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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C, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Day in the Suburbs" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of future violence with war among the women living in different styles of housing in the suburbs, with a truce at night so that the men know nothing about the violence.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 19.3 (112) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drunkard's Walk" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story includes a dystopian overpopulated, poor society contrasted with the privileged few who pass extremely stringent tests to enter the relative prosperity of university.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 18.5 - 6 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ballantine Books. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Day at the Beach" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia presented through the eyes of a surviving housewife.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.2 (99) N1 -

Rpt. in SF: The Best of the Best. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Delacourt, 1967), 274-84. U.K. ed. (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 274-84; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 97-107; and in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 108-14. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dodkin's Job" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conformist dystopia with computers ruling and one man discovering how to undermine the system.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 64.2 N1 -

Rpt. his Future Tense (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 7-46; book rpt. as Dust of Far Suns (New York: DAW Books, 1981), 37-77. Story rev. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. Vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 153-201.

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Merril, MoU-St, NHemH, PSt

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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PPT, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream of John Ball" Y1 - 1958 A1 - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) A1 - Denis [James Matthews] Glover (1912-80) ED - Dorothy Cannibal Editor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but depicting a populist eutopia. John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.

JF - Poetry Harbinger: Introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7) PB - Pilgrim Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy at Ease: A New Zealand Profile Y1 - 1957 A1 - David Goldblatt KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction but presents New Zealand throughout as a realized eutopia. Largely glittering generalities but includes some minimal recognition that not everything has worked as designed. Written from the point of view of an outsider. There is an obviously faked picture of the author with "Maori friends".

PB - Pall Mall Press CY - London U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dio" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which immortality is achieved by indefinitely prolonging physical adolescence. Two classes develop, known as the players, who consume and enjoy, and the students, who are said to "remember" and do whatever planning is needed. The two classes normally have little to do with each other, but the novel is concerned with the relationship of a couple from the two classes, when the man is going through the lost experience of dying.

JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 548-81.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomsday Morning Y1 - 1957 A1 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia with the United States ruled by Comus or Communications U.S. in which  controls the media, education, and public relations. The novel focuses on the successful revolt against Comus and ends with the collapse of Comus.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1987; and London: Gollancz, 2019.

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L, MoU-St, PSt

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 - "The Door Into Summer" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in 1970 and 2000 and is primarily science fiction with a man who is frozen in 1970, wakes in 2000, time travels back to 1970, and returns to 2000 having resolved his 1970s problems in ways that will make his life in 2000 better. 2000 is generally presented positively and 1970 negatively but both have problems.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 11.4 - 6 (65-67) N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. Rpt. as vol. 5 The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doubting Thomas Y1 - 1956 A1 - Winston Brebner (1924-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia that is effectively defeated by a clown who becomes so popular that the bureaucracy is forced to support him.

PB - Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

DLC, L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Drivers" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with population and aggression control through killing on highways.

JF - Worlds of If Science Fiction VL - 6.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1983), 235-53; and in his The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Los Gatos, CA: Polaris Press, 1983), 27-42.

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Trans. in Il Grande Dio Auto. Ed. Roberta Rambelli. Roma: Editrice dell Automobile/Automobile Club d’Italia, 1965. 

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PSt

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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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep in the Sky. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1955 A1 - Helga Nielsen KW - Danish author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia called Salomnia, with some problems, on a planet called Canta. Everyone must consult with the Board of Adaptation about appropriate work. All medical care free. No alcohol. No tipping. Technologically advanced. Another country on the planet is called Seva is in conflict with Salomnia.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

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 - "DP" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Arthur Dekker Savage KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Flaws of government-provided perfection.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.1 U5 -

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 Defenders" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, both sides retreat underground and allow their androids with artificial intelligence to conduct the war while working to send them more and more devastating weapons. An apparent anomaly leads to the discovery that the androids had been destroying the weapons and that there was no war and no devastation. In the end, the two sides agree to cooperate and hold out hope for a eutopian future.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 5.4 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 367-72 with an editor’s note on 367.

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Illus. EMSH [Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925-90)]

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drovers Road Y1 - 1953 A1 - Joyce [Tarleton] West (1908-85) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel presenting a back country New Zealand farm as a eutopia. Sequels include Cape Lost with three different descriptions of the publisher. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1963; Auckland, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcade, 1963; and Auckland, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcade/London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1963; rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (161-280); and The Golden Country. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1965; and Hamilton, New Zealand: Janet and Blackwood Paul, 1965; rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (283-416).

PB - J.M. Dent & Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (Bathgate, ND: Bethlehem Books/San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2002), 1-59 with a "Glossary" (417-18).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead End" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Wallace MacFarlane KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia that is only fit for androids or what is here called pseudo-life and the last human leaves.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 3.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 260-70.

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PSt

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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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Defender of the Faith" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Alfred[o] [José Araña-Marini y] Coppel [Jr.] (1921-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

War between the sexes.

JF - Science Fiction Quarterly VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Quarterly (British Edition), no 4 (November 1952): 59-67. C,

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Demolished Man" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Alfred Bester (1913-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Police procedural set in a future society where telepathy is recognized, and telepaths are ranked according to ability with the most powerful telepaths holding the most important positions.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) PB - Shasta CY - Chicago, IL VL - 3.4 - 6 N1 -

Repub. Chicago, IL: Shasta, 1953. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1954, which is rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Advocate Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Janet Miriam] Taylor [Holland] Caldwell (1900-85) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The U.S. becomes weak through the adoption of the welfare policies of the New Deal and is ripe for takeover by a dictatorial system known as The Democracy. Constant wars. Extreme poverty. Surveillance. There is a underground movement known as the Minute Men, led from within The Democracy, that ultimately overthrows it.

PB - Crown CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1964; and New York: Pyramid, 1971.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dumb Waiter" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which an automated war continues long after the bombs are gone, and a computer-controlled city still enforces laws long out of date.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 49. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 323-58.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Interlude" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief description of a future eutopia where everyone is a student because all the issues of production and distribution have been solved. All races in the future have blended into one, and a man from the future who said he is one-fourth black is killed because he married a white woman.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.4 N1 -

Rpt. in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 423-28.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearance Y1 - 1951 A1 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. With no real explanation, the sexes disappear from each other producing two single sex societies. Both societies have problems, and the sexes reappear to each other at the end. Compare to James Patrick Kelly, “Men Are Trouble” (2004) and “The Last Judgment” (2012).

PB - Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004 with an "Introduction" by Robert Silverberg (v-xi).

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DLC, PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - ". . . Divided We Fall" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conflict among different types of humanity.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 24.12 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Divine Right" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) KW - Female author AB -

The story shows the beginning of a dystopia with a bad king after a series of good ones and the revolt against him that leads to the possibility of a democracy.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.3 U5 -

PSt

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doppelgangers: An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution 1997 Y1 - 1947 A1 - H[enry] F[itzgerald] Heard (1889-1971) KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A eutopia supposed to be brought about by new advances in psychology turns sour and becomes an authoritarian dystopia based on the same discoveries. The novel focuses on the struggle for control between two dystopias, one on the surface of the planet that used the “bread and circuses” approach to control, and the other underground that used fear as the means of control. In the novel, the underground dystopia tries to overthrow the one on the surface, using, in what may be the first use of the phrase, psychological warfare. 

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York U5 -

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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 - 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 - "Destiny Times Three" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future earth is split into three. One is a flawed utopia, which is supposed to be peaceful and joyful, but is stagnant; one is an authoritarian dystopia; and one is a destroyed landscape ruled by intelligent cats.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 35.1 -2 N1 -

Rpt. in Five Science Fiction Novels. Comp. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1952), 110-203); as Galaxy Novel 28. New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1952; and in Binary Star # 1 (New York: Dell, 1978), 7-150. The most recent reprint has an "Afterword" by Norman Spinrad (150-55).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Altar Boy Y1 - 1945 A1 - Erdahl, Silvert AB -

Dystopian allegory in which Germany and Japan won World War II and produced a second Dark Ages.

PB - Capitol Hill Press CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Days after Tomorrow: A Voice from 2000 A.D Y1 - 1944 A1 - Frank R[obinson] Kerr (b. 1889) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World federation with a powerful world Parliament. Religious. Stresses science and education.

PB - Robertson & Mullens CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia 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 - Drives Toward War Y1 - 1942 A1 - Edward Chace Tolman (1856-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay but includes a short conclusion called a utopia (100-12) describing the society necessary, from the point of view of a psychologist, for avoiding war. This society must not frustrate basic biological needs, encourage identification with "acceptable authority figures," and create a "supranational state" to which people will feel more loyalty than to their nation-state (102).

PB - D. Appleton-Century Co CY - New York 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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Trans. from the German manuscript by Daphne Hardy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disappearance of General Jason Y1 - 1940 A1 - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941) KW - Male author AB -

Lost race eutopia that rejects modern technology.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1973.

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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 - "Dream Places" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Pat[rick Anthony] Lawlor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Two brief eutopian visions. The first is a South Seas Island paradise, which is rejected as unrealistic in that there will be mosquitoes and sharks. The second is heaven after death.

JF - The New Zealand Railways Magazine VL - 12.12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Pickles, L. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Brief socialist eutopia.

JF - Tomorrow (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - 3.20 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depression Island Y1 - 1935 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first part of the book is a satire on capitalism in which three men shipwrecked on an island recreate class. The second part of the book is a satire on gender relations. 

PB - Author CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

The book originated as a few pages in his The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933), 25-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dissolution of Governments by Greed, Crime and Wars Y1 - 1935 A1 - L. P. Lidback AB -

The pamphlet has two sections, "The United States, Land of Individual Initiative in Industry, Crime, and Graft" (5-9) and "A Government of the People, By the People, and For the People" (11-27). The first shows what is wrong in the U.S., and the second presents the eutopia, which is an adaptation of the Industrial Army from 1888 Bellamy, through the 1965 inaugural address of the U.S. President. There is an organization chart of "The Edward Bellamy System of Industrial Government" on 27.

PB - np CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Crosby's Strange Experience or a New World By 1944 Y1 - 1935 A1 - Joseph W[illiam] Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia based on the ideas of Edward Bellamy and set in Kansas City and its environs. Private property only in personal effects. All work for the government, guaranteed lifetime income. No money. Education to 25; work 26 years; retire at 50 or, by choice, continue to work. Hours of work determined by demand and difficulty. Considerable concern with farming, which is scientifically based and uses technology extensively. See also [1941?] Parker. 

PB - The Peerage Press CY - Kansas City, MO N1 -

Some copies have Kansas City crossed out and replaced with Chicago, IL, and the press moved to Chicago at this time.

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Illus. Donald Lathrop. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Arnoldi Y1 - 1934 A1 - Tiffany [Ellsworth] Thayer (1902-59) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Julian Messner CY - New York U5 -

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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 - "Dewey Outlines Utopian Schools" Y1 - 1933 A1 - John Dewey (1859-1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Education in Utopia. No schools as such. Children are brought together with adults and older children in groups no larger than 200. Substantial gardens and open space available. Workshops available. The purpose is to identify and nurture the abilities of the children. Rejects competition in education. For a sentence-by-sentence exposition, see William H. Schubert, Love, Justice, and Education: John Dewey and the Utopians. Charlotte, NC: IAP Information Age Publishing, 2009.

JF - New York Times N1 -

Rpt. in his The Later Works, 1925-1953. Volume 9: 1933-1934. Ed. Jo Ann Boydston, Anne Sharpe, and Patricia Baysinger (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), 136-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream or a Vision?" Y1 - 1931 A1 - J. H. Beck AB -

Eutopia. The Catholic Agricultural Organization, a cooperative system run by the dominant church, saves English agriculture and restores balance to the economy. Set in 1981.

JF - Month (UK) VL - 158 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 - 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 - The Dawn of a New Civilization Y1 - 1929 A1 - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Follows the life and wanderings of an architect, very like those of the author, searching for beauty and meaning. Ends with the design of a city and new buildings that combine the attributes of Eastern and western culture. 

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decadence: An Excerpt from "A History of the Triumph and Decay of England," dateable 1949. With a Preface by A Conservative Y1 - 1929 A1 - L. Macaulay KW - Male author AB -

Great Britain is in terminal decline because it has not adopted free trade, and the book combines a future history showing that decline with arguments for free trade and against its oponents.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Princess. A Romance Y1 - 1928 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins with an excellent African-American medical student being denied the right to continue because, as a black, he is not permitted to do the required section on obstetrics. He flees the country and meets other colored people who hope to create a united body to work for their betterment. For personal reasons, he rejects their overtures and returns to the U.S., where he becomes an up-and-coming politician married to a wealthy, well-connected woman. After numerous setbacks, he reconnects with the other colored peoples who have a plan for a better future that will be developed over the coming fifteen years. There is, though, a disagreement, which, not resolved with in novel, between those who believe in violence as a means and those who reject it. 

PB - Harcourt, Brace and Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Millwood, NY: Kraus Thompson, 1974, with an “Introduction” by Herbert Aptheker (5-29); Jackson: Banner Books University Press of Mississippi, 1995; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 with an "Introduction" by Homi K. Bhabha (xxv-xxxi).

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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 - The Devil's Henchman Y1 - 1926 A1 - John Oldrey KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that depicts a conflict between good and evil through eutopian and dystopian groups in the mountains of Afghanistan. Both groups originated in ancient Egypt as followers of Set (evil) and Isis (good). The followers of Isis have established a eutopia; the followers of Set have enslaved the area they control and are planning to take over the world.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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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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Clive Hamilton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 35 [bis]. A Journey to the Year 3000" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. Humor.

JF - Science and Invention (New York) VL - 12.9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Judgment and the Celestial Missionaries of Life Y1 - 1923 A1 - Louis Pauer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia introduced to Earth by visitors from space. People from Earth then carry the message to other planets. 

PB - Author CY - [Cleveland, OH] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 23. What Hackensaw Found on the Moon" Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Advanced beings on the moon who change shapes and sexes at will. Humor.

JF - Science and Invention (New York) VL - 11.7 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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Illus. Herbert Morton Stoops

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dalleszona and the Seventh Treasure Y1 - 1922 A1 - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Pure democracy. Compulsory education. Each person receives a living wage but must work for it.

PB - The Roxburgh Pub. Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 11. Journey to the Year 2025" Y1 - 1922 A1 - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. Humor.

JF - Science and Invention (New York) VL - 10.8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Faith Y1 - 1921 A1 - Arthur Somers Roche (1883-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-utopian novel. A eutopia where everyone is honest, and there are no police or jails proves weak and collapses.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Frontispiece by M. Leone Bracker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Devolutionist" Y1 - 1921 A1 - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

JF - Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York) VL - 135.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 5-95.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil Y1 - 1920 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) ED - W. E. B. Du Bois KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

cken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volume of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt

Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story “The Comet” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem “A Hymn to the Peoples” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears.

PB - Harcourt, Brace and Howe CY - New York N1 -

“The Comet” (253-73) is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax Y1 - 1920 A1 - [John W.] [Hultberg] (1872-1951) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Dent Publishing Co CY - San Francisco, CA U3 -

Val de Mar [pseud.].

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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 - Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day Y1 - 1920 A1 - Robert [James Campbell] Stead (1880-1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly family history and romance, but it includes a land settlement scheme that will bring about a better society.

PB - The Musson Book Co CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomed. A Startling Message to the People of Our Day, interwoven in an Antediluvian Romance of Two Old Worlds and Two Young Lovers, by Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe. By the Atlon Calendar, the Year 14,909; by Our Calendar the Year 1920 Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Frank] [Rosewater] (1856-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atlism, in which everyone must spend their entire income to promote production, brings eutopia. 

PB - Frank Rosewater, Publisher CY - New York U2 -

Illus. R. Emmett Owen.

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Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream City Y1 - 1920 A1 - Unitas [pseud.] AB -

Christian socialist eutopia initially established as an intentional community, but it grew in numbers and prestige until it was possible to form a national government.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company CY - London U3 -

Unitas [pseud.]

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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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Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: John Murray, 1921), 55-82. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 55-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy Made Safe Y1 - 1918 A1 - Paul Harris Drake (b. 1889) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia will be brought about by abolishing money and capitalism.

PB - LeRoy Phillips CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: The Four Seas Co., 1920

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dawn of White Australasia (Being the Remarkable Adventures of Peter Ecoores Van Bu)" Y1 - 1916 A1 - George Forbes KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a section (172-83 in the book) on two islands, one of men and one of women. Both islands follow the rules set down by the "wise ones" (men) who live of a mountain on the female island, sleep naked on the ground, and eat no meat, fish, or live vegetables. The men spend three months each year with the women on the women's island and the men provide their wives with all the necessities of life. Unmarried women did all the work on the women's island.

JF - Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 11726 - 11751 N1 -

Rpt. as Adventures in Southern Seas, a Tale of the Sixteenth Century. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Australasian Pub. Co., 1920. U.K. ed. London: Harrap, 1920.

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Rpt. as Adventures in Southern Seas, a Tale of the Sixteenth Century. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Australasian Pub. Co., 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Drop in Infinity Y1 - 1915 A1 - Gerald Grogan (1884-1918) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Colonization of a new world with the novel all on the early stages of development, but it ends with something like a eutopia of a simple, fairly primitive life.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head/John Lane Co./Bell & Cockburn CY - London/New York/Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and Dawn Y1 - 1914 A1 - George Allan England (1877-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Much of the novel is a post-catastrophe dystopia with a young couple apparently alone struggling to survive, then in conflict with other survivors, but the novel ends depicting the beginnings of a new egalitarian, peaceful eutopian society.

PB - Small, Maynard CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with unpaged “The Fantastic in Fiction” by the author, originally published as “Facts About Fantasy.” The Story World (July 1923). Originally serialized as “Darkness and Dawn.” The Cavalier 10. 4 (January 1912): 621-34; The Cavalier and the Scrap Book 11.1 - 3 (January 6 - 20, 1912): 169-85, 321-39, 521-33; “Beyond the Great Oblivion.” The Cavalier 24.1 - 25.2 (January 4 - February 8, 1913): 1-34, 215-32, 434-52, 645-65; 115-34, 272-92; and “The Afterglow.” Cavalier 29.4 - 30.3 (June 14 - July 5, 1913): 577-607; 71-100, 250-78, 495-519. All three were rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 2.3 (August 1940: 6-78; 3.2 (June 1941): 6-105; 3.5 (December 1941): 6-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of Hope Y1 - 1914 A1 - Jas [James] Aggers KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Mostly concerned with the problems of workers in contemporary New Zealand but includes a dream of Joshua Narrowgrove, a minister who has supported the wealthy and opposed socialism. The vision includes a brief description of a socialist eutopia. A sequelParson Narrowgroove, Socialist, was announced but apparently not published.

PB - The Worker Print CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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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.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U3 -

The Man Who Was Warned [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Derelict Empire Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Henry Crossley] [Irwin] KW - Male author AB -

An anti-socialist dystopia is the cause of the neglect of empire through abolishing the House of Lords, giving women the vote, giving Ireland Home Rule, and establishing a pension system, among other things.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

Mark Time [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Downfall of Grabbum: An Ulster Fable Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Adela Elizabeth] [Orpen] (1855-1928) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Some satire, but the novel ends with a eutopia of peace and harmony brought about by forensic phrenology or reading the bumps on the heads of individuals.

PB - R. Carswell & Son CY - Belfast, Northern Ireland U3 -

An Ulster Clergyman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Blair: or, Irish Protestants under Home Rule Y1 - 1912 A1 - Rev. P. P. O'Sullivan (1874-1918) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2010 and depicts the crisis of religion due to falling attendance. The Roman Catholic Church conspires to get control of Ireland and is expelled. Spiritualism. Revival of religion followed by a eutopia of non-denominationalism, prosperity, and technological advances.

PB - Ptd. by R. Carswell CY - Belfast, Northern Ireland U5 -

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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 - The Day After To-morrow Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Minnie Warren] [Jones] (b. 1968) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Romance but with a vaguely utopian background. America is a monarchy. Part is located in Australia.

PB - F.V. White & Co., Ltd CY - London U3 -

Cora Minnett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Divine Seal Y1 - 1909 A1 - Emma Louise Orcutt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream of Debs: A Story of Industrial Revolt" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A successful general strike will bring about a better world. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1908 London, "Goliah".

JF - The International Socialist Review (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.7 - 8 N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1914; in his The Strength of the Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 134-76; in The International Socialist Review 17.7 (January 1917): 389-95, 432-34; in The Bodley Head Jack London. Ed. Arthur Calder Marshall. 3 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1963-65), 1: 225-46; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1261-78.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Demetrian Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Edmond] [Kelly] (1851-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.

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UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.

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Ellison Harding [pseud.]

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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 - Decimon Hûŷdas: A Romance of Mars. A Story of actual experiences in Ento (Mars) many centuries ago given to the Psychic Sara Weiss and by her transcribed under the editorial direction of Spirit Carl De L'Ester Y1 - 1906 A1 - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Story of life on Mars related to 1903 Weiss.

PB - Austin Publishing Co CY - Rochester, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Discriminators Y1 - 1906 A1 - [J. Hugh] [Davies] (Probable author) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Reform tract in the form of a novel, much of which concerns wreck of a Welsh ship on the Australian coast and a young woman held captive by Aborigines. This takes up the first half of the novel; the second half is largely speeches. Imperial cooperation. Industrial homes for the unemployed. Preferential trade, which refers to protecting workers and industries from cheap foreign labor and limiting imports. Penal reform. Dedicated to Right Hon. Richard J. Seddon, P.C. LL.D., Prime Minister of New Zealand.

PB - R.A. Thompson & Co CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -

Ancient Briton [pseud.]

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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 - A Dream of Paradise Y1 - 1904 A1 - William Little (1839-1916) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem of Heaven as a eutopia.

PB - James Curtis CY - Ballarat, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dwellers in Vale Sunrise. How They Got Together and Lived Happy Ever After. A Sequel to "The Natural Man"; Being an Account of the Tribes of Him Y1 - 1904 A1 - J[ohn] W[illia]m Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of the simple life in community. See 1902 Lloyd The Natural Man for a novel about one man living in tune with nature who inspires the establishment of a community. See also 1900 Lloyd "The Story of Zendos." 

PB - The Ariel Press CY - Westwood, MA N1 -

Part was published anonymously as Two Letters Telling How They Lived in Vale Sunrise. Where a Colony of Comrades of the Co-operative Fellowship Being Free Socialists Dwell Most Happily. Westwood, MA: The Ariel Press, [1904]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - D'Mars Affinity: Romance of Love's Final Test in Time and Tide Y1 - 1903 A1 - J[ames] M[oses] Bloomer (1844?-1923) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly romance and spiritualism but includes a cooperative eutopia.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Prosperity; A Vision of the Century to Come Y1 - 1902 A1 - Paul Devinne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian socialist eutopia. Generally, gender equality. Men and women elected by the same sex for most public offices. Something close to unisex dress (no fashion). Everyone lives in hotels, which are managed by women.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. UK ed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Rpt. London: Greening, 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dorlan's Plan. (Sequel to 'Unfettered'.) A Dissertation on the Race Problem" Y1 - 1902 A1 - Sutton E[lbert] Griggs (1872-1933) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Dorlan Warthall is an extremely wealthy African American who intends to use his wealth to help African Americans and the eutopia is presented as a fictionalized proposal for solving racial problems in the United States, which will be achieved by establishing an organization that will encourage and develop education, ownership of land, political rights, and better housing, among other things. Unfettered provides the background that makes the proposal possible. See also 1899 Griggs. Griggs wrote other works, both fiction and nonfiction, discussing the plight of African Americans. His fiction includes Overshadowed. A Novel. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1901. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1973 which documents the mistreatment of Negroes by Anglo-Saxons in the U. S., The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905. The 3rd ed. rev. Illus. Robert E. Bell. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1969 which includes a positive description of the colonization of Africa by freed slaves; and Pointing the Way. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1908. The novel includes a depiction of the treatment of Negroes, the beginnings of a movement joining both blacks and whites, and the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court for the enfranchisement of blacks. The nonfiction includes The One Great Question: A Study of Southern Conditions at Close Range. Philadelphia, PA/Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1907 (58 pp.); Wisdom’s Call. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1911; How to Rise. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1915] (72 pp.); Light on Racial Issues. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1921] (62 pp.); According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1916; The Reconstruction of a Race. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (62 pp.); Life’s Demands or According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1916] (122 pp.); rev. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (170 pp.); The Guide to Racial Greatness or the Science of Collective Efficiency. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1923; Kingdom Builders’ Manual. Companion Book to Guide to Racial Greatness. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1924.

JF - Unfettered. A Novel PB - Orion Publishing Co. CY - Nashville, TN N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1971. 

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 - "A Dream of the Twenty-First Century" Y1 - 1902 A1 - Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Government ownership of basic resources and utilities brought about by women's votes. Compulsory education through twenty-two. Initiative and referendum. Everyone works an average five hour day. No trusts. Civil service. Rational religion based on the moral teachings of Jesus. Marriage universal and two children is the norm. See the author’s The New Womankind. New York: Broadway Publishers, 1904. 

JF - Arena (Boston, MA) VL - 28.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 207-11 with an editor’s note on 205-06; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 126-30. 

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream and a Prophecy" Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Elbert] [Hubbard] (1856-1915) ED - Harriet Robarge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Follows from the dystopia of his 1900 "A City of Tagaste" and suggests the eutopia that can be created by returning to the countryside and the craft tradition.

JF - So Here Then Are the Preachments Entitled the City of Tagaste, and A Dream and A Prophecy PB - The Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop CY - East Aurora, NY VL - 940 copy ed. N1 -

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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.

PB - Sunrise Publishing Company CY - Warrington, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depopulation: A Romance of the Unlikely Y1 - 1899 A1 - Henry Wright (1852-ca. 1940) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Mostly an economic novel depicting trusts controlling the economy followed by the trusts being taken over by government, and a eutopia is foreshadowed but not presented in detail. The tool used by the working class, which led to the capitulation of the trusts, was to refuse to have children to provide future workers.

PB - George Allen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 123-99. Editor's notes, 121, 202-03.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Jones' Picnic Y1 - 1898 A1 - S[amuel] E. Chapman M.D. (1847-1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with a voyage to the North Pole in an aluminum balloon, but there are discussions of the improvements in society and in medicine in particular.

PB - Whitaker & Ray Co. CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of Civilisation; or, England in the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1897 A1 - J[ames] C[armichael] Spence KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia where all arbitrary laws and taxes have been abolished. See also his non-utopian Freedom--Our Birthright: A Protest Against Taxes. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. by Lambert & Co., 1887.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London N1 -

The cover says that the chapter on marriage had been issued as an official publication of the Legitimation League. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Resis Y1 - 1897 A1 - Lillian Frances Mentor KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost Egyptian race eutopia in Africa. All the people are tall, well-formed, and appear to be no older than middle aged. This is made possible by controlling what people eat and limiting work hours. Everyone above twenty-five is a teacher and everyone learns a wide variety of trades. All goods are free for the asking. At eighteen couples are assigned marriage partners after a detailed mental and physical examination. Animals larger and better formed than usual. Lots of gold, onyx, and jewels. On the Day of Resis, the only national holiday, all who have reached the age of sixty-five are put to death. Much of the novel is a standard lost race novel with adventure and the escape of the outsiders. 

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World Y1 - 1896 A1 - James Cowan (1870-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian, egalitarian, anarchist, suburban eutopia set on Mars, which had gone through a history directly parallel to that of Earth. Garden-like cities. Science. No private property. Gender equality. Christ had revealed himself on Mars, and the Martians took him seriously. Much adventure. Improved nature and even horses are born tame.

PB - George H. Richmond CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 2nd ed. New York: George H. Richmond, 1896.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Discovery of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" Y1 - 1895 A1 - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Isolated eutopia established in 1641 in central Africa and called Virland. This story serves as the introduction to 1895-1896 Walker, which elaborates on the eutopia. Here there is mention of a rich country with many villages and two cities, advanced technology, and moral leaders.

JF - The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 20.1 U3 -

Sir Robert Horton [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of the Future; or Home Rule for Ladies. A Comic Opera in One Act and Four Scenes Y1 - 1895 A1 - J. R[edfearn] Williamson A1 - Fred Walters KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dashed Against the Rocks: A Romance of the Coming Age Y1 - 1894 A1 - William [Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism including a briefly described eutopia on Mars. The chief representatives of the twelve districts of Mars are twelve married couples who legislated with no strife. Martians cooperate for the good of all. Mars is scientifically advanced, and it is also religious in that they have knowledge of God.

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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 Daughters of Cain in the Land of Nod: A Satirical Romance Y1 - 1893 A1 - Mrs. A. M. Freeman KW - Female author AB -

A lost race gender-role reversal novel that is more complicated than most. Anti-religious and feminist.

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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 Doom of the County Council of London Y1 - 1892 AB -

Dystopia. The London County Council uses the people of London to dominate the House of Commons. The House of Lords stands out against the LCC and the LCC is finally defeated.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Child Y1 - 1892 A1 - Florence [Chance] Huntley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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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 - Dreams of the Dead Y1 - 1892 A1 - Edward Stanton Huntington (1841-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex spiritualist novel that includes both heaven and hell as eutopian and dystopia. Strongly influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Includes criticisms of Theosophy and Christian Science.

PB - Lee & Shepard CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Edward Stanton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Danger of Anarchy in the Twentieth Century” Y1 - 1890 AB -

A report from the future of 1888 Bellamy’s Looking Backward, in which the asylums are full of thousands of cases of “atavism” or people who believe that the supposed utopia is deeply flawed. Congress has not met for thirty years and, at that point, voted to not meet for fifty years.

JF - The Open Court VL - 4.140 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; or, the Witches Cavern Y1 - 1890 A1 - H[enry] C[rocker] M[arrriott] W[atson] (1835-1901) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Socialism and a lack of both religion and authority cause the collapse of Britain. Britain failed to educate its people so that democracy could function correctly. Climatic changes brought about by the movement of the Gulf Stream away from Britain and the resulting colder weather led to mass immigration and the collapse of commerce. The class structure in Britain divides people. The protagonist visits Britain in 2990 and the Britain of the nineteenth century in a dream. Australia in 2989 is prosperous and healthy with religion and authority as seen in a tour of Australia taken in what is called an electric car but runs on a schedule and has a guard. The poor in Australia are given assistance as a right. 

PB - Trischler & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 59-217. Editor's notes, 57-58, 392-95. U.S. eds. as The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. By An English Premier [pseud.]. Minerva Series. No. 36. November, 1890. New York: Minerva, 1890; and The Witch's Cavern, A Realistic and Thrilling Picture of London Society. By One Who Knows [pseud.]. New York: Minerva, 1890.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Doll’s House--T’other Side” Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Ellen Battelle] [Dietrick] (1847-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Women take over from men with positive results, but, ultimately, they begin to feel sorry for the men in their inferior roles.

JF - Women’s Penny Paper VL - 2.73 - 74 U3 -

By A Female Besant of the Year 8090 A.D. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dorothy’s Experience" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Adeline Trafton (1842?-1920?) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Social Gospel novel that includes a woman establishing a place for homeless young women to live. 

JF - Christian Union PB - Lee and Shepard Publishers CY - Boston, MA VL - 42.1 - 8 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dr. Leetes Letter to Julian West" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia. Julian West, the protagonist in Looking Backward, has become an unthinking and uninformed critic of the future Boston and starts a newspaper modeled on papers of the late nineteenth century to express his views. The letter explains why the newspaper failed so completely.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of a Modest Prophet Y1 - 1890 A1 - M[ortimer] D[ormer] Leggett (1821-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on Mars which is like Earth with a parallel history but more three thousand years more advanced. Religion is a way of life. World language. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Discovered Country Y1 - 1889 A1 - [Carlyle] [Petersilea] (1844-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. Birds, animals, and plants are immortal. Everyone looks young. People find their true soul mates in heaven. Jupiter is inhabited and is the better society Earth will one day become. No need for government or buying and selling.

PB - Ernst von Himmel Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. under the author's name Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1892.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of the Twentieth Century. 1st January 1901 Y1 - 1888 AB -

Monarchist eutopia. The book consists of a newspaper article and a series of reports from British government officials describing the state of the world at the beginning of 1901. Queen Victoria has stepped down and is now the Queen Dowager. Britain and the Empire are in excellent condition. Europe is cooperating. The British colonies have, at their request, become more closely integrated within the British system. India is now the Confederation of the Indian Empire and includes Siam (now Thailand) and the entire Malay Peninsula while remaining part of the British Empire. Includes plans to send the English poor to the colonies.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future" Y1 - 1887 A1 - Lillie Devereux [Umstead] Blake (1833-1913) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

All women leave the United States to set up an independent republic. Events in the U.S. and in the women's territory are presented. Reconciliation between men and women when men capitulate and promise to reform.

JF - The Phrenological Journal (New York) VL - ns 33 (os 84).2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her A Daring Experiment and Other Stories (New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co., 1892), 346-60; in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 95-103 with an editor's note on 94-95; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 93-102 with an editor’s not on 93

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of the Days to Be Y1 - 1887 A1 - [John Mark S.] [Hunter] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the simple life. Everyone works. Craft guilds. Stress on education. Collective evening meal.

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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 - Darkness and Dawn; The Peaceful Birth of a New Age Y1 - 1884 AB -

Eutopia. Christian cooperative commonwealth. All work but there is no night work, no child labor, and factories are concerned with the health of their workers. Homes provided for everyone. No class system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Detroit of the Future Y1 - 1884 A1 - Lyman E. Stowe KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing a eutopian Detroit of the future. There is an article on the book, Harry Massie, “Prophetic book envisions Detroit as Utopia in 2100.” Ann Arbor News (October 8, 1989): A9.

JF - Poetical Drifts of Thought or, Problems of Progress. Treating Upon the Mistakes of the Church--The Mistakes of the Atheist Infidel and Materialist--God Not the Maker of the Universe--Progress the Evidence of a Merciful, But Not All Powerful, God. Reconciliation of Science and Christianity. The Formation of a Solar System--Evolution--Human Progress--Possibilities of the Future--Including Spicy Explanatory Matter in Prose. Embellished with Nearly 200 Illustrations. Together With a Number of Fine Poems On Popular Subjects Including Sketches of the City of the Straits--Past, Present and Future PB - Lyman E. Stowe, Publisher CY - Detroit, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead Y1 - 1883 A1 - [John] [Macnie] (1836-1909) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The "Preface to the Second Edition" says it is a forecast. A pre-1888 Bellamy book set in the 96th century with a great emphasis on custom. Unlike Bellamy this eutopia includes a violent revolution in its past. Stress on morality. Religion rationalized, and the Roman Catholic Church has disappeared.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. [2nd ed.]. entitled Looking Forward; or, The Diothas. New York: [cover says London]: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890; and entitled A Far Look Ahead; or The Diothas. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Both by Ismar Thiusen [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dominion in 1983 Y1 - 1883 A1 - Ralph Centennius [pseud.] KW - Canadian author AB -

Canada as a eutopia in 1983. Fifteen provinces with a population of 93 million. No taxes. Only fifteen, unpaid Members of Parliament. Private charity. Technically advanced. The North has been settled by Caucasians. The U.S. has been defeated.

PB - Toker and Company CY - Peterborough, ON, Canada U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drolleries of a Happy Island, or, Merry Utopia Y1 - 1883 A1 - [Charles Heber] [Clark] (1847-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Arcadia. Eutopia of simplicity that is disturbed by outside influences. 

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. beginning with a new page number and the title "Merry Utopia or The Drolleries of a Happy Island." [Table of Contents reads "The Drolleries of a Happy Island"]. In A Desperate Adventure and Other Stories. By Max Adeler [pseud.]. (London: Ward, Lock, [1886]), 1-176.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of the Twentieth Century. A Novel, Social and Political Y1 - 1882 AB -

Conservative eutopia with Ireland better off from having better English proprietors.

PB - Remington and Co CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. Being a History of England Between the Years 1840-1981. Written for the Use of Junior Classes in Schools by Lang-Tung, Professor of History of the Imperial University of Pekin and Tutor to Their Imperial Highnesses the Princes Sing and Hang. Translated into the English Language by YEA, Pekin, 2381 A.D. Y1 - 1881 A1 - Lang-Tung [pseud.] AB -

Satire--a degenerated England is now barbarian. Attacks on Ireland, women's rights, a republicanism.

PB - F.V. White CY - London U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Decline and Fall of the American Republic. Confessions of a Repentant Politician. A Story of Fifty Years Hence. Time, A.D. 1930 Y1 - 1880 A1 - John McElroy (1846-1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Political tract in favor of the Republican Party set in a dystopia created by Democratic policies.

PB - Toledo Blade CY - Toledo, OH U5 -

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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 - Democracy By Telephone or Parliament a Year Hence Y1 - 1878 AB -

Satire. Experiment in having people directly in touch with Parliament is tried and fails.

PB - George Taylor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Diagram of Coming Events, and the Millennium Y1 - 1877 A1 - F. M E. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Pages 25-28 are a description of the millennium using Biblical texts.

PB - Ptd. by John Henry Field CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diakka, and Their Earthly Victims; Being an Explanation of Much That Is False and Repulsive in Spiritualism Y1 - 1874 A1 - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Diakka is "a Garden of Eden . . . where the morally deficient and the affectionally unclean enter upon a strange probationary life" (7). See also 1847 and 1878 Davis; “Traveling and Society in the Summer Land.” In his A Stellar Key to the Summer Land (Boston, MA: William White & Co./New York: Banner of Light Branch Office, 1867), 163-83; his “Social Centers in the Summer-Land,” “Winter-Land and Summer-Land” and “Language and Life in the Summer-Land.” In his Morning Lectures. Twenty Discourse, Delivered before the Friends of Progress in the City of New York, in the Winter and Spring of 1863 (New York: C.M. Plumb, 1865), 266-87 and 349-404. Earth is the Winter Land; and his The Grand Harmonia [Each volume has a different subtitle]. 5 vols. Boston, MA: Bela Marsh, 1852-56; and 5 vols. New York: A.J. Davis, 1864-80. There were at least five editions. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream within a Dream" Y1 - 1874 A1 - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dream of an egalitarian marriage ceremony.

JF - Independent (New York) VL - 26 N1 -

All but a small part of the text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 107-11 with an editor’s note on 104-06. 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), 63-67 with an editor’s note on 61-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise. A Laissez Faire Tale" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Cyrus Elder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on free trade set in the country of Laissez Faire where the rule is to do what is easiest. Thus, no children, no buildings, few crops, little production. The rest of the book is made up of short essays and stories that make the same point without using the utopian form.

JF - Dream of a Free Trade Paradise, and Other Sketches PB - Pub. for the Industrial League by Henry Carey Baird, Industrial Publisher CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. 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 - 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 - The Dream of Ubertus Y1 - 1870 A1 - [William Moore] [Ferrar] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory on British-French relations using imaginary countries. See also 1896 Ferrar.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - De Histori ov Magnus Maha'rba and the Blak Dragun Y1 - 1866 A1 - [Nathan] [Brown] (1807-86) KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy history of the development of the U.S. with the U.S. presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Printed for de Filolojikal Gemána CY - Nû-York N1 -

In standard English as The History of Magnus Maharba and the Black Dragon. By Kristofur Kadmus [pseud.]. From the Original Manuscripts. New-York: Ptd. for the Proprietor, 1867.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dragon of the Enchanted Valley: A Plain Sandwich of Facts in Odd Fancies for the Young of America. In Two Parts, with an Appendix. Part I. The Dragon in the Valley. Part II. The Conflict Y1 - 1865 A1 - Rev. O.C Dickerson KW - Male author AB -

Temperance fiction that includes in the second part the establishment of communities of the Brothers of Sobriety that lead the fight against alcohol and are shown as examples of the eutopia temperance will bring.

PB - Franklin Printing Office CY - Jacksonville, IL ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of The Day that must come Y1 - 1859 A1 - [Mrs.] [Anne Judith] [Penny] (1825?-93) KW - Female author AB -

The Last Judgement of a near future irreligious and decadent dystopia.

PB - Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt CY - London U3 -

Edited by the Author of "Morning Clouds" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day After To-Morrow; or, Fata Morgana: Containing the Opinions of Mr. Serjeant Mallet, M.P. for Boldborough, on the Future State of the British Nation and of the Human Race Y1 - 1858 A1 - William De Tyne, ed. [written by] [pseud?] KW - Male author AB -

Similar to 1877 Mallock with a semi-fictional discussion during a country house vacation of the near future better world possible through modest reforms.

PB - G. Routledge and Co CY - London U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Description of a Community Plan"] Y1 - 1855 A1 - Thomas Atkins KW - Male author AB -

Educational eutopia based on the ideas of Robert Owen.

JF - Robert Owen's Address, Delivered At the Meeting in St. Martin's Hall, Lonc [sic.] Acre, London, On the 1st. of January, 1855 PB - Effingham Wilson, J. Clayton and Son, Holyoake CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Reform Y1 - 1848 A1 - Henry J[ohn] Forrest (1823-1899) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia. A dream of a reformed society is described; the country is called Philotopia. Many of the reforms of the time, like the eight-hour workday, greatly improved hygiene, significant sanitary reform, a limit on wealth, and the elimination of monopolies, have been adopted. The basis of the changed society is education. Gender-roles and the class system have changed little, but the lower classes are better educated and better paid.

PB - John Chapman CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 389-490.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dolores: A Novel of South America Y1 - 1846 A1 - [Paul] Harro-Harring (1798-1870) KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

An eclectic novel giving the author's viewpoint on a wide range of subjects and including the outlines of an egalitarian eutopia.

PB - Author/Libreria Hernandez/Marrener, Lockwood CY - New York/Montevideo, Uruguay/New York VL - 4 parts N1 -

Part I was published as New York: Author/Montevideo, Uruguay: Libreria Hernandez. Parts II - IV were published as Dolores: A Novel. New York: Marrener, Lockwood, [1846]. All parts say, “Complete in One Volume”.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dialogue on Etzler's Paradise Between Messrs. Clear, Flat, Dunce, and Grudge. By The Author of "Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery".-- Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers."--and the Invention of the Naval Automaton, Etc., Etc. Y1 - 1843 A1 - [John Adolphus] [Etzler] (1791?-1846?) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology. Clear defends Etzler from attacks by the others.  On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 and 1844 (2) Etzler.

PB - James B. O'Brien CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Development of the Principles and Plans on which to Establish Self-Supporting Home Colonies; as a Most Secure and Profitable Investment for Capital, and an Effectual Means Permanently to Remove the Causes of Ignorance, Poverty, and Crime. And Most Materially to Benefit All Classes of Society by Giving a Right Attention to the Now Greatly Misdirected Powers of the Human Faculties and of Physical and Moral Science Y1 - 1841 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Detailed description of the transition to the Owenite eutopia through the establishment of communities designed to become self-supporting. Each community planned for 2000 to 2500 permanent residents on 2000 to 3000 acres. Includes descriptions of the buildings and gardens and the "General Rules and Regulations" for the community (396-401 in Claeys). See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2). 

PB - Home Colonization Society CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Home Colonization Society, 1841; rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 4 vols. (London: William Pickering, 1993), 2: 337-407.

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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 - "Decline and Fall of the British Empire" Y1 - 1831 A1 - An Australian Statesman, in the Year 2377 [pseud.] ED - Alaric A. Watts AB -

Britain became dependent on foreigners, lost its colonies, and is defeated in a war. All this is caused by the philosophers.

JF - Scenes of Life and Shades of Character PB - Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley CY - London VL - 2 vols. U3 -

An Australian Statesman, in the Year 2377 [pseud.]

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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 - “The Deserted City” Y1 - 1824 A1 - Joseph Bounden KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a city that has been largely abandoned through defeat brought on by greed and a lack of national feeling.

JF - The Deserted City; Eva, A Tale in Two Cantos; and Other Poems PB - Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green CY - London U1 -

The cover title is The Deserted City: Eva; Electricity. Poems

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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 - 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 - Description of Spensonia Y1 - 1795 A1 - [Thomas] [Spence] (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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 - "The Dreamer No. VI" Y1 - 1789 A1 - Sophronia [pseud.] AB -

Tells of a visit to the “Massachusetts Publick Female Academy” and hearing a speech by the “Preceptress General.” She states that apparent differences in intellect between men and women are not based on inherent differences but on the fact that men are educated, and women are not. In doing so, she refers specifically to women from “a lower sphere” who are kept from learning the skills needed to efficiently run a home, raise children, and support herself and them if necessary. The visitor notes that the library contains only useful books and not “a singly Novel or Romance” (370)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deserted Village, A Poem Y1 - 1770 A1 - Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The poem begins with a description of a village called Auburn as a eutopia, but the wealthy landowner pushes the people off the land creating the deserted village.

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There were five further editions in 1770, a 7th ed. in 1772 and an 8th ed. in 1774. Rpt. in Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Volume IV The Vicar of Wakefield Poems The Mystery Revealed. Ed. Arthur Friedman (Oxford, Eng.: The Clarendon Press, 1966), 283-304 with extensive footnotes and an “Introduction” (271-81).

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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 - A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760 Y1 - 1761 A1 - Ezra Stiles A.M. (1727-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projects New England into the next century. Most of the book is concerned with what Christians agreed upon and where they disagree. From page 145 (1799 ed.) a lot of space is devoted to the increase in population of each of the four sects he finds worthy of attention, Episcopalians, Friends (Quakers), Baptists, and Congregationalists, with the last showing the greatest increase in population and in the number of churches. His concern is that without unity among Christians, or at least Protestants, the coming generations will become indifferent or tempted by other churches. Therefore, he gives suggestions for those who in the future will found new communities. He stresses the need for such new communities to establish churches and bring in ministers. At page 154 (1799 ed.) he projects one hundred years into the future, when he foresees the plain churches of his day replaced “with temples whose colonades [as spelled] are deckt with guilt busts of angels winged. . . .” Seven million Congregationalists at that time. 

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Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp. 

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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 - "A Description of New Athens in Terra Australis incognita." By One who resided many years on the Spot. [Signed] Maurice Williams. [The title page gives the title as "The Fortunate Shipwreck, or a Description of New Athens, being an Account of the Laws, Manners, Religion, and Customs of that Country; by Morris Williams, Gent. [pseud.] who resided there above Twenty Years" Y1 - 1720 A1 - [Thomas] [Killigrew] (1657-1719) ED - Maurice Williams KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. No secrecy. Christianity, art, music, compulsory education. Everyone walks rather than riding. No lawyers. A charity system is run on a ward basis by the church.

JF - Miscellanea Aurea: or the Golden Medley PB - Ptd. for A. Bettesworth and J. Pemberton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 27-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Discovery of Fonseca In a Voyage to Surranam. The Island so long sought for in the Western Ocean. Inhabited by Women with the Account of their Habits, Customs and Religion. And the Exact Longitude and Latitude of the Place Taken from the Mouth of a Person cast away on the Place in an Hurricane with the Account of their being Cast away Y1 - 1682 A1 - J[ohn] S[hirley] (fl. 1680-1702) KW - Male author AB -

An island of women of Welsh origin. No men allowed on the island except for specified visits. Male children must leave at an early age. Male visitors must leave at the end of the month.

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Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 131-36.

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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 - 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 - "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 - 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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