TY - ABST T1 - Project F Y1 - 2023 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel that takes place in a post-climate catastrophe future that has been rebuilt on a much smaller scale, presented as a positive change. Live was simple and peaceful, without cars or wars. The focus of the story, Project F, is a secret plan to bring back the pre-catastrophe way of life.

PB - Random House/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-64380-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Promise" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Rona Fernandez ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Female author KW - Filipina American author AB -

The story takes place in a climate-change ravaged future and focuses on a young man and a young woman orphaned and sent to The Collective where they are fed, clothed, housed, and given work within an authoritarian regime.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Property of PAUSE Ltd.” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Canadian author KW - Chinese author KW - Female author AB -

PAUSE Ltd. is a company rather like Amazon that delivers goods in a society with deep rich/poor divisions whose drivers are the property of the country and live in their trucks with their families.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prophet Song Y1 - 2023 A1 - Lynch, Paul KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a near future in which the GNSB (Garda National Services Bureau), a recently established secret police, is investigating all people they determine to be potentially subversive, and those people tend to disappear. The novel follows the family of a teacher and union leader who is being investigated as they flee across an authoritarian Ireland.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 978-0861546862 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Steve Willis ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in 2062 in Malaysia in the thriving under ocean city of Fairhaven, which has eighteen districts reflecting different parts of the world. The story is connected to two others in the book, Rasha Barrage, “Blue Nation” (54-64) and Brian Burt, “OasIS” (102-112). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/penang-fairhaven-a-visitors-guide/ and https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/ocean-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Poster Girl Y1 - 2022 A1 - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia. Discussion Questions on 273.

PB - A John Joseph Adams Book/William Morrow/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 978-0-358-16409-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Y1 - 2022 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Second volume of two following 2021 Chambers, A Psalm for the Weild-Built. In this volume, Dex and Mosscap travel across Panga visiting people trying to get the answer to the question the robots have of what do humans need and how can the robots help. They first visit a prosperous woodland village, then an equally prosperous riverside village, a small oceanside settlement that is strongly against technology, and the monk’s family, before heading toward their intended last stop, the City. But they take a detour during which they consider what they have learned. One practice appears to be the standard means of exchange, the Peb or Digital Pebble which are given by one person for a service rendered and then that person gives it to another for their service, all recorded on pocket computers. Dex explains that “the point of a peb exchange is to acknowledge someone’s labor and thank them for what they bring to the community” (38).

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1250236234 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Prime Minister” Y1 - 2022 A1 - SJ Minniecon (1918-2006) ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The is told in periods from the life story of the first Aboriginal Prime Minister of Australia ending with an egalitarian, wealthy Australia with spaceflight.

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 - “Protective Acts” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Heather Marie Spitzberg ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where all fauna and flora is valued, and it is a crime to hurt or kill any.

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 979-8832184425 U5 -

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

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

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

Rpt. illus. in Shoreline of Infinity, no 31 (Summer 2022): 92-97

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Past is Red Y1 - 2021 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on Garbagetown, a floating island of garbage the size of the former Texas inhabited by refugees from the flooded continents. Her 2016 “The Future Is Blue” is reprinted as Part I (1-32, and in her “Afterword” (147-50) the author explains how that story inspired Part II, “The Past Is Red” (12-146). The main character is the same in both parts.

PB - Tordotcom CY - New York SN - 978-1-250-30113-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after a future pandemic in which Canada had instituted rationing to ensure that everyone was adequately fed.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Piano White: A Cyberpunk Story Y1 - 2021 A1 - Gerald Farca KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

As the subtitle says, the novella is set in a cyberpunk future where people live in containers in which they can experience anything they desire. Of course, it isn’t that simple.

PB - [Author] CY - Np SN - 979-8515604516 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Price of Attention” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

After two major pandemics, a country has transformed itself using sophisticated algorithms, opening up green spaces in cities, defunding police and funding support systems, and other “radical liberal” policies. The story takes place as a referendum is about to be held to choose between continued decision-making by algorithm using a very complicated system of voting designed to avoid fraud and decision-making by citizen panels.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proliferation. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Erik A. Otto KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

An attempt to create an AI-based utopia after the world had reverted to a pre-industrial condition. Set in the same world as 2018 Otto, Detonation. A Novel.

PB - Sagis Press CY - Charlottesville, VA SN - 978-1-7321361-5-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built Y1 - 2021 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes that take place on Panga, an Earth-like planet that had been badly damaged by technology, symbolized by factories run mostly by robots, but had recovered after the awakening od the robots, who abandoned the factories and moved into the wilderness, where they lived completely separate from humans. In this volume, the protagonist, Sibling Dex, a young gay man who becomes a monk, realizes that he has to change his life and becomes a tea monk, someone who wanders the planet offering tea and listening to peoples’ problems. After becoming successful, he decides to enter the wilderness, where he meets a robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, and they develop a relationship. See also 2022 Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown Shy.

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1250236210 978-1250236234 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Parable of Things That Crawl and Fly” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Robert Scott Graham A1 - Wallace Cleaves KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that honors indigenous cultures and the past but has developed technology that radically prolongs life and the old control everything. 

JF - Pulp Literature VL - no. 25 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Parent-Teacher Association” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jessica Powell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia in which parents demand to have their children constantly tracked and have immediate access to the tracking. 

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review ER - TY - ABST T1 - "PARTY TIME!" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fairly light-hearted take on a totalitarian regime with the protagonist a woman trying to organize an office party.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 127 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/party-time/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfection of Fish Y1 - 2020 A1 - J. S. Morrison KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Gender war. In the near future, a testosterone lowering drug is required, and a wealthy man works to make women more subservient.

PB - Black Rose Writing CY - [Castroville, TX] SN - 978-1-68433-506-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pigs" Y1 - 2020 A1 - G. D. Dearborn ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which America is ruled by a few Barons. It is told from the perspective of a boy on a farm raising “pigs” for slaughter.

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pill" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A diet pill is developed that works, except for 10% mortality, is so popular that there are very few overweight people left and being overweight is made effectively illegal.

JF - Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1629637839 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 65-94, with a note about the author on 65; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 39-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pinecone Lady" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jo Miles KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in drought and fire-ravaged country, that is transformed by the Pinecone Lady, a Johnny Appleseed, but for all trees. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/03/27/the-pinecone-lady/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 38-45, with a note on the author on 45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Press play: Suspended for safety” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A pandemic allegory in which children are “paused” for the duration of a war.

JF - Nature UR - Nature.com/futures U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Price of Safety Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michael C. Bland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in 2047 in a surveillance dystopia in which a man tries to protect his daughter after she commits a crime. The second volume is The second volume is The Price of Rebellion. Pensacola, FL: World Castle Publishing, 2023. 386 pp. In this volume, he joins a rebellion which is attacked by the government before it can act.

PB - World Castle Publishing CY - Pensacola, FL SN - 978-1950890804 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Protest" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alex Berenson (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia with drones everywhere. 

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pulls Weeds and Does Dishes” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anthony W. Eichenlaub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive story about the ability of robots to assist the elderly in staying independent.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 31 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes Y1 - 2020 A1 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the same protagonists as in his 1980 The Number of the Beast and then takes them into a parallel universe that uses settings from Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) and the Lensman series by E[dward] E[lmer] “Doc” Smith (1890-1965).

PB - Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD SN - 978-1-64710-001-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Painter of Trees” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans, set on terraforming a planet, destroy all the food the indigenous inhabitants eat. Few of the humans are at all bothered. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - No. 157 SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_06_19/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 77-89, with an editor’s note on 77; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 1-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Parade. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a divided country at the supposed end of a long war and focuses on two men, Four and Nine, paving a road that is to symbolically unify the country.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York SN - 978-0-7352-7752-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parenting License" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Leah Cypess (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story, which has satirical elements, is set in a future society that requires a license to have children, reinforced by no insurance and pediatricians unwilling to take patients without the license. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 139.3/4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pet Y1 - 2019 A1 - Akwaeke Emezi (b. 1982) KW - African author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel set in the city of Lucille, which had become a eutopia by, as they believed, eliminating all the “monsters,” such as politicians, businesspeople, lawyers, and religious leaders, who had exploited the people. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young girl who discovers that at least one monster remains. Much fantasy. 

PB - Make Me a World/Random House Children’s Books CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Plague Doctors" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

A post-apocalypse dystopia (plague) and the struggle get the resources to limit its spread and find a cure.

JF - Take Us to a Better Place, Stories PB - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CY - Princeton, NJ SN - Print version 9781595911117 sent to Foundation members N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 300-322.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Playmentalities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alberto Vanolo ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Maureen Shannon KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

The first part is fiction about a boy in a city that uses “civic games” through Playstation to teach good citizenship and uses the scores attained throughout life to award or punish its citizens. The second part is an essay on the current status of such programs.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Plazas of Madness” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Luis Nazario KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia of an African leader who builds many very odd plazas.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Please, Stop Printing Unicorns” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the ability for individuals using 3-D Bioprinters to create body parts and entire animals.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/opinion/3d-printed-unicorns.html U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Pocketful of Dolphins” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Judy Helfrich ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia in which people are controlled by implants that release chemicals into their bodies in response to established metrics that are monitored by the implants. The story focuses on controlling fantasies. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point of Honor Y1 - 2019 A1 - Aeryn Rudel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which duel has been reinstated and is run by a Bureau of Honorable Affairs.

JF - Futures A Science Fiction Series PB - Radix Media CY - Brooklyn, NY VL - [No. 6] U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Polaris" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set mostly on Mars, which is being used as a dumping ground for prisoners and opponents of those in power on Earth. After a difficult start, the people form a government and begin terraforming the planet. 

JF - Incomplete Solutions PB - Luna Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Potholes and Pumpkin Spice” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kalpana Shankar A1 - Glenn Kaufmann ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire describing a city run by Starbucks. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. Female co-author. Shankar is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College, Dublin. Kaufmann is a freelance writer from the United States to Dublin, Ireland in 2011 and now has dual citizenship.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Premium Places" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dietmar Offenhuber ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is in the form of an academic article on a city designed and run by Pornhub. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Propagator” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Simone Kern KW - Genderqueer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Texas which is badly polluted, and almost all good soil is owned and strictly controlled by a single corporation. The protagonist is using stolen good soil to grow crops illegally. A second focus of the story is the extreme restrictions on whatever Texas has called a reproduction crime and the harsh punishments imposed on anyone deemed to have committed such a crime.

JF - Metamorphosis SN - 978-1-64076-006-6 UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2019/The-Propagator-Simone-Kern/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2020), 75-97; and in their Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2022), 43-62, which is published as by Sim Kern.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pacifica Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese author AB -

A dystopia that takes place after “the Melt” in which a lottery chooses people to be taken to an “island paradise,” which does not exist. The novel is based on the treatment of U. S. citizens of Japanese heritage, including the author’s grandmother. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pain Camp Economics” Y1 - 2018 A1 - AUDNIT [pseud.] ED - William Davies AB -

Dystopia set in 2056 in which corporations have taken over nations and are known as CorpoNations, and the environment has been largely destroyed.

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Passion According to Mike” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mike Pence (b. 1959) (Trump’s Vice President) awakes in a future as a hermaphrodite.

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 - “Paula’s Choice” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cristina Barsan ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author KW - Romanian author AB -

Dystopia in which a stay-at-home housewife is the highest position attainable by a woman, but it is only available to women married to a man with high status. 

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 - "Pedaling" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tuere T. S. Ganges KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the U.S. government has collapse, and violence, particularly racial violence is common and focuses on a group of mixed-race teenagers trying to find a place to live.

JF - Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Perfect Is No/Place of Mine” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Iris Reisenberger ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -

Poem that reflects on the nature of utopia

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Phantasmatopia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hüseyin Alhas ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Turkish author AB -

Poem touching on justice, religion, ecology, and politics comparing elements of a eutopia with the current dystopia. 

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 - "The Pilot" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dean Trippe (b. 1980) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which good relations between Earth and aliens are undermined by a rogue human but restored.

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

Illus. by the author. Letters Micah Myers. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pinion" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Stephanie Gunn ED - Russell B. Farr KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

As suggest by the book’s subtitle, there is much fantasy, but the setting is a future dystopia in which only the Chosen, who live in immaculate towers, have clean air and water, fresh food, and sanitation. The workers put in extremely long hours in appalling conditions to ensure that the system supporting the Chosen is maintained.

JF - Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 978-1-925212-34-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plum Rains Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andromeda Romano-Lax (b. 1970) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part historical novel that begins in Japan in 2029 when the aging of the population is reaching a crisis point with the government trying to solve the problem of finding caregivers with robotic AI. One of the protagonists is a woman from the Philippines working as a caregiver for a wealthy old woman who has been given a robot programmed to learn and respond to all her needs. If she loses the job that allows her to support her family back in the Philippines, she will be expelled from the country. Some things, of course, go wrong as the old woman becomes attached to the robot and reveals secrets regarding her and Japan’s past.

PB - Soho Press CY - New York SN - 978-1-61695-901-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pollution People" Y1 - 2018 A1 - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future United States that has been devastated by climate change and pollution. 

JF - Black Warrior Review VL - 44.1 UR - https://bwr.ua.edu/from-the-archives-pollution-people-by-c-pam-zhang/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Porque el Girasol se Llama el Girasol” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author AB -

Dystopian story of people living in the U.S. who are desperate to get over the Wall into Mexico. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Precaution at Penn Station” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Homeland Security kills people chosen at random to avoid charges of racial profiling.

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 - “Premium Care” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brandon Ketchum ED - David F. Shultz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia set in a future with profit-making corporate control of health care with restrictions on care for non-citizens and the military enforcing the rules.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pulse Point Y1 - 2018 A1 - Colleen Nelson A1 - Nancy Chappell-Pollack KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which a city walls itself off from the outside world. People are required to exercise in ways that generate energy for the city, and each person is fitted with a microchip, called pulse points to ensure that they do. Of course, there is corruption. One woman’s pulse point fails, freeing her from the rules. 

PB - Great Plains Publications/Yellow Dog CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada U5 -

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

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

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

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Parametrization of Complex Weather Patterns for Two Variables” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - Ukrainian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future in which weather control first produced conflict among nations using it against each other, then was internationalized, and, at the time of the story, has been taken over by hackers. 

JF - Daily Science Fiction UR - https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/science-fiction/alex-shvartsman/parametrization-of-complex-weather-patterns-for-two-variables. N1 -

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Patriot Points’: You may qualify for huge discounts, TSA Precheck approval, and more!” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

The story consists of the questionnaire to fill out to achieve “Patriot Points,” which characterizes the dystopia being created. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/patriot-points-by-lauren-beukes-in-the-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patti 209" Y1 - 2017 A1 - K[aren] G. Anderson ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) and others with similar policies. The focus is on the destruction of care for the elderly after the loss of Social Security and Medicare. The protagonist was one of the designers and founders of an old age home that had all the best conditions both for those living there and the environment. But with Social Security repealed and no Medicare, the home became just like the earlier nursing homes that provided minimal care. Conditions for the elderly outside this homes were worse.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Little World Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin Wilson (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A child psychologist tries to create the ideal family made up of several individuals and couples and orphaned children. It works for a while but then disintegrates. The novel focuses one young woman participant.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Persephone” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future with a deep divide between rich and poor.

JF - Tor.com UR - http://www.tor.com/2017/03/08/persephone-seanan-mcguire/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pink Footed" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pink Life (La Vie En Rose)” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nathan Susnik KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia future that is hidden because most people live entirely in virtual reality. The protagonist is forced to see the world as it is when a glitch occurs. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8 U2 -

Illus. Dave Alexander

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pinwheel Party" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Victor D. Phillips ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The beginning and the end of the story are brief depictions of the dystopia inflicted on the poor and immigrants by current policies. The middle is a drug-induced dream of a eutopia in which everyone works together to improve the U.S.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pop and the CFT" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brandon Crilly ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future trying to deal with climate-change and focuses on one of the policies, the CFT, put in place to help. CFT refers to the Carbon Footprint Tax that is levied after an individual’s death based on their consumption pattern during life.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Portlandtown” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Elly Blue ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Oregon divided by Portlandtown, an authoritarian dictatorship with some limited technology and conflict within the leadership, and a rural area that is essentially anarchist that surrounds it. 

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 Powers of Earth Y1 - 2017 A1 - Travis J. I. Corcoran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a series in which a libertarian moon struggles to maintain its freedom against an authoritarian Earth. Won the 2018 Prometheus Award for Best Novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society. The next volume in the series is Causes of Separation. Np: Morlock Publishing, 2018. 706 pp. It is a typical second volume in a series in which the situation worsens. Two further volumes, Right and Duty and Absolute Tyranny are planned. 

PB - Morlock Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Albert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Albert is one of the theorists with the economist Robin [Eric] Hahnel (b. 1946) of Parecon (Participatory Economics); see 2003 Albert. The book deals with Parecon, Parpolity, feminism, race, environmentalism, and internationalism plus the strategy needed to achieve the goals.

PB - Kairos/PM Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Originated in the three volumes, Occupy Theory, Occupy Vision, and Occupy Strategy of his Fanfare for Democracy. Woods Hole, MA: Z Communications, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Preventive Maintenance” Y1 - 2017 A1 - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/07/11/preventative-maintenance/ N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prime Meridian Y1 - 2017 A1 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (b. 1981) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Mexican author AB -

A near future dystopia set in Mexico City in which a woman, who wants to join the colony on Mars, struggles to make a living and earn passage through the limited available work, such as hiring out as a temporary friend.

PB - Innismouth Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada SN - 9781927990216 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 408-455, with an editor’s note on 408; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 467-551.

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

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

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panic City Y1 - 2016 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of an automated city designed to protect its inhabitants that ends up killing them. 

JF - Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow PB - Hex Publishers CY - Erie, CO U2 -

Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pap: A 21st Century Dystopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - Adam R. Mathews KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

First volume of a dystopia trilogy centering on corporate power with PapCorp the sole worldwide corporation

PB - Arena Books CY - Bury St. Edmunds, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Imperfect” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ararimeh Aiyejina ED - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where civilization had collapsed. 

JF - New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean PB - Peekash Press CY - Brooklyn, NY/Leeds, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - People’s Republic. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kurt Schlichter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia portraying the left/right (blue state/red state) division of the United States with the right represented as all good and the left all evil. First volume in a series with the same protagonist. The second volume, Indian Country. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np. Author, 2017, is a prequel in which the protagonist is organizing people resist the authoritarian dictatorship of the People’s RepublicIn the third volume, WildfireA Kelly Turnbull Novel. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, the protagonist is working undercover in the People’s Republic. In the fourth volume, CollapseA Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np: Author, 2019, the People’s Republic is defeated. another novel entitled Crisis is scheduled for 2020. See also his Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041. Franklin, TN: Post Hill Press, 2014. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] SN - 978-1539018957, 978-0988402966, 978-1734199307, 978-1618689771 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perihelion Y1 - 2016 A1 - D. M. Wozniak KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2069 that follows the experiences of six people from what used to be Chicago.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pilgrimage to Utopia. Philosophy: Book 1 Y1 - 2016 A1 - William L. Livingston IV KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a series describing the author’s argument that while the contemporary world is a dystopia, utopia is possible. Over the series, details are provided of how to achieve the change. Followed by Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 2: Dystopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 3: Utopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 4: Way Stations. Np: Author, 2016 EBook; and Ron G. Prichard and William L. Livingston, Expedition to Utopia. Book 5: Interventionist Report. Np: Author, 2017, which summarizes of series. EBook

PB - Author CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirate Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history of the post-World War I period and the Italian Regency of Carnaro, a self-proclaimed city-state in Fiume led by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938).

PB - Tachyon CY - San Francisco, CA U2 -

Illus. John Coulthart.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Plantation | Springtime: A day in the life of the automated body of the future” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lia Swope Mitchell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The setting is a penitentiary in which the prisoners are treated as if they are plants with details on their care, feeding, and punishment followed by the prisoners’ thoughts. In the first reprint these are more effectively side by side columns.  

JF - Terraform UR - PLANTATION | SPRINGTIME (vice.com) N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. Big Echo: Critical SF, no. 7, Part 1 (January 2018). https://www.bigecho.org/plantation-springtime; and without the subtitle or 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), 198-207.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Portobello Blind” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a blind teenage girl is the only survivor at an island science laboratory and proves to herself that she has the inner resources to cope. 

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

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

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

PB - Viking CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Prayer for ‘0443’. Inspired by ‘The Trees’” Y1 - 2016 A1 - David Niall Wilson (b. 1959) ED - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - John McFetridge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where equality is supposedly achieved by giving everyone a number and erasing all memory after a year. 

PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia with much of the land flooded. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 40.8 (487) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Product Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marina Fontaine KW - Female author KW - Russian-American author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which one drug frees people from the means the government uses to control them. The focus of the novel is a dealer. 

PB - Subversive Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project Empathy" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dominica Phetteplace KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first of five stories about a future San Francisco and various ways artificial intelligence is used to both enhance and control people. The other stories, all with the same protagonists, are, in order, “Project Synergy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.4 & 5 (483 & 484) (April/May 2016): 70-82; “Project Symmetry.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.6 (485) (June 2016): 42-56; “Project Entropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.7 (486) (July 2016): 40-57; and “Project Extropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.10 & 11 (489 & 490) (October/November 2016): 124-39.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 40.3 (482) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Packets in the Tube” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Siddanta Bastola ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the combination of the internet and the hyperloop means that anyone can live anywhere and commute to anyplace else and goods can be shipped almost instant anywhere. Presented as eutopian.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space PB - Intel Foundation/Society for Science and the Public/Arizona State University CY - Np UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Paragon of Knowledge” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

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

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

Illus. Callum Bishop

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosopher Kings Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jo Walton (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Sequel to 2014 Walton in which the attempt to create Plato’s Republic has fragmented into a number of “Republics” based on disagreements over what Plato wanted and the belief of some that they know better than Plato what makes for a good society. See also 2016 Walton.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prepper. Part Two: Kings Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karl A. D. Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2013 Brown. In this volume, the family at the center of the first volume continue to live their hidden life but conclude that they have to join others fighting a plan to exterminate most of the world’s population.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prey Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tom Isbell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia following a catastrophe. The new government in the U.S. raises children to be hunted for sport when they are teens. The second volume, The Capture. New York: HarperTeen, 2016. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2016, follows the protagonists of the first volume as they try to free others. In the third volume, The Release. New York: HarperTeen. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2017, the protagonists of the previous volumes manage, after many more difficulties to win their freedom. 

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2015.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Private Sector Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate corruption that leads to the collapse of government services and their privatization. Prequel to her 2015 World-Mart

PB - Eldritch Press CY - San Antonio, TX N1 -

2nd ed. Henderson, NV: Cerebral Press, 2015 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Promised" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Aisteach, Kyle KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia called the Great Default when government was unable to pay its bills.

JF - Little Dystopias. A Collection PB - Lightning Cellar Publications CY - Fresno, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Puma Blue. The Complete Saga in One Volume Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stephen Murphy A1 - Michael Zulli (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in 2000 after a white supremacist group sets off a small nuclear bomb in the Bronx, which no longer exists. The world is technologically advance, but the environment has been badly damaged, and some species have mutated. The primary protagonist is a “fauna agent” or game warden assigned to a reservoir in Massachusetts. Later the story follows him as he leaves government service and travels around the country, and the entire series has a strong environmental message.

PB - Dover Publications CY - Mineola, NY N1 -

Originally published as a comic between 1986 and 1989.

The book version also includes “Acts of Faith: A Coda” by Stephen R. Bissette (527-40), “Act of Faith” (541-44) and the “Puma Blues. Number 24 1/2” (545-60).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Palestinian Sweets” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A very odd story in which London is divided into areas dominated by competing religions, with the areas demarcated by smell. 

JF - La Femme PB - New Con Press CY - [Weston], England U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panther in the Hive: Chicago has fallen. She will not Y1 - 2014 A1 - Olivia A. Cole KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Chicago deeply divided by access to healthcare and a chip that supposedly cures all possible diseases. When all those who are chipped are suddenly turned extremely violent, a mixed-race young woman must travel across Chicago to find safety. First volume of a trilogy followed by  The Rooster’s Garden: When the Rooster Crows, the Hive Will Burn. Np: Fletchero Publishing, 2016. 537 pp. in which the protagonist and some friends travel West looking for safety and answers. 

PB - Fletchero Publishing CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. Np: Fletchero Publishing © 2016 without mention of the earlier printing. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peacemaker Y1 - 2014 A1 - Marianne de Pierres (b. 1961) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel with elements of fantasy set in a dystopian world with a park the only natural landscape left. Continued in Mythmaker. Nottingham, Eng./New York: Angry Robot, 2015 which continues the same themes and ends in a way that suggests there will be another volume.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng/New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The People of the Underground” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A genetically enhanced humanity dominates Earth, and a remnant of the older humanity maintains what it sees as a better civilization underground.

JF - In his 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 - Perfected Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate Jarvik Birch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia in which girls are bred to be sold as pets. In the sequel, Tarnished. Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, 2015, the protagonist discovers that the reality of the pets’ situation is much different than they had been told. 

PB - Entangled Teen CY - Fort Collins, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peripheral Y1 - 2014 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future of the relatively well off and the poor. The Agency. New York: Berkley, 2019 is both a sequel and a prequel set in a 2017 in which Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Russell Brand Trickster Tales Y1 - 2014 A1 - Russell [Edward] Brand (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A profusely illustrated retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Hamelin presented as a dystopia of narrow-minded people. One child who had been ostracized by the town does not follow the Piper, and he helps the people to be more open-minded.

PB - Atria Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Chris Riddell (b. 1962).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pills and Starships Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lydia Millet (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Global warming dystopia in which the rich are kept happy through drugs, and, if they live too long, buy “death contracts” so that they can die peacefully.

PB - Black Sheep CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Poison Fish" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set a hundred years in the future in which water is scarce and Lake Michigan is poisonous.

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series PB - WBEZ 91.5 Radio CY - Chicago, IL UR - https://soundcloud.com/afterwater/after-water-ep-1-poison-fish ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pop-Ups: Captive Audience” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robert Dawson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a future with unavoidable advertising.

JF - Nature VL - 508.7497 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Preface to a Selected History of the Twenty-First Century” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lucy Greenwood (b. 1954) ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A document, purported to be from the future, describes the eutopia brought about through decentralization, living locally but connecting globally, and sustainable environmental practices

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Providence 2034” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Providence, RI as a high tech, green eutopia in the future due to its cooperation with São Vincente, Brazil, together with significant changes in Rhode Island politics. Interstate highway replaced by a thriving neighborhood. Higher education has become a citywide activity extending well beyond campus-based instruction. There is a large Community Land Trust Biosphere. Climate-change refugees from Asia have changed the political dynamic of the state. All legislators are required to serve a year in community service before being seated.

JF - College Hill Independent (Providence, RI) N1 -

Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 141-46 with an author’s note (140)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriot Remnant: Return to Freedom Y1 - 2013 A1 - Siara Brandt KW - Female author AB -

Survivalist dystopia in which a small group defeats a vicious government. The novel ends with the beginnings of a good, traditional, farming community.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pawn Y1 - 2013 A1 - Aimée Carter (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume a young woman can, with plastic surgery, move up in social rank, but she has been involved in trying to overthrow the regime. Captive. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2014 is the middle volume in which she has chosen the surgery and faces many perils. The third volume is Queen. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2015 in which the regime is defeated. 

PB - Harlequin Teen CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Perfect America Y1 - 2013 A1 - Peter Meredith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a totalitarian U.S. that hires people to kill its opponents.

PB - Author CY - San Bernadino, CA N1 -

Originally published online in 2013.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Ruin. The Internment Chronicles Book One Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult series set, in this volume, on what appears to be a segment torn out of Earth and relocated in space above Earth. The society sees itself in utopian terms but is a highly structured authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist and her friends are discontented, and the novel ends with them stepping on Earth for the first time. In the second volume, Burning Kingdoms. The Internment Chronicles Book Two. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015, the protagonists discover that Earth is also dangerous. In the third volume, Broken Crowns: The Internment Chronicles Book Three. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016 the protagonists discover that the segment in space is falling, and they must find a way for the two parts of Earth to cooperate. Related enovellas are No Intention of Dying. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014 http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Intention-of-Dying/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480674; and The Heir Apparent. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Heir-Apparent/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480681.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfectible Animals: Conception (Part I) Y1 - 2013 A1 - Thomas Norwood KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in Australia in the second half of the twenty-first century. Limited food. Radical rich-poor division. Gang violence. Biological warfare kills millions. A scientist develops a way of vaccinating animals and then humans that make them more cooperative, a characteristic that is passed on to the next generation, and, at the end of the novel, it is beginning to spread. 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future. The novel continues with the same themes as Perfectible Animals: Connection (2014), available only as an ebook, which ends “To be continued.” 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future. 

PB - Global Activision Limited CY - [Melbourne, Vic, Australia] N1 -

Also published as an EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perseid Collapse. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Steven Konkoly KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a post-catastrophe dystopian series in which an electromagnetic pulse destroys the U.S. infrastructure. Sequels include Event Horizon. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; Point of Crisis. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and Dispatches. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015. G. Michael Hopf’s Detachment. A Persied Collapse Novella. Kindle Worlds, 2015 is set in the same future. The series is a sequel Konkoly’s The Jakarta Pandemic. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2013 in which a virus devastates the U.S. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prepper. Part One: The Collapse Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karl A. D. Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future dystopia that emerges from current conditions that leads to limited nuclear war. A Prepper is one who is preparing for the coming global collapse. First volume in an intended series followed by 2015 Brown. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Program Y1 - 2013 A1 - Suzanne Young (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an apparent epidemic of depression has led to widespread suicide, and “The Program” is supposedly the only treatment. The protagonist struggles to keep her growing depression hidden. The Treatment. New York: Simon Pulse, 2014 is a sequel where the main characters flee from those running the Program in search of a different treatment. The Remedy. New York: Simon Pulse, 2015 is a prequel about a girl who has the ability to emulate the deceased and does so for grieving families. The Epidemic. New York: Simon Pulse, 2016 is a prequel about the empowerment of the protagonist of The Remedy. The Adjustment. A Program Novel Book 5. New York: Simon Pulse, 2017 deals with the problems of those return after having their memories wiped. The final volume is The Complication. A Program Novel Book 6. New York: Simon Pulse, 2018 in which the main protagonist of the novels is finally able to stop the adjustment of the previous volume. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proxy Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Charles] Alex[ander] London (b. 1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a boy from the lower class is punished whenever a boy from the upper class does something wrong. The two come to cooperate to find out why the system was imposed. A sequel is Guardian. New York: Philomel Books/Penguin, 2014 in which the revolution against the regime has succeeded but is not universally popular. In this volume, people are becoming extremely ill. The projected third volume was not published.

PB - Philomel Books/Penguin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Panopticon. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jenni Fagan (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a fifteen year old girl who has gone through the Scottish foster care system is sent to The Panopticon, a type of prison proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which prisoners can be efficiently observed. There she finds a helpful social worker and the prisoners ultimately destroy the prison. 

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Hogarth, 2013. Rpt. with a “Reader’s Guide,” “Recommended Reading,” and “A Playlist for The Panopticon” (287-300) New York: Hogarth, 2014. 

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

Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin that suggest various activities that individuals and groups can undertake to bring about a better society. Some of the other stories focus on specific things that could or have done.

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 - Patriot Dawn: The Resistance Rises Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Max] [Alexander] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia after the development of an authoritarian regime in the U.S. The novel was written to accompany his Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival. 2nd ed. rev. and exp. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012. A sequel under the author’s name is Patriot Rising: The Unbroken. 2nd ed. [No indication of a 1st ed.]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2015, with a “Glossary” on pp. 407-09. In this volume there is a civil war in the U.S. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] VL - 2nd. ed. No indication of a 1st ed. U3 -

Max Velocity [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriots of Treason. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Thomas Roberts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the State of Texas defends freedom, and the Tea Party in particular, against a corrupt and authoritarian government.

PB - [AKA yoLa] CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pattern Recognition.” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which small children from the slums of various countries are bought from their parents and raised in a completely closed and regulated environment where they are trained in pattern recognition skills with the results sold to large corporations. 

JF - Diverse Energies PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Perfect Match” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by a company selling everyone a personal attendant/adviser that collects an immense amount of information about each person. 

VL - no. 31 SN - 9781597804547 978-1481442541 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match/ N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 491-507; and in his The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 26-50.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom Y1 - 2012 A1 - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004) A1 - J. A. Johnstone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2011 Johnstone with Johnstone. In this novel the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. See also 2013 Johnstone with Johnstone

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Picking Up the Park” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Milstein, Cindy A1 - Erik Ruin (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. Public parks as common utopian spaces.

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

Illus. Erik Ruin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pines. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a town cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by a few people with the leader claiming that he is God. There appears to be only desolation outside the town. First volume of a trilogy followed by Wayward: Book Two of the Wayward Pines Series. Las Vegas, NV: Thomas & Mercer, 2013 and The Last Town: Book Three of the Wayward Pines Series. Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2014. Basis for the TV series Wayward Pines that ran May 14 – July 23, 2015, and May 25 – July 27, 2016.

PB - Thomas & Mercer CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirate Cinema Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Proposition 23” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Efe [Tokunbo] Okogu ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Male author KW - Mexican author KW - Nigerian author KW - UK author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia planning to give citizenship rights to Artificial Intelligences.

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - NP SN - 9780987008961 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pure Y1 - 2012 A1 - Julianna Baggott KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. First volume in the Pure trilogy in which what appears to have been a nuclear war leaves devastation and major physical changes. The “Pure” are those who avoided the fallout and live inside the Dome. The second volume, Fuse. New York: Grand Central, 2013, is mostly intrigue and adventure. In the third volume, Burn. New York: Grand Central, 2014, after much conflict, the Dome is destroyed.

PB - Grand Central CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paegonaean Story Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Blair KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

One country has united the world through war and brought peace to all but a small enclave that they is isolated from the rest of the world. The novel is about the process of bringing that enclave into the fold with war erupting. In interviews the author presents the scenario positively. 

PB - Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd. CY - Guildford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patriot Girls" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Sisson, Amy ED - Bridget McKenna ED - Marti McKenna KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is in constant future wars and does not produce enough lower-class boys to serve. The Patriot Girls are lower-class girls who sign up to mate with the boys to produce the future military.

JF - End of an Aeon PB - Fairwood Press CY - Bonney, Lake, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix Rising Y1 - 2011 A1 - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004) A1 - J. A. Johnstone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a liberal U.S. with a foreign-born President trying to establish a world government which leads to a takeover by Islamic extremists and a remnant of American patriots fighting to reclaim the country. First volume of a trilogy followed by their Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2012, in which the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. In the final volume, Phoenix Rising. Day of Judgment. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2013, the U.S has become the United Islamic Republic of Enlightenment and is supported by the World Caliphate of Holy Path Islam and the survivalists of the earlier volumes fight to reestablish the U.S.

PB - Pinnacle Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Y1 - 2011 A1 - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2010 [Meaney]. This volume focuses on suicide cults among teenagers.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U3 -

Thomas Blackthorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Possession Y1 - 2011 A1 - Elana Johnson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopia in which people are brainwashed and one teenage girl resists. See also 2012 and 2013 Johnson. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Postmortal [A Novel] Y1 - 2011 A1 - Drew [Andrew Schuyler] Magary (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a cure for aging. This is followed by a pandemic that decimates the world’s population presented through the recovery, in 2093, of sixty years of text files from an unidentified man recounting his experiences.

PB - Penguin Books CY - New York SN - 9780143119821 9780007429080 N1 -

The ebook version includes bibliographical references and an index. U. K. ed. as The End Specialist. London: Harper Voyager, 2011. 419 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - President Michelle or Ten Days That Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy Y1 - 2011 A1 - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

During the 2012 election, Barak Obama has a heart attack, Michelle Obama is chosen to replace him as the candidate, and easily wins. The novel reports her first ten days in office during which she proposes and gets passed into law An Act to Restore Democracy to the United States of America that eliminates all contribution to politicians. In addition, she proposes to close all U.S. military bases abroad and bring all U.S. forces and material home while developing cooperation with other nations. And, among other things, she intends to radically improve the U.S. health care system. 

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 9789988233075 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prisoner 2501" Y1 - 2011 A1 - John Philip Corpuz ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia present through the torture inflicted on prisoners to elicit information from them. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 6 Literature of the Fantastic N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project "New Jerusalem" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Geoff Thomas (b. 1970 or 71) KW - Male author AB -

The work begins in a dystopia in which the remains of humanity live behind a shield that protects them from “evil androids.” The humans manage to escape to a new planet, and the work ends. Described as the first chapter of a novel which will continue if sales justify, but there is also an ad at the end for a sequel Return to Eben as forthcoming, but it does not appear to have been published.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pure" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Rio Youers KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia created by a virulent disease and the restrictions used to contain it.

JF - Dark Dreams, Pale Horses PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (Toronto, ON: ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books, 2012), 154-82. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pym. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Mat Johnson (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Something of a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-49) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. The novel begins as a realistic novel, but then the protagonist leads an all-black crew in Pym’s footsteps to the Antarctic, where they find, in addition to Pym still alive, not the blacks with whom Poe’s novel ends but white giants like Sasquatch or Yeti, who enslave them. Escaping they also find a painter who has escaped the U.S. to avoid taxes and is trying to create a eutopia that matches his paintings. 

PB - Spiegel & Grau CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol Y1 - 2010 A1 - Herman R. Willett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is declared an open country with free immigration. The Patriot League, which has been monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border, fights back and keeps those they consider illegal immigrants out. See also 2010 Willett The Patriot League Origins.

PB - LuLu Publishing CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Patriot League Origins Y1 - 2010 A1 - Herman R. Willett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which patriotic Americans are forced to band together to protect the border between the U.S. and Mexico. See also 2010 Willett, The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol.

PB - LuLu Publishing CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paul Kishosha's Children" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Edgett, Ken ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by an individual scientist dedicating himself to effectively teaching science to African children. The story traces the transformation of a single African village where the scientist lives as the influence of his teaching gradually spreads throughout African and the rest of the world.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Sanford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd story in which, for unexplained reasons related to dreams, people from churches kill many people including both criminals and police.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 231 N1 -

Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 75-106.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal Jesus" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Pelland, Jennifer ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The Ecclesiastical States of America includes all of the former U.S. except California and New England. It enforces its fundamentalist morality by requiring everyone to wear a mechanical "Personal Jesus" that responds to wrong actions with a shock and informs the authorities if the behavior continues.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

[Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pleasure Model Y1 - 2010 A1 - Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which some women are created solely for the pleasure of their owners. See also 2010 Rowley, The Bloodstained Man.

PB - Tor CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Gregory Manchess (cover) and Justin Norman (interior)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Precedent" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. All those born in the twentieth century are assumed to be guilty of contributing to the destruction of the environment, which carries the death penalty.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 119.1 & 2 (690) N1 -

 Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 172-202. Merril

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Price of Tranquility Y1 - 2010 A1 - Arnold J. Inzko KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a technological eutopia in which the CNAS (Consolidated North American States) and the CSE (Consolidated States of Europe), both with female heads of state, cooperate but also have a very well-established secret service with cameras throughout the world. Issues arise around aliens in space, states outside these two, and a civilization underground. After various adventures, everything comes right.

PB - Great Authors CY - Elsinore, CA UR - Only available online. http://greatauthorsonline.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pump House Farm" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hawkes-Reed, John ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which radical environmentalists are the bad guys who, gaining power in England, shut down most power sources, overstate potential dangers, and institute a repressive regime.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - PushBack Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alfred Wellnitz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. In 2033 the US experiences hyperinflation and disintegrates. One of the countries formed out of the former US is a white supremacist state and a black insurgency uses a nuclear bomb against it.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Union Y1 - 2009 A1 - Goodfellow, Cody KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an intentional community as a human hive.

PB - Swallowdown Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pet: An exercise in control" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Bob James KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire on automation in which an android housekeeper replaces a woman.

JF - Nature VL - 461.7261 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pirates of the Cumberland Basin" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Joanne Hall ED - Colin Harvey KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a flooded Bristol with extensive organized crime and pirates living outside the law. Much of Europe is flooded.

JF - Future Bristol PB - Swimming Kangaroo Press CY - Arlington, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire. The "Freedom Coalition" is attacking all anti-capitalists, and the fundamentalist right is growing in strength.

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The President's Book Tour" Y1 - 2009 A1 - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive mutations.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 117.3 & 4 (685) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Promise of the Flame Y1 - 2009 A1 - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Engdahl. In this volume, the small group of people with "psi powers" settle a new planet and develop a new and better culture based on those powers. See also 2013 Engdahl.

PB - Ad Stellae CY - Eugene, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pacification of Earth Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dean Warren KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly a future war story, but it begins in a future overpopulation dystopia and proceeds through the war to the suggestion of a better future.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The pair-bond imperative: What's Love Got to do with it?" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jennifer Rohn (b. 1967) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

A space colony establishes a rigid procreation system, and the story is about love interfering with it. 

JF - Nature VL - 454.7204 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pandemonium in 2012 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lee [Leland W.] Cross KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. under the usual politicians is challenged by patriots.

PB - Virginia City Publishing CY - Sparks, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Payback” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In the book Atwood reflects on the nature of debt and the debtor creditor relationship from a number of different perspectives, primarily in literature and myth. In the last chapter, “Payback” (163-203), she presents a twenty-first century Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (). This “Scrooge Nouveau,” as she calls him, owns multiple corporations, and is only concerned with more and more money and has no interest in the damage his actions inflict on other people or the planet. The first spirit is the Spirit of Earth Day Past who shows him how Earth was nurtured in various cultures but also shows him the Black Death and other ways humans negatively impacted the Earth. The Spirit of Earth Day Present shows him various contemporary disasters-in-the making. Finally, the Spirit of Earth Day Future multiple possible futures. In one, the human race is extinct. Finally, alternative futures are present, one in which the Earth is recovering and the other in which there is a food shortage, inflation has destroyed Scrooge’s wealth, and he is in danger of starvation.

JF - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth PB - Anansi CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-088784-810-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect Choice Y1 - 2008 A1 - John W. Herbert KW - Male author AB -

A couple is taken into space by a UFO and spends time on a eutopian planet where people are still improving mentally by accepting the love of God. It is hoped that the couple can bring that message back to Earth.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosopher's Apprentice Y1 - 2008 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopias created by both sides in struggles over genetic engineering. One dystopia is an extrapolation of the growing political power of fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. The other dystopia is brought about by a genetic experiment by women trying to create a eutopia.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. with an added, separately paged section "P.S. Insights, Interviews & More. . ." at the end. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pisstown Chaos. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Ohle (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia. Sequel to 2004 Ohle.

PB - Soft Skull Press CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plague of Doves Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Karen] Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes a section on a dystopian religious intentional community.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Plan C" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) ED - Nicholas Royle KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

A story of a girl escaping an authoritarian dystopia. 

JF - ’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution PB - Salt CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Protocol: Your children deserve the best" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ralph Greco [Jr.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Children are genetically manipulated after birth to produce what their parents want.

JF - Nature VL - 452.7184 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Publicani Y1 - 2008 A1 - Zak Maymin KW - Male author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on one family's response to an authoritarian government that wants to take even one's intellect.

PB - CreateSpace Publishing CY - Scotts Valley, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pump Six" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. General environmental collapse which has led to a biological and intellectual collapse among humans.

JF - Pump Six and Other Stories PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.3 (676) (September 2008): 9-43; and in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 106-43 with an editors' note on 105 .

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perception Experiment Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jason Glover KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia where everyone is conditioned to believe the lessons of contemporary Christian fundamentalism. This produces a supposedly idyllic life except for those who slip through the controls.

PB - Thirdeye Publications CY - [Traverse City, MI] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Perfection" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Margot Berwin ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of perfection brought about by socialized plastic surgery.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Persephone's Library" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Susan Lynne] [Deefholts] (1942-2015) ED - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A small community living at what appears to be the edge of the world is dominated by one man, who prohibits learning predating the event that created the community and takes multiple wives for himself.

JF - Tesseracts Eleven PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U3 -

Khria Deefholts [pseud]. The author also used the name Anduril Elessar

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pink Carbide Y1 - 2007 A1 - E[arl] S. Wynn KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that begins in Los Angeles in 2162 with a corrupt corporate controlled government in US. There are two sequels: Pink Carbide: Aluminum Opus. Sonora, CA: Thunderune Publishing, 2008; and Pink Carbide: Carbon Aria. Sonora, CA: Thunderune, 2009. In the first sequel the protagonist flees the US, and in the second she returns to the US to discover her real identity.

PB - Thunderune Publishing CY - Sonora, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pirate Daddy's Lonely Hearts Club Call-In Show" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jardine Libaire ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control (FBI-Google) specifically the requirement to wear a device the indicates whether or not another person is the right partner.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Political Science" Y1 - 2007 A1 - C. W. Johnson AB -

Anti-science dystopia.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 127. 7 & 8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prairie Fire. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dan Armstrong KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future anti-capitalist dystopia from a populist perspective. Three large corporations control the world grain market, and the U.S. farmers they are impoverishing decide to fight back with mixed results.

PB - Lincoln, NB CY - iUniverse N1 -

2nd printing Eugene, OR: Mud City Press, 2007. 540 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Predictions of the End Times: An Accurate Portrayal of the Antichrist and his Actions Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rex Lombardo KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An unusual version of the Antichrist in that he will bring a eutopia to the world, by eliminating false religions, removing greed from capitalism, eliminating hunger, establishing a pure democracy, and creating a just system of taxation.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] UR - See http://www.PredictionsOfTheEndTimes.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prefect Y1 - 2007 A1 - Alastair [Preston] Reynolds (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The novel is a police procedural set in the Glitter Band, which is composed of ten thousand orbiting habitats with varied social systems but with all the inhabitants having the right to vote. Each habitat chooses its own rules and regulations, with the only common rule being the right to vote. A computer constantly runs polls. A sequel is Elysium Fire. London: Gollancz, 2018. 

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Aurora Rising: A Prefect Dreyfus Emergency. London: Gollancz, 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Principle" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious satire. The original golden plates of the Book of Mormon are rediscovered, and it turns out that they require polygamous, gay marriage.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prison Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul Western (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a huge prison that describes each of its divisions and follows one individual through them.

PB - [Ptd. by Lightning Source UK Ltd.] CY - [Milton Keynes, Eng.] UR - http://www.prison-novel.co.uk. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Profit Margin" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Latter, Kristopher KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The government establishes a policy that allows companies to employ prisoners at cut rates. As a result, companies in collusion with a corrupt system arrange to have their most expensive employees arrested on false charges and then employ them at their old jobs.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Prophet of Flores" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kosmatka, Ted KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia where people think evolution has been proven wrong.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 31.9 (380) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 548-69 with an editor’s introduction on 548.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Proxy Server" Y1 - 2007 A1 - L. Archeneaux AB -

Near future dystopia in which companies and governments cooperate to suppress dissent.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 13 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Patriot" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Fitzgerald, Erin ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background of a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peace Criminal" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Vaughan Stanger (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which a Nazi regime had been established in Britain.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pearl Diver" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Caitlín [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Places of Color" Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Bartell ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background about a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives with states seceding and visas needed to enter another state.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pop Squad" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Deep division between the rich and poor. The rich get annual rejuvenation shots but cannot have children. The poor are those who choose to have children, which is illegal. The "Pop Squad" is the police who kill the children.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111. 4 & 5 (655) N1 -

Rpt. in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 137-61; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 139-59; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 139-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Poundbury 2030" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Dennis Hardy (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief, eutopian description of the town of Poundbury, England twenty-five years in the future.

JF - Poundbury: The Town that Charles Built PB - Town and Country Planning Association CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prayers for the Assassin. A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after a nuclear attack. Thirty-fives years in the future most of the U.S. is an Islamic Republic with a Bible Belt country in parts of the South. See also 2008 and 2009 Ferrigno.

PB - Scribner CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hutchinson, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Printcrime" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the use of a 3-D printer is a crime.

JF - Nature VL - 439.7073 N1 -

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2, which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prodigy Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kalstein, Dave KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian murder mystery set in 2036 in an exclusive school in which the students are part of an experiment.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Punishment Fits the Crime: Everything's Going to Be all right" Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Berreby (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A very brief description of a future in which people convicted of crimes are punished by being mentally impaired for a time.

JF - Nature VL - 440.7081 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 51-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Patralmador Paradox: Seduction and Salvation of Planet Earth Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paul [S.] Sandhaus KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia on the planet Patralmador, which is trying to recruit people from Earth who are likely to shake up Patralmador’s complacency. Equality. Live in compatible groups; no families. Children live by age group. No competitive sport; no organized religion; abundance. 

PB - iUniverse, Inc CY - Lincoln, NE U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect Dark Initial Vector Y1 - 2005 A1 - Greg[ory] Rucka (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in sequel to the XBox 360 game Perfect Dark Zero and © by the Microsoft Corporation. See also his Perfect Dark Second Front. New York: Tor, 2007, which is a sequel.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piccadilly Circus" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future ruined, depopulated London.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 198 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), 244-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pigs on the Wing: Aurorae in the sky with diamonds, just $10.99 (exc. tax)" Y1 - 2005 A1 - K. Erik Ziemelis KW - Male author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Nature VL - 436.7051 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 318-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prometheus Unbound, At Last: And not a moment too soon" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the themes of science fiction and utopian literature.

JF - Nature VL - 434.7052 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 239-41; and in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 361-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Promised Land" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Antonio Ruffini KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Immortality or at least extremely long life is available to some, which produces a deeply divided society.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 17.2 (61) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Protector's War Y1 - 2005 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe societies, some dystopian and others struggling to be good societies.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Punk Land Y1 - 2005 A1 - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a Punk Heaven.

PB - Eraserhead Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pakeha" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jane [M.] Lindskold (b. 1962) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. A virus that destroys all petroleum products devastates the world economy. New Zealand chooses to eliminate government. Pākehā, which now refers to white New Zealanders, comes to mean someone who has earned the right to live there.

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), 403-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panopte's Eye" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kobayashi, Tamai ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Japanese author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Excerpt from a novel-in-process, which does not appear to have been published. 

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Keith Sutherland KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction proposal for government without political parties, which will produce a eutopia. Somewhat revised as A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic. Bound back to back with Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. A Citizen Legislature. O

PB - Imprint Academic CY - Exeter, England N1 -

Somewhat revised as A People’s Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 1985. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of Sand and Slag" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Far future environmental dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 106.2 (625) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 122-36; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 39-54; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 49-67; and in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 148-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of Sparks Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2003 DuPrau in which the people of the city of Ember deal with conflicts with the people living on the surface. See also 2008 DuPrau.

PB - Random House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peregrines" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy with a dystopian background extrapolated from the threats to democracy brought about by the response to terrorism in the United States.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted January 7, 2004. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in her Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 211-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pervert" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of complete separation of men and women with both having to be covered from head to toe when they might be in the same areas. The pervert is a heterosexual.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 106. 3 (626) N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 97-106; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 97-106.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peter Skilling" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia based on the U.S. response to terrorism.

JF - Salon.com UR - http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2004/02/19/death_penalty. Accessed April 5, 2011. N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science 107.3 (632) (September 2004): 116-29; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 179-89; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 179-89. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planet for the President Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alistair Beaton (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by current U.S. environmental policies. The novel ends with only one person alive, the U.S. President whose policies led to the destruction of the eco-system.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plot Against America Y1 - 2004 A1 - Philip [Milton] Roth (1933-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-74) won the 1940 presidential election and Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer who cooperated with Adolf Hitler. Roth called it “an American dystopia;” qtd. in the TLS (December 23 & 30, 2005): 20. A six-episode television mini-series created and directed by David Simon (b. 1960) and Ed Burns (b. 1946) was shown on HBO March 16 - April 20, 2020, with the first three episodes directed by Minkie Spiro and the last three by Thomas Schlamme (b. 1950).

PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in Philip Roth, Novels 2001-2007 (New York: The Library of America, 2013), 93-458 with “Notes on the Text” by Ross Miller (683-89). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince of Christler-Coke Y1 - 2004 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of struggle among the nobility in a future degenerated America.

PB - Golden Gryphon Press CY - Urbana, IL N1 -

Parts were originally published in different form in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales. Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992, 5-19, which says that “Buckstop” (5-19) will be chapter 10 of Prince of Christler-Coke, but it isn’t, and the chapters have no titles. Parts were also originally published in Ten Tales. Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1994.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parecon: Life After Capitalism Y1 - 2003 A1 - Michael Albert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction that includes a section on "Daily Life in a Participatory Democracy" (171-230) that is eutopian. See also 2017 Albert.

PB - Verso CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Passion for Dead Leaves: Third Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers Y1 - 2003 A1 - John David (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Third of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume is particularly concerned with the struggle against an Empire and a colonial system. See also 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2).

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pier Pressure" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Christina Lake KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which England has retreated to ten seaside piers. Cloning.

JF - Interzone VL - no.188 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pillowman Y1 - 2003 A1 - Martin [Faranan] McDonagh (b. 1970) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia focusing on a writer in a totalitarian state.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project Utopia 2030 Y1 - 2003 A1 - R. Norman Johnson KW - Male author AB -

A novel that sets the Christian conflict between good and evil in a high-tech future ending with Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia of corporate control. The novel is set in a resort for the rich called Paradise in which everything controlled to ensure their pleasure. The resort has both metaphorical and real snakes.

PB - Penguin Books (NZ) CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradises Lost" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes two societies, both with eutopian elements, on a multi-generation starship. The primary society is the one designed for the people on the starship, as modified by the people themselves. It is explicitly eutopian with an emphasis on "Peace and plenty. Light and warmth. Safety and freedom" (300). But it nearly succumbs to the religious belief of those who conclude there is nothing outside the ship. At the end, the first group begin to build a new society on a planet, while the second choose to travel forever.

JF - The Birthday of the World and Other Stories PB - HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Imperfect/Future Perfect?” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Teresa Holmes KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Series of stories set in futures regarding the past. Generally too brief to do more than suggest some dystopian future. “Seen from the future, the past is viewed as happier, more secure, more pleasant, more friendly than the time in which the characters now live” (223).

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited PB - Pipers Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng.: UR - www.supamasu.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peshawar Lancers Y1 - 2002 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history novel in which Europe has been destroyed by a meteor shower in 1878 and in 2025 Delhi is the center of the Angrezi Raj (formerly the British Empire). His “Shikiri in Galveston.” Worlds That Weren’t. New York: ROC/New American Library, 2005 is set a bit earlier in the same future.

PB - ROC/New American Library/Penguin Putnam CY - Mew York SN - 0-451-45848-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Political Officer" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a spaceship sent out by a patriarchal religious dystopia and emphasizes the divisions among the crew. The sequel “The Political Prisoner.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.2 (675) (August 2008): 44-113. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 280-326 with an editor’s introduction on 280 is located on Mars and is primarily concerned with conflicts among the powerful within the dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 102.4 (605) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Utopia Y1 - 2002 A1 - John C[harles] Marple (b. 1926) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia stressing equality and democracy from the bottom up.

PB - [Author] CY - [Malahat, BC, Canada] U1 -

Cover adds the subtitle Come Let Us Dream of an Ideal World

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Promised Land” Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

After the Confederacy wins the Civil war and secedes from the Union, it becomes a successful industrial country and finds slaves an incumbrance. They solve the problem by forcibly marching all the slaves into the western territories, purportedly to settle them on reservation, Instead, they slaughter them all. 

JF - Black Science Fiction Stories PB - Infinity Publishing.com CY - Haverford, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Protection" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief dystopia in which the right to have children is strictly limited, which puts those children born at risk from those wanting children.

JF - Femspec VL - 3.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Paradigm of Earth Y1 - 2001 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to a first contact story is an extrapolation into the near future of a right-wing Canada that is mildly dystopian but growing worse. Described as “The revolution of the haves against the have nots” (121). Also presents an egalitarian eutopia in a communal setting with humans and aliens.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Park Polar Y1 - 2001 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological and corporate dystopia.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule) Y1 - 2001 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow EffectPax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony. This volume begins after a global war when the International Organization of Women declares female superiority and a women’s revolution.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perdita Y1 - 2001 A1 - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Strongly pro- and anti-technology forces on a eutopian planet. Includes a list of the principal characters by group [(iv)], rules for the pronunciation of the languages of the planet ([v]), and a map of the planet ([vi]). 

PB - Wooded Hill Press CY - Glen Ellen, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Perfect Persecution. A Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - J[ames] R[aymond] Lucas KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from a Christian, anti-abortion viewpoint. Abortion is common and an underground Christian movement rescues babies and fights abortion.

PB - Broadman & Holman CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pickup Artist Y1 - 2001 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which artists, novelists, and other creative people are eliminated from the historical record, and all their works are picked up and destroyed. This is ostensibly to make room for new works.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradox Y1 - 2000 A1 - John Meaney (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent dystopia. Sequels are Context: Book Two of the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2002; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2005; and Resolution: Book Three in the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2005; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2006.

PB - Bantam Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parallel Highways" Y1 - 2000 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) ED - Jeremy Lassens KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

As the anthology sub-title suggests, this is a dystopian horror story of a couple trapped on a Los Angeles freeway travelling constantly at 80 miles an hour hemmed in by trucks and other cars.

JF - After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror PB - fREAk pREASs CY - San Diego, CA SN - 9780970009708 978-1-933846-95-8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of James Van Pelt. (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 17-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pastoralia" Y1 - 2000 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people live in a cave in a zoo pretending to be early humans, which is considered a good job in what is obviously a poverty-stricken future.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 76.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Pastoralia (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000), 1-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Patient Zero” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-apocalypse dystopia (pandemic) as seen by a small boy who has survived but is a carrier and is being kept in a medical facility that is slowly losing its ability to function and its staff.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 99.2 (587) N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 362-379.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The third volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, the recovering ecology is collapsing due to global warming and the Pax Femina has become ruthless, particularly in its control of its space colonies.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The fourth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, Earth’s ecology continues to deteriorate, and what is now the Pax Humana, dominated by corporations, is determined to destroy the one space colony, on Callisto, that remains free of its control.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The fifth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and 2001 Cantwell. This volume continues the themes of the earlier ones. Callisto was defeated and its people dispersed, and corporations rule, but the struggle between the Pax Humana and the dissidents continues until the Pax Humana fleet meets a stronger power from outer space. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - PDU-1 Y1 - 2000 A1 - F[red] E. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

PDU-1 is an orbiting computer into which the personalities of those convicted of crimes on earth are transported. Primitive eutopia on PDU-1 contrasted with a dystopian earth.

PB - ACS Publishing CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perdido Street Station Y1 - 2000 A1 - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian set in the polluted, rundown city of New Crobuzon where humans and other beings live under a vicious regime. Fantasy with surrealistic elements. See also 2002, 2004, and 2005 Miéville.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plains of Heaven Y1 - 2000 A1 - Thomas S. Bloom KW - Male author AB -

Post nuclear war dystopia. The first part of the book is about the war but most of the novel is on the struggle for survival afterwards, following individuals and communities at various places throughout the world.

PB - RavenHaus CY - Stewartsville, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pay It Forward Y1 - 1999 A1 - Catherine Ryan Hyde KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A twelve year old boy takes seriously a teacher's assignment to come up with a way of improving the world and making it happen. His proposal is to pay gratitude forward by helping someone else. The idea sweeps the world, which makes significant differences at the personal level. Made into a film in 2000 directed by Mimi Leder with a screenplay by Leslie Dixon.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phallicide Y1 - 1999 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a polygamous religious sect that does not practice birth control and mates girls at thirteen. 

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 7.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 383-410 with an editor’s note on 383. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plato Papers Y1 - 1999 A1 - Peter [Warwick] Ackroyd (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Description of our time, known as Mouldwarp, from the point of view of a far future society (after A.D. 3700), that has a very imperfect understanding of the past. In that society, Plato, described as “the great orator of London,” presents wildly inaccurate public orations describing Mouldwarp but when he gains a more accurate picture of the past, he is persecuted.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Plato Papers. A Prophesy [Prophecy on the dust jacket]. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Principality of New Utopia Y1 - 1999 AB -

Web site describing a libertarian eutopia based on Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein.

UR - http://www.flora.org/rosaleen/january.html. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prokaryote Rising Y1 - 1999 A1 - Islwyn Welch (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Suburbs are a no-go area; rich have security. Rebellion.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parable of the Talents Y1 - 1998 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1993 Butler in which the community started in the previous volume is taken over by religious fundamentalists. 

PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published as “Parable of the Talents Chapter Four.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6.2 (1999): 135-48 followed by Susan Palwick, “Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life: An Interview with Octavia Butler” (149-58). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Y1 - 1998 A1 - Toni Morrison (1931-2019) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is based around a community of African Americans that was founded to be a utopian enclave.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Penal Colony" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an historic site is actually a prison with all the people playing the roles of historic inhabitants as prisoners.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 95.2 (565) N1 -

Rpt. in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 229-39.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perverse Acts Y1 - 1998 A1 - Camilla Nelson (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A political novel set in near-future Australia depicted as a dystopia of conflict between an activist right and a fairly conservative middle.

PB - Text Publishing Co CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pesthouse Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia that includes a religious intentional community called The Blessed Ark.

PB - Picador CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2007.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planet Dreams Y1 - 1998 A1 - Michaela Carlock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents two near future Earths. One is an ecologically oriented, non-violent, egalitarian eutopia, and the others is an extremely polluted, violent, poor, authoritarian dystopia. They begin to interact, changing both, but the eutopia survives without serious damage. New Age themes. 

PB - Keswick House CY - Redding, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prelude to a Nocturne" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rowena Cory Lindquist (b. 1958) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A future in which many people permanently put off puberty.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Psylicon Beach Y1 - 1998 A1 - Philip Gross (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia stressing pollution, poverty versus wealth, and corrupt authority. Described as for Young Adults.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse Y1 - 1997 A1 - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of economic and social collapse in the U.S. The novel focuses on a group struggling to get to a safe enclave in northern Idaho and then try to recreate constitutional government. His Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Atria Books, 2011 is described as a companion volume. Sequels include Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012, a dystopia set in a collapsing U.S. being rescued by survivalists; Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2013; and Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2014.

PB - Ulysses Press CY - Berkeley, CA VL - [4th ed.] N1 -

3rd exp. ed. as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2006. [4th ed.] as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2009. 1st ed. The novel was originally self-published as TEOTWAWKI: The End of the World as We Know It (1997). Before that parts of the novel were distributed as shareware with the title The Gray Nineties and Triple Ought

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Physiognomy Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in a series. This volume depicts a corrupt, authoritarian dystopia based on the detailed study of the shapes of the parts the human body with people being disfigured or condemned based on those shapes. After the dystopia collapses, a primitive eutopia is briefly presented in the last chapter. His Memoranda. New York: Avon Eos, 1999 is a sequel in which the primitive eutopia is attacked by the leader of the failed dystopia. In the third volume, The Beyond. New York: Tor, 2001 the protagonist of the first two searches “the Beyond,” which appears to be a version of Hell, hoping for forgiveness for his actions in the first volume.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: AvonEos, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plague Saint Y1 - 1997 A1 - Rita [Mary] Donovan (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Canada post-plague is dominated by the authoritarian Church of the Survivors.

PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Y1 - 1997 A1 - Peter Vaughan Williams (b. 1944) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Children throughout the world conclude that "There is no point" to anything and become totally passive. Struggle to bring meaning back to all people.

PB - Boltonia Print CY - Bolton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Polymorph Y1 - 1997 A1 - Scott [David] Westerfeld (b. 1963) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Biological science fiction set against a dystopian background of social collapse.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Principality of Freedonia Y1 - 1997 AB -

Detailed libertarian eutopia.

UR - http://www.Freedonia.org ER - TY - ABST T1 - Private Nation Y1 - 1997 A1 - N[ikolas] A[nthony] Diaman (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a future dystopia of extreme privatization from a gay perspective. Ends with at least the outlines of a gay eutopia. Mostly from the male point of view. 

PB - Persona Press CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Prologue: A Glimpse of Things to Come” and “Epilogue: Human Destiny?” Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lee M. Silver (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An imaginative projection into the future of genetic engineering, with, in the “Prologue,” stops in 2010, 2050, and 2350, and, in the “Epilogue,” in 2350, 2997, and the far future designated as ???? Projects a deep division between the “Naturals” and the “GenRich” or genetically enriched with, ultimately, divisions within the human species and the development of what later came to be called the Posthuman. Due to the division into Natural and Gen-Rich, by 2350 ethnic and racial differences are no longer important. Within the Gen-Rich, significant subtypes have emerged, with fundamental differences among, for example, athletes, scientists, businessmen, musicians, artists. “and even GenRich intellectual generalists” (5). Natural children are only taught basic skills to fit them for low-paid service jobs. Natural and GenRich come to live segregated lives and are biologically separate species. Later GenRich reshape themselves to fit the environments on different planets and finally evolve into what is now called Posthumans.

JF - In his Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pukeko Tuawhaa" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Hinemoana Baker (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Māori author AB -

Set in 2999 when Te Reo Māori is the one recognized language. Appears to be mostly science fiction adventure, but clearly there are utopian elements.

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Unpublished play performed at Taki Rua Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (August 1997).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pyrexia (A sapiens-fiction novel) Y1 - 1997 A1 - Michel Méry KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a future where people can travel to alternative realities through a machine interface, a man, Abelard, tries to re-find Pyrexia, a sex goddess, but keeps ending up in the past (our present). Both his future and our present are depicted in dystopian terms.

PB - III Publishing CY - Gualala, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Passion, Digitally” Y1 - 1996 A1 - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dictionary entry on the word date and the way had been used earlier provides a comparative perspective on and some social history of sexual relations and gender norms from the early twentieth century to 2096. Both can be read as dystopian.

JF - The New York Times Magazine N1 -

Rpt. as “Datum Centurio.” In his Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (New York: Little, Brown/Hachette, 1999), 106-10. 978-0-316-92541-9

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patches" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer controlled dystopia in which children are given knowledge through implants, which also removes their memories. As a result, everyone is rational and equal. The story is about a group of students who remove their patches and their conversation with an android who, linked to the computer, cannot understand their choice.

JF - Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction PB - Quarry Press CY - Kingston, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paths to Otherwhere Y1 - 1996 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of totalitarian states with a wide variety of alternative futures available.

PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirates of the Universe Y1 - 1996 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future Earth is a violent and depleted dystopia. One Refuge is a utopian theme park called “Pirates of the Universe”. Much adventure.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Plan for Wellington until the Destruction: Utopic Excavations at the Palisade" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Donald James Dunham (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Plans for a future Wellington, New Zealand. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first surveying the history of utopian planning, the second (101-23) describing fictionally a future Wellington that has arisen after an earthquake. In this section, there are two main flawed utopias. The City is a technological eutopia with an extremely harsh criminal code. The Island is completely non-technological, with no electricity. On the Island nine leaders are chosen by lot to serve for 27 days only. There are communal meals every day. Most of the inhabitants of the Island are people who broke one of the many City laws and chose to live permanently on the Island rather than undergoing The Penalty (being blinded and crippled), which is the only other punishment in the City. Another island which serves as a refuge for women and animals is briefly mentioned.

PB - Victoria University of Wellington CY - Welling, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Principles of Animal Eugenetics" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Yves Meynard (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The story is concerned with genetic manipulation, but the society in which it is taking place is an authoritarian dystopia, which appears to be failing.

JF - Tomorrow VL - no. 20 N1 -

Rpt. in Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman ( Calgary , AB,  Canada : Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2005), 27-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that takes place some years after 1991 Gold, The Inquisitor which is a sequel showing the further impoverishment, disintegration, and degradation of the US. The Southwest and Pacific states have been sold to México. The novel focuses on Seattle, which has no effective government or even social rules.

PB - Black Heron Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Protektor Y1 - 1996 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future computer controlled eutopia that develops flaws.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pussy, King of the Pirates Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia. As with many of Acker's novels, this has connections with works of others, in this case Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-94) Treasure Island (1883) and Pauline Réage's [pseud.] [Anne Declos (1907-98)] Histoire d'O (1954).

PB - Grove Atlantic Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador, 1996.  

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pfitz Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A prince creates imaginary cities and devotes the resources of his country to the development of plans for them. The novel focuses on characters created to inhabit one of them. The middle volume of a trilogy, which begins with the unrelated 1994 Crumey and ends with the non-utopian D'Alembert's Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng.: Dedalus, 1996. 

PB - Dedalus CY - Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Playing the Game Y1 - 1995 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Graphic novel depicting an urban dystopia and attempts to escape it. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U5 -

HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Profiteer. Hostile Takeover # 1 Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Steven A.] [Swiniarski] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Planet Bakunin (an anarchist society that would be unrecognizable by Mikhail Bakunin 1814-76) fights off control by others. Sequels include his Partisan. Hostile Takeover # 2. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1995; and Hostile Takeover #3: Revolutionary. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1996.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U3 -

By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Psalms of Herod Y1 - 1995 A1 - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe primitive dystopia focusing on gender relations. A sequel is The Sword of Mary.  Clarkston ,  GA : White Wolf Publishing, 1996. 

PB - White Wolf Publishing CY - Clarkson, GA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Puzzle, Gentlemanly" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Elizabeth [Edwina] Smither ED - Warwick Bennett ED - Patrick Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Technological future world that has lost most of its past knowledge and culture. Satire.

JF - Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection PB - IPL Books CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Place Between” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plot to Win the White House and How It Succeeded Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jack Catran (1918-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical novel directed at the misuse of language in politics, particularly in campaigning. Ends with what appears to be the emergence of a eutopia in which all large cities in the U.S. are replaced with Garden Cities.

PB - Jade Publications CY - Sherman Oaks, CA U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Poetic License” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13. Ed. Elisabeth Waters (San Francisco, CA: The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, 2013) 211-24 with an editor’s note on 211.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Professionals" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of corporate dominance.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pallas Y1 - 1993 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Having escaped from a prison planet, a man creates a libertarian eutopia on a terraformed asteroid which is contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia. First in a planned four volume series, known as the Ngu Family Saga, with the second volume being Ceres (Published online on his website one chapter each week beginning March 23,2009. There are 45 chapter and an Epilogue). It was then published as a paperback. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. The third volumes, Ares, has not been published. This volume follows the further adventures of main protagonists of Pallas.

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 9780312097059 0-812-50904-8 9781604504750 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1995. 447 pp.; and Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2011. 324 pp. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parable of the Sower Y1 - 1993 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. The protagonist, who has what Butler calls “hyperempathy” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. They try to start a new community where her religion, called “Earthseed” can take root. Bothered by writer’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. See Gerry Canavan, “‘There's Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler's Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables/ An opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi November 9, 2017, and had its U.S. premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017. It had its New York premiere July 13, 2023, at Lincoln Center. A religion emerged based on the novel; see https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ See also 1998 Butler.

PB - Four Walls Eight Windows CY - New York N1 -

See also Damian Duffy (Text) and John Jennings (Illus.) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020, with a brief introduction by Nalo Hopkinson (iv-v), a Q & A with Duffy and Jennings (265-268), Notes on Process (269-270), Visual Development (271), and a Teachers Guide to Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation by Kimberly N. Parker (272-277), About Octavia E. Butler (278), Further Reading (279), and About the Adaptor and About the Artist (280).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book II. The Kinslow Project Y1 - 1993 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2001 Cantwell, Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule). See also 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow EffectPax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony.  In this volume, the Pax Femina appears to have created a eutopia with no crime or war and a recovering ecology but has done so by suppressing all men. 

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

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plastic Paradise Y1 - 1993 A1 - D[avid] W[illiam] Walker (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Canberra, Australia. Plastic has replaced money and anyone without the right card is a non-person. The focus of the novel is on rampant development destroying the character of the city and a fight against the developers and the politicians.

PB - Boris Books CY - Canberra, Act, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Price of Peace" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Joan Sowter ED - Jean Weber KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Officially sanctioned vigilantes who enforce laws by killing the lawbreaker. The case described is of someone making too much noise.

JF - Starsongs Tau Whetu: The 1993 New Zealand Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Pegapus Press CY - Norsewood, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Punishment of Luxury.” Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael Carson (b. 1946) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on environmentalism in which a man is executed for owning a car.

JF - Serving Suggestions: Stories PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pure Cold Light Y1 - 1993 A1 - Gregory [Dee] Frost (b. 1951) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of drugs and corporate control.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parsnips and Prune Juice: Comic Mayhem in the Year 2049 Y1 - 1992 A1 - Burnett R. Toskey (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor in a futuristic setting. Some eutopia; some dystopia.

PB - University Editions CY - Huntington, WV ER - TY - ABST T1 - Passion Play Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Michael Sean] [Irwin] (b. 1965) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which the pro-life Redemption Presidency rules and encourages vigilantes to kill and the police subcontracts to freelances to arrest criminals, who are executed on television. 

PB - Beach Holme Publishers CY - Victoria, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1993.

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Sean Stewart [pseud.]

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Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Perfect Match" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Steve Stanton KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which the poor sell body-parts to survive. 

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. illus. Jose Beatas. Kasma Magazine (August 2010). https://www.kasmamagazine.com/perfect-match.html.

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Can, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Philosophical Investigation Y1 - 1992 A1 - Philip [Ballantyne] Kerr (1956-2018) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A murder mystery set in a high-tech dystopian future. A computer named Lombroso is supposed to be able to detect people with tendencies to violence, but a man using the name Wittgenstein thwarts the system. 

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Place to Scream Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in 2015 in which the stress of making a living means that the elderly are dumped on the highway because they are too expensive to keep, teenage beggars crowd the streets, and unemployment is standard. The protagonist is a sixteen year old girl who has a job and a home but dreams of a better life for herself and her sick grandfather.

PB - Doubleday CY - London SN - 9780552526166 U5 -

CU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pro vs. Con" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica; presents sexual slavery as desirable.

JF - Drummer PB - Badboy CY - New York VL - no. 154 N1 -

Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 55-65. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project Stone" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elizabeth Engstrom KW - Female author AB -

An isolated community creates a suburban, middle class eutopia based on adjusting the body's rhythms to a constantly sounded tone, but no one can survive if beyond the sound or if the tone is turned off.

JF - Nightmare Flower PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Protection" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a labor camp in a future America.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 16.4 & 5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 312-45.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planet Way Over Yonder Y1 - 1991 A1 - Stephen Ryan KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An American Sign Language story set on a planet where the majority of inhabitants are deaf while a small minority is hearing. 

PB - Department of Communication, Gallaudet University. CY - Washington, DC VL - Volume 5 of ASL Storytime UR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qn-6AO48ec&list=PLa0CgD4r5VYhSr9XdWqT3DnAJbAZScZ8N&index=5 N1 -

Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qn-6AO48ec&list=PLa0CgD4r5VYhSr9XdWqT3DnAJbAZScZ8N&index=5

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pleasurehouse 13 Y1 - 1991 A1 - Agnetha Anders KW - Female author AB -

Erotica set in 2030 in a class-based dystopia. Revolt. See also 1992 Anders.

PB - Nexus CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pogrom" Y1 - 1991 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of youth versus age told from the point-of-view of a well-off older woman who does not understand the antagonism of the young who live in dormitories. Said to be “a companion pieces to 1988 Kelly, “Home Front”.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 15.1 (166) N1 -

Rpt. in Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns. Ed. Anne Devereaux Jordan (New York: St. Martins, Press, 1991), 81-99; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 422-35.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Prince" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author's note on 197.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Proper Escort" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Elisabeth Waters ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

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

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pacific Edge Y1 - 1990 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia with conflict between those trying to create an environmental eutopia and those hoping to increase development. While the former win in the specific situation, the overall issue is set to continue. Sequel to 1984, The Wild Shore and 1988 Robinson, The Gold Coast, which are reprinted in Three Californias. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12), The Wild Shore (13-292), The Gold Coast (293-653), and Pacific Edge (655-895). The three volumes have the same physical location, but the futures presented are different.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 655-895, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12).

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L, MoS, PSt, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Magic” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Future dystopia set on the Isle of Man. The mainland of the U.K. has been devastated by climate change with severe floods and extreme violence. The Isle of Man is a haven for the extremely rich and has become a center for medical care with the dead brought back from samples of their DNA.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 39 N1 -

Rpt. in Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media. Includes an “Afterword” by the author.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Permacity Theory: Agapé-papatuanuku In Action" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jonathan S. Port KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Depicts Sustainable Living Settlements in great detail. Based on transferring the concept of permaculture to the urban area. 

PB - Auckland, New Zealand CY - MPlanning Thesis. University of Auckand U5 -

AU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal Silence" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by environmental damage and war and takes place in a mostly abandoned small town at the tip of the state of Washington. The protagonist’s campaign for peace involves walking across every country in the world and not speaking until he has finished.

JF - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine VL - 14.1(152) SN - 978-1481498517 N1 -

Rpt. in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 23-59. 

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Illus. A. C. Farley

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Picnic Days" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Cleo [Fellers] Kocol (1927-2016) ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which the right to drive is considered more important than the safety of pedestrians, and traffic accidents are considered a means of reducing the population. The point of view character is the mother of sixteen living in a two-room apartment.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

PSt

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

Dystopia of genetic manipulation in which women are used to give birth to industrial products.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 33 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #23; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 550-76; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 225-258.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pill" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jojo Bling ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story revolves round a drug that appears to be intended to produce a better life but doesn’t. 

JF - Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction PB - Orbit CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pockets of Resistance Y1 - 1990 A1 - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Survivalist dystopia set in a future totalitarian U.S. See also 1991 [Sanders]. Native American Indian (Cherokee) author.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U3 -

Will Sundown [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World Y1 - 1990 A1 - Brian Fawcett (b. 1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

An experimental novel that on the top two-thirds of the page has a presentation of the dystopia of contemporary life projected slightly into the future with periodic boxes specifying ways of countering the dystopia. The bottom third of the page is a running commentary on the top two-thirds.

PB - Grove Weidenfeld CY - New York U5 -

PSt.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophers Y1 - 1989 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia that is contemporary Britain.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piñons" Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the sense that, while there is advanced technology, the world's economy and environment have collapsed, cities are violent and full of the unemployed, and many have left for other planets. The dystopia is contrasted with the essentially good life of the protagonist, who lives in rural New Mexico, where the author lives, poor but embedded within a spread-out community of friends and neighbors.

JF - Tales of the Unanticipated VL - no. 6 UR - http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm N1 -

Rpt. Challenging Destiny: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, no. 22 (April 2006): 75-94. Also at http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 193-205.

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Uncle River [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prison Planet Y1 - 1989 A1 - William C[orey] Dietz (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian prison system.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peaches for Mad Molly" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Steven [Charles] Gould (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the homeless live hanging on the outsides of buildings.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 108.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 82-100 with an editor's note on 81.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Player of Games Y1 - 1988 A1 - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

One of his Culture novels presenting a complex future society where everyone appears to live in complete luxury with both eutopian and dystopian elements. See 1987 and 2008 Banks.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prelude to Foundation Y1 - 1988 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Prequel to the Foundation series. See note at 1982 Asimov. See also 1986 Asimov. Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

MoR, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paperchaser Y1 - 1987 A1 - Penny [Jane] Hall (b. 1941) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of an authoritarian twenty-first century Sydney. There is danger on the one side from the security services and on the other from violent gangs. An underground of homeless youth live outside the system in various places around the city. See also 1989 Hall.

PB - Walter McVitty Books CY - Glebe, NSW, Australia U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Penal Colony Y1 - 1987 A1 - Richard Herley KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Britain has island prison colonies for the worst offenders, and they are run by the prisoners.

PB - Grafton CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project Millennium Y1 - 1987 A1 - Curtis H[oward] Hoffmann (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

War as entertainment on a peaceful planet.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Promise" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Fenoglio, Mary 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 Partnership Y1 - 1986 A1 - Graeme Doel (b. 1940) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia following a nuclear war with specific plans on how to achieve it. The eutopia is based on a Christian commercial enterprise, specifically manufacturing. Pacifist.

PB - Hexagon Press CY - Parramatta, NSW, Australia U1 -

Subtitle on the cover--Towards Tomorrows World

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect People Y1 - 1986 A1 - Robert [Howard] Lieberman (b. 1941) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia presenting supposedly perfect people who aren't.

PB - Dell CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Politicana Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian Lloyd KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in an unnamed city which has fallen into poverty and violence. A dictator emerges, but as people work against him, apathy disappears, and political life re-emerges.

PB - Grosz & Lloyd Newsprint Novels CY - South Yarra, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prologue to Freedom" Y1 - 1986 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. California divided between a capitalist South and a communist North.

JF - Worlds of If VL - 23.1 (176) N1 -

Rpt. in Lamps on the Brow. Ed. James Cahill (Aliso Viejo, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1998), 169-200.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Promise of the Rose Stone Y1 - 1986 A1 - Claudia McKay KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia emerges after experience with a dystopia.

PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Norwich, VT ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Place of Circular Enigmas" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Clive Poole ED - Tony Davis KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A dystopia that pits a rural Nazi group awaiting the Second Coming of Hitler against native traditions.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - [SFSA Science Fiction South Africa] CY - [Johannesburg, South Africa] VL - 2 vols. U5 -

VaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Planet Grafool" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Benjamin Freedman ED - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The people of Grafool lead happy lives based on a naïve certainty regarding their odd social customs, which are spelled out in short paragraphs.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Press Porcépic CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Postman Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a man assumes the role of a postman and, in that role, helps to knit together the communities that are struggling to survive.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. illus. Kent Bash and with an “Introduction” by James Gunn [Rpt. in Gunn, Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 76-78]. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. Parts originally published in different form in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine as “The Postman” 6.11 (58) (November 1982): 120-69; rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 236-305 and “Cyclops” 8.3 (76) (March 1984): 112-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preserver Y1 - 1985 A1 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third volume of the Morphodite trilogy that includes 1981 The Morphodite and 1983 Transformer. In this volume the Morphodite, again a man, wins.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Transformer Trilogy (New York: DAW Books, 2006), 461-618.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Privateers Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a mild dystopia of Soviet domination of the world through domination of space. The emphasis is on the struggle for freedom which, of course, succeeds. Empire Builders. New York: Tor, 1993 is a sequel.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paper Wraps Stone" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Charlotte Ellis KW - Female author AB -

Selection of illustrations, with accompanying text, from a series of books entitled L'Ivre de Pierres (chronicles of a major French architectural competition). The visions are largely fantasy, architecture of pure invention.

JF - Architectural Review VL - 175.1045 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Sharon N. Farber ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which those with incurable or infectious diseases are exiled to a space habitat. 

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY VL - 14 N1 -

Rpt. as by S.N. Dyer [pseud.] in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 783-93 with an editors’ note on 782. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paz Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A lesbian adventure story with dystopian and eutopian elements. In the story, a woman, living an ordinary life in the contemporary world that is dystopian for women, can suddenly implant ideas into people minds, which ultimately produces something like a lesbian eutopia. 

PB - Blazon Books CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1986

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peace War" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which advanced technology is used to take over the world and control it. The Peace Authority was supposed to create a better world, but it simply maintained its own power by suppressing all opposition. Individuals successfully resist, and an area of northern Mexico called Aztlán has maintained a degree of independence. Vinge writes that The Peace War can be thought of as a prequel to his 1985 “The Ungoverned,” which describes a libertarian eutopia. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 104.5 - 7 N1 -

Rpt. [New York]: Bluejay. Rpt. with his non-utopian “Marooned in Realtime.” Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 106.5 -8 (May - August 1986): 10-14, 16-18, 20-22, 24-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-54, 56-62; 128-80; 130-76; 108-59 with a “Correction” to pages 52-53 in the May issue. Rpt. New York: Bluejay, 1986 in his Across Realtime: The Peace War Marooned in Realtime. [Book Club ed.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1986]), 1-277. This material plus “The Ungoverned” rpt. in Across Realtime (New York: Baen Books, 1991), with The Peace War 1-255; “The Ungoverned” 257-300; and Marooned in Realtime 301-545. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Permit Y1 - 1984 A1 - Bob [Robert Edward] Jones KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia created by the New Zealand government through over-regulation. One man tries to resist by refusing to sign the permit to change residences. In an "Epilogue", the government introduces legislation requiring everyone to carry identity cards. The author, who is a self-made millionaire, says that the book "is a reiteration of the ultimate truth that people do know best how to run their lives. . . (12). 

PB - Collins CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal and Social Attitudes Toward Parenting" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Marcia [E.] Lasswell ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

 Discusses the effects of changed attitudes toward parenting and child-care. Gender equality in parenting. Children will stay home longer. 

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Physical Settings for Families in 2020 In Space, On Earth" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Ann Sloan Devlin ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of space colonies, underground housing, and underwater living and gives details about the flexible interiors of the new housing as well as discussing some alternative family arrangements. Stress on technology and the variety of living arrangements that will be available, including communal living.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Priests of Ferris Y1 - 1984 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Second volume in a trilogy. In this volume the girl returns to the planet O. On Earth a year had passed, while on O a hundred years had passed and an authoritarian religion using her name controlled all the humans. With the help of the others, she defeats the religious leaders. Sequel to 1982 Gee. See also 1985 Gee.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Puffin Books, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Protectorate Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a deep division between the rich and the poor but with all under aliens.

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pursuit of Excellence" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Rena Yount ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which, if the parents can afford it, children can be engineered for appearance, higher intelligence, and specific skills. The story focuses on a mother wants her ideal daughter and is willing to give up her normal husband and son to be able to pay for her engineering.

JF - The Clarion Awards PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 302-18 with an editor's note on 301.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peacemaker" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dystopia in which a child is sacrificed to ensure a good harvest.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.8 (66) N1 -

Rpt. in Writers for Relief: An Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of Katrina. Ed. Davey Beauchamp (Wilmington, NC: Davey Beauchamp, 2005), 7-52; in his When the Great Days Come ([Canton, OH]: Prime Books, 2011), 68-82; and in Asimov’s Science Fiction 43.3/4 (March/April 2019): 26-35. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Piecing It Together: Feminism and Nonviolence Y1 - 1983 A1 - Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group AB -

Generally, an argument on the importance of nonviolence to bringing about social change but includes a brief eutopia (52-53) based on decentralization.

PB - Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group CY - Westward Ho, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Place of Dead Roads Y1 - 1983 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The middle volume of a trilogy that includes his 1981 Cities of the Red Night and his 1987 The Western Lands. This novel is concerned with a gay gunfighter in the western U. S. in the nineteenth century and is typical of the dystopian themes in Burroughs’s works.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: John Calder, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan B Y1 - 1983 A1 - Chester [Bomar] Himes (1908-84) ED - Michel Fabre ED - Robert E. Skinner KW - African American author AB -

Near future Black revolution. 

PB - University of Mississippi Press CY - Jackson U4 -

Originally published in French trans. Hélène Devaux-Minié. Paris: Lieu Common, 1983. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plains Y1 - 1982 A1 - Gerald Murnane (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The interior of Australia as an imaginary country separate from and better than the coasts, with the narrator speaking of leaving Australia to get there. The area is dominated by incredibly wealthy landowners.

PB - Nostrilia Press CY - Carlton, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin, 1984; and Melbourne, VIC, Australia: McPhee Gribble, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prometheus Man; a nrobook Y1 - 1982 A1 - Ray [Radell] Faraday Nelson (1931-2022) ED - Hank Stine KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Anyone who fails academically becomes permanently a member of the unemployables living in camps. The men are sterilized. A second plot line concerns a man who intends to create a world eutopia using people of high intelligence. The two lines converge around a man, one of the unemployables, and his divorced wife, one of the super intelligent. Separately they lead changes in the two groups and end up back together. Some of the characters, plot, and text are repeated from 1978 Nelson.

PB - Donning CY - Norfolk, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Puzzling amendment approved" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Tony White KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short future authoritarian dystopia. New York is the capitol of the U.S. Capitalism has brought worldwide poverty, and the U.S. President says that starvation is simply normal economic adjustment. The amendment prohibits any words in English or Spanish that suggests that there are any "political prisoners" in the Western Hemisphere.

JF - Veridian VL - 2.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Veridian 4.1 (February 1984): 2.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pilgrimage Y1 - 1981 A1 - Drew Mendelson (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An immense moving society is decaying and the social systems that have been in place for generations are breaking down.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planet of No Return Y1 - 1981 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence and constant war.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Severn House, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Please Insert ID-Card" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Tex Cooper ED - Tony Davis KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Four-page story on the problems created in a society totally dependent on ID-cards when a computer decides a person is dead.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - [SFSA Science Fiction South Africa]. Ptd. Wall's Litho Observatory CY - [Johannesburg] VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Plot Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ed Naha (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A space colony designed to be a eutopia with no pollution, controlled weather, sufficient space for population growth, no crime, and little illness turns out to be less than ideal.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Path We Tread" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nick Zepke (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia or dystopia depending on your outlook. Two tier economy. Small enterprises for local markets with a few large exporters with monopolies for selected corporations. Stress on the market. Welfare cut and a growth in inequality. Privatization of education and local government. Retire at 45 but then work in small shops and family businesses. Revised constitution requires people to work, live in stable families, and participate in corporate and community affairs. The rights specified are free access to information, joining voluntary associations, and stand for office. Prisons closed. Young offenders are sent to the military, and older ones are sent to mental hospitals.

JF - Pictures of the Future PB - Mallinson Rendel CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peggy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gilfillan, Caroline KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a woman's revolution taking place throughout the world. The Scottish Highlands has become Women's Territory with men driven out. Australia and The Philippines are Women's territories. England has become a dystopia for women because of the men's fears of the revolution. Women from another planet are planning to help.

JF - Crystal Crone (London) VL - no. 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "People Come First" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nick Zepke (b. 1940) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented as a debate in the New Zealand legislature in 2004 over a proposed Social Justice Commission, which will oversee all social services. It is part of a Labour government plan to focus on small scale industries and limited growth and the rejection of multinational corporations. The last line of the Prime Minister's speech indicates that all legislation has to be approved by the people voting yes or no on home terminals.

JF - Pictures of the Future PB - Mallinson Rendel CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Perpetual Migration" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short eutopian poem on the joy of life. Part of her "The Lunar Cycle". 

JF - The Moon Is Always Female PB - Alfred K. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Circles On the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 273-74.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Probability Broach Y1 - 1980 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a U. S. where the government is systematically limiting individual rights, but it then moves into an alternative history eutopia set in a libertarian North American Confederacy and is the first volume of a loosely connected series set in the Confederacy. A story set in the same future is his “The Spirit of Exmas Sideways” (1989). In publication order, the volumes, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers. The novel won the 1982 Prometheus Prize of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 9780345285935 Rev. ed. 9780812538755 Graphic Novel 9780974381411 N1 -

Rev. ed. [the author’s website calls it the “unexpurgated” edition]. New York: Tor, 1996. 305 pp. Rpt. New York: Orb, 2001. 317 pp. See also Smith and Scott Bieser, illustrator. The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel. Round Rock, TX: Big Head Press, 2004. 185 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Paradigm" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Randal Flynn (b. 1957) ED - Rob Gerrard KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The story focuses on a playwright who on winning a prize must decide on writing for the state or having an implant and being demoted to factory work. Having chosen to write for the state, the story traces the various compromises with his integrity that he has to make.

JF - Transmutations PB - Outback Press CY - Collingwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 269-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planet Called Utopia Y1 - 1979 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia/dystopia of immortality. To avoid overpopulation, there is no marriage or childbirth. Because it could be everlasting, the great fear of the immortals is pain and kidnapping with the threat of torture is common.

PB - Zebra Books CY - New York U3 -

J. T. McIntosh [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Planet Masters Y1 - 1979 A1 - Allen [Lester] Wold (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a society based on a caste system that includes killing as a means of improving one's position.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Praise All the Moons of Morning Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Jeanne] [Dixon] (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the inhabitants are kept passive with a drug. A young girl in the dystopia and a woman from the past help free the people.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York U3 -

Josephine Rector Stone [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Project Lambda Y1 - 1979 A1 - Paul O'M Welles KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a holocaust directed at homosexuals in the U.S.

PB - Ashley Books CY - Port Washington, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Crossed" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Sherri L. File KW - Female author AB -

Satire on anti-gay activist Anita Bryant (b. 1940) who, on dying first goes to all-male heaven, then to an all-female heaven, and then finds her rightful place in hell. 

JF - Janus VL - no.11 (4.1) UR - 11-Vol-4-No-1.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People's Almanac's Exclusive Symposium on Utopia" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) A1 - William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) A1 - Ram Dass (1931-2019) A1 - Clifton Fadiman (1904-99) A1 - Allen Ginsburg (1926-97) A1 - James Michener (1907-97) A1 - Ashley Montagu (1905-99) A1 - Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) ED - David Wallechinsky ED - Irving Wallace (1916-90) AB -

Isaac Asimov (1920-92), William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), Ram Dass [also known as Baba Ram Das (original name Richard Alpert)] (1931-2019), Clifton Fadiman (1904-99), Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), James Michener (1907-97), Ashley Montagu (1905-99), and Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) answer nine questions regarding their own utopia. Asimov, Michener, Montagu, and Untermeyer make substantial statements.

JF - The People's Almanac PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards Y1 - 1978 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay presenting a detailed utopian economic system based on what he calls a “Universal Law of Economics” that “Goods and services must be so priced in the retail trades that they remove from circulation all wages generated by industry and government in the production/distribution cycle, each fiscal period” (2). The title gives the general position--permanently available credit. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3.  See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - Author CY - Foremost, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Persistence of Vision" Y1 - 1978 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The protagonist is a man who, following a series of recessions and a nuclear reactor accident in the Midwest that left a band of the country radioactive is wandering the country Looking for himself. He spends time in the Taos area of New Mexico living briefly in communes and the discovers an intentional community composed of deaf and blind people who were born during a rubella epidemic, although their children can see and hear but only rarely speak. He stays there and learns the various languages they use, beginning with handtalk, or spelling out words in the palm of the hand to bodytalk, where people communicate with their entire bodies. And there is a third language, simply known as Touch, in which people are communicating without any contact that he fears he could never learn.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Persistence of Vision (New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1978), 227-72 (U.K. ed. as In the Hall of the Martian Kings [London: Futura, 1978], 263-316); in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 1-53; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 670-80 with an editor’s note on 670.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Phoenix in the Ashes" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia in a post-disaster primitive future. Women are controlled by their fathers and husbands.

JF - Millennial Women PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Phoenix in the Ashes (New York: Bluejay International Editions, 1985), 1-34 with "Afterword—Phoenix in the Ashes" (35-36).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Planet of the Rapes" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - Douglas Hill KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which rape is the only means of procreation. Otherwise, men and women live completely apart.

JF - The Shape of Sex to Come PB - Pan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prayer for My Daughter" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian poem of a future without men.

JF - Millennial Women PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise I. A Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - Alan Harrington (1919-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Effect of the ability to bring immortality where there is not enough serum available for all and a computer selects who will become immortal plus a few who win immortality through a lottery. The period of transition is violent and confused, but the problems continue into what is expected to be the eutopia of the future in that immortality does not cure the lust for power. See also 1969 Harrington for a different take on immortality.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Passion of New Eve Y1 - 1977 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a man's travel across a disintegrating U.S., beginning with a violent New York City where African Americans blow up Columbia University and are building a wall around Harlem and women are attacking men. In the West he is captured by a women's group, who surgically turn him into a woman. Escaping he is captured and mistreated by various groups.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Petals of Blood Y1 - 1977 A1 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (b. 1938) KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel depicting, among other things, a post-independence African dystopia and various people with utopian aspirations. Includes the idea that an African utopia will need to be found in the African past.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Please Don't Shoot the Trees" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) ED - Giles Gordon KW - English author KW - US author AB -

Horror tale based around a future of extreme pollution in which the cities have been abandoned to the poor. Nature fights back.

JF - A Book of Contemporary Nightmares PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Police Patrol: 2000 A.D Y1 - 1977 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in Reynold’s future where everyone receives a basic income and housing and shows that the police are still needed.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts were original published as “Romp.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 93-107; “Criminal in Utopia.” Galaxy Science Fiction 27.3 (October 1968): 72-92; rpt. in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 189-207; “Extortion, Inc.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 82.6 (February 1969): 83-99; and “Cry Wolf!” Galaxy Science Fiction 35.12 (December 1974): 6-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peter the Second Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Last volume of a series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. In this volume a citizen of the Soviet Union is elected pope and the Soviet Union controls much of the world, but conflict continues. See also 1970, 1973, and 1975 Marshall for other volumes in the series.

PB - Constable CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planetary Saga Almega: The Multi-coloured Sphere Within the Timeless Vortex Y1 - 1976 A1 - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualist eutopia.  Poem received "inspirationally" that traces the past, present, and future of earth. This volume introduces the Brotherhood of the Beings of the Great Galactic-Order, also known as the White Brotherhood, and suggests future turmoil on earth but also the salvation of those who have treated others well. See also [1976?], [1978?], and 1983 Howard.

PB - Author/L.C.M. CY - Rocklea, Brisbane, QLD/Waiuku, New Zealand N1 -

The copy at ATL has only the New Zealand publication information.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Predators" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence as background to a time travel story.

JF - The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror PB - Little Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 55-64.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Parable: The Isle of Erg" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Chapman KW - Male author AB -

Short sketch of an energy efficient eutopia with a guaranteed annual income.

JF - Fuel's Paradise; Energy Options for Britain PB - Penguin CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pawn Y1 - 1975 A1 - Arthur Mather (b. 1925) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian, overpopulation dystopia which hopes to solve its problems by creating artificial satellites that can absorb 500,000 people each. Military government on Earth controlled by a small elite and the secret service. The novel is about the first experimental satellite, which is destroyed at the end.

PB - Wren CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peddler's Apprentice" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) A1 - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia--a small section of the story describes a world government that through drugs and manipulation has kept the world unchanging.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 95.8 N1 -

Rpt. in Vernor Vinge, True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 146-97; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 55-89. This ed. has notes by Vernor Vinge.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pessimist Utopia Y1 - 1975 A1 - Theo Crosby (1925-94) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A plea for small is beautiful, individuality.

JF - Pentagram Papers 2 PB - Pentagram Design CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peter Plan; A Proposal for Survival Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence J[ohnston] Peter (1919-90) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future eutopia based on political participation. An emphasis on ecology.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Walter Griba.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Place Beyond Man Y1 - 1975 A1 - Cary [Carolyn A.] Neeper (b. 1937) KW - Female author AB -

Gives glimpses of an alien culture that is a eutopia but the eutopia is not developed. Commentary on the contemporary human world.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Premar Experiments Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sequel to 1966 Rimmer. Premar = premarital. In this novel, Harrad College expands its experiment as described in 1966 Rimmer to include an ethnically, financially, and racially diverse population living communally. In the earlier novel all the people were white, extremely intelligent, and of similar ethnicity. Here the sexual relations cross all those borders. A part of the plan is to rejuvenate the generally poor areas within which the communes are established. See 1966, 1968, 1978, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - Crown CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Signet, 1976

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Prologue to Utopia: The Six Days of its Creation (out of the conditions of the now-existing world)" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93) A1 - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short description of the beginnings of a eutopia based on "a psychological revolution" which allows human beings to see themselves as one world-wide society. See also 1962 and 1991 Golffing and Gibbs.

JF - Northern New England Review VL - 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pale Hands" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris Piserchia (1928-2021) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future New York City where sex is prohibited to control population and Fifth Avenue is lined with masturbation booths.

JF - Orbit PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 15 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 202-217, with a biographical note on 458-460 and a note on the text on 485.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pale Invaders Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Geoffrey Robins] [Crosher] (1911-90) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe novel presenting a simple, agricultural society in eutopian terms. When girls are of an age to have children, they enter the "Parent's House" together with the boy of their choice, as long as he agrees. The Pale Invaders are outsiders who are searching for coal to use in re-starting the technology that brought about the catastrophe. The novel ends with the notion that this time it can be done better.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Game Y1 - 1974 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The planet Pharos is a paradise with no conflict, and the novel focuses on the conflict between those who want to package it for profit or conserve it. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1976. 158 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Simple, Edenic eutopia as setting for the sexual coming-of-age of twins.

JF - Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces PB - Quartet Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her The Collected Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats. Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995), 58-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "People's Park" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Charles Ott KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Parks have to exclude people because the parks were being destroyed by too many visitors.

JF - Vertex VL - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 33-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Picnic on Nearside” Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place on the moon in a world where it is possible to change body type, gender, and so forth many times and many other technological changes, generally presented favorably. The protagonist, a boy, and a friend, who has recently had the change from male to female, visit to an undeveloped part of the moon, called Nearside, where they find an old man living, the last human on Nearside, and even though undeveloped and abandoned, Nearside is also presented mostly positively. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 47.2 (279) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Barbie Murders (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 236-60; book reissued as Picnic on Nearside (New York: Berkley, 1984), 236-60; and in Humanity 2.0. Ed. Alex Shvartsman (Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor, 2016), 111-35. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Power Y1 - 1974 A1 - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future Earth and its space empire is an autocratic system with an elected but all-powerful Emperor. It is faced with a mutiny led by the son of one of the Emperor's advisors, and much of the novel is about the struggle between father and son and about the uses of power for good and ill.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pre-Persons" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which abortion is available until the child is 12.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 47.4 (281) N1 -

Rpt. in his The Golden Man. Ed. Mark Hurst (New York: Berkley, 1980), 303-31; and in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Little Black Box (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 275-96. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Eye of the Sibyl (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 275-96.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prognosis: Terminal" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dave [David Edward] McDaniel ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future society is generally presented positively, but there is still significant inequality and violence. Domed cities; light drugs readily available.

JF - 2020 Vision PB - Avon CY - New York U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Proposed Constitutional Model for the Newstates of Americas" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Rexford G[uy] Tugwell (1891-1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposed new constitution for the U.S. designed for a reconfigured United States and to correct flaws in the original document. Includes a section of rights and responsibilities, a single presidential term of nine years, an appointed Senate with life terms, a House of Representatives with some at-large members representing regions rather than the fifty states, a Electoral Branch to oversee elections, a Planning Branch to coordinate income and expenses over time, a Regulatory Branch to charter and regulate corporations, and a reformed judiciary designed to be more efficient. One underlying principle, particularly influencing the changes to Congress is to create a strong national government with lesser regional power.

JF - The Emerging Constitution PB - Harper Magazine Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pyramids for Minnesota--A Serious Proposal" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposal to build pyramids in Minnesota that includes a brief suggestion of a voluntary corps reminiscent of 1905 Wells's samurai.

JF - Harper's Magazine VL - 248 N1 -

Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 167-69 with editor's notes on 167 and 170.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Regained" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Theodore Rose] [Cogswell] (1918-87) A1 - [Theodore Lockard] [Thomas] (1920-2005) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) 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), 171-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paramind Y1 - 1973 A1 - Jim Willer (b. 1921) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Computer dystopia showing the dangers of too much power being given to computers.

PB - McClelland and Stewart Limited CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parks of Rest and Culture" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) 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), 19-30.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of the Wind" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of limited government.

JF - Analog Science--Science Fact VL - 90.6 - 91.2 N1 -

Repub. New York: New American Library, 1973. Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pity the Poor Outdated Man." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Philip Shofner ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Future eutopian world where myths have been brought to life. One man is bored and uses grenades against peaceful unicorns.

JF - Nova PB - Walker and Co. CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 124-40.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plenteous Seed Y1 - 1973 A1 - D[enise] N[atalie] Sims KW - Female author AB -

Revolt in a hierarchical dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Port of Saints Y1 - 1973 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia similar to that in 1959, 1961, 1962, and 1964 Burroughs. In this novel Burroughs includes a number of different plot lines, one of which is the attempt to change history by travelling through time. 

PB - Covent Garden Press/Am Here Books CY - London/Ollon, Switzerland N1 -

Different version Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. U.K. ed. London: John Calder, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pugilist" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. U.S. taken over by Communists. Militarism.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 45.5 N1 -

Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 85-117; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 104-27.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Perplexities of John Forstice" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell (1872-1970) ED - Barry Feinberg KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Discussion of the nature of the good life modeled on 1877 Mallock. In his The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. New York/London: Century, 1923, written in collaboration with his then wife Dora Russell (1894-1986), he lays out a few of the basic principles that he contends are necessary for a good life. Fundamental to his vision is “The greatest possible amount of free development of individuals” (279), which requires “a compromise between justice and freedom” (279). And he goes on to say that “In a just world, no one will inherit money, no one will own more land than he can cultivate himself, no one will be supported in idleness if he is physically fit to work” and “no one will be allowed to starve” (280). Standing in the way  are “Greed, the lust for power, and the tyranny of custom” (287).

JF - The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pigeon City" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Jesse Miller KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a welfare state of the future in which everything is provided, and the people have become lethargic. A few people with energy and drive try to disrupt the system.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 90.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project 40" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where humans are bred to be hive creatures. They have been in existence for some 300 years and currently comprise 54,000 members living in an extensive underground hive in Oregon. The hive is developing a new weapon that could destroy the Earth and uses it to blackmail the U.S. government to leave it alone. The hive's plan is to continue to grow until it completely overwhelms the rest of the world.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 33.3 - 5 N1 -

Repub. as Hellstrom's Hive. New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1974; and New York: Tor, 2007. U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prosperity Plan; The only way to maintain widespread, well-founded prosperity and free enterprise in any society without war without debt without hardship without inflation without high taxes without big government and without communism Y1 - 1972 A1 - A[lbert] A[rcher] Van Petten (1925-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Plan for good society. "1. Eliminate all taxes on transactions. 2. Pay $2 per day to every citizen. 3. Derive all revenues from an Inefficiency tax. 4. Exempt $20,000 per person. 5. Assess at the highest current offer" (viii). See also 1959 and 1989 Van Petten. 

PB - Utopian Publishers CY - [Woomera, SA, Australia/Huntington Beach, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of Prashad" Y1 - 1971 A1 - James Keilty (1947-79) ED - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) ED - Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist, nature-oriented eutopia located in a valley in the Himalayas. An alphabet is provided (72), and there is "An Informal Introduction to the Language of Prashad" (76-78).

JF - Quark 2 PB - Paperback Library CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 49-80 with editor's notes on 49 and 80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pepper Leaf. An Episode Y1 - 1971 A1 - Colin [A.] Gibson (b. 1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents a small group of people who become isolated after a catastrophe and create a dystopia.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pig World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Charles W[est] Runyon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Sixties style revolution succeeds but is corrupted by an authoritarian dictator.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Is Not Enough Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of mechanical perfection in which robots do everything except act in the pervasive Tri-V shows and are planning to take over those jobs also.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise Lost" Y1 - 1970 A1 - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Pollution dystopia. A pristine planet is discovered, but the man doing so keeps it a secret to avoid it being destroyed by others.

JF - Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 33.6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Piece of Resistance Y1 - 1970 A1 - Clive [Frederick William] Egleton (1927-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a Communist Britain. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are Last Post of a Partisan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971; and The Judas Mandate. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972. Rpt. as The Last Refuge. London: Severn House, 2006 with a foreword by the author. U.S. ed. as The Judas Mandate. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagan, 1972.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Never Surrender. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pressure of Time" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals.

JF - Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Profit of Doom. Science Fiction Y1 - 1970 A1 - Hugh Dirac KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The dystopia brought about by being able to transplant almost all organs.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Proposals to Save the World" Y1 - 1970 A1 - R[ichard] I. F[airfield] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One page outline of a eutopia. Radical decentralization of power; new educational system based on volunteers; guaranteed minimum and maximum incomes; volunteer military until no longer need; a National Youth Service Corps for those fifteen to twenty-five; and a National Adult Service Corps for those forty to fifty.

JF - Alternatives! Foundation Newsletter CY - n.p. VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prospectus for Cambridge Institute. New City Project. September 8, 1970 Y1 - 1970 AB -

Non-fiction eutopia outlining the principles guiding the design of a new city.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Man: A Black and White Farce Y1 - 1969 A1 - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of racial turmoil. Constant conventional war by international agreement to keep economies going.

PB - Rapp and Whiting CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perspective Process Y1 - 1969 A1 - Cyril Donson (1919-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with women in power in The Harmony of World States. Population controlled, long life, no disease, and safety.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Practical Utopia for the Region. Seminar Two Resource Paper for Conference 2020 Building the Future Environment--an Atlantic Region Perspective to the year 2020, January 30 and 31 at the Waldorf Astoria, New York Y1 - 1969 A1 - David A. Wallace KW - Male author AB -

A speculative essay on positive changes possible for the middle Atlantic region of the U.S.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prisoner Y1 - 1969 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel depicting the dystopia of the famous television series. See also 1969 McDaniel and 1970 Stine. For the series see Matthew White and Jeffer Ali, The Official Prisoner Companion. New York: Warner Books, 1988; and Dave Rogers, "The Prisoner." In his Danger Man & The Prisoner (London: Boxtree, 1989), 129-254.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1979. Rpt. London: NEL, 1980; in The Prisoner Omnibus (London: Carlton Books, 2002), 4-177; and London: Penguin Books, 2009. While the 2009 edition says that it was first published in the U.S. by Carlton International Media, the book copyright is 1969 and the television series copyright is 1967 by Independent Television Ltd (ITV), and, although one source says it was first published in hardcover in 1967, I have been unable to identify a copy of the 1967 publication. A second, shorter series was produced in 2009 by the U.S. cable network AMC and ITV. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Past Master Y1 - 1968 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40).  U. K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pavane Y1 - 1968 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history. Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the 20th century.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York Ace Books, 1968; rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1984. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Abr. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Rpt. London: Panther, 1970. First published as a series of stories--“Pavane.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 127-60; “Pavane: The Lady Anne.” Impulse 1.2 (April 1966): 4-47; rev. as “The Lady Margaret” in the rev. ed. and rpt. under that title in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 637-43; with an editor’s note on 637; “Brother John.” Impulse 1.3 (May 1966): 47-81; “Pavane: Lords and Ladies.” Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 70-101; “Pavane: Corfe Gate.” Impulse 1.5 (July 1966): 7-68; and “Pavane: The White Boat.” New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 169 ([December 1966]): 73-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pendulum Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian religious dystopia develops out of a collapsing British economy and dysfunctional government.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People Trap" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 34.6 N1 -

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

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposition 31 Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of Rimmer's sexual eutopia. Proposition 31, found on page 255, would legalize group marriage and the novel is about one such foursome. The novel includes the design for a house that reflects the new way of living. See also 1966, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Island Y1 - 1967 A1 - Lester C. Evans AB -

Eutopia. An airplane crashes on an unknown island in the Pacific, which the survivors conclude is the lost Paradise. Elements of a religious eutopia and elements of a South Seas island eutopia with food available with minimal labor and sexual freedom.

PB - Amherst Press CY - Amherst, WI U2 -

Illus.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix. A Novel Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia followed by its collapse and the descent into a primitive society.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. 

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi" Y1 - 1967 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that is essentially anarchist based on exceptional people with many skills. Anyone can make a law, and anyone can repeal it, but some laws become sacrosanct due to their survival. President chosen by lot for one week. Everyone must participate in running the society. Severe punishment for causing problems. See also 1966 Lafferty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 25.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 37-50; in Election Day 2084; A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 233-43; and in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 51-66.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People: No Different Flesh Y1 - 1966 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

More stories of “The People” similar to those in 1961 Henderson. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “The Return” (148-84) 20.3 (118) (March 1961): 5-37;  rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 100-28; “Shadow on the Moon” (185-223) 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 94-129; “Deluge” (47-80) 25.4 (149) (October 1963): 24-54; “No Different Flesh” (9-46) 28.5 (168) (May 1965): 97-128; “Angels Unaware” (81-114) 30.3 (178) (March 1966): 5-35; and “Troubling of the Waters” (115-47) 31.3 (184) (September 1966): 100-28. U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1968. Collected with other related materials in The People Collection. London: Corgi, 1991; and in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Mark and Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1995), 217-422. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Post-mortem People" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Peter Tate (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Transplant dystopia in which the ability to transplant organs leads to the development of an elaborate system to profit from the death of others by claiming their bodies.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 49.160 N1 -

Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 383-97.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Primary Education of the Camiroi" Y1 - 1966 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which everyone is expected to be an expert in everything from a very young age. The details of the educational system are given. See also 1967 Lafferty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 29.2 SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 161-74; in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 35-50; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 213-29, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (210-12). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plague of Pythons Y1 - 1965 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the classic power corrupts mode.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. as Demon in the Skull. New York: DAW Books, 1984. A shorter version was published as "Plague of Pythons" in Galaxy Magazine 21.1 - 2 (October - December 1962): 112-58, 136-89.

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Rev. as Demon in the Skull. A shorter version was published as "Plague of Pythons" in Galaxy Magazine 

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IaU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Project Plowshare. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by world disarmament combined with the continued manufacture of weapons to keep the world economy going.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 3. 4 - 5 (16 - 17) N1 -

Rpt. as The Zap Gun. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces. New York: Pyramid, 1967. The copyright page of the book gives the title of the first publication as "Operation Plowshare", but it is as given here.

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The copyright page of the book gives the title of the first publication as “Operation Plowshare”, but it is as given here.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Psychedelic-40 Y1 - 1965 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of control through drugs and pleasure. Psychedlic-40 is a drug known as PSI-40 that produces dreams of extreme sensuality, but it also allows the taker's mind to be probed or even controlled.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Specials. London: Herbert Jenkins.

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U.K. ed as The Specials

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pacifist" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The world is divided between two opposing forces from the Northern and Southern hemispheres that are nearing nuclear war. The Pacifists are an underground organization trying to stop the war by threatening to kill, or killing, key players on both sides.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 26.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The War Book. Ed. James Sallis (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969), 79-97; rpt. (London: Panther, 1971), 67-85; and in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 146-65 with an author's note on 145.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peek at Heaven Y1 - 1964 A1 - Lucius M. Bush KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia in which everyone stays young, blacks turn white, there is romance and sex, and children stay children permanently.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Penultimate Truth Y1 - 1964 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are kept underground in the belief that a nuclear war rages on the surface. The truth is that peace has been achieved.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2005.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placement Test" Y1 - 1964 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in a story about a man manipulated into fighting his way through the job placement process as a way of selecting the best people for top positions.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 38.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction, no. 27 (October 1972): 34-60; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 58-85; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 213-41.

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Can, CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposed C-A-N-A-D-I-A-N A-M-O P-A-R-T-Y: Based on the Amo Formula Y1 - 1964 A1 - Edwin E.H. Hugli (b. 1890) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on a new money system. Stresses that the new money system would keep money flowing continuously, that his system would keep Canada independent of the United States and keep Canada debt free. See 1962 Hugli. See also 1933 Hugli.

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

Can, CaOTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Pan-Humanist Manifesto--A Call for Leadership and a Program of Action in a Free World" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Ralph Borsodi (1886-1977) ED - Mildred J. Loomis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging eutopia that includes a proposal for something like H.G. Wells’s Samurai in A Modern Utopia (1904-05).

JF - Way Out VL - 19.1 U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Physician to the Universe” Y1 - 1963 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which being sick is a criminal offense and everyone must have a physical checkup every six months, bathe regularly, take daily exercise, and eat only healthy food.

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL) VL - 12.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Strange Fantasy (Flushing, NY), no. 13 (Fall 1970): 4-;; in Physician to the Universe. The Collected Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume II (Seattle, WA: Darkside Press, 2006), 219-51; and in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three (New York: Open Road, 2015), 51-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Possibility; An Essay in Utopian Vision. Foreword. Introductory. The Oedipal Personality Y1 - 1963 A1 - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93) A1 - Francis Golffing (1910-2012) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction and largely a critique of the present and on the preliminaries to a utopia. But a eutopia is sketched that stresses diversity, variety, and equality. There is a common language added to the vernaculars. Technology. For a revised ed. see 1991 Golffing and Gibbs. See also 1962 Golffing and Gibbs and 1975 Gibbs and Golffing.

PB - The Green Knight Press CY - Amherst, MA U5 -

HRC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Programmed People" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Jack [John Michael] Sharkey (1931-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Computer perfection with controls designed to keep the population steady. A revolt succeeds.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.6 - 7 N1 -

Repub. as Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rpt. as The Programmed People. Medford, OR: Armchair Books & Music, 2010.

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Repub. as Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect Planet Y1 - 1962 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Artemis was an isolated planet that served as a health resort but was cut off during Earth’s wars. Earth has become prudish, and the people are overweight and physically weak. A man and a woman from Earth arrive on Artemis, and they find a society in which the brochures from the past are infallible, sacred texts. The people are required by law to keep at their ideal weight and wear few clothes, shocking the overdressed and overweight Earthlings. A continuing sub-theme is that the women treat the men as the “superior sex” while being in complete control. 

PB - Avalon CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Lancer, 1963.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planet Called Terra Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Thomas W.] [Wade] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia with no money and warehouses where all goods are freely available. The people are telepathic. Traditional gender-roles. Terra is a world on the other side of the galaxy where people from Earth are reborn with some degree of memory of their previous life or lives on Earth. A sequel is [Tom W. Wade], United Planets. By Victor Wadey [pseud.]. London: Digit, 1962. U.S. ed. New York: Arcadia House, 1967, which is set mostly on Earth with the same protagonists.

PB - Digit CY - London U3 -

Victor Wadey [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophical Corps Y1 - 1961 A1 - Everett B. Cole (1910-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction in which a corps is established to help bring primitive planets into galactic civilization with the appropriate ethical standards. The system is designed to avert or overcome dystopias and lead them toward becoming better.

PB - Gnome Press CY - Hicksville, NY N1 -

Parts originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction as “Philosophical Corps.” 47.1 (March 1951): 50-65; “These Shall Not Be Lost.” 50.3 (January 1953): 98-121; “Fighting Philosopher.” 53.2 (April 1954): 8-41; “The Players.” 55.2 (April 1955): 96-139; “The Millennium.” 55.3 (May 1955): 6-47; and “The Missionaries.” 57.3 (May 1956): 8-51; and in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as “Here, There Be Witches.” 85.2 (April 1970): 8-38. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pilgrimage: The Book of the People Y1 - 1961 A1 - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The People are extraterrestrials that crash-landed on Earth. The stories are about the adventures of their descendants as they discover their powers and each other. They form something very like a utopian community as they come together. A related story is "The Closest School." Fantastic Science Fiction Stories 9.4 (April 1960): 45-54. See also 1966, 1968, 1971, 1975, and 1980 Henderson.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Avon, 1963. Collected with other related material in The People Collection. London: Corgi, 1991; and in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Mark and Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1995), 1-215. Related stories first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “Ararat.” 3.6 (October 1952): 103-23; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 181-200; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K. ed.) 1.2 (November 1953): 73-94; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 3 [(1955)]: 95-115. “Gilead.” 7.2 (39) (August 1954): 28-54; “Pottage.” 9.3 (52) (September 1955): 99-126; “Wilderness.” 12.1 (68) (January 1957): 3-37; “Captivity.” 14.6 (85) (June 1958): 5-45; and “Jordan.” 16.3 (94) (March 1959): 28-53. 

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planetary Agent X Y1 - 1961 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the novel is the United Planets, which includes many planets settled by specific religious and political groups attempting to create their eutopia. The plot concerns a modern Tom Paine (1737-1809) inciting revolution and the attempt to eliminate him.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as "Gun for Hire." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 66.4 (December 1960): 104-15 [rpt. as "Hatchetman." Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 4-49]; and "Ultima Thule." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 67.1 (March 1961): 8-66.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Primal Urge Y1 - 1961 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous dystopia of the effects of a device that allows everyone to know the sexual desires of people vis-a-vis each other.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sphere, 1967. Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.

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Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pudoria Y1 - 1961 A1 - Tom Pease (b. 1893) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Open, free love eutopia. Money is considered indecent.

PB - Lyle Stuart CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Armchair Y1 - 1961 A1 - Olga [Lynford] Hesky (1912-74) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Computer conformist dystopia. Humans have lost initiative, imagination, and all aggression. An extraterrestrial who looks like a purple armchair is studying humanity for possible elimination and the decision is to eliminate.

PB - Anthony Blond CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Put Down This Earth" Y1 - 1961 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulated, authoritarian dystopia. People escape through a drug that ultimately takes them to a new world.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - nos. 107 - 109 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peacemakers Y1 - 1960 A1 - Curtis W[erner] Casewit (1922-2002) KW - German author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after a nuclear war in which survivors have been invited to an island state expecting freedom, only to discover that the leader of the state had been overthrown and replaced by a totalitarian regime.

PB - Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1968.

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HRC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planetary Legion: A Study of War and Peace, 1940-1980 Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Marion] [Matarisvan] (1920-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The novel begins with World War II, but the period after the war is transformed by the development of a world united by the Planetary Legion for Peace, a movement that leads to the eutopia. Rejects both capitalism and communism in favor of “universal cooperation”. Emphasis on those aspects of all religions that lead to peace.

PB - Veritas Foundation Publication Centre CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Los Angeles, CA: Pantheon Press-G.E., 1967. Rev. as Planetary Legion for Peace: Story of Their War and Our Peace, 1940-2000. London: Veritas Foundation Publication Centre, 1987. Fiction with a non-fiction “Author’s Preface” (7-14). 

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Romulus Rexner [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy)" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on democracy. Machines replace voters and legislatures.

JF - The Nation VL - 191.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his Level 7. Ed. David Seed (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 191-202.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Practicable Utopia Y1 - 1960 A1 - Donald McKelvey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Students for a Democratic Society CY - New York U5 -

MiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Puritan Planet" Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia about a planet called Brotherhood that would allow a human to die but not a cat.

JF - Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 115-21.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pagan Passions Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Gordon] Randall [Philip David] Garrett (1927-87) A1 - Larry M[ark] Harris (1933-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Greek Gods return and establish a Golden Age. No war, improved economic system, and greater sexual freedom. Conflict among the gods, who are in fact criminal aliens from another planet.

PB - Galaxy Publishing Co CY - New York VL - Beacon Books No. 263. Galaxy Science Fiction Novels No. 39. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pirates of Ersatz" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor--planet called Walden whose inhabitants think they live in a eutopia but are mistaken.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 72.6 - 73.2 U3 -

Murray Leinster [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Poorhouse Fair Y1 - 1959 A1 - John [Hoyer] Updike (1932-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the novel is a future United States that is slowly degenerating and becoming stagnant. The novel takes place on the day the poorhouse holds its annual fair and the people in the house revolt against the director of the home.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

 © 1958 and published January 12, 1959. Rpt. New York: Fawcett, [1964].

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Providence Island: An Archaeological Tale Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopian elements in a primitive society which has developed psychic powers.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1959.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Plenitude" Y1 - 1958 A1 - [William W.] [Mohler] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of a father creating a good life for himself and his family using the traditional skills of farming, fishing, and hunting after the collapse of civilization brought about by most people choosing to live in spheres that maintain their lives artificially. No real explanation for the choice people made.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.5 (102) N1 -

Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 396-402 with an editors’ note on 395.

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Will Worthington [pseud.].

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PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Profession" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 59.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Nine Tomorrows; Tales of the Near Future (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 16-74; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, nos. 18 - 20 (1984 - 85): 2-16; 2-13; 2-12.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pursuit Through Time: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1956 A1 - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

In the novel a man is sent back into the past to stop the creation of an authoritarian dystopia. He succeeds and, in doing, so creates the possibility of a better society in the future.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, nd.

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Jonathan Burke [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panel Game" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with society organized around a consumption band, which reflects income. Television, which cannot be turned off and is primarily a means of reminding consumers of the products they are required to buy, is organized by these bands.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 14.42 N1 -

Rpt. in his Space, Time and Nathaniel (presciences) (London: Faber and Faber, 1957), 187-99. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Ultimate Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Gerald Allan] [Sohl] [Sr.] (1913-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future America is conquered by Communists, creating an authoritarian dystopia. Much of the novel is about the revolt against it.

PB - Rinehart & Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959.

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L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preferred Risk Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Frederik George] [Pohl] [Jr.] (1919-2013] A1 - [Leonard] [Knapp] (1915-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Insurance companies control the world.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Also published in Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 10.3 - 6 (June - September 1955): 6-54, 104-43, 112-43, 100-43. Rpt. as by Pohl and Lester del Rey. New York: Ballantine Books, 1980.

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Edson McCann [pseud.] and Lester del Rey [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Private Volcano: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lance[lot de Giberne] Sieveking (1896-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An abundance of gold brings misery followed by prosperity and world peace.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Norman Arkawy A1 - Stanley Henig KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopia following a war with Venus. The apparently peaceful Venusians impose a military organization, negative eugenics, and euthanasia as a means of population control.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace Agent" Y1 - 1954 A1 - M. C. Pease ED - Robert W. Lowndes AB -

Dystopia. A conflict is developing between a new social form, the clan, which hires itself out to businesses with guarantees of performance and the old lower classes who are losing their jobs. In one town the conflict is being fostered by one man who runs the town and encourages attacks on the clans. In this town an independent man helps bring peace, but the same pattern is said to be common throughout the US.

JF - Science Fiction Stories PB - Columbia Publications CY - New York VL - 2nd ed. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace On Earth" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Irving E[ngland] Cox Jr. (1917-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a false utopia as a mechanism of social control.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - 5.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Progeny" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of children raised by robots.

JF - If (Buffalo, NY) VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Handful of Darkness (London: Rich and Cowan, 1955), 158-76; rpt. London: Panther, 1966), 127-43; and in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 Second Variety (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 93-107. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 93-107.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Populism (U & I) Y1 - 1953 A1 - John Melville KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Majority rule on all questions. World government.

PB - W.P. Van Stockhum & Zoon CY - The Hague, The Netherlands U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Potemkin Village" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Totalitarian dystopia.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 29.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Professor Mmaa’s Lecture Y1 - 1953 A1 - Stefan Themerson (1910-88) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -

Satire on human relations through the depiction of relations in a termite hill and the senses of the termites as they try to understand humans through exploring a dead body and literally digesting written works. 

PB - Gaberbocchus Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1984 with the "Preface" unpaged.

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Illus. Franciszka Themerson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Player Piano Y1 - 1952 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which automation has eliminated the jobs and purpose in life of most laborers. Engineers and managers hold power and wealth, and there is a huge unemployed population.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1952; as the “Colonial Issue” London: Macmillan, 1953; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]; New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1974. 320 pp.; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-307, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (824-28); and as Utopia 14. New York: Bantam Books, 1954. 312 pp. 

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Rpt. as Utopia 14. New York: Bantam Books, 1954.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Public Enemy" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Public officials are held responsible for the effects of their actions on citizens.

JF - Dynamic Science Fiction VL - 1.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pedestrian" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A pedestrian is arrested and committed to jail by automated police for walking at night rather than staying home watching television. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1963 Leiber.

JF - The Reporter (New York) VL - 5.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.1 (February 1952): 89-93; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (British Edition) 2.4 (8) (May 1954): 125-28; in his The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953), 25-30; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 1 [(1954)]: 64-68; in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 39 (July 1955): 32-34; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 253-58; in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 121-25; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 191-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 191-95; in McSweeney’s, no. 45 Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013): 143-48; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 678-682, with a Chronology (919-936), a Note on the Text (947) and Notes (971-972). Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]; and in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 25-29. Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]. A dramatized version was published as The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1966.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pebble in the Sky Y1 - 1950 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a radioactive Earth is shunned by the other inhabited planets. There is a galactic empire that connects this book with his Foundation series. Earth is considered to be a backward, inferior planet inhabited by primitives and many Earthlings oppose the empire. Conflict ensues with a balance ultimately achieved.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel # 14. New York: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1953; and New York: Bantam Books, 1957; and in his Triangle. The Currents of Space Pebble in the Sky The Stars, Like Dust (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1961]), 173-346. Originally written as "Grow Old With Me" but not published as intended. That version was published in his The Alternate Asimovs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). 5-133 with a "Foreword" (1-4) and an "Afterword" (134-36).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Plagiarist" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Peter Phillips (1920-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future that has rejects anything that is not quantifiable. A young boy still has an imagination that keeps getting him in trouble. Some undeveloped suggestions of significant social changes.

JF - New Worlds VL - 3.7 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 3-44.

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Illus. [Bob (Robert Allen) Clothier (1921-99)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prison Planet" Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Sydney J.] [Bounds] (1920-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia describing various exploitations of prisoners.

JF - Futuristic Science Stories VL - no. 3 U3 -

Roger Carne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus Y1 - 1949 A1 - Professor George Adamski (1891-1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Travel through the solar system. The planets are inhabited by human beings living a better life than on the earth.

PB - Leonard-Freefield CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Portal in the Picture" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological authoritarian dystopia set on a parallel world. Mostly adventure.

JF - Startling Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 20.1 N1 -

Rpt. as by Lewis Padgett [pseud.] and C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore as Beyond Earth's Gates. New York: Ace, 1954. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton, Daybreak--2250 A.D., which was originally published as Star Man's Son: 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.

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Lewis Padgett [pseud. of Kuttner ] on book publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prodigy" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic eutopia/dystopia.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 43.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Caviar (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 84-95; and in The Perfect Host. Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1998), 257-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Penultimate Trump" Y1 - 1948 A1 - R[obert] C[hester] W[ilson] Ettinger (1918-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that resulted from people choosing to freeze themselves for later resurrection. A key is banishment for selfishness that causes harm to others.

JF - Startling Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 17.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pillar of Fire" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which there is no crime or violence and a man from the past starts murdering people. Bradbury considers it a precursor to Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

JF - Planet Stories (New York) VL - 3.11 N1 -

Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 141-69; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 101-38; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 579-616, with a Chronology (919-936, a Note on the Text (947, with a minor correction noted on 949) and Notes (968-969).

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution. As Proposed and Signed by Robert M. Hutchins, G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Committee to Frame a World Constitution] KW - Male author AB -

A proposal for a constitution for a way of peacefully governing the entire world, including governmental structure and some material on the rights of citizens.

PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. in G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese (1882-1952), Foundations of a World Republic (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 305-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Twilight Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Arthur John] [Pelham-Groom] (1906-78) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mars is inhabited by an advanced but dwindling people due to an anti-marriage ideology that saw marriage as being only to men's advantage. Telepathy.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

Pelham Groom [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace in Our Time": A Play in Two Acts and Eight Scenes Y1 - 1947 A1 - Noel [Pierce] Coward (1899-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Britain under Germany occupation.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pattern for a Railroad for Tomorrow: 1960 Y1 - 1945 A1 - Edward Hungerford KW - Male author AB -

U.S. rail system of the future with illustrations of trains, stations, and routes for both intercity and urban traffic, and timetables. The author calls it a Utopia.

PB - Kalmbach Publishing Co CY - Milwaukee, WI U2 -

Illus. James Carr, Daniel H. Burnham, Linn H. Westcott, A.J. Timler

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prelude to Peace Y1 - 1945 A1 - [Frederick Rand] [Rogers] (b. 1894) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Unification under one world leader chosen by the best educators, who, with priests, are ineligible. The leader can be removed by the priests. One language, one religion. No competition. Cooperative commonwealth with government restrictions on the choice of occupation and geographic movement. Restrictions on freedom of speech and press.

PB - North American Physical Fitness Institute Bulletin 10 CY - Cupertino, CA U3 -

Count Sussicran Etoxinod [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peace in Nobody's Time Y1 - 1944 A1 - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author AB -

Satire. Dictatorship with some socialist elements like the abolition of money and the introduction of labor coupons. The stress is on going to extremes to cure social ills. Nudists were required to be nude all the time, which stopped them from being nudists. Marriage was abolished, and the people demanded its reinstatement. Pornography was legalized and disappeared.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

George Borodin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phantom Victory; The Fourth Reich 1945-1960 Y1 - 1944 A1 - Erwin [Christian] Lessner (1898-1959) KW - Austrian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. German officers form an underground after defeat and conquer the world.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Proposed World Government Y1 - 1944 A1 - George A. Birdsall KW - Male author AB -

Proposed new world government including a detailed constitution with many of its structure based on the U.S. Constitution (85-110). National militaries will be disbanded. A world currency will be gradually adopted. “American English” will be the basis of the official world language. “Six Musts” are specified: a World Congress; a World Court; a World Police Force under Congressional control; continuing inspection to ensure disarmament; safeguards against too much power in one nation, group, or person; and the entire world must be included.

PB - The Shaw Press CY - Arlington, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perelandra Y1 - 1943 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Second volume of a trilogy on the battle between good and evil. Re-enactment of the Adam and Eve myth on Venus but with no Fall. Stresses closeness to animals. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. 

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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 Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pack Rat: A Metaphoric Fantasy Y1 - 1942 A1 - Francis Clement Kelley (1870-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on the politics of the time.

PB - Bruce Publishing Co CY - Milwaukee, WI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Plan Y1 - 1942 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Detailed proposals for a radically reformed New Zealand after World War 2. Christian.

PB - Observer Printing Works CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Plan for a New Order: Giving Twenty-four Points for Reconstruction of the Present Orthodox System of Economics Y1 - 1942 A1 - Chas. [Charles] E[dward] Phillips J.P., A.P.A.N.Z. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Proposes the establishment of New Zealand Ltd. which would issue "negotiable, non-interest bearing debentures" that must be used within a specified period of time. New Zealand Ltd. would provide all national and local finance and hold all national and local assets and liabilities. Dividends paid to all citizens over 21 (40 in the first year), all of whom are required to work if needed. There is no evidence that this is connected with The People's Plan of the Dominion Reconstruction Conference of the same year.

PB - The Unity Press Ltd CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect Government: $25,000 Twenty-five Thousand Dollars Reward if Anyone Can Find a Flaw in it or Can Prove it Will Not Work Successfully Y1 - 1940 A1 - William E. Riker (1873-1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Government takes over banking, insurance, and all money lending. No hoarding of money and no moving money out of the country. The government provides full employment and cares for all disabled. Racist. Government known as “THE CHRISTIAN WHITE MAN PERFECT GOVERNMENT.” Includes The Constitution of Holy City Its Laws and Principles (15-16), although it is mostly general principles rather than a formal constitution. See also [1942?] Riker, The White Race is Supreme.

PB - Father Riker of Holy City Inventor and Discoverer of the Perfect Government CY - Holy City, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Priestess Who Rebelled" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Nelson S[lade] Bond (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Blatantly sexist separation of the sexes. First story in a series set in a future after the collapse of civilization. “The Judging of the Priestess.” Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL) 2.4 (April 1940): 42-59 is racist, particularly anti-Japanese, as well as sexist. “Magic City.” Illus. M[anuel Rey] Isip (1904-87). Astounding Science Fiction 26.6 (February 1941): 9-36. Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 293-321 is set in the same future but significantly later in time when men and women are equals but there remain enclaves of the old way.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.10 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Walker & Co., 1972), 198-221. Rev. as “Pilgrimage.” In his The Thirty-First of February (Gnome Press, 1949), 246-72. Rpt. (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), 246-72. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pagan City Y1 - 1938 A1 - W[illiam] N[oel] Chaplin (1892-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Ancient Rome as a dystopia that continues to exist inside the earth. In an Epilogue the author says that he was trying to demonstrate what a benefit the introduction of Christianity had been.

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Professor. A Novel Y1 - 1938 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia derived from National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, [1944]. U.S. ed. as The Professor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Past, Present and Future" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia on a post catastrophe Earth of a hierarchical city with people living on levels appropriate to their status. First in a series of dystopias in which people from various past times experience various other dystopias. Sequels are 1937 Schachner, "City of the Rocket Horde," and 1938 and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Corporate Mind" and "City of the Cosmic Rays".

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 20.1 U2 -

Illus. [Hans Waldemer] Weeso[lowski] (1894-1948)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Place of the Gods” Y1 - 1937 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After an unexplained catastrophe called the Great Burning, a religious society has developed with strict taboos on travel to certain areas thought of as the place of the gods. Since metal is scarce and has been scavenged from most areas where travel is permitted, one man goes into the forbidden areas and discovers the ruins of the previous civilization.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 219.5 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. as “By the Waters of Babylon.” In his Thirteen O’Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]), 3-20; in The Pocket Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: Pocket Books, 1943), 1-16; in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 103-17; in Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 103-17 with an editor’s note on 104; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 247-49 with an editor’s note on 247.

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Rpt. as “By the Waters of Babylon.” 

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Illus. Henry C. Pitz. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Problem Island Y1 - 1937 A1 - Francis Clement Kelley (1870-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A group of children are placed on an isolated island in an experiment to see if they will invent religion. Although there are problems, they create an egalitarian, democratic eutopia, and they invent religion. At the end they become Christians.

PB - St. Anthony Guild Press CY - Paterson, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America) Y1 - 1936 A1 - C[harles] Wicksteed Armstrong F.R.G.S. (1871-ca 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia describing a eugenic colony in Brazil called Eugenia. Relatively few laws. The natural position of women is child-rearing and domestic labor while that of men is combat and work. Sexual freedom for the unmarried but self-control is stressed. Voluntary euthanasia. Defective children killed. The author had previously made a proposal for such a colony; see his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review (London) 25.2 (n.s. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97. See also 1892 Armstrong, The Yorl of the Northmen; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.

PB - John Bale, Sons & Danielsson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prosperity In the Year 2000 A.D. Achieved by Democratic Steps As the natural result of abolishing all taxes upon business, industry, commerce and agriculture, leaving for the necessary expenses of government its natural revenue, economic rent as determined by the site value of land. As presented in a series of conversations between Justin Waterson, a retired Chicago merchant, eighty-five years of age, and his grandson, Charles Waterson, aged seventeen. A Challenge to State Socialism Y1 - 1936 A1 - Henry Ware Allen KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia describing the operation of a federal world state with industry essentially self-governing. Includes the single tax on land. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect World" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Benson Herbert (1912-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World inside a planet with perfect physical surroundings.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.5 - 7.7 N1 -

Abridged as Crisis! 1992. London: Grant Richards, 1936.

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Abridged as Crisis! 1992. London: Grant Richards, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - President Randolph as I Knew Him. An account of the historic events of the 1950's and 1960's written from the personal experiences of the secretary to the President Y1 - 1935 A1 - John Francis Goldsmith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a United Nations of the World with most of the novel about the rise to power of the man who brought the eutopia into being and the struggle to get it accepted. Includes a constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution (423-48).

PB - Dorrance CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple Plague; A Tale of Love and Revolution Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Archibald] Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia on a ship where people have had to live for years as a result of the purple plague.

PB - Sampson, Low & Marston CY - London N1 -

Rewritten as Red Liner: A Novel in TV Form. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pygmalion's Spectacles" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum (1902-35) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is standard science fiction about a new invention, but the protagonist using the invention appears to visit an earthly paradise.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales (Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974), 160-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prelude to Christopher Y1 - 1934 A1 - Eleanor Dark (1901-85) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Attempt to establish a utopian colony on a Pacific island as seen from after its failure. The utopian vision of the founder is based on eugenics and the ability to produce an improved future generation.

PB - P.R. Stephensen & Co CY - Sydney, NSW. Australia N1 -

Rpt. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Rigby, 1961; and Rushcutters Bay, NSW, Australia: Halstead Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Collins, 1936. Another ed. Leipzig, Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1937.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proud Man Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Complex satire on contemporary Britain from the point of view of a future human visiting in a dream. The future is a eutopia in which the people appear to be hermaphrodites, and there are no national governments and no class structure. Calls contemporary people sub-human.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press, 1993 with a “Foreword (ix-xxiv) and an “Afterword” (319-50) by Daphne Patai.

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Murray Constantine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise City Y1 - 1933 A1 - C. M. Rizk AB -

Isolated eutopia in California. Communal. Eugenics. No organized religion.

PB - [Latin Printing Co.] CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pendulum of Fate: Cosmic Glimpses of Past and Future Y1 - 1933 A1 - Robert Alexander KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Occult glimpses of other planets all of which are more advanced than Earth.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Power Y1 - 1933 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the possession of a weapon that could destroy entire areas and the story of the rise and fall of the dictatorship that the man who controlled it produced. 

PB - Jarrolds CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince Pax Y1 - 1933 A1 - George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) A1 - Paul Eldridge KW - Male author AB -

The novel starts in a very small country that has enjoyed a thousand years of peace and prosperity but has been ignored by the rest of the world. The Prince wants power over the rest of the world and gets it, but at the end, the small country, now a recognized part of the world, returns to peace and prosperity.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Park Y1 - 1932 A1 - John Gray (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Roman Catholic, pastoral flawed utopia of blacks in England speaking Latin with whites living in overpopulated, dystopian caverns. Hierarchical with a nobility. Islands used as mental asylums and prisons.

PB - Pub. for the Author by Sheed & Ward and ptd. by Rene Hague & Eric Gill CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Passionate Calvary: Being an Introduction to the Conquest of England by the forces of the Unknown and more particularly to William Bundle, Grocer, founder of the Peckham Guild of Thought, and King of England Y1 - 1932 A1 - Kaye Anthony AB -

Humorous eutopia of Eden reinstated in England.

PB - Hurst & Blackett CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pigeon Irish Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the future. Includes an undeveloped plan to establish colonies to keep Irish traditions.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1932.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Planet of Youth" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set on Venus where people stay young due to higher radioactivity, which is thought to enhance health. Men try to steal the secret for earth but fail. Positive effect is only temporary, and people begin to die and abandon Venus. In the end, people work to improve the Earth.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 4.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Tales of Wonder and Super-Science (London), no. 5 (October 1938): 4-32. Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1952. Rpt. as Youth Madness. American Fiction #8. London: Utopian Publications, [1945]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Politics" Y1 - 1932 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An anti-pacifist and anti-politician story in which the U.S. navy defeats an attacking enemy while the politicians want them to surrender.

JF - Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 7.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 138-67.

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Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Progress in Arcadia" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Cyril Hume (1900-66) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a Classical Greek competition to create a perfect city.

JF - Myself and the Young Bowman PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prohibiting Poverty. Being Suggestions for a Method of Obtaining Economic Security Y1 - 1932 A1 - Prestonia Mann Martin (1861-1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Essay describing The National Livelihood Plan which will require everyone to spend the ages 18-26 in an industrial army similar to that in 1888 Bellamy. The author was editor of the American Fabian and ran a socialist summer camp called the Summer Brook Farm; see Herbert Ernest Cushman, "Summer Brook Farm." Outlook 57 (November 13, 1897): 665-66.

PB - Rollins Press CY - Winter Park, FL N1 -

Many eds. with 9th ed. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantopia Y1 - 1930 A1 - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia located on a contemporary isolated island. Natural aristocracy of talent/performance combined with essential equality. Communal economics. Eugenics. See also 1924 Harris, “The Temple of the Forgotten Dead,” which is said to be the basis for Pantopia.

PB - The Panurge Press CY - New York U3 -

Frank Harris [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise and Iron" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer [M.D.] (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Blue Mountains Y1 - 1930 A1 - H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Russian author AB -

An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy. 

PB - Theosophical Press CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Possibilities Y1 - 1930 A1 - Gezá Schinagel AB -

Eutopia. Reason. Abundance based on unlimited power. Education becomes the main goal in life. Stress on health and extremely advanced medically.

PB - Meador Publ. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Problem in Communication" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparently eutopian Science Community with a new religion in which science replaces God is closed off from the outside world with only the truly faithful allowed to come and go because the leader intends a coup in the U.S.

JF - Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 257-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philosophic Tales of the "Arabian Nights." The Three Voyages of Omar and Micromegas Y1 - 1929 A1 - Emil St. Cyr M.D. (b. 1865) KW - Male author AB -

Includes a eutopia on Saturn (81-127) where a highly advanced race with great mental powers have built gorgeous cities. Perfect memory both individually and as a race. Technologically advanced. Television has been sufficiently advanced to be able to view the entire city, thus eliminating crime, with privacy rewarded for good citizenship. This system is no longer needed because the people have evolved to the point that crime is unthinkable.

PB - Author's Art Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prince of Atlantis Y1 - 1929 A1 - Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1868-1932) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia with classical trappings but democratic and egalitarian. Includes an Appendix (344-51) presenting material that the author contends relates to Atlantis and the Atlanteans.

PB - Educational Press CY - New York U2 -

Maps by A.C. Aalholm.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Political Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Frederic Clemson Howe (1867-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a natural aristocracy and the single tax. Cooperative system designed to eliminate economic privilege. Public ownership of all transportation, gas and electricity, and the telephone and telegraph. No protective tariffs. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 127 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plato's American Republic. Done out of the original by Douglas Woodruff Y1 - 1926 A1 - Douglas Woodruff (1892-1978) KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in Athens in 1925 with Socrates and some of his interlocutors from the Republic discussing contemporary America.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Posterity; A Novel Y1 - 1926 A1 - Diane Boswell (1899-1995) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Good life brought about by a reduction in the birth rate, which becomes a required limit. This leads to a mixed result, some good, some bad. Good living conditions but strict rule.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People on Other Planets Y1 - 1925 A1 - Richard A. Fox KW - Male author AB -

Spiritual journeys to other planets in the form of fifty-five short dated entries in a diary together with one undated chapter entitled Mind Power that is in effect an introduction. Everyone has the power to use their minds to replace machinery if they live right (vegetarian) and keep their minds free of "injustice, hatred, vengeance, and sensuality" (2). In the Preface the author says that his descriptions reflect actual occurrences (viii).

PB - The Walter Southworth Co. Distributors CY - Benton Harbor, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paul's School of Statesmanship Y1 - 1924 A1 - William H[ope] Harvey (1851-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Monetary reform results in money being tied to the amount of goods. As a result, it can be constantly in circulation rather than saved.

PB - Mundus Pub. Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Corporation Y1 - 1924 A1 - King C[amp] Gillette (1855-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fictional explanation of his ideas for eutopia. The People's Corporation is the only employer, owner, and seller. "All property and wealth in individual or corporate ownership shall be acquired by purchase. . ." (219). See also 1894 Gillette and 1910 Gillette Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf.

PB - Boni and Liveright CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ella M[arie] Scrymsour[-Nicol] (1888-1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel that includes both a dystopia and a eutopia. The dystopia is in the center of the Earth and is inhabited by the descendants of Jews condemned by God to be swallowed by the Earth. The protagonists from the surface escape the dystopia, and, while the Earth is destroyed, they escape in a "airship", which takes them directly to a eutopian Jupiter. Jupiter had a separate Adam and Eve, but without the Fall and has developed a good society that, while hierarchical, is based on pro rata sharing.

PB - Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. A Psychic Revelation. Being a Comprehensive Outline of the Planet's Physical Features, Which Includes Its Geographic, Topographic and Meterologic Aspects; a History of Its People and the Plan of Their Utopian, Industrial and Economic System; of their Knowledge concerning our Theories of Relativity, Constitution of Matter, Interatomic and Cosmic Energy, Electricity, Hyperspace, Neutralization of Gravity; including a History of the Spiritual Progress of the People of Mars and Christ's Visit to their Planet Ten Thousand Years Ago Y1 - 1922 A1 - [James Scott] [Marshall] ED - J. L. Kennon KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

Detailed communal eutopia on Mars. No government. No profit. Cooperation. Homeschooling for basic education. Scientific determination of vocation. No divorce because each person finds their true mate. Spiritualism. Some on life on other planets.

PB - N.p CY - N.p. N1 -

Rpt. as The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. By Eros Urides (A Martian) [pseud.]. N.p.: N.p., 1956.

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Rpt. as The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. By Eros Urides (A Martian) [pseud.]. N.p.: N.p., 1956.

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By Iros Urides (a Martian) [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of the Ruins; A Story of the Future" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Edward [Richard Buxton] Shanks (1892-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A general strike followed by a revolution, fifty years of world war, and one hundred years of famine and disease produce a loss of technology and arts and craft and a resurgence of religion. Return to a more primitive life.

JF - The County Gentleman & Land and Water (London) VL - nos. 2997 - 3014 N1 -

Repub. with the subtitle A Story of the English Revolution and After. London: W. Collins Sons, 1920. U.S. ed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Plus Ultra" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Edward Lucas White (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia stratified upon the basis of intelligence and contributions to society. Highly technological.

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Hand written manuscript at The Johns Hopkins University. Typescript at the Maryland Historical Society Library. Summary in A. Langley Searles, "'Plus Ultra': An Unknown Science-Fiction Utopia." Fantasy Commentator 4.2 - 5.2 (Winter 1979-80 - Winter 1984): 51-59; 162-69, 176-77; 240-42; 44-49; 100-05.

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PSt holds a copy of the typescript, some clippings made by White, Searle's notes for his summary, and the Fantasy Commentator.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophecy; The Human Community or The True Social Order Y1 - 1919 A1 - L[ouis] H[erman] Koepsel KW - Male author AB -

Detailed theocratic eutopia. An entire community meets to discuss world problems and establishes a committee to propose solutions to the problems. A new constitution is written. The entire community meets every seven days. Each person can have as much land as can be worked but must work six days a week. There are strict laws regarding morality, such as outlawing too tight clothes.

PB - Human Community CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Psychic Trio or Nations Reconciled Y1 - 1919 A1 - Charles Edmund DeLand (1854-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The end of the book tells of the development of a reformed world order that will bring peace and prosperity to the entire world.

PB - Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Planeteer” Y1 - 1918 A1 - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is moved to near Jupiter to use Jupiter’s resources to replace Earth’s Depleted resources with, in the longer term, but only suggested, the creation of a eutopia. A sequel is “The King of Conserve Island.” All-Story Weekly 89.3 (October 12, 1918): 411-69 in which a group of people have chosen to isolate themselves on Earth with no contact with the changes brought about in the first story. It is suggested that they create a generally good society but, in the future, choose to contact the others.

JF - All-Story Weekly VL - 81.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Professor in Erin Y1 - 1918 A1 - L. [Charlotte Elizabeth] (known as "Lal" and Lilly) McManus (ca. 1850-1941) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Parallel history of Ireland as a eutopia developed from original Irish roots and based on the assumption that the Irish defeated the English at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602. As a result, Ireland becomes a eutopia with a monarchy. Much of the novel is mystery and romance

PB - M.H. Gill and Son CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Originally serialized in Sinn Finn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pleiades Club: Telegraphers’ Paradise on Planet Mars Y1 - 1917 A1 - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The spirits of past telegraphers meet on Mars on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Lincoln presiding, the Fourth of July, when the discuss the future of the telegraph, which includes radically improved conditions for the workers (a five hour workday twenty days a month, three free meals a day, retirement at thirty with a pension for five years, and generally being treated decently by management), followed by a number of chapters which are devoted to telegraphers’ tall tales and comments on current affairs on Earth.

PB - Multnomah Printing Co. CY - Portland, OR U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Pretty Pass. A 30th Century Idyl" Y1 - 1917 A1 - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of gender-role reversal. Weak men are given a harsh physical regime so that they can be good mates. Men who fail are workers.

JF - The Red Magazine (London) VL - 33.197 U3 -

Coutts Brisbane [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peaceful Revolution Y1 - 1916 A1 - Gentle Joseph [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. State controlled economic system with thorough integration of women into an egalitarian society. Equal vote based on equal education.

PB - Ernest J. Adams CY - Bath, Eng. U3 -

Joseph Gentle [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found or The Superman Found Out in Three Acts Y1 - 1915 A1 - Allen Upward (1863-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire in which two hundred years in the future, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) awakes in a world based on a misreading of his ideas. The British Empire has collapsed, and England is under a corrupt Indian Empire. Canada is part of the U.S. Australia is controlled by Aborigines. South African natives are cannibals. In England, doctors are in power, and the entire system is corrupt.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U1 -

Jacket title as reported by Cambridge University Library--The adventures of Bernard Shaw in a Shavian world. George Locke lists an acting edition, probably never published, with the title Paradise Found or The Superman Found OutA Joke at Everybody's Expense in Three Acts. By Saint George [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found Y1 - 1914 A1 - M. A. Neff AB -

A series of worlds, including two eutopias, are described. In the first eutopia, called Paradise, the people live a very long life, have learned how to fly using an artificial apparatus attached to each individual, and live in trees, usually in communities. Everyone has to be married. An abundance of food and drink is available at all times, and the weather is always warm and pleasant. The second eutopia, Square Land, where everyone gets a "square deal" is described in more detail. Work six hours a day three days a week. Everyone is given a lot on which to build a small house. Details given of the electoral system.

PB - Author CY - Cincinnati, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perhaps: A Tale of Tomorrow Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Henry] Norman Davey (1888-1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A humorous novel describing the secession of the Isle of Wight from the U.K. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Socialism! Demonstrated by Domestic Cooperation. A Sequel to Eureka! Y1 - 1914 A1 - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1913 Ridgway. Community now to be founded in Palmyra, New Jersey. Later will move to a tropical island. Suggests running a summer hotel and, later, a winter hotel. In this book, Lamb identifies himself as living in Palmyra, NJ. Part 5 is called "A Model Community for Practical People."

PB - Excelsior Press CY - Singapore U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pages for Young Socialists With Prefaces by H. M. Hyndman and J. Keir Hardie and Illustrations by Walter Crane Y1 - 1913 A1 - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book is a collection of essays and stories designed to describe socialism to children. Three of the stories. “The Stickleback” (74-78), “Red Tunic,” and “Thrift” (101-105) include brief descriptions of what a socialist eutopia would be like. In addition, there are essays on “Robert Owen” (183-87) and “William Morris” (194-97).

PB - National Labour Press CY - Manchester and London U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise on Earth Y1 - 1913 A1 - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Portland, Oregon as a eutopia in 1999. Many technological advances. The status of women has improved, they vote, are elected to public office, are judges, and serve in all public positions, with half the police force women. Women may keep their name hyphenated with her husband's. No longer any need for prisons. Improved health with doctors public employees. Lawyers salaried. No horses. Indians disappearing. No alcohol. One universal language. Cremation.

JF - Paradise on Earth PB - F.W. Baltes and Company CY - Portland, OR N1 -

Book also entitled Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches. Portland, OR: F.W. Baltes and Company, 1913.

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Book also entitled Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches. Portland, OR: F.W. Baltes and Company, 1913.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philip Dru: Administrator. A Story of Tomorrow 1920-1935 Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Edward Mandell] [House] (1858-1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia after a civil war in the U.S. between the corrupt plutocracy and those supporting the citizenry as a whole. The U.S. system is reformed under the leadership of a man who takes the title "Administrator of the Republic". Reforms include votes for women, a graduated income tax, national rather than state and local laws, radical reduction in the number of judges, and elimination of the ability of the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of laws, among other things. Includes a new national constitution.

PB - B.W. Huebsch CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Appleton, WI: Robert Welch University Press, 1998 with a "Foreword" (i-xi) by William Norman Grigg, "Publisher's Appendices" (251-75), and an "Index" (276-82). The added material presents the book as seriously undermining the U.S. political system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Rev. Conrad [le Despenser Roden] Noel (1869-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction set about 2000. The Church of England will encompass most Christian groups in England and will be more democratic. The church has been disestablished, but there is a movement to have it re-established. New saints include Thomas More (1478-1535), who was actually canonized twenty years later by the Roman Catholic Church, and John Ball (c. 1338-81), the English Lollard priest involved in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 (See 1886-87 Morris). The church stresses a balanced life, including a healthy sex life. There is a description of a cathedral, which includes chapels for different groups within the faith, including a Chapel of Our Lady of Health and a Chapel of Santa Claus, for children.

JF - The Great State: Essays in Construction PB - Harper and Bros. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Program of Radical Democracy" Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[ames] Mckeen Cattell (1860-1940) ED - J. McKeen Cattell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay outlining the basis for a eutopia with, among other provisions, universal suffrage, including children; the abolition of limitation on the powers of both national and state governments; progressive income tax on individuals and corporations; conversion of the army into local police and the navy into a mercantile marine; international arbitration; free medical care; pensions; and the eight-hour workday and minimum wage.

JF - The Popular Science Monthly (New York) VL - 80 U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prophet. A Novel Y1 - 1912 A1 - [H.E.] [Newman] AB -

A standard anti-socialist dystopia is overcome through a religious revival. World federation.

PB - Broadway Pub. Co. CY - New York U3 -

N [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim Ship Y1 - 1911 A1 - James Black KW - Male author AB -

Christian allegory in which various lands are visited, such as the land of delusion, lotus land, and so forth.

PB - The Christian Herald, Bible House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prospectus of New Zealand Limited (Limited as to Area Only) A Company not incorporated under the Companies Act of 1908 Y1 - 1910 A1 - [Wynford Ormsby] [Beere] (1874?-1964) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

One-page eutopia in the form of a company prospectus that is designed to express the ideas of Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), author of Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).

PB - Edward Bellamy Society (N.Z.) CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found and the Society of New Epoch (An Ergocracy) Y1 - 1909 A1 - J. A. Cole M.D. KW - US author AB -

A detailed eutopia describing a successful community in South America with a stress on cooperation and eugenics. Ergocracy refers to cooperative industrialism.

PB - [Author] CY - [Sacramento, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peacemakers (A Tale of Love) Y1 - 1909 A1 - Hiram W[allace] Hayes (b. 1858) KW - Male author AB -

Christian utopia. Peace brought about through love. Reciproca is a school based on Christian principles. See also 1921 Hayes.

PB - Reid CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pills of Joy" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Burnett Gray A1 - H[ugh] C[leland] McKay (1878-1962) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Chemical pleasure brings dystopia because everyone who takes the pills becomes totally addicted to pleasure. The story ends with the destruction of the machine that produces the pills and the death of the inventor from a mob trying to get more pills.

JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 4.23 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Press Cuttings: A Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers, as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909 Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women's suffrage, the military, and politics and politicians set three years in the future.

PB - Archibald Constable & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Translations and Tomfooleries. Vol. 18 of The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable & Co., 1930), 129-68; and The Bodley Head Collected Plays With Their Prefaces. Volume III (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodlery Head, 1971), 837-95, which includes “Banned Play. Censor’s Objection to ‘Press Cuttings’” (886-95). Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Pilgrim's Progress in Other Worlds; Recounting the Wonderful Adventures of Ulysum Storries and His Discovery of the Lost Star "Eden" Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Marie Antoinette Parish Hough] Martin (1840-1915) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism. Immature, crude Earthman travels around the planets. Most planets advanced spiritually and socially beyond Earth. The advance is largely due to the improved status of women.

PB - Mayhew Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planetary Journeys and Earthly Sketches Y1 - 1908 A1 - George Raffalovich (1880-1958) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Four connected stories. "A Trip to Another Planet" is about a vaguely described eutopia with no prejudice, a single language, no politics or religion, no marriage and few women or children. "On the Loose" renews contact with the visitors from another planet and is mostly a critique of the Earth. In "The Hardy Annual" another planet is visited that is inhabited by the Greek Empedocles, his descendants, and beings he has created. "The Windmillers" describes the society of that planet, which stresses science and mutual respect. The other stories, two of which were also published in New Age, are not utopian.

PB - Arnold Fairbairns CY - London N1 -

New ed. as On the Loose (London: Publishing Office of the Equinox, [1910]), 1-52. Collection of stories, the first four of which were originally published in New Age--“A Trip to a Planet” (1-16) in no. 692 (ns 2.7) (December 14, 1907): 132-33; “On the Loose” (17-30) in no. 695 (ns 2.10) (January 4, 1908): 192-93; “The Hardy Annual” (31-41) in no. 698 (ns 2.13) (January 25, 1908): 252-53); and “The Windmillers” (42-52) as “The Wind-Millers” no. 702 (ns 2.17) (February 22, 1908) 331-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Princess Steel" Y1 - 1908 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1858-1963) ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) ED - Britt Rusert KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Fantastic story that is a critique of capitalism, trust building, and the exploitation of African Americans and Africans. 

JF - PMLA VL - 130.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prodigal City Y1 - 1908 A1 - Tristam Coutts KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel depicting a model town and its failure.

PB - Greening & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposals for a Voluntary Nobility Y1 - 1907 AB -

Development of the idea of the samurai from 1904-05 Wells.

PB - Samurai Press CY - Norwich, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plan of Laughing Land. A Money Back Book Y1 - 1906 A1 - W. Costley AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia. All children are taught political economy. No waste of any sort and land not used for another purpose is planted with trees that produce nuts that can be eaten or fed to animals. A tree is planted every time a child is born, and the child is taught to care for it. Details on housing and affiliated public facilities. Details on agriculture. Every child is taught practical work, with traditional gender divisions, and everyone does some such work. Money in the form of labor checks and goods cost the amount of labor put into them.

PB - World Press CY - Oakland, CA N1 -

Rev. ed. Oakland, CA: B.W. Costley, [1921?] which has an additional subtitle on the cover--The Science of Political Economy in a Nut Shell. Looking Forward

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Paradise of Poets" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. A description of the Heaven of poets and their life there.

JF - Adventures Among Books PB - Longmans, Green, and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patmos Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Kate Evelyn] [Isitt] (1876-1955) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Primarily a temperance novel but includes (298-304) a brief vision of a future eutopia in this life and in heaven brought about by the general acceptance of Christianity, which includes prohibition.

PB - Gordon and Gotch CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Gordon and Gotch , 1905.

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By Kathleen Inglewood [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple and White; A Romance Y1 - 1905 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Future tale of peace and prosperity under one man rule.

PB - R. A. Everett & Co. (Ltd.) CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prince of the People: A Romance of Modern Royalty Y1 - 1904 A1 - Major Philip [Christian William] Trevor (1836-1932) KW - Male author AB -

Abolition of party government brings a better society. The country is called Arcadia.

PB - Isbister and Company CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince Hagen; A Phantasy Y1 - 1903 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Prince Hagen is the heir of the Nibelungs as described by Richard Wagner (1813-83) in his operas. On becoming King of the Nibelungs, he comes to control the world’s economy and deliberately destroys the financial basis of the world. Revolt.

PB - L.C. Page & Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1910. Rpt. without the subtitle in his Plays of Protest: The Naturewoman, The Machine, The Second-Story Man, Prince Hagen (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), 155-226, with a Preface by Sinclair on i-vi; and New York: Arno Press, 1978. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Also published as Prince Hagen; A Drama in Four Acts. Privately Ptd. [1921] (First performed 1909); and as Prince Hagen. Little Blue Book No. 633. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co. [1924].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History Y1 - 1902 A1 - C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge B.S., M.D. (1847-1908) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The US Army is used to revitalize the West through massive public works projects and, in doing so, creates a cooperative eutopia that spreads to the rest of the country. Gives very detailed descriptions of and plans for the specific projects, including the use of irrigation in the deserts of Southern California. See also 1898 Wooldridge.

PB - Utopia Publishing Company CY - Cleveland, OH N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Progressives Abroad Y1 - 1901 A1 - Colonel William Kelly KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Free medical care, with the salary of doctors dependent on their success. Every youth above fourteen must be proficient at arms. Women have the vote and can be elected to office. Many reforms, including the strict control of smoking.

PB - William Reeves CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prophet of the Kingdom Y1 - 1901 A1 - Henry S[amuel] Frisbie KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia based on the single tax. Henry George (1839-1897) is referred to as "the prophet George". For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - The Neale Publishing Company CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Cloud Y1 - 1901 A1 - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) KW - Creole author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Montserrat British West Indies author AB -

Last man dystopia set only a few years in the future.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977 with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-xviii). Rev. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1930; rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 with an "Introduction to the Bison Books Edition" by John Clute (v-xii). Originally published serially illus. J. J. Cameron. The Royal Magazine 5 - 6 (January- June 1901): 276-, 358-, 437-, 508-; 37-, 139-112. The Vanguard Press ed. is rpt. abridged illus. Lawrence [Sterne Stevens] (1886-1960). Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.5 (June 1949): 10-; and with additional material for The Reynolds Morse Foundation, 1979. The 1901 ed. is an expanded version of the serial. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philoland Y1 - 1900 A1 - Gilbert Lane Harney (1851-1925) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia at the center of the earth. Perfected humans descended from the first Christians. No disease (147) or old age (152). Cooperative economic system. Technology. 

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Poliopolis and Polioland: A Trip to the North Pole Y1 - 1900 A1 - J[ames] M. Chaney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly on astronomy and mechanical contrivances but describes a country at the North Pole that could be called a dystopia. The upper house of the legislature is based on wealth and the president is the person paying the most taxes and the entire tendency of policy is to enrich the wealthy and impoverish the poor.

PB - Author CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paul Rees: A Story of the Coming Reformation Y1 - 1899 A1 - Augustinus [pseud.] AB -

England declines due to laws passed against Roman Catholics but at the end the Roman Catholic Church is formally instituted as the established church. 1898 Augustinus and 1898 “In the Next World”: A Sequel to the Story “Two Brothers.” 

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company CY - London U3 -

Augustinus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince Timoteo Y1 - 1899 A1 - David Skaats Foster (1852-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on lost race fiction. In the novel the lost race is found on top of a mesa in the middle of a lake in Tuscany, which they settled in the fifteenth century.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Probable Tales Y1 - 1899 A1 - W[illiam] Stebbing ed. [written by] (1832-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Series of mostly satirical short stories describing countries with one unusual custom.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pure Causeway Y1 - 1899 A1 - Evelyn Harvey Roberts KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the book “The Travail of the Ages” (7-184) is on the travails of Christians in the contemporary world and discussion about the problems of being a true Christian in the modern world. Part II, “The Servant of JHVH” (185-263) is a eutopia describing the establishment of a city at Jerusalem that provides the basis for living a truly Christian life, which should involve an entire community. Limited hours of work. “You see, when all the people work, not for money-profit but simply for the needed things, and when we all co-operate in the making of them, there is enough made in much less time than you would think” (191-92). Arduous or particularly unpleasant work having even shorter hours, and such work is shared by everyone in the community. Each house is sufficiently isolated to ensure privacy. As much done in the open air as possible, including eating. People can “eat at home, in the ordinary lifeless way,” if they choose (196). No restricting clothes. People generally eat their two meals a day together with breakfast at home. Everyone must serve a year as a novice before being allowed to join. Stress on education from birth with everyone educated in productive work. The book is dedicated to Prof. George D. Herron (1862-1925), who was Professor of Applied Christianity at Iowa (now Grinnell) College and a leader of the Kingdom Movement, a particularly radical part of the Social Gospel Movement; see 1904 Herron.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Platform of The New Time” Y1 - 1898 AB -

Proposals for the development of a world-wide democracy, including “Direct Legislation by Majority Vote; a true and Practical Democracy; Public Ownership and Operation of Natural Monopolies; the first move for a perfect system of co-operation, production and distribution; a Scientific Money System; based on the Credit and Faith of the Government (The People); and a foreign policy designed to complete the overthrow of monarchical governments and to hasten the coming of an International Democracy.”

JF - The New Time. A Magazine of Social Progress/New Occasions VL - 2.7/6.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Practical City. A Future City Romance; or A Study in Environment Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Warren S.] [Rehm] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed authoritarian eutopia is presented in a small, 810-acre city in a square bordered on three sides with farmlands and a stream on the fourth. Land bought and sold by the city rather than individuals. Citizens vote on many issues with a two-thirds majority required for most decisions. Both men and women vote, although a certificate of education is required to be able to vote and to marry.

PB - Lancaster County Magazine CY - Lancaster, PA U3 -

Omen Nemo [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Passing of Niagara" Y1 - 1897 A1 - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country.

JF - The Independent VL - 49.2556 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfection City Y1 - 1897 A1 - Mrs. [Adela Elizabeth] Orpen (1855-1928) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Novel about a rural U.S. intentional community. The novel traces the history of the community from its eutopian hopes to the collapses brought about by personal conflicts.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Posterity; Its Verdicts and Its Methods or Democracy A.D. 2100 Y1 - 1897 A1 - [Alex] [Newton] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian eutopia based on eugenics--"We assist with evolution, which consists partly in the selection and rejection of the unfit" (13). Citizenship is restricted to the mentally, morally, and physically best. Education stresses vocational training.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Prehistoric Music. A Lecture Delivered by Professor Boremall Before the Members of the Society of Antediluvian Art, July, 2897” Y1 - 1897 A1 - Edward A[lgernon] Baughan (1865-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire presenting the music of the Victorian era from the perspective of a future eutopia. There is little about the future, but it is stated that peace prevails because disputes are settled by arbitration. Music in the future is a central part of moral teaching.

JF - Monthly Musical Record (London) VL - 27.320 ER - TY - ABST T1 - President John Smith; The Story of a Peaceful Revolution Y1 - 1897 A1 - Frederick Upham Adams (1859-1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia including direct democracy with a new constitution for the U.S. (237-46), which specifies that the legislative power rests with the people and that the people directly elect the Cabinet rather than have it appointed by the President. The cover of the Library of Progress edition has "The right of a citizen of the United States to demand and obtain work at wages sufficient to support himself and his family shall never be abridged. It shall be the duty of the government to guarantee employment to all who demand it" (on 147 of the Unity Library edition).  See also his non-utopian economic novel. The Kidnapped Millionaires; A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics. Boston, MA: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1901.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 64 of the Unity Library (December 1896) N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. adds (Written in 1920) to the title. No. 24 of the Library of Progress (August 1897). Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1897

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophetic Romance; Mars to Earth Y1 - 1896 A1 - [John] [McCoy] (1857-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by votes for women. Rule by those especially trained for job but elected. All laws must be approved by the people (102-103). Essentially socialist. Paternalistic. Technologically advanced. Eugenics. Stress of health, and children are taught correct “eating, sleeping, drinking, exercising, and in toil, mental and physical, constant regard is had to getting the most and best out of life” (212).

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U3 -

By The Lord Commissioner [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Moon. A Novel Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Edward] Tremlett Carter (1866-1903) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex multi-genre novel set in a hollow moon combining adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, which is the emphasis of the novel. Some on the lives of the people.

PB - "The Electrician” Printing and Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co. CY - London U2 -

Illus. A. d’Aguilcourt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Problem of Civilization Solved Y1 - 1895 A1 - Mary Elizabeth [Clyens] Lease (1850-1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia but also racist. Tropical emigration by whites--". . . fifty million white families as planters on estates of 200 acres each, with three families of Negroes or Orientals as tillers of the soil" (17).

PB - Laird and Lee CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preparing for the Twentieth Century. Being the Fifth Edition (Revised) of "Towards Fraternal Organisation" Y1 - 1894 A1 - J. Bruce Wallace KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction cooperative eutopia. See also, The Exchange Circle of the Co-operative Brotherhood Trust Limited. By-Laws and Forms Passed by the Committee of the C.B.T. and a Practical Explanation of Them by J. Bruce Wallace. London: Brotherhood Trust, [1894].

PB - Brotherhood Trust CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Preparing for the Twentieth Century. 2nd. ed. London: Brotherhood Press, 1897; 2nd ed. London: The Co-operative Brotherhood Trust, Ltd.; and “Clarion” Office, 1897. Also, Preparing for the Twentieth Century. 2nd ed. May 1897. London: The Co-operative Brotherhood Trust, 1897. Rpt. Serially in Tocsin (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), nos. 27 - 33 (March 31 - May 12, 1898): 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3 (M). The only editions of Towards Fraternal Organisation that I have found (Towards Fraternal Organisation: An Explanation of the Brotherhood Trust. 2nd ed. rev. and 3rd ed. rev. London: Brotherhood Trust, [1894]) are not as explicitly utopian. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Product-Sharing Village Y1 - 1894 A1 - Walter Thomas Mills M.A. (1856-1942) KW - US author AB -

Mostly on the contemporary situation but includes a proposal for the collective ownership of a village (land, houses, machinery) and the sharing by the workers of the products their labor. Christian. Six-hour day would leave leisure time for education for both men and women. Women enfranchised and all public policy questions put to a direct vote. Initiative and referendum available. Traditional families. See also 1904 Mills.

PB - Civic Letters Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prospectus of Socialism; or, A Glimpse of the Millenium, Showing Its Plan and Working Arrangements and How It May Be Brought About Y1 - 1894 A1 - William Thomson KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of a socialist eutopia including chapters on housing, the distribution of goods, the organization of trade and commerce, the organization of agriculture, training, religious freedom, government, law and order, and amusements and recreation.

PB - Ptd. by W. Reeves CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Phantom’s Pilgrimage or Home Ruin Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Isabella Augusta] [Persse, Lady Gregory] (1852-1932) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The dystopia created by home rule for Ireland.

PB - W. Ridgeway CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Platonia; A Tale of Other Worlds Y1 - 1893 A1 - Henry L'Estrange [pseud?] AB -

An unknown, small planet nearer than Mars. Its capital is Campanella, after Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) the author of La Città del Sole/The City of the Sun (1611). Private enterprise but protected by the state. Stress on gradual reform.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. U3 -

Henry L'Estrange [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophet of the People Y1 - 1893 A1 - John Christie (b. 1847) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Economic novel in which the basic ideas of socialism are presented. The final paragraph says it came about, but the eutopia is not presented.

PB - City Printing Co. & N.Z. Field CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantocracy or The Reign of Justice Y1 - 1892 A1 - James Seldon Cowdon KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed reform proposed through a third political party. The reforms include the gradual elimination of the currency system, the end of credit, equal pay, guaranteed regular vacations, equal rights, a labor army, a changed federal governmental structure with each department designated to carry out specific improvements and test others to see if they will work, elimination of the military, and elected bureaucrats. The goal is a United States of the Earth.

PB - Author CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Program; The Twentieth Century is Theirs. A Romance of the Expectations of the Present Generation Y1 - 1892 A1 - Henry L[exington] Everett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A detailed labor colony scheme for the unemployed.

PB - Workmen's Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philip Meyer’s Scheme: A Story of Trades Unionism Y1 - 1892 A1 - Archibald McCowan KW - Male author AB -

While not a utopia itself, the novel is about how active trade unions will be able to bring about Bellamy’s Nationalism. See also his Christ, the Socialist. By the Author of Philip Meyer’s Scheme [pseud.]. Boston, MA: Arena Publishing Co., 1894.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie CY - New York U3 -

Luke A. Hedd [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peculiar People Y1 - 1891 A1 - Samuel Phelps Leland (1839-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Written against communalism, including Robert Owen (1771-1858) and his followers and the experiment at New Harmony. Presents an intentional community as it fails.

PB - Aust and Clark CY - Cleveland, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plunge into Space Y1 - 1890 A1 - Robert Cromie (1856-1907) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Mars technically and aesthetically advanced. Older culture, less passion, and less government.

PB - Frederick Warne and Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. with a brief "Preface" (5) by Jules Verne. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pope Booth: The Salvation Army, A.D. 1950 Y1 - 1890 AB -

Dystopia with the Salvation Army dominant. Pope Booth refers to General William Booth (1829-1912), the founder of the Salvation Army. For Booth's utopia, see 1890 Booth.

PB - [W. Lucas] CY - [London] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perseverance Island or the Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1885 A1 - Douglas Frazar (1836-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Robinsonade in which the shipwrecked hero uses all the scientific advancements of the nineteenth century to produce a one man industrial island, and the book gives details of each discovery and invention, including a submarine, a steam yacht, gunpowder and a cannon. The Preface begins, “In all works of the Robinson Crusoe type, the wreck is always near at hand, the powder dry and preserved, and the days for rafting the same ashore calm and pleasant. This unfortunate had no such accessories.”

PB - Lee and Shepard CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. London: Blackie & Son, 1902.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Palingenesia; or, The Earth's New Birth Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Rev.] [Gideon Jasper Richard] [Ouseley] (1875-1906) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An extremely detailed eutopian picture of the City Four Square from Revelation 21:16. The text is represented as having been seen in three separate visions and parts in dreams and visions while apparently asleep.

PB - Hay Nisbet CY - Glasgow, Scot. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Politics and Life in Mars: A Story of a Neighbouring Planet Y1 - 1883 A1 - [Edgar Luderne] [Welch] (1856/7-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and satire on contemporary England; the main country on Mars is Ourownland, and many obvious parallels to England are pointed out. But Mars is republican; women are equal; there is a limit on personal property; and there are cooperatives owned by the workers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantaletta: A Romance of Sheheland Y1 - 1882 KW - US author AB -

Satire of gender relations set in the Republic of Petticotia, where the gender roles are reversed. A manly man from the outside undermines the system and marries the President.

PB - The American News Company CY - New York U1 -

Added subtitle on the cover An American Satire.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peculiar People; or, Reality in Romance Y1 - 1881 A1 - William S[tevens] Balch (1806-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian eutopia in the Middle East of people who actually practice Christ's teaching. No rich or poor, no fashion, no idleness. Simple religious services. No theological controversies.

PB - Henry A. Sumner & Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. rev. Chicago, IL: Henry A. Sumner & Company, 1882.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Positivism on an Island: The New Paul and Virginia" Y1 - 1878 A1 - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in a vein similar to the author's 1877 The New Republic.

JF - The Contemporary Review VL - 32.1 N1 -

Rpt. as The New Paul and Virginia or Positivism on an Island. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under the Ice Y1 - 1875 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia called the Universal Community of Free Brethren located inside a glacier in Switzerland. While the institutions of the society are presented positively, there is a general sense that the people are too unemotional. Pyrna means "The Beautiful Home". Emphasis on the educational system. Gender equality. Highly refined. The people "looked upon eating as a disagreeable necessity. . ." (125/Claeys 57).

PB - Bickers and Son CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 3-64. Editor's notes 1, 349.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Papa's Own Girl Y1 - 1874 A1 - Marie [Stevens Case] Howland (1836-1921) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The two titles reflect the two main themes of the novel. Papa’s Own Girl reflects the desire of one of the main characters that his daughter grow up as a strong, independent woman, and she does. The Familistere is the name of the community in Guise, France, founded by Jean Baptiste André Godin (1817-88), which is the basis of the intentional community that is the other focus of the novel.

PB - John P. Jewett CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. New York: John P. Jewett, [1885]. Later ed. entitled The Familistere. A Novel. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1918. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an Introduction entitled “The Familistere: Radical Reform Through Cooperative Enterprise” (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 98-103 with an editor’s note on 95-97; and different selections 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), 71-93.

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Later ed. entitled The Familistere. A Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Page of American History. Constitution of the United States of the World. An Address by Victoria C. Woodhull. Delivered in Lincoln Hall, Washington, U.S.A., in 1870. The First Suggestion of its kind made in America, and commented on widely by the Press Y1 - 1870 A1 - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull (1838-1927) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through a detailed constitution, which the title suggests is to be world-wide but the details of which are limited to the U.S. The basic governmental structure is similar to that in effect in the U.S. at the time. The Constitution is egalitarian, with the only division of the population is that between adults, those eighteen and over, and minors. All over eighteen can vote with minor residence requirements. See also 1890 Martin and Victoria C. Woodhull, A Speech on The Garden of Eden; or, Paradise Lost and Found, delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City, December 30, 1875. New York: Woodhull & Claflin, 1876. A statement of the equality of the sexes. A completely different version was published in her Victoria C. Woodhull’s Life Sketches. Np: np, nd.  Their The Garden of Eden; or, The Paradise Lost and Found is a commentary on Genesis and Revelations on women with a brief comparison to the Vedas

PB - Norman, Sawyer CY - Cheltenham, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Victoria Woodhull Reader. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. Weston, MA: M S Press, 1974. [Items are separately paged]. Rpt. slightly rev. as A New Constitution for the United States of the World Proposed for the Consideration of the Constructors of Our Future Government. New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1872. Rpt. in We, the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence By Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman’s Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829-1975. Ed. Philip S. Foner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), 177-201 with an editor’s introduction (177-80). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise of Birds: An Extravaganza in Modern Dress Y1 - 1870 A1 - William John Courthope (1842-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humans kill off most animals and then killed or drove away the birds. As a result, bugs destroy all the crops and starvation threatens. An expedition discovers the Paradise of the Birds at the North Pole and negotiates for their return. See also 1869 Courthope.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

2nd ed. without the subtitle. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. 1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. Another ed. London: Macmillan, 1895.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peter Pipers Letters. Peter's Vision" Y1 - 1869 A1 - Old Peter Piper [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the land in Otago being broken up into small landholdings.

JF - Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) VL - 2.83 UR - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story Y1 - 1869 A1 - [Cora Semmes] [Ives] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A pro-Confederacy anti-Union novel set on the Moon, which has never known war. Much fantasy and fairy story is an accurate description, but the kingdom on the moon is described in eutopian terms.

PB - Np/Ptd. by the Sun Book & Job Office CY - Warrenton, VA./Baltimore, MD N1 -

Rpt. Louisville KY: Lost Cause Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophers of Foufouville Y1 - 1868 A1 - Radical Freelance Esq. [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Satire on Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and his proposals for a phalanstery.

PB - G.W. Carleton CY - New York U3 -

Freelance, Radical, Esq. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Positive Community: Glimpses of the Regenerated Future of the Human Race. A Sermon, Preached at Modern Times, Long Island, on Saturday, 24th Gutenberg, 75, (5th September 1, 1863) Being the Sixth Anniversary of the Death (Transformation) of Auguste Comte, Founder of the Religion of Humanity Y1 - 1864 A1 - Henry Edger KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Positivist sermon beginning with some utopian elements addressed to his "Beloved Disciples". The future society will be organized with governments regulating industry and labor and capital together.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States Y1 - 1858 A1 - [John] [Brown] (1800-59) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Proposed constitution for the United States which would eliminate slavery. It was adopted in a convention of a small group of abolitionists. See also 1988 Bisson.

PB - [William Howard Day, Printer] CY - [St. Catharines, ON, Canada] N1 -

Rpt. Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1969 with a "Preface" by Boyd B. Stutler (3-10) excerpted from the Lincoln Herald (Lincoln, TN) 50.4-51.1 (December 1948-February 1949): 17-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prue and I Y1 - 1856 A1 - George William Curtis (1824-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Seven stories from the point of view of a generally contented but poor man, most of which reflect on utopian themes, wishes and dreams of adventure, riches, and so forth, but they always return to his simple happiness with his wife Prue and their children.

PB - Dix, Edwards CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Prue & I. Illus. Albert Edward Sterner. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; Illus. H[arry] C. Edwards. New York : T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1899 with an Introduction by M.A. DeWole Howe (xi-xxi); and London: J.M. Dent/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Part VII. of The New Existence of Man Upon the Earth. Including an Outline of the Principles and Government of the Millennial World. With an Appendix containing Correspondence and Spiritual Communication Y1 - 1855 A1 - Robert Owen (1771-1858) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

Owenite eutopia. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 Owen, The Inauguration of the Millenium

PB - Effingham Wilson, J. Clayton and Son, and Holyoake CY - London N1 -

Part had been published as The Universal Permanent Government, Constitution and Code of Laws, Based on the Unchanging Laws of Nature, for the World, in Which there is but One Real Interest for all its Population, Wherever Situated and also for Each State or Nation Separately, Until They Shall Have Acquired the Knowledge and Wisdom to Unite in Federative Union. [Great Britain]: np, 1848.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perpetual Peace to the Machine by the Universal Millennium, or The Sovereign Bankocracy, and the Grand Social Ledger of Mankind Y1 - 1855 A1 - Baron Joseph Corvaja (1785-1860) KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

A series of letters to Robert Owen (1771-1858) that presents a eutopia in which reform of the savings banks will make more money available to the community.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan of a Proposed New Colony To Be Called Britannia Y1 - 1851 A1 - [Henry Godfrey] [Gouland] (1801-77) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A detailed proposal for an independent settlement on the South Island not under the authority of the New Zealand government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Popery in AD 1900 Y1 - 1851 A1 - [John] [Macgregor] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the success of the Papacy in England in 1900.

PB - Seeley CY - London U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peter Schlemihl in America Y1 - 1848 A1 - [George] [Wood] (1799-1870) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly social commentary with a lot of material on religion, but also includes fictional Fourierist communities and discussion of Fourierism.

PB - Carey and Hart CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Some was originally published as by Peter Schemil [pseud.]. “Lights and Shadows of Fashionable Life.” The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 27.2 - 28.2 (February - August 1846): 128-38, 215-27, 319-35, 425-36, 485-501; 15-24, 115-32; and with some of the same characters as “On Oratorios in New York” by Frank Williamson [pseud.]. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 30.6 (December 1847): 527-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and A Voice to Mankind. In Three Parts. Part First. Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed, morality will bloom with an or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. Part Second. Reason is a flower of the spirit, and its fragrance is liberty and knowledge. Part Third. When distributive justice pervades the social world, virtue and morality will bloom with an immortal beauty; while the Sun of Righteousness will arise in the horizon of universal industry, and shed its genial rays over all the fields of peace, plenty, and human happiness! Y1 - 1847 A1 - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes a detailed eutopia based on cooperation at the end of an exposition of Davis's theology and world view. See also 1874 and 1878 Davis.

PB - Published by S.S. Lyon and Wm. Fishbough CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Political Pilgrim's Progress" Y1 - 1839 A1 - [Thomas] [Doubleday] (1790-1870) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An allegory in which Radical makes his way with his family from the City of Plunder to the City of Reform. While meeting much opposition and overcoming many temptations, he arrives in the City of Reform, which has no direct taxes, no professional politicians, no standing army, and no distinctions between rich and poor. It has a citizen's militia and requires its men aged 20 to 50 to be armed both physically and morally.

JF - Northern Liberator VL - 2.66, 68 - 69, 71, 74 - 76 N1 -

Rpt. with illustrations as The Political Pilgrim's Progress. From the Northern Liberator. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. at the Northern Liberator Office by John Bell, 1839; and in Chartist Fiction. Thomas Doubleday, The Political Pilgrim's Progress. Thomas Martin Wheeler, Sunshine and Shadow. Ed. Ian Haywood (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 1999), 17-59 with "Editor's Notes (59-63).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Partisan Leader. A Tale of the Future Y1 - 1836 A1 - [Nathaniel Beverley] [Tucker] (1784-1851) KW - Male author KW - US author PB - [Duff Green] CY - [Washington, DC] VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. as by Beverley Tucker of Virginia. The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. 2 vols. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861; reissued as 2 vols. in 1 in 1861; rpt. Richmond, VA: West and Johnson, 1862; rpt. as The Partisan Leader. Ed. Carl Bridenbaugh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, with a “Preface” (vii) and an “Introduction” (ix-xxxiv), and “Notes” (275-77) by the editor; and as The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States but Afterwards Suppressed [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968, with a brief biography of Tucker (unpaged); and from the 3rd impression of the as by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971 with an “Introduction” (vii-xxiii) by C. Hugh Holman. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan of a Constitution For the Inhabitants of the Indian Coast, In Central America, Commonly Called the Mosquito Shore Y1 - 1836 A1 - [Gregor] [Macgregor?] AB -

Eutopia. Detailed constitution of the "Commonwealth of Indialand" beginning with a declaration of rights (6-13) and laying out the "Form of Government" (14-34), including national, regional, and local government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. An Address To All Intelligent Men. In Two Parts Y1 - 1833 A1 - J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The basic work of Etzler's many depicting eutopia through technology but that include descriptions of the better life that will be achieved through the use of the technology. There is considerable description of the technology involved, including wind, tidal, wave, and solar power. 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 1843 and 1844 (2) Etzler.

PB - Etzler and Reinhold CY - Pittsburgh, PA N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.

U.K. ed. London: J. Brooks, 1836. 2nd English ed. London: Ptd. by and pub. by J. Cleave, 1842.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Moral and Political Economy; or, the Government, Religion, and Institutions, Most Conducive to Individual Happiness and To National Power Y1 - 1828 A1 - T[homas] R[owe] Edmonds (1803-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a short section (270-82) on the founding of a eutopia on an island based on the principles presented in the book. Emphasis on equality, particularly equal administration of justice, division of labor, and "gregariousness." Mentions the need to control population and suggests a parliament for children.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Prophetic Account of a Grand National Epic Poem to be entitled 'The Wellingtoniad' and to be published A.D. 2824" Y1 - 1824 A1 - T[homas] M[acauley] KW - Male author AB -

Satire on colonialism.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim of the Sun. A Poem Y1 - 1815 A1 - James Hogg (1770-1835) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The poem includes a trip to a eutopian Heaven, described in quite general terms, and a tour of the universe that touches a number of eutopian worlds, but with little detail. One world is expelled from God’s concern, and it is said that this will be Earth’s fate. 

PB - Ptd. for William Blackwood CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise of Coquettes. A Poem. In Nine Parts Y1 - 1814 A1 - [Thomas] [Brown] (1778-1820) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A somewhat satirical poem that presents a eutopia for coquettes with some warning about being a coquette also.

PB - Ptd. for John Murray CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. Without the 2nd subtitle, and with only eight parts. Edinburgh, Scot.: Archibald Constable and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1817. 2nd American ed. with the second subtitle. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. for Abraham Small and for James Kennedy and Son, Alexandria, 1817.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Publicola, A Sketch of the Times and Prevailing Opinions, from the Revolution in 1800 to the Present Year 1810. Addressed to the People of England, and now first translated from the Russian copy Y1 - 1810 A1 - [John] [Reeves] (1752-1829) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by a successful republican revolution in England.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Poem on the Future Glory of the United States of America" Y1 - 1804 A1 - David Humphreys (1752-1818) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Pretty much what the title says.

JF - The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid PB - Ptd. by T.& J. Swords CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys (1804): A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by William K. Bottorff (Gainesville FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1968), 53-65.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Poem on the Industry of the United States of America" Y1 - 1804 A1 - David Humphreys (1752-1818) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia describing the future industry of the U.S.

JF - The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid PB - Ptd. by T.& J. Swords CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys (1804): A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by William K. Bottorff (Gainesville FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1968), 97-114 with introductory material (89-96).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Proceedings in a Female Parliament" Y1 - 1797 AB -

Standard satire against women holding political office. Reports from the House of Ladies and the Ladies House of Commons.

JF - The Time Piece; and Literary Companion VL - 1.9 N1 -

Rpt. in Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 10.507 (March 17, 1798); and as “Proceedings in a Female Parliament House of Ladies.” The Key 1.12 (March 31, 1798): 93 [This reprints one sentence from the House of Ladies section; the rest is from the Ladies House of Commons section].

Originally published in about 1796 in an unidentified London newspaper.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A plan of a Peace Office for the United States" Y1 - 1793 A1 - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay giving a detailed proposal for a Department of Peace presented in seven proposals: Appointing of a “genuine republican and sincere Christian” to head the office. Establishing free schools “in every city, village and township of the United States. Providing every family with a copy of “a copy of an American edition of the BIBLE.”  Inscribing every “State and Court house” with the words “the son of man came into the world, not to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” Rejecting capital punishment. Repealing militia laws. Eliminating military uniforms, parades, and titles. Has been read as a satire, and while the above proposals appear perfectly serious, the last proposal, which is to adorn the office of the Peace-Office with pictures of those currently at war in peaceful interaction, and a daily singing of a peace song. The War Office would, in contrast, be adorned with reminders of the horrors of war. A United States Peace Institute was established by Congress in 1984; see http://www.usip.org.

JF - Banneker's Almanack, and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1793 PB - Joseph Crukshank CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. exp. in his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 183-88; 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 183-88; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 106-09; in The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush. Ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), 19-23; in Voices of Dissent: An Anthology of Individualist Thought in the United States. Ed. Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. (New York: Citadel Press, 1964), 17-21; and rpt. illus. by Leonard Baskin and a with note by Sidney Kaplan. The Massachusetts Review 25.2 (Summer 1984): 269-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters Between Mrs. Darnford and Her Friends Y1 - 1792 A1 - Clara Reeve (1729-1807) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia in the form of an epistolary novel. Begins as an essay on education but broadens into one on society as a whole and plans for the best one. Conservative in that it is hierarchical, and women's education is in those things thought suitable for women.

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Rpt. New York: Garland, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House: Containing the Idea of a New Principle of Construction Applicable to Any Sort of Establishment, In Which Persons of Any Description Are To Be Kept Under Inspection; And in Particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, Houses of Industry, Work-houses, Poor-house, Manufactories, Mad-houses, Lazarettos, Hospitals, and Schools: With a Plan of Management Adapted to the Principle: In a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1787, From Crecheff in White Russia, To a Friend in England Y1 - 1791 A1 - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed plans for an ideal utilitarian building where the inmates can be kept under constant observation at low cost.

PB - Sold by T. Payne CY - Dublin, Ireland Printed: London, Reprinted N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Published Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring. 11 vols. (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843), 4: 37-172; and in The Panopticon Writings. Ed. Miran Božovič. London: Verso, 1995. Includes “Panopticon Letters” (29-95), “Postscript, Part I. Containing Further Particulars and Alterations Relative to the Plan of Construction Originally Proposed; Principally Adapted to the Purpose of a Panopticon Penitentiary-House” [printed 1791] (97-114), and “A Fragment on Ontology” (115-38), which is about fictions not the panopticon. See also “Panopticon versus New South Wales: or, The Panopticon Penitentiary System, and The Penal Colonization System, Compared. In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Pelham. By Jeremy Bentham, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq.” (Bowring 4: 173-248).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Philanthropist. No. XVI. An Allegorical DESCRIPTION of a certain ISLAND and its INHABITANTS” Y1 - 1790 KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory using utopian imagery. The island (this life) is part of the territory of the King of Utopia (God) where people who disobey the King are exiled until they change their ways and please him again. During their exile, all needed supplies are provided by the King.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan for a Free Community upon the Plan for a Free Community upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leone, on the Coast of Guinea.of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits there Y1 - 1789 A1 - August [or Augustus] Nordenskjold (1754-92) A1 - Charles Bernard Wadstrom (1746-99) A1 - Colburn Barrell A1 - Johan Gottfried Simpson KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

Proposal for a Christian community with a constitution and organization of government. For more information the reader is referred to the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), which they plan to publish.

PB - Ptd. by R. Hindmarsh CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as by Charles Bernard Wadstrom, Plan for a Free Community at Sierra Leona, Upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; with An Invitation to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leona, on the Coast of Guinea. London: Ptd. for T. and J. Egerton, 1792. Same signers. Some errata.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Paradise of Negro-Slaves.--a dream" Y1 - 1787 A1 - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Those who had been slaves are in their own heaven, where, knowing they are saved, wait for the final judgement. Visited by the author in a dream, they are frightened by seeing a white man but learning that he supports abolition, they welcome him, and a few tell him their stories. Each tells of the horrors of slavery and how they were mistreated and killed, but they hope that those who mistreated them will repent and be saved rather than face damnation for their actions in life. The dream ends with the arrival and welcome of another white man, Anthony Benezet (1713-84), the founder of world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, which, after his death, was reconstituted by Benjamin Franklin and Rush as the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery; the first public school for girls in North America; and the Negro School at Philadelphia.

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Rpt. in his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical. 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 305-09; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 187-90.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State Y1 - 1786 A1 - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed proposal for a eutopian public school system, saying that it supports religion, liberty, “just ideas of law and government,” manners, agriculture, and manufacturing (1). It then proposes one university in each state, located in its capital. For Pennsylvania he proposes four colleges in Philadelphia, Carlisle, Lancaster, “for the benefit of our German fellow citizens,” and one, in the future, in Pittsburg (2). Also, there should be a free school in every township where children learn to “read and write the English and German languages, and the use of figures” (2). Rush wrote numerous essays on aspects of education, including “Thoughts upon the Mode of Education proper in a Republic.” In his A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. for Thomas Dobson, 1786), 13-36; “Thoughts upon Female Education, Accommodated to the Present State of Society, Manners, and Government, in the United States of America. Addressed to the Visitors of the Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia, 28th July, 1787, at the Close of the Quarterly Examination, and Afterwards Published at the Request of the Visitors” his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical. (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 75-92. 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 75-92. Rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 44-54; “An Enquiry into the Utility of a Knowledge of the Latin and Greek Languages, as a branch of liberal education, with hints of a plan of liberal instruction, without them, accommodated to the present state of society, manners, and government in the United States.” By a Citizen of Philadelphia [pseud.]. American Museum, or Universal Magazine 5 (June 1789): 525-35; “Plan for a Federal University.” By Citizen of Pennsylvania [pseud.]. Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Evening Post, no. 25 (October 29, 1788): 2-3; and “Letter to Richard Price May 15, 1786.” Letters of Benjamin Rush. Volume I: 1761-1792. Ed. L. H. Butterfield ([Philadelphia, PA]: The American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press, 1951), 388-90.

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Rpt. in the Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), no. 2919 (May 10, 1786): 1-2; and as “A Plan for Establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania, and for conducting education agreeably to a Republican form of Government. Addressed to the Legislature and citizens of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1786.” In his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 1-6; 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 1-6; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 1-4. Also rpt. as “Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government.” In The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush. Ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), 97-100. 

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“A Plan for Establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania, and for conducting education agreeably to a Republican form of Government. Addressed to the Legislature and citizens of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1786” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Prophecy of the future Glory of America" Y1 - 1778 A1 - [David] [Rittenhouse] (1732-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing the future of the United States in vague, but eutopian terms.

JF - The Lancaster Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1779: Being the Third after Leap-Year. The Fourth Year of American Independency. Containing The Motions of the Sun and the Moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the Rising and Settings of the Sun; the Luinations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Rising, Setting and Southing of the Planets; Length of Days; Judgment of the Weather; Festivals and other Remarkable Days; High Water at Philadelphia; Tables of Interest; Tables of the Value and Weight of Coins; A Table, shewing the Value of any number of Dollars from 1, to 10,000; Quakers Yearly Meetings; Fairs, Courts, Roads, &c. ALSO, The Happy Life, On New-Year’s Day; A Prophecy of the future Glory of America; Anecdote of Col. Ethan Allen, in reply to Genl. Howe; Receipts in Physic; New Liberty Songs, &c. &c. &c. Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, and a Meridian of near Five Hours West of London; but may without sensible Error, serve all the Northern Colonies PB - Ptd. by Francis Bailey CY - Lancaster, PA U3 -

Anthony Sharp, Philom [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Poem, on the Rising Glory of America: Being an Exercise Delivered at the Public Commencement at Nassau-hall, September 25, 1771 Y1 - 1772 A1 - Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832) A1 - [Hugh Henry] [Brackenridge] (1748-1816) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The last stanzas (25-27) describe America in the coming millennium when America will be the new Eden.

PB - Ptd. by Joseph Crukshank CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Private Letters from an American in England to his Friends in America Y1 - 1769 AB -

England depopulated. The seat of government is in America. England's downfall was mostly due to lawyers who were willing to overthrow the law for profit. Decline of religion, trade, etc.

PB - Ptd. for J. Almon CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 341-412. Also entitled Anticipation, or The Voyage of an American to England in the Year 1899, in a series of letters, humourously describing the supposed situation of this Kingdom at that Period. London: Ptd. for W. Lane, 1781.

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Also entitled Anticipation, or The Voyage of an American to England in the Year 1899, in a series of letters, humourously describing the supposed situation of this Kingdom at that Period. London: Ptd. for W. Lane, 1781.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale Y1 - 1759 A1 - Samuel Johnson (1709-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A critique of utopianism. Happy Valley has a supposedly perfect life for the children of an emperor but seems dull to Rasselas, and he explores the world finding problems with almost all activities. Eutopia is found neither in the Happy Valley nor in the outside world. A continuation that is sometimes called a utopia, e.g., by Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 79, that I cannot make fit any reasonable definition of utopia is [Ellis Cornelia Knight], Dinarbas; A Tale: Being a Continuation of RASSELAS, Prince of Abissinia. London: Dilley, 1790. Rpt. ed. Ann Messenger. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1993.

PB - R. and J. Dodsley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. London: Harrison and Company, 1787; and Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: Ptd. for Joseph Wennman, 1787. Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. Ed. Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins. London: Oxford University Press, 1971, with “Textual Notes” (135-39) and “Explanatory Notes” (140-45). Rpt. under the original title in Samuel Johnson. Ed. Donald Greene (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984), 335-418, with “Notes” (811-13). Rpt. as “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.” Rasselas and Other Tales. Ed. Gwin J. Kolb (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990), 3-176, with a discussion material related to the text in the editor’s “Introduction” (xxvi-lxxi), additional material in footnotes, and the editor’s “Appendix The Reception of Rasselas, 1759-1800” (251-58). Fourth ed. (1766) rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 99-181. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Proceedings of Providence vindicated. An Eastern Tale" Y1 - 1759 A1 - [Oliver] [Goldsmith] (1728-74) KW - Irish author AB -

World of rational men without vices and how bad that is.

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Repub. without either title in his Essays (London: Ptd. for W. Griffin, 1765), 126-39. Rpt. with the original title in Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Arthur Friedman. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1966), 3: 58-66 with extensive footnotes. Published separately as Asem, the Man-Hater; An Eastern Tale. London: Griffith & Farran, 1877.

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The index lists the title as “Asem, the misanthrope, history of.”  Also published as Asem, the Man-Hater; An Eastern Tale

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" Y1 - 1713 A1 - [Anne] [Finch] (1661-1720) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopian poem. Plea for a retreat from the troubles of life and a description of the retreat in terms of the tradition of a eutopia achieved without human effort.

JF - Miscellany Poems. Written by a Lady [pseud.] PB - Ptd. for John Barber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea. Ed. Myra Reynolds. 2nd ser., vol. 5 of The Decennial Publication (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1903), 68-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry Of All Useful Trades and Husbandry. With Profit for the Rich. A Plentiful Living for the Poor, and A Good Education for Youth. Which will be Advantage to the Government by the Increase of the People, and their Riches Y1 - 1695 A1 - [John] [Bellers] (1654-1725) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed non-fiction proposal for an institution to educate the poor and young people in useful trades and arguing that a much better society will result. The appeal is quite conservative in that it is directed to government and the rich, but the system is primarily designed to improve the lot of the poor.  See also his To the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. A Supplement to the Proposal for a Colledge of Industry, Shewing a Regular Constant Imploy for the Poor, is the best Foundation of Trade, and the greatest Improvment to the Nation, and Consequently support to the Government, whilst the want of it tends to the Poor’s Misery, Poverty of the Rich, and Governments Weakening. [London]: Np., 1696. 3 p. (L). Rpt. in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 74-76.

PB - Ptd. for T. Sowle CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. under the author’s name London: Ptd. for T. Sowle, 1696. Rpt. as New View of Society. Tracts Relative to this Subject; viz. Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry of all useful Trades and Husbandry. By John Bellars. (Reprinted from the Original, published in the year 1696). Report to the Committee of the association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor. A Brief Sketch of the religious Society of People called Shakers. With an Account of the Public Proceedings connected with the subject, Which took place in London in July and August 1817. Published By Robert Owen. London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Hatchard; Murray; Constable and Co., and Oliphant and Co., Edinburgh; Smith and Sons, and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, 1818. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1972; in [James Peacock, attributed to], A Plan of a Public Charity, With some former Plans for the same Purpose, in Three Appendixes, Which are submitted to the Consideration of the Benevolent, that they may select and adopt from the Whole such Parts as can be most suitably connected together, in order to form “an effectual General Charity”; but more especially for affording immediate “Relief, Protection”, and Free-Labour, to all Persons who want Employment (London: np, 1790), 5-28; and in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 47-73; and with footnotes comparing the two editions in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 187-205.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream Wherein is Discovered, The Manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey; And safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey Y1 - 1678 A1 - John Bunyan (1628-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic evangelical Protestant allegory of the trip from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, from the dystopia of contemporary life to the eutopia of eternal life.

PB - Nath. Ponder CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Pilgrim’s Progress. Ed. Roger Sharrock. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965; Ed. N.H. Keeble. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984; and as The Pilgrim’s Progress: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Cynthia Wall (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 1-252.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pasquin, Risen from the Dead: Or, His Own Relation of a Late Voyage He Made to the Other World, In A Discourse With his Friend Marforio Y1 - 1674 AB -

Pasquin dies, visits Heaven and Hell, and returns to tell his friend about his experiences. Mostly satire directed at the Church.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Poor Robin’s Wonderful Vision; Or, England’s Warning By Many strange and miraculous Observations, the like not known in any Age. To the Tune of, Sawny will ne’r be my Love Again Y1 - 1672 A1 - [William] [Winstanley] [attributed to] KW - Male author AB -

Broadside warning of the evils of Catholicism.

PB - P[hilip] Brooksby CY - [London] ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books Y1 - 1667 A1 - John Milton (1608-74) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic description of Eden that, unusually, includes substantial material on what life in Eden would have been like before the Fall.

PB - Ptd. by Peter Parker; Robert Boulter; and Matthias Walker CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. rev. and aug. London: Ptd. by S. Simmons, 1674. Critical eds. as Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Sources. Criticism. Ed. Scott. Elledge. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975; as Paradise Lost. Ed. Alastair Fowler. rev. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2007; and Paradise Lost. Ed. Barbara K. Lewalski. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Poore Mans Advocate, or England's Samaritan. Powring Oyle and Vyne into the wounds of the Nation. By making the present Provision for the Souldier and the Poor, by reconciling all Parties. By paying all Arreares to the Parliament Army. All publique Debts, and all the late Kings, Queenes, and Princes Debts due before Session Y1 - 1649 A1 - [Peter] [Chamberlen] (1601-83) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Better society brought about by nationalizing all unused lands and mines and the remains of the estates of the king, the bishops, and the nobility. The purpose is to provide work for the poor. The author was a physician, a Seventh Day Baptist, and a Fifth Monarchist or a believer, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the "son of man" followed by the physical return of Christ.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled. Vespre Veneris Martis: 16. 1647. Ordered by the Ladies in Parliament Assembled, That their Orders and Votes be forthwith Printed and published, to prevent such misreports and scandals, which either malice, or want of wit, hightned with snoffes of Ale or stayned Claret may cause, in the dishonour of the said Votes and Parliament. Betrice Kingsmill Clar. Parliament Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary society, politics, and gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. His 1647 The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament is a sequel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Parliament of Ladies With Their Lawes Newly Enacted Y1 - 1647 A1 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is somewhat different from the others in that it is set in ancient Rome rather than contemporary Britain. It also includes tradesmen’s wives, while in most of the others, the women are primarily from the aristocracy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Paradox. Prooving, That the Inhabitants of the Isle, called Madagascar, or St. Lavrence, (In Temporal Things), are the happiest People in the World. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true Description of that Island: The Nature of the Climate, and condition of the Inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other Nations. With most probable Arguments of a hopefull and fit Plantation of a Colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the Soyle, the benignity of the Ayre, and the relieving of our English Ships, both to and from the East Indies Y1 - 1640 A1 - Wa[lter] Hamond KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that presents the Noble Savage as being in a better situation than the supposedly civilized.

PB - Ptd. for Nathaniell Butter CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as “A Paradox: Proving the Inhabitants of the Island, called Madagascar; or St. Lawrence (in Things temporal) to be the happiest People in the World.” 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: 256-62. Later ed. as The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for John White and John Harding, and John Murray, 1808-13), 1: 263-69; and as “An edition of A paradox prooving that the inhabitants of . . . Madagascar (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Presented by William Webster Newbold.” MA thesis. 2 vols. University of Birmingham--Shakespeare Institute, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Piece of Friar Bacons Brazen-heads Pro-phesie Y1 - 1604 A1 - [William] [Terilo] [pseud.] AB -

Eutopian poem with a Golden age like description of the English middle ages.

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Rpt. as Friar Bakon's Prophesie: A Satire on the Degeneracy of the Times, A.D. 1604. Ed. James Orchard Halliwell. In Vol. 15 of Percy Society, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages. Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844; and as Vol. 52 of Percy Society, Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844.

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Rpt. as Friar Bakon's Prophesie: A Satire on the Degeneracy of the Times, A.D. 1604. Ed. James Orchard Halliwell. In Vol. 15 of Percy Society, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages. Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844; and as Vol. 52 of Percy Society, Publications. London: Percy Society, 1844.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Pleasant Dialogue betweene a Lady called Listra, and a Pilgrim. Concerning the gouernment and common weale of the great province of Crangalor. 1579 Y1 - 1579 A1 - T[homas] N[icholas] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A small town of good Christians emphasing piety, equity and honesty. There is a godly prince, humble nobility, obedient citizens, and a good clergy. See also 1579 [Nicholas], The second part.

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