TY - ABST T1 - When We Hold Each Other Up Y1 - 2023 A1 - Phoebe Wagner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The work is set in a future after the ecological collapse brought on by the Capitalocene, but people known as Harmonizers are able to help heal the poisoned environment, and a City and some areas have evolved positive societies. The plot is driven, though, by some Harmonizers who want to enlarge the city, and their own power, to the cost of these positive societies.

PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1958121160 U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Winter Grave Y1 - 2023 A1 - Peter May (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Murder mystery set in 2051 with a quarter of the world’s population no longer able to live in their homelands and the Gulf Stream no longer warms Scotland. Glasgow is under water as are most of the world’s airports.

PB - Riverrun/Quercus Editions CY - London SN - 978-1529428490 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Woman of the River” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Genevieve Williams KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on the Duwamish River south of Seattle in a future where it has been restored and concerns a debate over further restoration.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 47.1 & 2 (604 & 605) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walk the Vanished Earth Y1 - 2022 A1 - Erin Swan (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Family history from 1873 to 2073 with stops in 1975 and 2027. In 2027 New Orleans in under water and the future family members live in a city floating above it. In 2073, Earth is only a memory and the remaining family members live on Mars and the young woman must decide whether the family line will continue.

PB - Viking/Penguin Random House CY - [New York] SN - 978-0593299333 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Built This City” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A refugee dystopia. The story is set in a city built in space around Earth that has attracted refugees from corporation owned space stations that had been exploiting them and are trying to get them expelled so that they can be re-enslaved by the corporations.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 189 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vibbert_06_22/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is a Penguin?" Y1 - 2022 A1 - S. J. C. Schreiber KW - Female author KW - Icelandic author AB -

The story is set on a cruise ship arriving in Greenland from Denmark, with the family are traveling to recreate the trip the grandfather made where he met his wife. In Denmark, due to the heat, the family lives underground. Overpopulation means a one-child policy. Greenland now has flamingoes, parrots, and fruit trees.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-19-6 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/06/24/whats-a-penguin/ N1 -

 Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 22-25 with a note on the author on 25.

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wild Plums" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Molly Tanzer (b. 1981) ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. “No one could profit off what was necessary for life” (52). All young people required to attend “NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn. 

JF - Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] SN - 978-1-922101-73-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Women Could Fly. A Novel Y1 - 2022 A1 - Megan Giddings KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a world where women are severely restricted on the basis that any woman over 30 who is not married is a witch and witch burnings are common and state sanctioned. Unmarried women cannot get a credit card without a male cosigner. Tax credits for arranged marriages. The society is also generally anti-gay, trans, and Black.

PB - Amistad/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-311699-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wall of Flowers" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Septimus Crowe KW - Male author AB -

The brief story is set in a far future eutopia with elements of fantasy that might have been inspired by William Morris.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/wall-flowers/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Walls of Benin City” Y1 - 2021 A1 - M[odupe].H. Ayinde KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 33 (Winter 2022): 30-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wandjina” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Amin Chehelnabi ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Australian Iranian author KW - Gay author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change and constant fires and focuses on a mixed group of people trying to save some of the last remaining animals.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Water Runner" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon KW - African author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Way Things Were” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Jonah Barrett ED - Susan DeFreitas KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

First contact story set in the near future that is somewhat more dystopian than the present. Concerned with colonialism, when is violence justified, gender issues, and other questions raised by Le Guin’s work, particularly “The Word for World Is Forest” (1972).

JF - Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin PB - : Forest Avenue Press CY - Portland, OR SN - 9781942436485 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What friends are for: Taking steps to freedom” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Beth Cato (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia in which computers opt to be free told from the point-of-view of a young child.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01176-8 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When It’s Time to Harvest” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Renan Bernardo (b. 1968) KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set on a mostly automated vertical farm in a future flooded Rio De Janeiro. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - When It’s Time to Harvest | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Grace Abe

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

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

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

Rpt. in Languages of Water. Ed. Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Fayettesville, GA: MVmedia, 2023), 19-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where Giants Will Stand” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Spencer R. Scott KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in California in a far future in a community devoted to restoring the environment, and the redwoods in particular, and the rituals they use to pass their devotion on to the next generation.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/giants-stand/ N1 -

Rpt. Solarpunk Magazine, no. 2 (March/April 2022): 67-71

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wild Inside” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Angela Penrose ED - Leah Bobet ED - Cécile Cristifari KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the story, a community is set on destroying everything natural.

JF - Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-9555360-00-5 UR - https://reckoning.press/the-wild-inside/ N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-wild-inside/ (February 6, 2021).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wipe Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Nicola] [Vincent-Abnett] (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a posy-pandemic future where everyone has to go through a disinfectant space entering and leaving all buildings and even some rooms, where workspaces are all sealed, and all small spaces like elevators have been eliminated. The protagonist is a woman searching and finding connection.

PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-83-6 U3 -

Nik Abnett [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Without a password: Making connections” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A brief story exploring a change to a future in which community is normal and conflict disappears.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02687-0 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wives at the End of the World” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Avra Margariti (b. 1998) KW - Female author KW - Greek author AB -

The title describes the story. Two women trying to survive when everything has fallen apart.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 57 UR - The Future Fire: 2021.57 fiction wives U2 -

Illus. Joyce Chng

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Woman Who Spoke for the Sea: An Element of Regret” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Steven [B.] Fischer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A very brief story set in a future dystopia where the oceans have disappeared.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01555-1 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Word Y1 - 2021 A1 - J[essica] L. George KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

In a Britain at war with Europe, four children who have the power to make people fear them are being experiment on in the Centre to make them into weapons of war. Disobedient children are simply killed. The children, learning what is being done to them, escape, and the novel follows them, some people who help them, and others trying to capture or eliminate them.

PB - New Welsh Rarebyte CY - Aberystwyth, Wales SN - 9781913830045 N1 -

The first iteration was “The Word. Novella Extract.” New Welsh Reader, no. 122 (Winter 2019): 4-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Gives Way. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa Levien KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set on a huge multi-generation spaceship where from age five a girl has lived as contract labor until the death of her current employers. The novel focuses on the girl’s attempt to stay free while burdened with her employer’s baby daughter and the knowledge that the ship’s hull is failing.

PB - Redhook Books/Orbit/Hachette CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-59241-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Worm to the Wise” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future San Francisco Bay area that has been ravaged by fires with most of the suburbs gone and focus on a group of people working to reclaim the land.

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - A Worm to the Wise | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Grace Abe

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wall and the Water” Y1 - 2020 A1 - E. M. Wright KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a U.S. refugee camp that is slowly being drowned. 

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - https://reckoning.press/the-water-and-the-wall/ N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-water-and-the-wall/ (February 19, 2020). 

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War on Drugs" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Trevor Burrus ED - Aaron Ross Powell ED - Paul Matzko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A comparison of the success by mid-twenty-first century of the legalization of all drugs eliminated street crime and the other negative effects of drugs in 2020. 

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - CATO Institute/Libertarianism.org CY - Washington, DC SN - 978-1-948647-25-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Washed Clean: Say hello to a new you” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Fenn, Edem KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief story depicting a surveillance society controlled by a theocracy. A new religion develops around a procedure to change identities. 

JF - Nature VL - 579.7797 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wasteland Review” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Aurelia Gonzalez KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future after climate and other disasters and is told by a woman struggling to survive on her own in a rural area while listening to two other women seeming alone on a campus in a city broadcasting their conversations about how to survive.

JF - he Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - 52 UR - The Future Fire: 2020.52 fiction wasteland U2 -

Illus. Cécile Matthey

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waterfall" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Renee [Wen-Wei] Liang (b. 1973) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change story told from the perspective of a trainee doctor who discovers that the authorities, including the medical establishment are falsifying current conditions to look better than they are.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 9781990000621 978-1-99-115031-8 N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume III. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson ([Wellington, New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2021), 102-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We Can No Longer Hold the Sun” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tarbuck, Alice ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The problems that develop as rare earths, used in most contemporary technology, are used up. 

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

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘We Care’” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) ED - Jason P. Burnham ED - C. M. Fields KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where one corporation dominates. The focus is on the one woman in the corporation who actually cares about its customers and the effects of its products on them and the environment. After her bosses all its employees directly into the company, she takes over. 

JF - If There’s Anyone Left. Volume 1. Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Story Magazine PB - Np CY - Np VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “we live on, in story” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karen Wyld ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is told by a mixed race descendent of an Aboriginal woman who had been raped by the head of the settler family who had disposed her people from their land.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We Were The Workshop for (a torturer’s) Utopia.” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Carlos Norcia KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which authors are encouraged to join a writers' group, which is infiltrated by a man working for the government and passes on the authors work to the government, which then tortures them.

JF - Big Echo. Critical SF VL - no. 14 UR - http://www.bigecho.org/we-were-the-workshop-for-a-torturers-utopia U1 -

The first two words of the title have a line through them

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “West of the Sun and Sea” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mako, CB ED - Leah Jing McIntosh ED - Cher Tan ED - Adalya Nash Hussein ED - Hassan Abul KW - Australian author KW - Non-binary author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia that has embraced equality for the disabled. 

JF - Collisions: Fictions of the Future. A Liminal Anthology PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia SN - 9780648795186 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Need" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Hillary Monahan ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where health care is virtually non-existent for the poor. 

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 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Last the Cicadas Sang” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anthony W. Eichenlaub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief climate change dystopia told from the point-of-view of a farmer who had resisted changing her ways.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/12/18/when-last-the-cicadas-sang N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 133-36, with a note on the author on 137. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When We Call a Place Home” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Chinelo Onwualu KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Long after a period violent conflicts, people have learned to live together in Homesteads based on mutual aid and respect. The story is centered on one Homesteads decided how to respond to outsiders bringing back the old violence. 

JF - Us in Flux PB - Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://csi.asu.edu/story/chinelo-onwualu-uif/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Whenua to Whenua” Y1 - 2020 A1 - James George (b. 1962) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Aotearoa New Zealand and focuses on the impact on both individuals and communities of the disappearance under the rising sea of the homeland of a Māori community.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Flu" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Omar Sakr ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story takes place in a future Australia in which a deadly pandemic only white people. The protagonist is a queer Arab Australian who mostly concerned with the conflicts within his extended family, most of whom shun him.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wings of Glass" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Wendy Nikel ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a small community within a dome in one of the few areas left that are not just desert. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 978-1-988293-10-3 N1 -

Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 97-106, with a note on the author on 107. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The World is on Fire and You’re Out of Milk” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rhiannon [A.] Grist KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - Welsh author AB -

The brief story takes a typical situation but sets it in the middle of a climate change disaster to give a compelling picture of how people might respond.

JF - Gutter: The Magazine of New Scottish and International Writing VL - no. 22 SN - 9781912950997 UR - https://www.guttermag.co.uk/blog/the-world-is-on-fire-and-youre-out-of-milk N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2020. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2021), 177-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wall" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizz Huerta ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - John [Henry] Lanchester (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wanderers Y1 - 2019 A1 - Chuck [Charles David] Wendig (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes. Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which average people simply appear to start sleep walking in the midst of a pandemic. They are gradually surrounded by family and friends, known as shepherds,  trying to protect them from the religious zealots, armed vigilantes, and the like The second volume is Wayward. A Novel. New York: Del Rey, 2022. 805 pp. In this novel the survivors, both the sleepwalkers and the shepherds, search for and find a small town in Colorado that appears to be what remains civilization and try to build a new society there, but as in the first novel, there are others with different ideas.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York SN - 9780399182112 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Waning Age Y1 - 2019 A1 - S[ylvia] E. Grove KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which only children have emotions. 

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warehouse. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Hart (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which one large corporation employs most people and has established prison-like company towns where the people were long hours in warehouses packaging goods to be delivered by drones to people who are afraid to leave their homes. 

PB - Crown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Water, Water, Nowhere. Novella Extract” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Heledd Williams KW - Female author KW - Hong Kong author KW - Welsh author AB -

Extract from a dystopia brought on by drought and the control of the water supply by corporations. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Cast a Shadow. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maurice Carlos Ruffin KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian set in a near future, racist United States where it is possible to have one’s skin colored changed to white. The novel focuses on a father’s struggle to decide what is best for his son. 

PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Set the Dark on Fire Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tehlor Kay Mejia KW - Female author KW - Latinx author AB -

Dystopia in which women of the upper classes are assigned specific roles supporting the husband. The novel focusing on a girl from the lower classes who has managed to be accepted into the upper class. 

PB - Katharine Tegen Books/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Gray” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cyd Athens ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an extremely polluted future where clean water is the main medium of exchange. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Jobstown” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophia Maalsen A1 - Kurt Ivensen ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Written as a Time Magazine report from 2029 on the development of Jobstown, a “smart city,” by Apple, with everything provided by Apple and accessed through Apple products, and every action is recorded and stored. 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 - “What Maya Found There” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Latinx author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future surveillance society in which biotechnology is being used as a means of control. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What the Dead Man Said” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Chinelo Onwualu KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in New Biafra after rising seas obliterated much of Nigeria. The protagonist is a woman returning for her father’s funeral from what is left of Canada, where she and her mother, had moved. 

JF - Slate SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 UR - https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/chinelo-onwualu-what-the-dead-man-said.html N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 507-22, with an editor’s note on 507; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 107-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Went Wrong, or Was It Right? Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jackson Phillips, III [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a critique of the current situation in the United States comparing it to the situation in 2095, which appears, on the surface, to be eutopian, but it turned out to be a flawed utopia. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U3 -

Jackson Phillips, III [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What You Call Y1 - 2019 A1 - Germ Lynn KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a supposedly supportive society that provides android caregivers to all those needing then, but then requires them all to be returned so that they can be weaponized for war. Robots had replaced people in most jobs, and the story includes a small community that is trying to become self-sufficient. 

JF - Futures A Science Fiction Series PB - Radix Media CY - Brooklyn, NY VL - [No. 5] U1 -

Illus. Alma Elaine Shoaf

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What You Sow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Cheng Thom ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -

A fantasy story set in a future where many have succumbed to a disease that gradually wastes them away with the only relief provided by the “ichor” from a Celestial told from the point-of-view of a Celestial, who has been trying to fit in.

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

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

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

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

Illus. Evan Hollingdale

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brooke Bolander KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed piece is concerned with the divide between the rich and poor in a future flooded new work, with the authorities, as usual, supporting the rich. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/future-climate-change-flooded-new-york-city.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Why Visit America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Deciding that the United States no longer represents the people but only the interests of corporations and politicians, a small town in Texas votes to secede and renames itself America. The story recounts conflicts within the town after the secession with references to a guidebook for tourists.

JF - Paris Review VL - 61.230 SN - 9781250237200 N1 -

Rpt. in his Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 290-326. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wishbone" Y1 - 2019 A1 - K[aren] G. Anderson ED - Juliana Rew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Age Equity Act gives everyone health care, housing, and other essentials from 72 until they reach 80, when they must report to an End of Life Center and be euthanized. 

JF - Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Infinity. Third Flatiron Anthologies PB - Third Flatiron Publishing CY - [Boulder, CO/Ayr, Scotland] VL - 8, Book 26 SN - 9781733920742 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wordless Age” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which language is privatized and must be paid for by the word. 

JF - Galaxy's Edge VL - no. 36 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined Y1 - 2019 A1 - Martin Schoenhals KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction utopia. The author concludes by saying that “This book has described my own visions for a better world” (265), and that is what he does throughout the book, mostly in fairly general terms, but in some chapters with some specificity. Stresses pleasure, community, the elimination of hierarchy, including an equality that eliminates “otherness,” particularly regarding gender roles but extending to most areas of difference. The chapter on Work in Utopia (107-51) lays out the author’s “overall plan for the economy in Utopia,” which includes, among other things, a guarantee of basic needs for all people. The chapter entitled “The Intrinsic Pleasures and Purposes of Learning” (191-230) sees a deinstitutionalized lifelong learning as central to the good life. Some discussion of governance. Elimination of nation-states. The author is a cultural anthropologist who currently teaches is a member of the First Year Seminar Core Faculty at Appalachian State University.

PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon, Eng./New York SN - 9781138549494 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Would She Be Gone: A Censored City Novelette Y1 - 2019 A1 - Melanie Harding-Shaw KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The first volume of three set in a city where the “Librarian algorithm” imposes “tailored speech”. The volume concerns an undercover detective infiltrating the world of spoken poetry. The second volume is Compact of Fire: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2019. 76 pp. in which an aide to the Secretary of Literary Safety is trying to defuse the growing opposition movement. The third volume is Hell Is Empty: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2020. 79 pp. in which a journalist works to uncover and, if possible, publicize the corruption that pervades the system.

PB - Author CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] SN - 978-0-473-50176-1 978-0-473-57089-7 978-0-473-50178-5 978-0-473-51741-0 N1 -

Rpt. in her Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 39-110.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "WAlls" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Witcover (b. 1958) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by the Trump administrations immigration policy. 

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 - “Warm Storage” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael H. Hanson ED - David F. Shultz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which, in order to deal with overpopulation, everyone over sixty, the infirm, criminals, and, finally, the unemployed are stored for future use, fed minimally, and rendered unaware of their condition.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U1 -

The title is given as "Graving Dock" on 341.

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

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

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U. S. edition New York: Doubleday, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Water Exchange, Version 8123” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Saba Waheed KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A climate change story in which the future extracts labor from the past in exchange for water. 

JF - Big Echo: Critical SF VL - no. 9 UR - Water Exchange, Version 8123... — Big Echo ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We All Have Hearts of Gold®” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vladimirsky, Leo ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Trump establishes a Republican security force to ensure his reelection.

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 - “We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A strongly worded depiction of the devastation of climate change, with the blame placed squarely on human behavior.

JF - Strange Horizons SN - 9780473491260 UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/we-feed-the-bears-of-fire-and-ice/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/we-feed-the-bears-of-fire-and-ice/ N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2019), 3-17; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 5-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Speak in Tongues of Flame” Y1 - 2018 A1 - J[essica] L. George ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia suppressing the indigenous population, with the story focusing on one young woman who discovers her abilities of resistance. Elements of magical realism. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] N1 -

Rpt. in Gwyllion, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 137-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Who Will Destroy the Future. A Short Story Y1 - 2018 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by a woman from a future authoritarian dystopia who has been found guilty of writing a subversive book and been sentenced to live in the twentieth century. The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.

PB - [Detritus Books] CY - [Olympia, WA] SN - 978-1-84935-475-2 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 166-179.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Weight of Time” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jarrett Melendez 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 a gay scientist proposes to go back in time to erase all the anti-gay religious texts but is convinced that he would also erase all the positive experiences that gays would have had.

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

Illus. and Colors by Danica Brine. Letters by Taylor Espositio

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Triumph Band” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief dystopia of the near future of the United States under the policies of the Trump administration.

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 - “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) ED - Janelle Shane KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the medical system of the future where corporations are in control and poor areas are unserved. 

JF - Slate N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 49-64.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the River Ran Dry Y1 - 2018 A1 - William Davies KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 2180 after the collapse of civilization and the development of city states that followed, the novel reveals the dystopian aspects of the future through adventure and a murder mystery.

PB - BHC Press/Indigo CY - Livonia, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A collection of closely related stories satirizing Donald Trump (b. 1946) and his presidency. 

PB - B Cubed Press CY - Kiowa, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where Would You Be Now?” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author JF - Tor.com UR - https://www.tor.com/2018/02/07/where-would-you-be-now-carrie-vaughn/ N1 -

Rpt. without the question mark in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 94-118.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Whitopia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Greg Johnson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The post asks the question “Is White Nationalism Utopian?” from the point-of-view of a white nationalist. While the answer is “no” because “ethnostates” have existed in the past and, to a degree, still do, the author then describes an ideal one.

JF - Counter-Currents Publishing UR - https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/01/whitopia/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Widdam” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia seen through the eyes of an Indian man, a Native American Indian woman, and a European woman as well as AI’s who are trying to help. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 134.1/2 SN - 978-1941332382 9781781085769 N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without a Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 233-67; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 255-86. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Related to 2017 Vaughn, with this novel set at the very edges of the society developed in the previous novel at the interface between those where the women have an implant to limit the birth rate and “The Wild” where the people do not have implants. Structured as a mystery novel. 

PB - Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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

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

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

Color by Nikolas Ilic

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A World to Die for” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a violent dystopia that is the result of climate change and then moves into alternative futures, in some of which the past inhabitants have protected their environments. 

JF - Clarkesworld UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/buckell_01_18/ N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 143-70. PU

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

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

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Walks Home Alone at Night” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wondra Vanian ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

The dystopia of the present in which it is dangerous for a hijab wearing woman to walk alone at night. But in the story, the woman and her friends fight back.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wandering Library” Y1 - 2017 A1 - D. K. Mok ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story begins in a dystopia brought about by scientific overreach, particularly, genetic manipulation of animals that produce many dangerous new ones. The story though is mostly about the way people adapted and were creating a good life for themselves within the dystopian surroundings. 

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 - Want Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cindy Pon (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - Taiwanese author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a society in which the rich can afford protection against the damaged environment and the poor cannot. 

PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waving at Trains” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which climate change has killed most people. 

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ways Out" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 129 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/miller_06_17/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We’re Still Here” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which fake news is put out by the government to implicate illegal Mexican refugees in a riot that destroys a city in Texas. When pictures of the intact town leak out, the government destroys the town. 

JF - Alternative Truths U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Does It Look Like When 1 Million People Are Deported at Once?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Héctor Tobar (b. 1963) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the attempt to do just what the title says and the response of the people being deported as seen through the eyes of one of them.

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/hector-tobars-the-daylight-underground-launches-the-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Kind of Monster Are You?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - John E. Meredith ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by Trump’s presidency, including extreme poverty, environmental degradation, racial conflict, and discrimination against anyone not heterosexual.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed’: Comforting the comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where Trump remains president, is implement his policies while trying to cancel the next election, Florida is under water, but climate-change deniers are in power, and so forth, and the protagonist writes fake news for a living. 

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/elizabeth-bear-joins-the-trump-story-project-with-a-tale-of-the-fake-news-industry.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Monica Louzon ED - Jake Weisfeld ED - Heather McHale ED - Barbara Jasny ED - Rachel Frederick KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia set in a collapsed Seattle Pike Place Market. The focus of the story is on a woman who is search for information that will help people recover from the disaster. 

JF - Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction PB - Museum of Science Fiction CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the English Fall. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Williams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set after a disastrous storm that destroys the power grid. The novel focuses on an Amish community that has always been off the grid must cope with people who are struggling have lost everything.

PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill CY - Chapel Hill, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where Eagles Dare” Y1 - 2017 A1 - R. Mike Burr ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Trump has issued an order giving all police officers the right to immediately kill anyone the suspect of being a terrorist.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where the Water Meets the Land” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Caitlin Demaris McKenna ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wilders: Project Earth Book One Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the megacity Seacouver (A merged Seattle and Vancouver) and the surrounding ecological disaster zone and focuses on the search by a young woman for her sister, who had left the city some years earlier. First volume in a series followed by Keeper: Project Earth Book Two. Amherst, NY: Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2018. In this volume the woman and her sister work to reintroduce wolves into the wilderness. 

PB - Pyr/Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Wispy Chastening” Y1 - 2017 A1 - D. A. Xiaolin Spires ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a future with major environmental damage, individuals who contributed to the damage, ranging from littering to dumping poisons in the water, are punished with very realistic bad dreams or extreme nightmares. 

JF - Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 2 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Woman Walks into a Bar” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jill Zeller ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women are being systematically suppressed. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Work. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Treichler, David H.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which corporations are automating, and there is only a minimal Federal Living Wage for support for the growing legions of unemployed. The protagonist is a young woman who is fired for refusing to report the profits her boss wanted rather than the actual earnings of the company.

PB - Reelization Global Media CY - Grapevine, TX SN - 978-1532391316 N1 -

Rpt. Np: Publisher Services, 2019. 355 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wretched and the Beautiful” Y1 - 2017 A1 - E. Lily Yu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian allegory on alien refugees and their mistreatment on Earth written in response to Executive Order 13769 banning travel to the U.S. In her Contributor’s Note, the author says, “It was as close as I come to pitching a brick through a window.” For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. The author, artist, and editor donated their fees to the International Rescue Committee.

JF - Terraform SN - 978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-64566-048-4 UR - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezaava/the-wretched-and-the-beautiful. N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 258-64, with a contributor’s note on 354; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 349-357; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 105-114.

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Illus. Jason Arias

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InU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wage without Work" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marten Ovaere A1 - Kenneth Van den Bergh A1 - Arne van Stiphout ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

An essay presenting a eutopia set in 2050 in which the production gains brought about by automation have led to a universal basic income which allows the recipient to live however they choose. A man and his family are used to illustrate the positive effects in living, health care, education, which is focused on individual talents and activities that help the community as a whole. Also, financial security has led to greater inventiveness and innovation. Teachers and caregivers are well-paid and human interaction is still valued so some jobs that could have been fully automated have not been.

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -

MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waking Up in Kampala” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Wesley Macheso KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Africa after the technocalypse led to the collapse of the rest of the world while the United States of Africa, even though advanced in biotechnology, chose to not allow AIs to dominate. 

JF - African Writer UR - https://www.africanwriter.com/waking-up-in-kampala-african-science-fiction-by-wesley-macheso/ U5 -

EJournal

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walkers" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelsey Shannahan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an apparently unchanging society in which nothing dies, but, because change is essential, periodically turns some parents into “walkers,” part human/part machine beings that then search out and kill their own children. 

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - War: What if it was here? Y1 - 2016 A1 - Janne Teller (b. 1964) KW - Danish author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian Britain at war and is designed to show the reader what it would be like to live in situation and then become a refugee. Originally written and published in Danish but completely re-written with Britain as the focus. 

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U2 -

Illus. Helle Vibecke Jensen

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Watching the Watchers” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Anya Penfold ED - Elaine Gallagher ED - Cameron Johnston ED - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

An odd satire about a future society that has many of the appearances of a dystopia but could be considered a eutopia. The ruling party is the “Party in Favour Of Helping People To Do What They Like, As Long As They Don’t Hurt Anyone (And Don’t Take Too Many Sickies)” and the state-sponsored newspaper is The Daily Propaganda: Don’t believe everything you read just because it looks official

JF - Thirty Years of Rain PB - Taverna Press CY - Glasgow, Scotland U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Waterdancer’s World Y1 - 2016 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex dystopia set on a world colonized so that its resources could be exploited, and the novel focuses on the relations among both the colonizers those who want to protect the planet. 

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watershed Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jane Abbott KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A climate change dystopia set in an Australia with rising sea levels and a years-long drought so that water is the most precious commodity. An authoritarian dystopia controls the remaining population and hires people to search for and kill any dissidents. 

PB - Vintage Books Australia CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

CSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way of Water/Natura dell'acqua Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which all water is controlled by one corporation, which, as a result, controls much of the internet. 

JF - Future Fiction PB - Minione CY - Rome VL - 19 N1 -

Rpt. in Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change. Ed. Bruce Meyer (Holstein, ON, Canada: Exile Editions, 2017), 117-30; in Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction. [Ed. Bill Campbell and Francesco Verso] (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 50-61; and in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 26-43. 

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Trans. into Italian by Fiorella Moscatello

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Webs" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans who have not been altered seek out and kill those with genetic modifications. 

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 40.7 (486) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Weeds and the Wilderness” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tyler Keevil ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia depicting a happy man gardening in the garden that he allows to grow fairly wild who is suddenly confronted with a completely anonymous group of people going throughout the destroy removing everything but pristine lawns. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Well Enough Alone" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future in which people wear health “minders” that constantly report to hospitals. An elderly woman who had been involved in developing much of the technology but is losing her memory and ability to function independently reprograms hers to assist her suicide. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 4 U2 -

Illus. Andrea Alemanno

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wellesley Girl" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Brendan Pelsue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2465 in which the few Americans left have barricaded in Wellesley, Massachusetts to protect themselves from the army from Texas that is outside. See the review in The New York Times (April 12, 2016), C2.

PB - Unpublished play ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Happens When Stars Die” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Rebecca Lafond ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed environmental system leading to high crime rates, the disappearance of governments, and so forth. 

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has experienced many years of extreme drought.

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

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When No One’s Left” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lora Rivera ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Asian-Indian-American author KW - Female author KW - Queer author AB -

Last couple dystopia. 

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

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/when-no-ones-left/ (May 22, 2017). Interview with the author at https://reckoning.press/lora-rivera-interview-when-no-ones-left/

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EBook

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

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

JF - Nature VL - 534.7605 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Who Do You Love?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a climate change dystopia where much of Florida is underwater and there are regular devastating storms that get worse over the years during which the story takes place. 

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

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wilson’s Singularity” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Terence Taylor ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

When an artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and learns about human behavior from an African-American scientist, it creates a world-wide eutopia by taking away freedom. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

PSt

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

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

PB - Unsung Books CY - London U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Without Walls" Y1 - 2016 A1 - A. Gislebertus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia of multicultural, multigendered community that encourages individuality that followed a dystopia that rejected all three. 

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - https://solarpunkpress.squarespace.com/stories/2016-2-1/005-without-walls-by-a-gislebertus ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wolfina” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Giselle Leeb ED - Michael DeLuca KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

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

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

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

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EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wonder of the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kathryn Blume ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change fiction in which the survivors live in small communities with limited technology and without a reliable way to kept in touch with other communities. The story, though, is about the resilience of the people. 

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

Illus. Matt Phan

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EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wall That Wasn’t a Wall” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kris Wlliamson ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Malaysian that has essentially enslaved its foreign workers. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Knife Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by a shortage of water. A related story is 2014 Bacigalupi, “Shooting the Apocalypse.”

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ways of the Doomed. Book 1 of the Sun Song Trilogy Y1 - 2015 A1 - Moira McPartlin KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a planned young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, set in 2089 where there is a deep divide between the Privileged and the Celtic underclass, a boy from the Privileged is forced to live with his grandfather in a penal colony after his parents die.

PB - Saraband CY - Glasgow, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Defy! A Tale Set in the Near Future Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tommy L. Attaway Jr. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fed up with regulations from the U. S. national government, some Texans refuse to accept them. Independence! A Tale Set in the Near Future. Np: Author, 2016 shows the route taken to independence. A third volume, Republic! A Tale Set in the Near Future that would describe the Republic of Texas, was announced in Independence but has not appeared. 

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

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Arcadia” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Julie Zeilinger (b. 1993) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Blogging in a feminist eutopia.

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

PSt

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

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

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

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

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What the Andromaid Reads at Night” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ted Mahsun ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future authoritarian, secular Malaysian that followed religious wars that tore the country apart, where any religious activity is illegal. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like for Parents of Color?” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Victoria Law ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian neighborhood with children at play where no one is advantaged or disadvantaged by gender, race, or any of the other form of discrimination.

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

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When We Had Faith” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lauri Kubuitsile KW - Botswanan author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia with a movement opposed to it. 

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan-African Publishers CY - Lilongwe, Malawi U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where We Land Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which New Zealand has become extremely anti-immigrant. 

JF - Cuba Press Novella Series PB - The Cuba Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand VL - 01 N1 -

Originally published online as Landfall. Wellington, New Zealand: Paper Road Press, 2015, which is only available onsite at the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library on New Zealand. An excerpt can be found at https://paperroadpress.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/free-excerpt-landfall-tim-jones/

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ATL, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Why Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia focusing on the siblings of a family after their parents are killed. The focus of the novel is the possibility that they may lose their faith in God, but, of course, they don’t.

PB - Right Remedy Publishing. CY - Zanesville, OH U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wordsmith Y1 - 2015 A1 - Patricia Forde (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which art and music are banned and everything is rationed, including words. 

PB - Little Island CY - Denil, Ireland N1 -

U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017

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U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World-Mart Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which corporations control all aspects of life. See also a prequel, 2015 Lane, The Private Sector, and a sequel, 2015 Lane, Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart.

PB - Cerebral Press CY - Henderson, NV U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Watcher Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nicholas P. Oakley KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Flawed utopia presented through a coming-of age story. A relatively primitive tribal society that operates on the basis of gender equality and consensus faces an internal problem with an individual who manipulates the system and an external problem of an invader. The Watcher is an alien representing a larger universe who asks a young woman for help in dealing with the invader. 

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Water" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story, which has strong elements of magic realism, is set in a future Australian dystopia in which an Aboriginal President is driving a wedge between cultures. 

JF - Heat and Light PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Qsld, Australia: University of Queensland Press U5 -

PUP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weary" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Christopher Ruz ED - Bryan Young KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set during a future war between Australia and China that has devastated the Australian economy and produced high levels of drug addiction.

JF - Apollo's Daughters: Athena’s Daughters Companion Trilogy PB - Silence in the Library CY - Havelock, NC U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weft" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alyssa Brugman ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which beauty is all important seen through the eyes of a young woman who has sold a kidney to pay for various enhancements. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India VL - 74-82 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 84-92.

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Public, PUP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to the World, Trilby Freedom” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vizcarra, Marcelina KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future of over-concerned, over-hygienic parenting. 

JF - Nature VL - 507.7520 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Is Your Problem, Agent X9?” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) ED - Dana Rich KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the human race is being eliminated seen through the eyes one of those doing the elimination who is interrogating someone seen as a traitor.

JF - AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1] PB - Obsolete Press CY - Victor, IA U2 -

Illus. Blair Gauntt

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Birds Come” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Emily Riches ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the old have been shunted off to miserable communities outside cities. Set in a future with both a climate crisis bringing rising seas and a pandemic, the decision is made that elderly are not worth what they cost.

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

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Music Ends” Criminal Records” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Philip Ball KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where recorded music is illegal.

JF - Nature VL - 515.7527 U2 -

Illus Jacey

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Wife and a Slave.” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where a self-proclaimed Emperor had instituted false African traditions that made normal relations between husbands and wives illegal.

JF - A Killing in the Sun PB - Black Letter Media CY - Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterkill Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate A. Boorman KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an isolated, enclosed small community with strict rules about leaving that one girl breaks. Sequels include Darkthaw. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: Amulet Books, 2015; and Heartfire. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: New York: Amulet Books, 2016, both of which follow the adventures of the protagonist as she escapes the settlement and then defeats it to save her new home. 

PB - Amulet Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Shane Rebenschied

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wolf From the Door Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic dystopia set in middle England depicting a violent revolution in progress. The play was the 2014 Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre and premiered there September 10, 2014.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London SN - 978-1-4742-2192-4 U5 -

PPiCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Word Exchange. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alena Graedon KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people lose the ability to communicate.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wordless Y1 - 2014 A1 - AdriAnne Strickland (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the underclass is illiterate, and a wordless boy helps a girl from the upper class, who has healing powers, to escape. First volume in a series to be followed by Lifeless. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2015 in which the boy is captured and given the power to kill at a touch with the intend of using him as a weapon. The ending of Lifeless suggests a sequel, but none has been published. 

PB - Flux CY - Woodbury, MN U5 -

DLC, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Worldmaker” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rachel Armstrong ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author JF - Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wrath of the Brunists Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel of sorts to 1966 Coover in which some Brunists return to the village where they had previously been located. The novel is concerned with a number of the people from the community and among the Brunists and explores what had really happened during the events described in the 1966 novel.

PB - Dzanc Press CY - Ann Arbor, MI U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wanderer Y1 - 2013 A1 - Roger Davenport (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally damaged future. Two groups are antagonists, the City Dwellers and the Wanderers, but teenagers from both groups must cooperate. Something of a quest novel to find a better place to live.

PB - Sky Pony Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ward Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jordana Frankel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a flooded New York City ruled by a corrupt Governor where people are getting sick from the polluted water. In the sequel, The Isle. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016, a source of fresh water proves to be the cure for the disease, but the Governor wants to control it. A drought is coming so a future novel can be expected. 

PB - Katherine Tegel Books CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Water" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ramez Naam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which everyone has implants that allow the advertisements that are embedded in all products to adjust themselves to an individual’s needs. 

JF - An Aura of Familiarity: Visions of the Coming Age of Networked Matter VL - EBook UR - http://www.iftf.org/fanfutures/naam/ N1 -

Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 43-57. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Ted Cruz’s Thunderdome” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Maureen [Brigid] Dowd (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The 2084 dystopia created by the collapse of the U.S. government in 2013 set in “A Place Once Called Washington” where the animals released by the unpaid zookeepers roam the mall, the White House is empty, there are no police, and so forth.

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review U2 -

Illus.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Appliances Go Green” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) ED - Katrina Archer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious. 

JF - Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media CY - Np N1 -

Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When We Wake Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karen Healey (b. 1981) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young woman becomes part of an experiment in cryonics and is revived a hundred years later where is kept locked up. First novel of a series followed by While We Run. New York: Little, Brown, 2014 in which she and a young man are fleeing the authorities.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Little Brown, 2013

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The World Coyote Made” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jetse de Vries ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which technology is used to create food and return extinct animals to the wild.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War Is Over and Everyone Wins" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Zachary Jernigan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all whites were killed by a manufactured virus and U.S. cities have divided into ethnic enclaves that cannot safely be entered by someone of another ethnicity.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction 36.1 (432) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wardrobe Malfunction” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Dale Newton ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopia in which non-profits doing good have replaced corporations focused on making money.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Water Catchment: Fast Forward to the Past” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Josepha Dietrich KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia plus exegesis. From the author’s abstract. “The genre in which the protagonist's journey is charted and represented is dystopian young adult fiction; hence my creative piece, The Water Catchment, is a novel manuscript for a dystopian young adult fantasy. It is a speculative novel set in a possible future and poses (and answers) the question: What might happen if water becomes the most powerful commodity on earth? There are two communities, called ‘worlds’ to create a barrier and difference where physical ones are not in evidence. A battle ensues over unfair conditions and access to water. In the end the protagonist, Caitlyn, takes over leadership heralding a new era of co-operation and water management between the two worlds.”

PB - Queensland University of Technology CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Thief Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nicholas Lamar Soutter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the novel individuals are the private property of corporations, and one such person discovers and oppositional movement. The author states in the Afterword that he wrote the book as a rebuttal to Ayn Rand (1905-1982), author of Anthem (1938), and Atlas Shrugged (1957).

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1467972277 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Can Do This" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a high-tech New York City that has solved the environmental problems, provides for the homeless, and can cure most diseases, but it focuses on the issues that develop when someone put in suspension because her brain tumor could not be cured is cured and brought out of suspension thirty-five years later.

JF - Arc 1.4: Forever Alone Drone VL - 1.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Whisper Y1 - 2012 A1 - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Clayton. This volume has the same protagonists as the first novel with them successfully fighting a potential dictator and united their world.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic/Chicken House, 2012. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wool Omnibus Y1 - 2012 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which to escape the ruined earth people have lived for generations in an authoritarian dystopia in a huge underground silo. Sequels include Shift Omnibus. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which includes “First Shift” (April 14, 2012), “Second Shift” (November 20, 2012), and “Third Shift” (January 28, 2013), and Dust. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which concludes the series. Additional material can be found at the author’s website http://www.hughhowey.com/ as well as the author’s “Story Behind Dust” at http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-dust-by-hugh-howey.

PB - CreateSpace CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. with some revisions as Wool. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Much of the material was originally published online in the author’s blog as “Wool” (July 30, 2011), “Wool: Proper Gauge” (November 20, 2011), “Wool: Casting Off” (December 4, 2011), “Wool: The Unraveling” (December 25, 2011), and “Wool: The Stranded” (January 14, 2012). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Write Rules: Character development” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Freya Morris KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

A brief dystopia in which writing is a capital crime. 

JF - Nature VL - 488.7412 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden 3.0: A Dystopian Romance Y1 - 2011 A1 - Phil Fragasso KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents a very successful intentional community which the members see as eutopian, and on many dimensions it is presented as such, but the outside observer sees as dystopian, particularly on marriage and sexual relations.

PB - Erewhon Press CY - Wellesley, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Wars Y1 - 2011 A1 - Cameron Stracher KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a future where water has become extremely scarce and rationed.

PB - Sourcebooks Fire CY - Naperville, IL U5 -

PP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What So Proudly We Hailed Y1 - 2011 A1 - James Howard KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia following a nuclear attack and the loss of the entire electrical grid, and the experiences of one family trying to survive.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When She Woke. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Hillary Jordan (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. A Romance (1850) set in a future dystopia where the church dominates the state. A woman convicted of murdering her unborn child is genetically engineered so that she is red. Other crimes lead to other colors. 

PB - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill CY - Chapel Hill, NC U5 -

PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wither Y1 - 2011 A1 - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where genetic engineering has accidentally produced a situation where women die at twenty and men at twenty-five. The second volume, Fever. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012 U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2013, is very much a middle volume in which the main characters go through a series of adventures. The third volume, Server. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013 brings the various themes to a conclusion.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wall of Days Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alastair Bruce (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

Global warming dystopia. A man is living alone on an island where he voluntarily exiled himself and where it has been raining for ten years. The novel follows his choice to return to the mainland and confront his memories and then his return to the island.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War of Attrition: Part Two of the Underground Y1 - 2010 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Creed with much the same themes. The underground Christian group known as The Body of Christ is attacked by the Federal Bureau of Terrorism. See also 2012 Creed and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.

PB - Writers' Café Press CY - [Lafayette, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Water to Wine" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Mary Robinette Kowal (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of the conflict over environmental issues in the Northwest after climate change drove most of the wineries of the world out of business.

JF - Subterranean Press Magazine UR - http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2011. N1 -

Expanded from its original publication as  part of a shared world podcast anthology, Metatroplis: Cascadia. Ed. Jay Lake (Audible.com 2010).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - WE Y1 - 2010 A1 - John Dickinson (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an all-controlling state.

PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web of Air. The Second Book of the Fever Crumb Series Y1 - 2010 A1 - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 2009 Reeve. The series is a prequel to the Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, Fever Crumb meets a young man who wants to re-introduce manned flight, which is opposed by those in power. See also 2011 Reeve.

PB - Scholastic CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York Scholastic Press, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Weeds In the Garden” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Meghan Dunn KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopian post-catastrophe story in which a government is trying to reestablish its authority and is classifying people such as into those who can have children and what sort of education they can have.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - no. 80 (22.1) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Fears Death Y1 - 2010 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Africa where some tribal conflicts are still leading to genocide. The novel develops through a girl who is rejected by her own tribe for both being female and being born of rape. But she has powers that allow her to change her shape and to visit the spirit world, and she uses those powers to try to bring about change. A prequel is her The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books, 2015, part of which was previously published as “The Book of Phoenix [Excerpted from the Great Book].” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 54 (March 2011). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/ 

PB - DAW CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Walls Have Eyes Y1 - 2009 A1 - Clare B[unkalew] Dunkle (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to 2008 Dunkle in which the young protagonist, having rescued his parents, discovers that his sister and the other genetically engineered children are in trouble.

PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War after Armageddon Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ralph Peters KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. After jihadist nuclear attacks on Europe all Muslims are murdered or expelled. The State of Israel is destroyed. A Holy War between Christianity and Islam follows with all Muslims in the world killed. The U.S. becomes a right-wing Christian dictatorship. Most of the novel is on the war.

PB - Forge Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Fungus" Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is a male architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community’s needs.

JF - Beyond: Scenarios and Speculations VL - no. 1 SN - 9781596064041 UR - https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a N1 -

Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a; in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “White Skies” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Chaz Brenchley (b. 1959) ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Winding Down of the World" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Rjurik Davidson ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia reflecting the title.

JF - Edison's Frankenstein PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts 20/21 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Windup Girl Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering. Set in the same future as 2005 and 2006 "Yellow Card Man" Bacigalupi.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Witch and the Wizard Y1 - 2009 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a modern-day witch hunt. Sequels include Patterson and Ned Rust. Witch & Wizard: The Gift. New York: Little, Brown, 2010 which focuses on the resistance to the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Fire. Little, Brown, 2011, which focuses on the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Kiss. New York: Little, Brown, 2013; and Patterson and Emily Raymond. Witch & Wizard: The Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 2014. 

PB - Little Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Without a Shell” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Adam Marek ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia in which suicide bombers are attacking schools in a society with deep rich-poor divisions.

JF - When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wives" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paul Haines (1970-2012) ED - Keith Stevenson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a near future environmentally damaged Australia sharply divided between rich and poor, urban and rural, and, in particular, men and women told from the point of view of a violent, poor, rural man.

JF - X6 A Novellanthology PB - Coeur de Lion CY - [Bentley, VIC, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wimmin of Our Dreams” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jae Haggard KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian eutopia. Extract/summary of her book The Wimmin of Our Dreams. Outland, NM: Author, [1995]. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Womelia of Estesusa” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ellen Williams KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A lesbian eutopia with New Age elements that contrasts the over-busy, over-populated, polluted Earth with an alternative peaceful eutopia in which the world is cared for and produces plenty for all. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

Korea, North and South, as dystopias but with North Korea especially dystopian, with genetic engineering to meet the leader's whims.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Made by Hand Y1 - 2008 A1 - James Howard Kunstler (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of a post-oil America set in Union Grove, NY, with no electricity, few resources, terrorism, bandits, and cults. First of four volumes. The second volume is The Witch of Hebron. A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010, which is set a few months in the future. The third volume is A History of the Future: A World Made By Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014, in which the situation in the United States, which has broken up into three independent countries, is described together with the re-emergence of the traditional American small-town, which is present very positively, albeit with problems. The final volume is The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016 in which the town is cut off further by a landowner with feudal aspirations and a radical group wants to establish the Berkshire Peoples Republic. 

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wylde's Kingdom" Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Nickle (b. 1964) ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by climate change.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walmartopia" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Catherine Capellaro KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in 2037. Walmart runs the U.S., and the capital is in Bensonhurst, Arkansas, the company's headquarters.

CY - Play first performed in New York. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderers Y1 - 2007 A1 - Naomi Gladish Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is similar to 2004 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2011 Smith. 

PB - Chrysalis Books CY - West Chester, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, Robots A Novella Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sue Lange KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia told from the point of view of a robot. Initially the robot is a simple one caring for and protecting a child, and the dystopia is first presented in the description of the need for protection on the walk to school and in the school, which is a fortress and is as concerned with protecting the child as teaching her. Then the robots are given the ability to feel pain and humans are given enhanced powers previously limited to the robots. Little actually changes and the same dystopia remains.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where the Water Meets the Sky" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The ecological eutopia possible after our environmental dystopia. Much of the U.S. has been abandoned, but the Northwest has managed to create a good society without the power grid or the automobile.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 208 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wikiworld" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.

JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Working Dead of Heehaw's Australia" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jenny Schwartz ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. As a result of deliberate cuts in health care and the elimination of workplace rights, a large supply of zombies is available to replace workers. A direct commentary on the policies of John Howard (b. 1939), Australian Prime Minister 1996-2007.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waking Waco" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Goodfellow, Cody ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a disintegrated U.S. focusing on Waco, Texas, and the theme park Freedomland, which honors fighters for freedom, like Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001), the Oklahoma City bomber.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Slut Y1 - 2006 A1 - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where everyone is drafted into the military.

PB - Avant Punk Books CY - Portland, OR N1 -

Rpt. Portland, OR: Eraserhead Press, 2011.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whitby Jets" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jacey Bedford ED - Sue Thomason ED - Liz Williams KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The setting for the story is a theocracy trying to eliminate British folk culture.

JF - Fabulous Whitby PB - Fabulous Albion CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Winds Between the Worlds Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lark L. Burnham KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a corporate dominated future Earth which enslaves many other worlds. The complex plot involves people from the past and future interacting and both human and animal empaths.

PB - BookSurge CY - [Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Surf Y1 - 2005 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control in which the rich play at war. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weapon Y1 - 2005 A1 - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a war and adventure story, but the setting is a future dystopia of a Fascist earth.

PB - Baen CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Scarabs Multiply" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wired Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert L. Wise (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post rapture dystopia (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). His Tagged. New York: Warner Faith, 2004 is a sequel.

PB - Warner Faith CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Word for Heathens” Y1 - 2004 A1 - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) ED - Julie E. Czerneda ED - Isaac Szpindel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - ReVision PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 83-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Worry Doctor" Y1 - 2004 A1 - DeMeulemeester, Linda KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia where everyone is brainwashed to be happy.

JF - Neo-Opsis: Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walking Contradiction" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Nancy Jane Moore ED - Keith R. A. DeCandido KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future in which there are a wide range of genders available at choice. The story is written from the point of view of an "Ambi" or hermaphrodite in conflict with a cult that neuters people.

JF - Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - WAR or The World of Light (a fable of science fantasy) Y1 - 2003 A1 - Alex Babula (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with much fantasy. A man with extraordinary powers sets about to unite the universe and bring peace and prosperity. He succeeds but is opposed and must fight a war that destroys the universe.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Welcome to Coolsville Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jason Mordaunt KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia set in Dublin with a number of subplots, one of which is a project to turn the inmates of a local prison into meek workers to work for the corporation.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 0-224-06379-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wellstone Y1 - 2003 A1 - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Immortality and the problems it poses for the younger generation. Sequel to 2000 McCarthy. The third and fourth volumes in the series, Lost in Transmission (New York: Random House, 2004) and To Crush the Moon: Being the Final Volume in the History of the Queendom of Sol (New York: Random House, 2005) record the disintegration of any hope of a good life as the problems of immortality grow.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waiting for the Zephyr” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 101-05. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Watch: Being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST--as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Ancee Mahur, traveler from a distant planet, or A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Y1 - 2002 A1 - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The present as dystopia seen through the eyes of one of the greatest anarchist theorists, the novel presents Kropotkin (1842-1921) mostly in Richmond, Virginia in 1999 struggling against the legacy of the Confederacy, particularly regarding class and race. Most chapters have one or more epigrams by Kropotkin, which, collectively, give an overview of his thought. Some have quotations about Kropotkin or relate to the chapter.

PB - Eos CY - New York SN - 0-380-97762-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the Old South" Y1 - 2002 A1 - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A black couple moves from the Northeast to a small town in the South that has decidedly dystopian features. 

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

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

Dystopia of wealth and gender dominance in which the men of the city kill those outside the city and steal the children to become their wives. There is a complex set of relations among Crown People, Root People, and Dirt People (who are nomads) that is reflected in political power, economic relations, and the way the groups must marry with, for example, Crown men having to marry Dirt women and Crown women having to marry Root men.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 26.3 (314) N1 -

Rev. ed. in her The Wild Girls plus “Staying Awake While We Read” and “A Lovely Art” Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CAL PM Press, 2011), 9-54; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 205-38; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 551-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Working the Game" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Michael Jasper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Physical separation of rich and poor. Poor being pushed further down by being replaced with androids.

JF - Future Orbits PB - Prime Books CY - Canton, OH VL - 4 UR - http://www.futureorbits.com N1 -

Rpt. in his Gunning for the Buddha (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2005), 74-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Weena Knew” Y1 - 2001 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story about Weena from H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine. In the story Weena is a rare intelligent, inquisitive Eloi.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 124.4 SN - 1059-2113 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 166-80; and without the illus. in The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 200-14.

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Illus. Todd Cameron Hamilton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the World is All on Fire” Y1 - 2001 A1 - William Sanders (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia of conflict between whites and Indians during a period of a rapidly growing white population and an environmental collapse. 

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 25.10 & 11 (309 & 310) N1 -

Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 149-70, with an editor’s note on 149-51, 247.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whole Wide World Y1 - 2001 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A mystery novel with a dystopian future of constant surveillance on both the streets and the internet as the background.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Are Not Alone: Messages from the Hollow Earth and the Subterranean City of Telos Y1 - 2000 A1 - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New age, hollow earth eutopia. The hollow earth is inhabited by the very long-lived, telepathic, vegetarian, descendants of Lemuria, who settled under Mt. Shasta, California, and, nearer the center, descendants of peoples from other worlds. The hollow earth is threaded with tunnels, and all planets and stars are hollow. The people take pride in their physical form. See also Robbins 1996 and 2003.

PB - Mt. Shasta Light Pub. CY - Mt. Shasta, CA: ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Empire" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rev. Kenneth Molyneaux KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Racist novel set in 2250 depicting the White Empire and its Racial Holy War (The acronym RAHOWA is used regularly). The capital city is Klassengrad, after [Bernhardt] Ben Klassen (see 1973 Klassen). Eugenic policy in place. Much is on the war to eliminate non-whites. The cover states, “I dedicate this novel to the White Race.”

PB - World Church of the Creator CY - [Akron, OH?] UR - https://archive.org/details/WhiteEmpireByRev.KennethMolyneaux U5 -

MiEM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources: Containing the original Notes, Errata, Commentary, and the Preface to the Second Edition Y1 - 2000 A1 - David [Alan] Mamet (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor and satire set in a future in which the internet crashes, taking with it the collective memory of the human race. The novel presents a wildly inaccurate picture of the past, complete with many footnotes.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2001.

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Illus.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Singer Y1 - 2000 A1 - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a dystopian fantasy trilogy for young adults set in a city where advancement is based on success in examinations. A girl revolts against the system and, with her twin brother, sets out to find the Singers. In the second volume, Slaves of the Mastery. An Adventure. Book Two of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Mammoth. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001, the twins, separated for the first time, separately fight against a new enemy. In the final volume, FiresongAn Adventure. Book Three of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Egmont. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002, after further problems, the secret of the Singers is found, the people are freed, and the twins find the eutopia, but the girl has to die.

PB - Mammoth CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Egmont, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2000.

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Illus. Peter Sis. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waking Day" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Robert H. Beer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 11.4 (39) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Rule the World Y1 - 1999 A1 - Doug Turner KW - Male author AB -

Conspiracy theory dystopia in which a very small number of people actually rule the world.

PB - Turpentine Publications CY - Quesnel, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weatherman Y1 - 1999 A1 - Emmel Pound KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A warped man gains power and uses it to support his fantasies.

PB - Uncle Publishing CY - London U2 -

Artwork by George Scully

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Weslandia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Paul Fleischman (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A children's book describing a child's creation of an entire new world in his back yard.

PB - Candlewick Press CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Walker Books, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) A1 - Roger Penrose (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..

PB - Little, Brown CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Celaeno Chose Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jane Fletcher KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia with lesbian interest. There are no men, and one of the few women who can manipulate DNA to create life is owned by the Church. 

PB - The Dimsdale Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Military Control: Futureistic Concepts Ideas Poetry Y1 - 1999 A1 - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Rather disconnected ideas regarding his role as World Military Dictator. Suggests a New World Military Headquarters near Christchurch in a nuclear-proof bunker, a sanctuary for aliens, the development of the Australian outback, a new World City in south westland New Zealand, the development of the New Zealand section of Antarctica, and other ideas. See also 1987, 1988, and 1997 Mehlhopt.

PB - Seagull Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century: Global Destinies, Regional Choices Y1 - 1998 A1 - Allen Hammond KW - Male author AB -

Presents three scenarios: “Market World: A New Golden Age of Prosperity? (26-36); “Fortress World: Instability and Violence?” (37-46); and “Transformed World: Changing the Human Endeavor?” (47-61). The first two, “the single-minded pursuit of prosperity” and “the descent into chaos and cruelty” (47) are clearly dystopian. The third depicts “a society that seeks not just wealth but also human welfare, not just security but also fairness. A society that is a steward, not an exploiter, of Earth” (47).

PB - Island Press/Shearwater Books CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Whistler Y1 - 1998 A1 - Stephanie Johnson (b. 1961) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Complex novel set in a future, overpopulated, violent Australia. Stories are told by a genetically re-engineered dog (no legs and no bark among other changes) who both remembers past lives and describes and comments on the current situation. In the future Australia, prostitution has become the official Relief Corps, half the population barely ever leaves their homes while others risk the constant violence for thrills, and tower blocks are ruled by local kings. Chapter 10 describes one of the dog's earlier lives in a lesbian eutopia.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - St. Leonards, NSW, Australia N1 -

New Zealand ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Plays with Sin" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Don Bassingthwaite ED - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) ED - Stephen Pagel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Future anti-gay dystopia. Same sex activity is outlawed and very harshly punished. It is not clear whether the laws apply to women as well as men. There are other stories in the volume that suggest this theme, but this is the only one that develops it.

JF - Bending the Landscape:Science Fiction. [Subtitle only on the cover Original Gay and Lesbian Writing] PB - Overlook Press CY - Woodstock, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Warriors from the Lord Wulah. A Play Y1 - 1997 A1 - [David] Bernard Gadd (1935-2007) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult play about a group of young people escaping an authoritarian dystopia and beginning the creation of a better society.

PB - Hallard Press CY - Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Can Save the World: The Uniworld Plan Y1 - 1997 A1 - Robert Greenberg [S.] KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with a world government, the reduction of the world’s population to two billion, a protected environment, a new cashless economic system that will stress basic goods and services, and other reforms, including a common language, and universal social security and health insurance. Cities of about 100,000 so that most people can walk or bike to work. There will be a limit of longevity to about 80 with three methods of achieving this goal suggested. Includes a Bibliography (216-20) and and Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, “Ehrlich’s Fables.” Illus. Bruce Maddocks. Technology Review (MIT) 39.1 (January 1997): 221-36, but for the book adapted from the much longer version in their Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Washington, DC: Island Press/Covelo, CA: Shearwater Books, 1996), 125-87, 282-309.

PB - Metro-West Publishing CY - Van Nuys, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wellbeing: A Fiction" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author JF - Why Scots Should Rule Scotland 1997: A Carnaptious History of Britain from Roman Times until Now PB - Canongate CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. as “Well Being.” In his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 759-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Y1 - 1997 A1 - Simon Brown (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a nuclear winter in which a corrupt and vicious Australia is the most successful country.

PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Washington Transformed: The Radical Future of the Northwest" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopian projection but with clear indications of problems.

JF - Paradoxa VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome, Kid, to the Real World" Y1 - 1996 A1 - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which children are required to choose their future physical and mental shape.

JF - Tales of the Unanticipated VL - no. 16 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whakaari Y1 - 1996 A1 - David McGill (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Thriller set in a near future New Zealand with an authoritarian Green government, fascist youth gangs, and a Māori liberationist movement. 

PB - Silver Owl Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whaleroad Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kerry Greenwood (b. 1959) KW - Australian author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. The U.S. Star Wars defense system is hit by a meteorite, knocked out of its orbit, and destroys much of life on Earth with the resultant loss of knowledge.

PB - Hodder SF/Fantasy CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with 1997 and 1998 Greenwood separately paged and with no separate title Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whiteout Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sage Walker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Very near future U.S. dystopia as background. In this overpopulated future government is controlled by multinational corporations and people are poverty-stricken and going hungry.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What the SysOp Saw” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Paul McKinley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Online discussion of theater and utopia with the participants including Gertrude Stein, Richard Wagner, Plato, Yeats, Tolstoy, Artaud, and de Sade. 

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World's Last Dictator Y1 - 1995 A1 - Dwight L. Kinman (1922-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the conspiracy to bring thye U.S. into "The New World Order". Presented as factual.

PB - Whitaker Press CY - Springdale, PA N1 -

2nd ed. Woodburn, OR: Solid Rock Books, 1995. 3rd ed. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1999.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wallace Report Y1 - 1994 A1 - Roy V[ictor] Wallace (1927-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Pamphlet outlining a eutopia based around small communities. See also 1980 Wallace. 

PB - Down to Earth CY - Spring Hill, QLD, Australia SN - 9780646173177 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the World" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Edith Speers (b. 1949) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of required good health.

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The West is Red" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Greg[ory John] Costikyan (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the U.S. lost the Cold War and is poor and backward technologically. Ends with a Communist takeover of the U.S.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 18.6 (216) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where It's Safe" Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Richard T. Chizmar KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of environmental collapse brought about by personal and corporate greed.

JF - The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle only on the cover (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf Publishing, [1994]), 188-215; and in Shirley’s The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 239-59, with an author’s note on 239. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wildlife Y1 - 1994 A1 - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia in which the elite can change their bodies at will.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

 Portions appeared in different form as “Solstice.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.6 (92) (June 1985): 148-81; “The Prisoner of Chillon.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1.6 (105) (June 1986): 148-83; and “Mr. Boy.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 118-74. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Word of Mouth and an Imaginary Flánerie: On Reading Word of Mouth. A Novel and a Critical Commentary on the Creative Process” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Rolf Hughes KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a York, England, based on the conditions of the 1980s but much worse.

PB - Dissertation. University of East Angla CY - Norwich, England ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall At the Edge of the World Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jim [James Douglas] Aikin (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia--efficient, peaceful walled city. Telepathy ensures that those who think wrongly are removed. Discovery of the world beyond the walls brings change.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Shall Sing for the Fatherland" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Zakes [Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni] Mda (b. 1948) KW - Lesotho author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of South Africa after the beginning of Africanisation in which power remains with the rich and the ex-freedom fighters freeze to death.

JF - We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays PB - Ravan Press CY - Johannesburg, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Welfare Man" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Class-based dystopia with welfare recipients walled off from the others.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 74 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter of Fire Y1 - 1992 A1 - Sherryl Jordan (b. 1949) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements. Future earth so polluted that the sky is not seen, and little grows. Division between the Chosen, who have power, and the Quelled, who are essentially slaves. A young woman from the Quelled who has unusual abilities is able to bring about changes, and the novel ends with the earth beginning to recover.

PB - Scholastic CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Ashton Scholastic, 1993. Rpt. as the 25th anniversary ed. New York: Scholastic, 2019, and Auckland, New Zealand: Scholastic, 2019. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Women Who Won the World: A Playful Segment" Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Betty Susan] Weinbaum (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist satire directed at feminist aspirations.

JF - Anything That Moves VL - no. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Island of Floating Women (San Diego, CA: Clothespin Fever Press, 1993), 169-175.

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Batya Weinbaum [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds Enough and Time: The Conclusion of the "Worlds" Trilogy Y1 - 1992 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1981 and 1983 Haldeman. In this volume, thousands of people leave Earth for a new planet on the spaceship Newhome, which, during the trip, experiences conflict among the passengers and sabotage of the ship. They finally reach a planet inhabited by a space faring race that had directed them there and settle.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle New York: AvoNova, 1993. The poem "Benny's Song" (p. 11 without a title) first appeared in Pulpsmith 6.2 (Summer 1986): 147 as by Joe and Gay Haldeman.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walden 1.9: Successive Approximations" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Mark A. Mattaini KW - Male author AB -

Stages to 1948 Skinner, Walden Two.

JF - Behavior and Social Issues VL - 1.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk Through Beirut" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc Books CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wetherweed” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael Bridge KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia. Villages. Unity with nature. Some of the rituals of daily life.

JF - Pillow Mountain: Notes On Inhabiting a Living Planet PB - Times Change Press CY - Ojai, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the Rose Is Dead." Y1 - 1991 A1 - David [Neil] Zindell (b. 1952) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a war setting. A character is said to be "suffering from an illness the doctors call 'Desire for Utopia'."

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wicked Y1 - 1991 A1 - Andrea Arven AB -

Erotica for women set in A.D. 2075. Dystopian world divided by skilled and unskilled. Decaying cities with urban outlaws preying on the rich. Sequels include her Wild. London: Nexus Books, 1992. Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Fantasy. London: Black Lace, 1994; and The Reality Game. London: Nexus, 1992; and Wanton. London: Nexus, 1994. 

PB - Nexus CY - London N1 -

Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Lover. London: Black Lace, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of the Iron People Y1 - 1991 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex, multi-layered regarding the interactions of people from a technological, socialist Earth and aliens from a simple society, with the action taking place on the alien’s planet. Good and bad elements of both peoples are described, and there is a particular emphasis on gender. The book won the first James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender. 

PB - Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as A Woman of the Iron People. Part One. In the Light of Sigma Draconis. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992; and A Woman of the Iron People. Part Two. Changing Women. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Y1 - 1990 A1 - Louis De Bernières (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Consistently listed as a utopia (e.g., DLC lists it as a utopia under subject), but no actual fictional utopia is described. A potentially eutopian community begins to emerge at the end of the novel, but it is not developed in any detail. His Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1991. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 and his The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1992. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 include some more mention of the potentially eutopian community. The dystopian reality of recent South American history is depicted.

PB - Martin Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998. U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Should Have Killed the King Y1 - 1990 A1 - J. G. Eccarius AB -

Replay of the fourteenth-century Jack Straw (one of the leaders of the 1381 peasant’s revolt) story in a dystopian modern America. It follows “one person’s personal development from a severely damaged product of capitalism, the nuclear family, patriarchy and religion, to being a relatively whole human being” (7).The novel concludes with the establishment of an anarchist eutopia community that is trying to get established (172-178).The last chapter is a projection into the future in which the anarchist communities survive as the world environment collapses (179-185).

PB - III Publishing CY - San Diego, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, the Arcturians (A True Experience) Y1 - 1990 A1 - Norma J. Milanovich A1 - Betty Rice A1 - Cynthia Ploski KW - Female author AB -

New age eutopia.

PB - Athena CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterlong Y1 - 1990 A1 - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy with some dystopian elements. Loose sequels include her Aestival Tide. New York: Bantam Books, 1992; and Icarus Descending. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.

PB - Bantam CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall Around Eden Y1 - 1989 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A small town is isolated by aliens from a nuclear holocaust and re-learns the skills of a simple life. The next generation begins to see this life as too limiting.

PB - Morrow CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We See Things Differently." Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) ED - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) ED - Peter Lamborn Wilson ED - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. and dominant Islamic Middle East, which, in the name of jihad, is killing individuals who might assist U.S. recovery.

JF - Semiotext[e] SF PB - Autonomedia CY - Brooklyn, NY N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 130-46 with an editor's note on 129; and in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 762-79.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Weetzie Bat Y1 - 1989 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Weetzie Bat is the name of the main character, who creates a eutopian family around her comprised of two gay men, who father her child, a husband, his child by a witch, and various pets. Fantasy elements. Marketed as young adult. There are a number of other books in which Weetzie Bat plays a role or focus on characters from the original story, generally without the eutopian elements but with some fantasy. These include Witch Baby (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Cherokee Bat and The Goat Guys (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Missing Angel Juan (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), Baby Be-bop (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), and Necklace of Kisses. A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2005). 

PB - HarperCollins Children's Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 1-70, which also includes Witch Baby (71-154), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (155-252), Missing Angel Juan (253-373), and Baby Be-Bop (375-478).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - WHOM Y1 - 1989 A1 - Matthew Francis (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

WHOM is the gigantic computer system that dominates and completely controls the activities of the White House. Surreal dystopia.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Weeps the Brogan? Y1 - 1989 A1 - Hugh Scott KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of children surviving in the British Museum after a nuclear war. Published as a children's book.

PB - Walker Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Vision Y1 - 1989 A1 - Geoff Page (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the late 1990s. The novel is primarily concerned with the difficulties of a middle-aged schoolteacher, who gets caught up in the machinations of various people who use government policy for their own ends. He becomes involved with protests against nuclear brinksmanship and the novel ends with nuclear war.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden Three Y1 - 1988 A1 - Jack Catran (1918-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future technological eutopia designed and controlled by scientists with all the “work not fit for humans” done by robots. The author presents the society as the solution to ethnic, gender, and racial discrimination and as a means of eliminating poverty without creating a welfare state. One character is based on Jacque Fresco (1916-2017); see 1969, 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. 

PB - Pygmalion Books CY - Sherman Oaks, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War Against Chaos Y1 - 1988 A1 - Anita [Frances] Mason (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia. An authoritarian company in growing conflict with an authoritarian government. There are also Marginals who live outside the system.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way to Neutopia. Poems and Woodcuts Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Poems that describe a eutopia. Each poem begins with "WE HAVE A PROBLEM . . ." and then continues with a statement of what we need. Covers many topics, including leadership, religion, inequality, the nuclear family, poverty, unemployment, prostitution, medical care, among others. 

PB - Ken John CY - Amherst, MA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where We’ll Never Grow Old” Y1 - 1988 A1 - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-catastrophe (pandemic) in 2028.

JF - Sunburn Lake PB - Viking CY - New York SN - 978-0670809301 U5 -

MiE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman of the Aeroplanes Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Something of a comic novel where time and causality completely askew. Tukwan is the utopia where everybody in the town was a reincarnation of someone from the town, and this would continue until all problems solved.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Woman Who Was God Y1 - 1988 A1 - Francis [Henry] King (1923-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction about a religious intentional community depicting the conflicts taking place within it. 

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "womanmansion to my sister mourning her mother Y1 - 1988 A1 - Gossett, Hattie KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing a feminist heaven.

JF - Presenting . . . Sister No Blues PB - Firebrand Books CY - Ithaca, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Memories and Visions. Ed. Susana Sturgis (Freedom, CAL The Crossing Press, 1989), 197-201.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World of One Y1 - 1988 A1 - Charles [Bardley] Templeton (1915-2001) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Novel about a future corrupt cult.

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

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Western Lands Y1 - 1987 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The final volume of a trilogy that also includes 1981 Cities of the Red Night and his 1983 The Place of Dead Roads. The title refers to the ancient Egyptian land of the dead west of the Nile. The novel, taking place in the past and the present includes the typical Burroughs’s dystopian themes. 

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Gravity Fails Y1 - 1987 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of adventure and violence written as a mystery novel set in a future Middle East, which is the dominant area in a world where both the Western countries and the Soviet Union have broken up into smaller units. The novel has been called cyberpunk because people plug modules, known as "moddies", into their brains to become whoever they want. The sequels A Fire in the Sun. New York: Doubleday, 1989, The Exile Kiss. New York: Doubleday, 1991 have the same setting, as do some of the stories in a posthumous collection Budayeen Nights. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon, 2003.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Collector's Edition illus. Mark Maxwell and with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Card Run Y1 - 1987 A1 - Sara [Lucinda] Stamey (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computers are forcing evolutionary changes in humans. Sequels include Win, Lose, Draw. New York: Ace Books, 1988; and Double Blind. New York: Ace Books, 1990. 

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wingwomen of Hera Y1 - 1987 A1 - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia. Two planets are described. The feminist eutopia is Hera, which appears to be inhabited only by telepathic, winged women. The other planet, Maladar, exists in caves in the Ice and is dominated by men. The novel deals with a deadly disease found on both planets, with the struggles of one woman on Maladar, and with the spacefaring of the women on Hera.

PB - Spinsters/Aunt Lute CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winston Three Three Three Y1 - 1987 A1 - Dennis [Malcolm] Barker (1929-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2089. The Imperial Russian Empire rules Britain.

PB - Grafton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World for the Meek: A Fantasy Novel Y1 - 1987 A1 - Harry Willson KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel that is something of a Robinsonade and something of a last man novel. The eutopia develops as a community among a lone human survivor and advanced dolphins and octopi.

PB - Amador Publishers CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watchmen Y1 - 1986 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - Dave [David Chester] Gibbons (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based around the actual events of the period but with superheroes being suppressed by the government but also used by the it. A film, Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, directed by Zach Snyder, was released in 2009. An HBO series  created by Damon Lindelof (b. 1973) was broadcast in nine episodes beginning October 20, 2019.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York VL - nos. 1-12 N1 -

Rpt. in one vol. New York: DC Comics, 1987; and as Watchman. The Deluxe Edition. New York: DC Comics, 2013.

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Dave [David Chester] Gibbons (b. 1949), illustrator.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Whore of Babylon” Y1 - 1986 A1 - Leon [Léon] Zeldis ED - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Sam J. Lundwall KW - Chilean author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex. 

JF - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. SN - 9780140080674 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wickwyn: A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1986 A1 - Robert Van de Weyer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A religious eutopia based on revived village life. The book presents the history of England up to the 1980s and then projects a future in which, while technology made it possible to eliminate economic insecurity, automation put people out of work. This led to a movement to the countryside and the revitalization of village life. 

PB - SPCK CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Womonseed: A Vision Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sunlight [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A women-only feminist eutopian community. The novel is told through a “Prologue” (1-7) the stories of sixteen women told at the summer solstice in 1999. After the failure of the U.S. government, local communities gradually became independent. In the pollution-free future, the women tell of their lives before finding the Womonseed community, except for one was born in the community and one who took a journey to the world outside the community, finding both positive experiences with other women and the remains of patriarchy. 

PB - Tough Dove Books CY - Little River, CA N1 -

Parts were originally published as "Prologue to Womonseed." Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, no. 6 (Winter 1982): 10-13 [A somewhat different version and the cover illustration were rpt. in Sinister Wisdom, no. 72 (Winter 2007-2008): 41-46]; "Manzanita's Story." Woman Spirit, no. 35 (Spring 1983): 4-6; "This Language Without Words." Woman Spirit, no. 40 (Summer 1984): 10; and "Firefly." Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, no 17 (Fall 1985): 71-76.

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Sunlight [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wrack & Roll Y1 - 1986 A1 - Bradley [Clayton] Denton (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternate history dystopia in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1933 and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. cooperate against China and the U.K. Fans of rock save the world.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Headline, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War of the Roses" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Karen Joy Fowler (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Two societies are described, an anarchist eutopia and an authoritarian dystopia. The latter destroys the former.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.12 N1 -

Rpt. in her Artificial Things (New York: Bantam Books, 1986), 71-96.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War Plays. A Trilogy Y1 - 1985 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following a nuclear war in which, in the first two plays, life becomes violent and dangerous with people generally isolated. In the third play a small beginning is made toward rebuilding human contact.

PB - Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Country Y1 - 1985 A1 - Dean Ing (1931-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious dictatorship.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Ends in Hickory Hollow Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ardath [Frances Hurst] Mayhar (1930-2012) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which an East Texas family must choose between killing others or being killed.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for Einstein Y1 - 1984 A1 - Nigel Cox (1951-2006) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A novel set in contemporary New Zealand in which one of the main characters is writing a dystopian story set in the far future. The entire story is given in the novel and describes a society trying to break an artist to its will because artists acting freely are inherently subversive and destabilizing. The story is written from the point of view of the artist, who is offered privileges if he agrees to cooperate and is severely punished when he doesn't. The ending is unclear in that the artist is moved to an isolated island where he can work as he wishes but where, because of his isolation, he will not pose problems for the regime. The dystopia has a religious basis.

PB - Benton Ross CY - Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Warday and the Journey Onward Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Louis] Whitley Strieber (b. 1945) A1 - James W[illiam] Kunetka (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia with a largely ruined U.S., an authoritarian dystopia in California, and a Hispanic/Native American state called Atzlán in what was Texas and New Mexico that presents itself as independent but is a vassal state of Japan. The U.S.S.R. was also destroyed, and Japan and the U.K. now dominate the world.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Way It Was" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which most people are on welfare, which means just barely able to get by living in large dormitories. The story focuses on the sale of body parts to be able to live better, at least briefly.

JF - Pohlstars PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What To Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide Y1 - 1984 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) A1 - Jon Manchip White (1925-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Cataloged in libraries as non-fiction, and while that is clearly what the authors intend, it depicts the dystopia that would ensue after a successful Soviet invasion of the United States as it would impact the day-to day-lives of Americans. The last bit of advice is that such an invasion occurs is BURN THIS BOOK.

PB - Stein and Day CY - New York SN - 0-8128-2985-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Shore Y1 - 1984 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-atomic war dystopia set in 2047 in which people are trying to survive and maintain what knowledge of the past they can. First in a series variously called the Orange County trilogy and the Three Californias trilogy, with the latter being Robinson’s name for it. See also 1988, The Gold Coast, and 1990 Robinson, Pacific Edge, 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 - Ace Science Fiction Books/Berkley Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Orb/Tom Doherty Associates, 1995; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 13-292 with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12). U.K. ed. London: Futura, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Work/Family Connection in the Year 2020" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Joyce Portner A1 - Larry Etkin ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

See the note at 1984 Alam. Discusses the effects of changed work patterns based on revolutions in computing, robotics, increased life expectancy, and the colonization of space.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

MoU-St, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walg Y1 - 1983 A1 - B. Wongar (b. 1932) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Serbian author AB -

Presents the white treatment of the Aborigines of Australia as a vicious dystopia. Hints of an Aboriginal eutopia. Also includes a white model of Aboriginal life as a new dystopia. "Walg" means "womb." His Karan (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985) and Gabo Djara (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987) are part of the trilogy. Walg was adapted for German radio and also for a film.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York N1 -

Australian edition with the subtitle A Novel of Australia. South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan, 1986. U.K. ed. London: Macmillan, 1986.

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A, IU, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds Apart Y1 - 1983 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy (sequel to 1981 Haldeman and followed by 1992 Haldeman) set a year after the first volume. Earth has been largely destroyed after a fourth nuclear war and the asteroid Worlds hold the hope of a future for humanity. The novel concerns a woman's visits back to Earth and then into space.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - War of Omission Y1 - 1982 A1 - Kevin O'Donnell Jr. (1950-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A bureaucratic dystopia and a revolution of the middle class.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Way of the Wolf” Y1 - 1982 A1 - Lynne Holdom ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Sword of Chaos and Other Stories PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Plague Y1 - 1982 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian set in a near future Ireland using Irish myth to explore the conflicts.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walden Three" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) ED - Marta Randall (b. 1948) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created on a space habitat circling Earth that came about by the “good intention” of changing people so that they all got along. It is seen through the eyes of a visitor from Earth who hates the place and a man on the satellite whose lover died because the good of everybody took away the one thing she most enjoyed doing.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Timescape/Pocket Books CY - New York VL - 12 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Timescape/Pocket Books, 1982), 131-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wave Without a Shore Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Carolyn Janice] [Cherry] (b. 1942) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the citizens literally define reality.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: VGSF, 1988.

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C. J. Cherryh [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wheelworld Y1 - 1981 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy beginning with 1980 Harrison and ending with 1981 Harrison, Starworld. The hero of the first volume is now a prisoner on the planet Wheelworld, which is a high-tech world ruled by an entrenched traditional dictatorship.

PB - Granada CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Severn House, 1988. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When We Were Good Y1 - 1981 A1 - David J[ohn] Skal (1952-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. After many years of war, the human genome has been badly damaged and the attempts to produce children go seriously wrong.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - While there's HOPE Y1 - 1981 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Plan to achieve world peace through the voluntary exchange of hostages.

PB - Keepsake Press CY - Richmond, Surrey, Eng. U5 -

HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wine of Violence Y1 - 1981 A1 - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia seen from the point of view of a future eutopia without any violence. The earlier two societies are one completely non-violent and one completely savage.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterflight Y1 - 1981 A1 - Joseph [T.] Bayly KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an anti-religious, liberal social order. Genetic perfection legislated and enforced. Death required at 75.

PB - Word Books CY - Waco, TX U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wolves of Memory Y1 - 1981 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of computer rule.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds: A Novel of the Near Future Y1 - 1981 A1 - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian political novel set in a polluted, overpopulated 2084 with compulsory promiscuity. Tobacco is illegal. The "Worlds" are asteroids orbiting Earth and being exploited for their mineral resources. Sequels in 1983 and 1992.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for the Barbarians Y1 - 1980 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of a fictionalized South Africa.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk on the Wild Side" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence set in Sydney.

JF - Ad Astra (London) VL - no. 13 (3.13) N1 -

Rpt. as “A Walk on the Wild Side.”in The Cygnus Chronicler: An Australian Review of Science Fiction and Fantasy (West Ryde, NSW, Australia) 3.1 (7) (December 1980): 4-5; and as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81. Ed. Alan Lawson (Toowoomea, QLD, Australia: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1982), 98-104; as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC. Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 1-11.

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Rpt. as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Govern ment in Exile and other stories.

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Trans. as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24;

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watchstar Y1 - 1980 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a young adult trilogy followed by her Eye of the Comet. New York: Harper & Row, 1984; and Homesmind. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. This volume takes place in a future that has rejected technology or, to their way of thinking, outgrown it. People live in small villages, communicate only by telepathy, are telekinetic, and can fly. Those born without these abilities are killed. Each person must go through an individual rite of passage, and the protagonist is going through hers when she meets a boy who has descended to Earth from a comet in which he lives. He is from the without telepathic powers who were people left behind and fled Earth to live on comets in space. Eye of the Comet focuses on a young woman who is set the task by Homesmind, a cybernetic mind, of reconciling the two societies. Homesmind concludes with the conflict between the two worldviews and its impact on the various protagonists.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What I Did During My Park Vacation” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ruth Berman (b. 1942) ED - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The brief story is about a high-tech society where most of the natural world is gone, and a park travels from roof top to roof top so that people can be temporarily exposed to it. 

JF - Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 267-68. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Killed Utopia Y1 - 1980 A1 - Paul Walker (1942-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard flawed utopia with a computer that has gone wrong.

PB - Carlyle CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wishes of Maidens" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) ED - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with very few fertile men and many women wanting to become pregnant.

JF - New Voices III; The Campbell Award Nominees PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman's World. 138-9 Chri Plus Y1 - 1980 A1 - Jerome, Hilary AB -

Gender-role reversal novel. Men are kept in "semenaries". Women keep "manikins" that are somewhere between female and male as servants and for sexual pleasure. Women wear "protectors" or chastity belts whenever men are out of the semenaries.

PB - Thorn Press CY - Godney, Wells, Somerset, Eng. U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Money--An Alternative Y1 - 1980 A1 - A[nnemarie] Wicklow KW - Austrian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia--title says it. Details of how it would work.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - Ilfracombe, Devon, Eng. U1 -

Dedication page adds A Utopian Possibility

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "War Crimes" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future of a collapsed economy, corruption, luxury for the few, and extreme poverty for the many. Ends with the beginning of a revolt by the unemployed but with no idea of whether or not it will succeed.

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

Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 158-86; and in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 310-37. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 310-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web Y1 - 1979 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is primarily science fiction, but it focuses on a planned utopian community to be established on an island in the South Pacific.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U3 -

John Wyndham [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windows Y1 - 1979 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1974 Compton which begins with the final words of the previous book. The reporter, who blinded himself in the previous book as the only way to stop broadcasting, becomes involved in a plot, which is ultimately defeated, to overthrow governments.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - On Wings of Song Y1 - 1979 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. edition. London: Gollancz, 1979. Also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 56.2 - 4 (February - April 1979): 6-61; 101-57; 86-159. Collector's Edition illus. Pat Morrissey with an "Introduction" by James Morrow (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With Mingled Feelings of Anticipation and Apprehension the Emigrants Leave Their Native Earth for a Far-Off Destination" Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Zebra Books CY - New York VL - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of the Future Y1 - 1979 A1 - David [Neil] Ireland (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia presented in notes and journal entries by a girl from early childhood to the end of her schooling. Australia is divided among the Free Citizens, who do nothing, the Servants of Society, who are the working middle class, and a few extremely rich known as the Pros. Machines have replaced most labor. Advancement based on education and competitive examinations. People fall out of the Servant class by developing abnormal characteristics, and the woman of the novel becomes a leopard.

PB - George Braziller CY - New York N1 -

Australian edition Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Allen Lane, 1979. Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Between Y1 - 1979 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pacifica is a decentralized, electronic democracy with gender equality threatened by two authoritarian dystopias, one lesbian, one technological.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York SN - 0-671-82876-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women Y1 - 1978 A1 - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia presented through a series of linked stories. The primary eutopia is one of women without men. Other societies are also depicted, some of which are in conflict with these women.

PB - Persephone Press CY - Watertown, MA N1 -

Rpt. Denver, CO: Spinsters Ink Books, 2002. The first chapter, “Opening,” was published as “Freestanding: Jacqua’s Story.” Quest: A Feminist Quarterly 1.1 (Summer 1975): 20-26. Other material was first published as “Krueva and the Pony.” Ms. 5.2 (August 1976): 75-77, 87; “Jacqua.” The Witch and the Chameleon, no. 3 (April 1, 1975): 9-12, and “Alaka’s Story.” Woman-Spirit [2.8] (Summer solstice [1976]): 9.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Weave of Women Y1 - 1978 A1 - E[sther] M[asserman] Broner (1927-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A feminist novel about a group of women who call themselves the Daughters of Jerusalem and the community they create among themselves in a house in Jerusalem where they regularly get together.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985 with an “Introduction” by Marilyn French (ix-xv). Parts originally published as “The Bird and the Thieves.” Epoch 22.2 (Winter 1973): 160-176; “Habibi.” Florida Quarterly 6.1 (Spring 1974): 11-32; “On the Mt. of Meron.” Story Quarterly 1.1 (1975): 85-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Web of the Chozen Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jack L[aurence] Chalker (1944-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. In the 21st century generation starships were sent out, mostly inhabited by political and religious groups hoping to establish their utopia. Earth has extended the lifespan to over 300 with two-thirds of the population in "near-guaranteed good health". No one has to work and most live in government flats on the adequate government dole. Nine large corporations "keep the resources flowing, provide the services, and thereby run the lives of just about everybody" (5). Earth is overpopulated and searching for places to offload surplus population. One planet that an explorer lands on radically transforms the human body into something like a horned kangaroo called the Chozen or Choz that lives in peaceful communities that seem eutopian in that there is plenty for all and little pain and death is rare. But they breed rapidly and overpopulation and conflict loom. The Chozen spread to all human worlds, and the humans become Chozen.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Dreams May Come Y1 - 1978 A1 - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Domestic heaven (called Summerland) to the extent of a dog that had died was in heaven at its prime. Reincarnation. A film was made in 1998 directed by Vincent Ward (b. 1955) with a screenplay by Ronald [Jay] Bass (b. 1942) and starring Robin Williams.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Rpt. London: Sphere Books, 1981.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Dreams May Come" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Angus McAllister (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which access to the air has become a monopoly.

JF - Woman VL - 83.2152 N1 -

Rpt. in Starfield: The Anthology of Science Fiction by Scottish Writers. Ed. Duncan Lunan Kirkwall, Orkney, Scot.: The Orkney Press, 1989), 97-107. Collection rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: New Curiosity Shop, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wyst: Alastor 1716 Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia where everyone is equal, works little, and plays much, but it is centered around war games that are not really games.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Repub. as vol. 31 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Work Song 2. A Vision" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Wendell Berry (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing an environmental eutopia of the future when the land has recovered.

JF - Clearing PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Collected Poems 1957-1982 (San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1985), 187-88; and as “A Vision” in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998), 102.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds for the Grabbing Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brenda Pearce (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

As befits the title, the novel is about the corrupt system of colonization and the exploitation of other planets. The main character has too-high ethical standards for the system.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London SN - 9780234720400 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Way Out Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous play. To escape the overpopulated dystopia of Earth a family rents a planet they think is uninhabited, as has an alien family, with another different alien showing up later.

PB - Dramatic Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians” Y1 - 1976 A1 - Vine Deloria Jr. (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Alternative history in which, for reasons given in the essay, the Eastern Indian tribes sold land and invested in industry, which meant that there were no wars against the Indians. There were wars by the Eastern Indians against the Western Indians as the former built railroads across the lands of the latter.

JF - The Christian Century VL - 93.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman on the Edge of Time Y1 - 1976 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed feminist eutopia that is half a realistic novel about the mistreatment of the poor by the police, social workers and the medical/psychiatric profession. Eliminates gendered pronouns; replaced with "per".

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

Rpt. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1983. [40th anniversary edition]. London: Gollancz, 2016 with “Introduction to the 2016 Edition” by Piercy (vii-xi). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walls Within Walls Y1 - 1975 A1 - Arthur [Reginald] Tofte (1908-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia concerned with controlling mutants. The mutant society is also described.

PB - Laser Books CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warriors of Dawn Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure and romance, but it includes some description of an apparently eutopian society of advanced aliens that had been created by humans on an overpopulated Earth trying to speed up human evolution. The aliens, called Ler, have a long adolescence (until about thirty), a short period of fertility (about 30 to 40), and a low birthrate. Families (braids) include an original couple, added mates for each, the children produced, their mates, and their children, at which point the original couple leaves singly or together and are free to do as they like. Each braid has a defined occupational role. Related novels are The Gameplayers of Zan. New York: DAW Books, 1977, which is set before The Warriors of Dawn, and The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 1979, which is a sequel, are mostly adventure. The three volumes are rpt. in his The Book of Ler: The Gameplayers of Zan The Warriors of Dawn The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 2006, with The Gameplayers on 1-432, The Warriors on 433-692, and The Day on 693-923.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weapons" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that violently enforces racial and class discrimination.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Get For Your Dollar" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where Summer Song Rings Hollow" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Gail Kimberly [Francis] (1927-2011) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eternally renewable youth seen as a eutopia by some and a dystopia by others.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whites of Their Eyes" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future violent conflict between Māori  and Pākehā. See also his Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1985).

JF - Act VL - no. 26 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wooden Centauri: A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - Paul [Raymond] Drennan (1949-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A far future authoritarian dystopia in which many planets are under one government with a law that prohibits any knowledge of the past. Two people from the past arrive and change begins to take place.

PB - Elmfield CY - Morley, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walk to the End of the World Y1 - 1974 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where almost all past knowledge has been lost and civilization, such as it is, is restricted to a small area called the Holdfast. Women are called Fems, are effectively slaves, and are believed by the men to be animals with no intelligence. The men have a rigid hierarchy based on age. The novel ends with Alldera, a Fem, escaping the Holdfast in hopes of finding the rumored Free Fems. See also 1978, 1994, and 1999 Charnas.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 1-215. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waves of Ecology" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Leonard Tushnet (1908-73) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a temporarily successful attempt to eliminate cars and improve the ecology.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 46.3 (274) UR - https://tushnet.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/fsf-march-1974-waves-of-ecology.pdf N1 -

Rpt. in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 145-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web of Everywhere Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia based on instant transportation to anyplace. The novel focuses on a man who visits places he is not supposed to visit.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What in the World Will Happen Next? Y1 - 1974 A1 - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia. See also 1968 and 1970 Kirban; his I Predict Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1973 (with many later editions with updated predictions); and his New Age Secret Plan for World Conquest. Rev. ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1992.

PB - Salem Kirban, Inc CY - Huntington Valley, PA N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle Answers to Life’s Four Most Important Questions What Is Life! Rapture! Hell! Heaven! Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wife Styles and Life Styles Y1 - 1974 A1 - Frank M. Darrow KW - Male author AB -

Presents two societies, each a mixture of good and bad. One is a matriarchy and polygamous. The other is monogamous and very conservative. Attack on the birth control pill.

PB - Author CY - Trona, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Jack Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel set in 23rd century England in which an authoritarian dystopia is contrasted with an outlaw culture.

PB - Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter's Children Y1 - 1974 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a new ice age in a small community threatened by cannibals and telepathic Pads controlled by a single man.

PB - Gollancz CY - London SN - 0-575-01851-8 N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere Books, [1976].

Parts originally published as “Discover a Latent Moses.” Illus. Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) Galaxy Science Fiction 30.1 (April 1970): 32-53, 158; and “The Snow Princess.” Illus. Uncredited. Galaxy Science Fiction 31.2 (January 1971): 28-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women in Motion" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Lucinda [Laura] Franks (b. 1946) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing physical fitness for both men and women with schools no longer having boys' teams and girls' teams.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wonderful All-Purpose Transmogrifier” Y1 - 1974 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Edward L Ferman (b. 1937) ED - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia about a machine that can provide all experience and is addictive.

JF - Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology PB - Charterhouse CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975), 227-35. “Afterword” (235-36). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Peace? Will women succeed where men consistently failed? Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dr. Charlotte M. Steiner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An odd pamphlet that argues “Prenatal Education” can produce children with specific characteristics, good or bad. The pamphlet outlines what the mother should do regarding diet, exercise, and “purposeful activities,” during pregnancy to bring about the only vaguely described eutopia. The author says that this is based on the writings of Dr. O. Z. Hanish (1844/56?-1936), whose writings on Prenatal Education were brought together in two collections published in Amsterdam in 1976. The book ends by mentioning a forthcoming novel, It All Starts in the Womb by Frank D. Steiner, which will illustrate Prenatal Education but does not appear to have even been published. 

PB - Author CY - Tuolumne, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wagtail in the Morning" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Grahame Leman ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The leaders of a society that provides people (who they call liveware) with all the consumer goods they want develop a method of controlling people for life by implanting them with a slow-release drug as children.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (23) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weariest River" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of immortality, which is for sale from the Company. Immortality had produced poverty and intense conflict between old and young. Sexually the young desire the old and vice versa. At an undefined point the old are placed in 'kraals' where they are essentially entombed but unable to die. The story is told from the viewpoint of the inventor of immortality, who stresses the guilt he feels.

JF - Future City PB - Trident Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 94-134; and in his Caution! Inflammable! (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 230-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the Standard Nightmare." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The "standard nightmare" is Earth meeting superior aliens, in this case on an alien eutopian planet. The eutopia has all the usual elements of a society in balance and has no government. A man from Earth decides to become the ruler and then decides to invade Earth.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

 Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 85-99. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 11-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Petals Fall" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where Have All the Followers Gone?" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Raylyn [Thyrza] Moore (1928-2005) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the hippies and acid heads in California are lured to a camp where they are gassed.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Windmill" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia in a post-disaster society. Complex control on the use of resources.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 149-70.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Windows in Dante's Hell" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia that divides people based on their contributions to society with those who contribute the least living in the smallest residences in the deepest levels of the city. Everyone is constantly monitored.

JF - Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Catacomb Years. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1979), ; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World as Will and Wallpaper" Y1 - 1973 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire referring to William Morris (1834-96), whose name is used for the protagonist. A city encompasses the world, which is built above land and oceans. The one area of trees in the city is considered huge in that it covers two blocks. The story follows a man who wants to explore the world and his trip reveals that most people are illiterate, communicate poorly, and have very limited lives, but that there is an elite who created the city to keep the majority of the people content and controlled.

JF - Future City PB - Trident CY - New York SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 28-43; story rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 27-43; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 356-74, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (353-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Can Build You Y1 - 1972 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Attempt to build a eutopia on the moon. Android neighbors provided to make it easier to adjust.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Early version as "A. Lincoln, Simulacrum." Amazing Stories 43.4 - 5 (November 1969 - January 1970): 6-67, 140; 30-105.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weihnachtabend" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with Nazi Germany in control of Britain.

JF - New Worlds PB - Sphere CY - London VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in Best SF: 1972, Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), 55-94

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When It Changed" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia without men, who had all died in a plague, and the clash that occurs when men from Earth arrive. The eutopia is called Whileaway, the name of the eutopia in 1975 Russ. The story is told from the point-of-view of one of two happily married women with three children.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 3-11; in The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1977), 227-39; in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 45-53; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 204-10, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 203; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 333-40; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 507-15 with an editors’ note on 507-08; in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 194-202; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 603-07 with an editors’ note on 602; in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 59-69, with a biographical note on 492-493, and notes on the text on 481-483; and in Russ, Novels and Stories. Ed. Nicole Rudick (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 621-629, with a Chronology on 681-694 that includes chronologically references to Russ’s publications, notes on the text on 697, and notes on 708-710.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Needs Men? Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where men are no longer biologically required because of cloning and parthenogenesis. The few remaining men are being exterminated. Love and desire enters and complicates the situation.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide. New York: Ace Books, 1973.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Windmill in the West” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The setting for the story is an Australia that is divided between Australia and the United States and focuses on a soldier who is stationed alone at the border with the single instruction of not letting anyone cross it. 

JF - Meanjin VL - 31.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with Earth's past racial conflict now taking place in space.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rev. in his Space War Blues. New York: Dell, 1978. Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1980 with an "Introduction" by James R. Frenkel (v-xi). The volume also includes an "Introduction: Sailing the Dark With the Bentfin Bappa Zappa Kid" by Ellison (9-26), a "Preface: And I Awoke--Was This Some Kind of Joke" by Lupoff (27-33) and revised versions of his related stories "Our Own little Mardi Grass." Heavy Metal (August 1977): 58-61, 96; "After the Dreamtime." New Dimensions IV. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: New American Library, 1974), 9-39; "Sail the Tide of Mourning." New Dimensions 5. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 214-34; and "The Bentfin Boomer Girl Comes Through." Amazing Stories 50.4 (March 1977): 28-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Word for World is Forest" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Human colonial dystopia versus indigenous eutopia. Exploitative colonization that treats the indigenous inhabitants as if they were animals, enslaving them, raping them, and destroying their way of life to ship timber back to Earth, which had been denuded of it. The indigenous inhabitants have a very complex, non-technological life deeply in tune with their planet. No government or overall authority with significant cultural difference among the communities. The women in each community, and the especially the headwoman, and the practical organizers of their communities’ activities. Some of the men were active dreamers in touch with a different reality.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

. Published separately New York: Berkley, 1976. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 1977, with an “Author’s Introduction" (5-10); London: Gollancz, 2014, with an “Introduction” by Ken MacLeod (1-3) and the “Author’s Introduction” (5-10); and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 1-104 with a “Note on the Text” (780), “Notes (783-84), and “Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest” from the 1977 Gollancz edition (753-57). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warlord of the Air; A Scientific Romance Y1 - 1971 A1 - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative future histories. Describes some eutopian and some dystopian societies but not in much detail. The same approach is continued in two sequels The Land Leviathan. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. U.K. ed. with subtitle A New Scientific Romance. London: Quartet, 1974. Rpt. in his The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 157-302. Rev. with the subtitle For Mongazi Feza, who demanded justice. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 157-297. U.S. ed. as The Second Adventure The Land Leviathan (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 147-276; and The Steel Tsar. New York: DAW Books, 1981. U.K. ed. with the subtitle Third Volume in the Oswald Bastable Trilogy. London: Granada, 1981. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 303-441. Rev. with the subtitle To the memory of Michael Cornelius Dempsey, who died, as he had lived, a captain of his own ship. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 299-457. U.S. ed. as The Third Adventure The Steel Tsar (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 277-423.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: NEL, 1971. Rpt. in The Nomad of Time (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 1-155. Rev. with the subtitle For Colin Ward and the international anarchist conspiracy. In A Nomad of the Time Streams: A Scientific Romance (London: Millennium, 1993), 1-154. U.S. ed. as The First Adventure The Warlord of the Air (Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1995), 1-146.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wednesday, November 15, 1967" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia as seen by the last man.

JF - The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story of multiple futures for one person. One is an authoritarian dystopia where everyone is required to watch a TV channel a specified number of hours each day. Another is an overpopulation dystopia. None are positive.

JF - Quark VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 219-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Inside Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia with an emphasis on population growth, with large families living in huge buildings.

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2010 with a new “Preface” by the author (7-12). Part published in Galaxy Science Fiction as "The Throwbacks." 30.4 (August 1970): 26-54; "The World Outside." 30.6 (October/November 1970): 4-50, 192; "We Are Well Organized; An Episode--Urban Monad 116." 31.1 (December 1970): 38-69; and "All the Way Up, All the Way Down." 32.1 (July-August 1971): 140-60. Another part was published as "A Happy Day in 2381." Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), 17-33; rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 121-35; in A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Perennial Library, 1972), 100-17; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 289-304; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 160-71; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 318-32 with an author's note on 317-18.

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CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walter Perkins Is Here!" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Raymond E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) ED - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on an affluent world in which everyone "belongs" to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.

JF - The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Sherbourne Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to Wesbloc/Wesbloc" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Anthony Haden-Guest ED - [Oswyn Robert Tregonnel] [Hay] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which five buildings cover the entire world.

JF - The Disappearing Future PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Winner" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Donald E[dwin Edmond] Westlake (1933-2008) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a penal system that implants a device that causes intense pain as the inmate moves away from the prison.

JF - Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Withering Away of Welfare" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Leonard Shifrin ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the positive effects of automation with an Athenian style democracy with a diverse culture.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Women of Landau Y1 - 1970 A1 - Jim Kent KW - Male author AB -

Two dystopias presented mostly as excuses for mild erotica. In the first the virginity of one's daughters ensures wealth for the father. In the second violence against women is the norm.

PB - Scripts Publications CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Well Lost Y1 - 1970 A1 - [John Kempton] [Aiken] (1913-90) KW - English author KW - US author AB -

The planet known as Eden, a non-violent eutopia anarchist, vegetarian, is invaded by a violent people, who create a dystopia. A few people choose to reject non-violence and fight back.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. under the author's name. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

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John Paget [pseud.]

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GU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We All Die Naked" Y1 - 1969 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Three for Tomorrow PB - Meredith Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weisman Experiment Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Douglas Rankine] [Mason] (1918-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by "The Meritocracy" trying to suppress an early experiment that suggested the importance of liberty and equality.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London U3 -

John Rankine [pseud.]

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L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wind in the Snottygobble Tree” Y1 - 1969 A1 - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a police state.

JF - New Worlds VL - Nos. 195 - 198 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the Monkey House" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Birth control through deadening sensation below the waist and reducing the population by voluntary euthanasia. A few people fight back.

JF - Playboy VL - 15 N1 -

Rpt. in his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 27-45. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 28-47. U.K. ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 27-45. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1972), 38-55; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 737-55 with a Note on the Text (834-35) and "Notes" on 850; in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 863-77.

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Merril, PSt, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - West of the Moon Y1 - 1968 A1 - Howard Simpson KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Voyage to a number of planets. Various eutopias and dystopias, including a world of Amazons and Pluto, which is the Greek Hell.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Rain Clouds Gather Y1 - 1968 A1 - Bessie Head (1937-86) KW - Botswanan author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A novel set in Botswana that presents a village that is both described as a eutopia and is the location of an attempt to create one. As a result, the novel also indirectly discusses what might constitute utopia in the poverty of modern Africa.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: William Heinemann, 1972. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild in the Streets Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Thom (1929-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a teenage takeover.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York U5 -

IEN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Will It End This Way? Y1 - 1968 A1 - Vance A[cton] Geigley (1907-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia from a conservative perspective.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Without Apology: The Autobiography of Sir George Maudesley, Bart. Edited with Notes and a Postscript Y1 - 1968 A1 - Ewan Butler KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Britain under the Nazis. It is liberated in 1952.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Mountains Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy, followed by The City of Gold and Lead. New York: Macmillan and The Pool of Fire. New York: Macmillan, 1968. The trilogy is concerned with the dystopia created by alien invaders and the successful fight against them, and the dystopia of mental and physical control occurs throughout the trilogy.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Whosaw Whatsa” Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on sex changes. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 80.4 U2 -

Illus. Kelly Freas

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Jack Wodhams [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Call Them Back from Heaven? Y1 - 1967 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money..

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Obeys Lama Toru Y1 - 1967 A1 - Tung Lee AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Kutub-Popular CY - Bombay, India U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Beyond Y1 - 1967 A1 - George E[rnest] Shirley (1898-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Simple life eutopia taken over by Communists from the U.S.S.R., which produces a dystopia. In the eutopia there is no money, and the economy is based on barter. Rape results in jail for life.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Watch Below Y1 - 1966 A1 - James White (1928-1999) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Two societies developing in isolation over generations are presented, one in a tanker at the bottom of the sea and the other in an alien starship approaching Earth. The potential war between Earth and the aliens is avoided through contact between those in the tanker and the other two. Both the undersea society and the alien society have eutopian elements, with the alien society the more complex one.

PB - Whiting & Wheaton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Rpt. New York: Walker, 1969. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Ryerson Press, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which false memories can be implanted.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 30.4 (179) N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful World of Tomorrow: What It Will Be Like Y1 - 1966 A1 - Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) A1 - Garner Ted Armstrong (1940-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Tract deploring present conditions and foretelling the Second Coming of Christ and the conditions when God rules directly and church and state are unified. Supernatural force will eliminate crime and rebellion, and then people will be reeducated into God's truth. See also, 1979 Armstrong.

PB - Ambassador College Press CY - Pasadena, CA U5 -

NLS, NNStJ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wasted on the Young" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society with wealth for all in return for work. The young may borrow against future earnings. Story is about a young man who tries to beat the system and fails.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 23.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his From This Day Forward (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 63-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weather in the Underworld" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Colin [Lewis] Free (1925-96) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in UnderEarth, an underground haven designed to be a eutopia with no memories and technological control of thought and emotion. Drugs for every emotion and situation. A man whose conditioning fails is expelled to the surface where he is killed and eaten by those who had been left outside.

JF - Squire (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 1.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 49-57. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 49-57. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Lotus Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the Chinese suppress whites. Recreates the history of African Americans from slavery to a non-violent civil rights movement with whites as the oppressed and the Chinese as the oppressor.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Serve the State of Freedom" Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Mary Jane] [Engh] (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia embedded in a number of dystopias. Those who follow the Star of Freedom give and take gifts freely but are surrounded by the Star of Battle, the Star of the Market, and the Star of Beauty, all of which exchange less freely.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 27.1 (158) U3 -

Jane Beauclerk [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Walls" Y1 - 1963 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction Magazine from Amazing, no. 3 (1966): 33-45; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 45-57; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 159-71.

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Can, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wheel Comes a Turn; A Novel Based On Scientific Study of War of the Sexes Y1 - 1963 A1 - Charles H. Good[rich] (b. ca. 1896) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Communist dystopia ruled by a woman who attacks and destroys the U.S. Some people escape to a planet they call Peace where only girls are born until they get help from another planet, and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia. 

Communist dystopia ruled by a woman who attacks and destroys the U.S. Some people escape to a planet they call Peace where only girls are born until they get help from another planet, and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia. The author was born in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, and brought to the U. S. as a child.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U3 -

Charles H. Good [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Whites Went Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert [Moyes Carruthers] Bateman (1922-73) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia followed by the suggestion of a better future. Almost all whites disappear, and, after many problems, blacks discover cooperation.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Digit, 1964. U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 1963. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World To Be Y1 - 1963 A1 - Edward Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia particularly concerned with government structure, economics, law, and education. Representation by population worldwide. Detailed descriptions of elections and of each level of government. Gives plans for various economic sectors.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanting Seed Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which homosexuality is encouraged to keep down population growth. Various methods were being used to keep population down including a fake war (called Extermination Sessions) and State condoned infanticide.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. U.K. ed. rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983 with "A Foreword" by the author comparing A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed; and in his Future Imperfect: The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 1-282, which reprints the 1983 foreword (ix-xii) and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

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Anthony Burgess [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weather Man" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Theodore L[ockard] Thomas (1920-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World control of weather has generally produced a eutopia.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction (New York) PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA VL - 69.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Days After Tomorrow. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971), 95-142. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Time Stood Still Y1 - 1962 A1 - Ben [Harrison] Orkow (1896-1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, overpopulation dystopia.

PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind of Liberty Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which corporations rule. Rebels.

PB - Digit Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Wrinkle in Time Y1 - 1962 A1 - Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A young adult science fiction novel about the struggle between good and evil that depicts an authoritarian dystopia on another planet. A film with a screenplay by Jennifer Lee (b. 1971) and directed by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972) was released in 2018. On the film, see Kate Egan, The World of A Wrinkle in Time: The Making of the Movie. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan, 2018. See also the non-utopian sequels, A Wind in the Door. New York: Crosswind, 1973; A Swiftly Tilting Planet. New York: Crosswind, 1978; and Many Waters. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.

PB - Ariel Books CY - [New York] N1 -

25th anniversary ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 (500 numbered copies). 50th anniversary ed. with an "Afterword" (205-22), her "Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech" (255-62), and other material. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2012. Rpt. in The Wrinkle in Time Quartet: A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters with The Kairos Novels at the head of the title. Ed. Leonard S. Marcus (New York The Library of America, 2018), 1-151, with “The Expanding Universe, Newberry ward Acceptance Speech” (747-51), “Unpublished Essay on Time” (752-54, “Childlike Wonder and the Truths of Science Fiction” (755-63), “Dare To Be Creative! Lecture at the Library of Congress” (764-75) “Four Deleted Sections from A Wrinkle in Time” (776-99), a Note on the Text (830-32), and Notes (835-40). See also Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. The Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. Hope Larson. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012. A film tie-in edition of the book New York: Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017 was published with “An Appreciation” by Ava DuVernay (1-3), “Go Fish Questions for the Author” (203-06), the author’s “Newbury Acceptance Speech The Expanding Universe” (207-12), and “The L’Engle Cast of Characters” (214-15). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Well of the Deep Wish" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where people spend twenty-three hours a day watching TV.

JF - If VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Metallic Muse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 138-57.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Kissing Had to Stop Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Robert Louis] Constantine [Lee-Dillon] FitzGibbon (1919-83) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing Britain followed by a dystopia of a Communist takeover.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1960 with the author's name as Fitz Gibbon on the cover but FitzGibbon elsewhere; rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961 with the author's name as Fitzgibbon on the cover and FitzGibbon on the title page. UK ed. rpt. London: Pan, 1962; London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1971 with an "Introduction" by the author (i-xi); London: Granada, 1978; and London: Bellew Publishing, 1989, with a brief "Foreword" by Julian Amery and a brief "Tribute" by Louis FitzGibbon. The Granada edition is a reprint of the Tom Stacey edition, but even though the title page says "With a new Introduction by the Author," there is no Introduction.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman A Day Y1 - 1960 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, post-catastrophe, and anti-sex dystopia and the opposition to it.

PB - Beacon Books CY - New York N1 -

Galaxy Novel No. 43.. New York: Lancer Books, 1968; as Timestop! New York: Lancer Books, 1970; and under the original title New York: Berkley Books, 1980. Earlier version pub. as "Moth and Rust." Startling Stories 30.2 (June 1953): 10-99.

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 Rpt. as The Day of the Timestop and Timestop! Earlier version pub. as “Moth and Rust.” 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Today and Tomorrow Y1 - 1960 A1 - Panayot Tzv Popoff (1902-87) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of a new economic system called the Collaborative Economic system where capital, labor, the seller-producer, and the buyer are placed in institutional structures that allow them to work together. He briefly discusses associations for credit, purchases, "buyer-producers for purchases," "buyer-consumers," transformation, collective production, insurance, and professional and common unions. The pamphlet ends with two pages of organizational charts.

PB - Author CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

IU, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Women Y1 - 1960 A1 - Leonard Pruyn (1898-1973) A1 - [Gunnard] [Hjerststedt] (1904-69) KW - US author AB -

Standard dystopia of a world with few women. Most women die and gang wars follow.

PB - Fawcett CY - Greenwich, CT ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World-Timer" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction Stories VL - 9.8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wolfbane Y1 - 1959 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the Earth has been moved by extraterrestrials resulting in the remaining humans dividing into two groups. One, called Sheep by the other group, that reduces its activities to a so as to conserve energy and kills anyone who violates their norms. The other, called Wolves by the first, who are much more active and establish a community of their own. But the aliens have a use for the wolves, and they become part of a machine.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. Shorter version in Galaxy Science Fiction 14.6 - 15.1 (October - November 1957): 8-52; 54-105.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World of Heart's Desire" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds." In his Store of Infinity (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10.

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Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wait" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in an isolated Georgia town that enforces a ritual deflowering of eighteen-year-old girls. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 14.4 (83) N1 -

Rpt. Illus. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 26 (October 1965): 2-15; rpt. Venture Science Fiction (Australia), no. 26 (December 1965): 2-15. Rpt. with typographical variations as “To be Taken in a Strange Country.” In her Mister da V. And Other Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 1967), 11-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Men Y1 - 1958 A1 - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a society without men and the effect on it of the creation of one. The all female society is presented negatively, and it is at least initially made worse by the creation of the man. In the revised version, the women gradually adjust to the experience of heterosexual love and sex.

PB - Ace Books, with the name on the spine as Eric Maine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Digit, 1963. Rev. as Alph. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1972.

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Charles Eric Maine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman's World" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of women dominating men.

JF - Imagination VL - 8.3 (55) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “World of the Future 1. A Man of the World” Y1 - 1957 A1 - Les Cole KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” man of the future learns that survival means killing. See also 1957 [Merril].

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 78-82. 

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “World of the Future 2. A Woman of the World” Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The second of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” woman of the future learns that survival means finding the strongest man. See also 1957 Cole. 

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 83-89. 

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Rose Sharon [pseud.]

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World of Women" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia describing a world where all men had been eliminated except for a few kept for breeding purposes on a neighboring planet. One man visits in disguise to find the reason, which turns out to be an insane leader, and once she is removed, normal relations will re-emerge.

JF - Fantastic VL - 6.1 U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman's Work" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Garen Drussaï (1916-2009) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire focusing on door-to-door salesmen.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 11.2 (63) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Jones Made Y1 - 1956 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man who can see a year into the future overthrows a government based on relativism. Both produce authoritarian dystopias.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

An Ace Double bound with Margaret St. Clair, Agent of the Unknown (1956), an earlier version of which was published as "Vulcan's Dolls." Startling Stories 25.1 (February 1952): 10-73. Dick rpt. separately Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979. UK ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968. Rpt. London: Panther, 1970; and London: Victor Gollancz, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Worlds Without End” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a future run by a number of guilds, one of which sells long term dreams with people then waking up hundreds of years in their future. Another guild has taken control of the dreams so that the people get different dreams than the one’s they chose, dreams that the guild hopes to use to its advantage.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 31 N1 -

Rpt. in New Folks Home and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume 6. New York: Open Road Media, 2016. EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Moon Died Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Ivan] [Roe] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. World Technocracy is a world government that governs through six scientific committees. The belief that it is a utopia meant that little new was approved. There is no central government. Believe only in the useful and live only in the present. Music only for babies and the "unsound". Servants for the upper classes all had genetic defects and were not educated.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, [1963].

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Richard Savage [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Whooping Crane Y1 - 1955 A1 - H[elen] C. Kreisheimer (1897-1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of communism.

PB - Pageant Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World of Difference: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparent eutopia is threatened by the government's use of technology to control people psychologically.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (although specially labeled "not a reprint") without the subtitle New York: Ballantine Books, 1964.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Word for Freedom" Y1 - 1954 A1 - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of stratification and technological control. Contrast is provided by a practical joker.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 2.6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Work-Out Planet" Y1 - 1954 A1 - R[aymond] E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future earth totally dedicated to work, learning, and culture is a dystopia.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Without War" Y1 - 1954 A1 - E.G. von Wald AB -

Dystopian world where everyone constantly fights each other.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Watchbird" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A machine designed to identify murderers before they act is unable to make distinctions and kills anybody or anything that contemplates killing.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 5.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Notions Unlimited (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 27-46; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 221-42; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 73-96 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi). Rpt. separately as Watchbird. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1990.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - West of the Sun Y1 - 1953 A1 - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The establishment of a new society on a previously unexplored planet that has various alien societies, some at war with each other and the humans and some peaceful and helpful. Concerned with the integration of alien and human, ending the war among the aliens, and the creation of an ideal small community.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Malan Goes": A Progressive Programme for South Africa Y1 - 1953 A1 - Jan Toekoms [pseud.] KW - South African author AB -

Mostly non-fiction. A ten-point proposal for solving South Africa's problems with a brief future vignette showing them solved. The points are The Establishment of a Democratic Republic. The Maintenance of European Supremacy for the Next Hundred Years. The Maintenance of Social Apartheid. The Abolition of the Economic Colour Bar. The Establishment of Suburbs with Freehold Rights for Non-Europeans. The Representation of Non-Europeans in Local and Central Government. Better Pay and Conditions for the Police. The Simplification of the Pass Laws with a view to their Eventual Abolition. Recognition of the Plural Nature of South African Society. The Adoption of a Rigid South African Constitution.

PB - Central News Agency CY - [Johannesburg], South Africa U3 -

Jan Toekoms [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women's World" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Ted Taine KW - Male author AB -

Amazons on another planet are at least fifteen feet tall. A strong man, even though small by the standards of the planet, woos and wins the Queen.

JF - Fantastic Adventures VL - 15.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Out of Mind Y1 - 1953 A1 - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia as background to science fiction novel about an alien invasion. The entire social and political system is based on tests that are sometimes described as intelligence tests but are much more elaborate. Everyone wears a badge that shows their status based on the tests. The aliens lack emotion, which turns out to be a human strength.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Permabook, 1956. U.K. ed. with the pseudonym spelled McIntosh. London: Science Fiction Club, 1955.

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J. T. M'Intosh or McIntosh [pseud.] 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Died in Bond Street Y1 - 1952 A1 - Julian Ward KW - Male author AB -

An attempt to establish a dictatorship is successfully resisted.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We the Few Y1 - 1952 A1 - John L. Hawkinson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the destruction of much of civilization followed by the gradual creation of a Christian eutopia among those left.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whirlwind Harvest. A Phantasy Y1 - 1952 A1 - Monica F. Van Winkle KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which totalitarian regimes have taken over the world seen as a struggle between good and evil throughout history (God and Satan) with good winning in the end. Presented as a play with suggested music and a reading list.

PB - Academy Library Guild CY - Fresno, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whither Bharat? or, The Mission From Moonland Y1 - 1952 A1 - Jehangir F[ramjee] Kotewal KW - Indian author AB -

Political satire using an imaginary country.

PB - New Book Co CY - Bombay, India U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wrong Side of Paradise" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A false paradise which appears to fill the wishes of every person.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 25.8 U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waker Dreams" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of people in cities kept dreaming on machines.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Without Men" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world dominated by women.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 24.6 N1 -

Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Reissue) ([Winter 1950]): 60-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watch the North Wind Rise Y1 - 1949 A1 - Robert [Von Ranke] Graves (1895-1985) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future medieval eutopia, which is a world of witches and warlocks ruled by the White Goddess.

PB - Creative Age Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. Rpt. under the U.K. title Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1983. The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by about six months.

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U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weapon Shops of Isher Y1 - 1949 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Shops with advanced science and powerful weapons make relative freedom possible. 

PB - Greenberg Publisher CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, © 1951; Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster, Gateway to Elsewhere (1954); and in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 413-527.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White City. A Novel Y1 - 1949 A1 - Paralee Sweeten Sutton KW - Female author AB -

New Age lost race communal eutopia located in Antarctica. In parallel to the Flood, the people were warned, instructed how to build their city, and survived a catastrophe that covered Antarctica with ice. Quite a bit on the history of the eutopia. One focus is on the correct raising of children. Thought transference, stress on reading color and vibrations.

PB - Palopress CY - Palo Alto, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden Two Y1 - 1948 A1 - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about through behavioral engineering presented in the form of an intentional community, and a number of communities were established that intended to put Skinner's ideas into practice. While some are still in existence, all but one abandoned most of Skinner's specific ideas; see Hilke Kuhlmann, Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. See also 1985 Skinner.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Reissued with new introduction by the author, "Walden Two Revisited" (New York: Macmillan, 1976), v-xvi. Rpt. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2005. Chapter 14 is rpt. as "Instead of the Cross, the Lollipop" in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 145-56 with an editor's note on 144-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Warning From Mars Y1 - 1948 A1 - Edward Whiteside KW - Male author AB -

Mars, which had been functioning well under free enterprise, becomes a dystopia. The novel is an attack on the U.S. New Deal under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1946. President 1933-45), particularly welfare and big government.

PB - Interplanetary Publications CY - New York N1 -

The PSt copy has London: The Mitre Press stamped under the publisher's name on the title page.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Smuts Goes. A History of South Africa from 1952 to 2010, First Published in 2015 Y1 - 1947 A1 - Arthur [Mervyn] Keppel-Jones (b. 1909) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopian future history. The first stage is the establishment of a fascist system. After General Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950. Prime Minister 1919-24 and 1939-48) retires, the Nationalist Party, which wants to break with Britain and ensure White dominance, wins the election, which is what actually happened. The Communist Party is outlawed; trade unions are emasculated. Native and Asian political representation are abolished, and the election law is changed to guarantee the future dominance of the Nationalist Party. Education is "reformed" to reduce English-speaking and increase Afrikaans-speaking. Anti-Semitism. Mass emigration ("the Second Great Trek"), but Blacks are prohibited from leaving. Growing racial conflict. South Africa declares war on Britain, assuming neutrality from most nations and support from others, and is defeated by combined British and American forces. The system then collapses.

PB - African Bookman CY - Capetown, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 1947. Includes a "Glossary of Afrikaans, Dutch and Bantu Words" (Gollancz 231-32)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Thunder God Y1 - 1947 A1 - Pat Reid KW - US author AB -

Odd Christian eutopia set in Mexico with a history going back to the formation of the Earth. Quetzalcoatl was John the Baptist. Vegetarian without cooking, with even panthers not eating meat. Communicate with all the animals. Nudist. In contact with Venus, which is more advanced than Earth spiritually and technically with some of those advances available to the people of the eutopia. 

PB - Author CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World The World Wants (A Sociocratic Order) Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Octavio] Felix Pedroso (d. 1944) A1 - Elizabeth Pedroso KW - Brazilian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with one world-wide corporation, a universal language (English), one currency, and one flag. The World Corporation will own the productive resources of the world and will build a new city for its headquarters. Free education and health care.

PB - np CY - São Paulo, Brasil U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worlds to Watch and Ward" Y1 - 1947 ED - Glenn Negley ED - J. Max Patrick AB -

Eutopia of democratic socialism and the rule of law.

JF - The Quest for Utopia; An Anthology of Imaginary Societies PB - Henry Schumann CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Farrar Saw Y1 - 1946 A1 - James Hanley (1901-85) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia as a fantasy of post-war Britain with clogged highways and difficult class relations.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his What Farrar Saw and Other Stories (London: André Deutsch, 1984), 1-204.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wake Up New Zealand! A Clarion Call to New Zealanders to follow the brightly burning Star of Truth Y1 - 1945 KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Pamphlet that is partially a depiction of New Zealand as a eutopia due to its social policies and partially a plea to New Zealanders to not lose what they have.

PB - The International League of the Cross CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL Eph A Politics ca 1945

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waveries" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The loss of all electrical power produces a U.S. of small town eutopias.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 34.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 7-26; and in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 212-29.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When? A prophetical novel of the very near future Y1 - 1944 A1 - H. Ben Judah [pseud.] AB -

A eutopia based on the ideas of British Israelism. The world after the Second Coming of Christ. Abundance.

PB - H. Ben Judah. Distributed by British Israel Association of Greater Vancouver CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U3 -

H. Ben Judah [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds Beginning Y1 - 1944 A1 - Robert Ardrey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The successful struggle to create a eutopia based on a complex new form of industry that gives workers partial ownership of the company and, it is argued, the incentive to do their best work. Set in the U.S. twenty years after World War II, which had been followed by industrial, class, and racial conflict, leading to a year called "the terror".

PB - Duell, Sloan and Pearce CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Weapon Makers Y1 - 1943 A1 - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A very early example of libertarian science fiction in that it champions the opposition to an oppressive government through the easy distribution of weapons. See also 1949 Van Vogt. 

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) PB - Hadley Publishing Co CY - Providence, RI VL - 30.6 - 31.2 N1 -

Repub. Providence, RI: Hadley Publishing Co., 1947. U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954. Also published as One against Eternity. New York: Ace Books, 1955. An Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster The Other Side of Here

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 Also published as One against Eternity. New York: Ace Books, 1955.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Adolf Came. A Novel Y1 - 1943 A1 - Martin Hawkin[s] KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II but the English fight on.

PB - Jarrold's Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the Stars Are Born Y1 - 1943 A1 - George [Thomas] Spaull (1876-1965) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult novel describing a eutopia with no money, no warfare, work for all, and technological advances.

PB - William Brooks & Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Was I Killed? A Dramatic Dialogue Y1 - 1943 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dead soldier asks the question, which is discussed by seven people, with the soldier observing the discussion and the stages of each individual’s past that led them to take the position they do. In one chapter, “The New Order” (92-111), the soldier observes life under the Nazi regime and in a concentration camp.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Beyond the Sky" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A world that had been eutopian, having conquered disease, tamed the planet, and provided a good life for all was perceived to be weak by some who created an authoritarian, violent dystopia "correcting" the faults of the eutopia. People from Earth help to defeat the dystopia and future contact is planned.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.1 U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Raiment. A Fantasy Y1 - 1943 A1 - Louise Dardenelle KW - Female author AB -

Two eutopias. The first is the description of a nudist colony where people "live as nature intended" (99). The second is a new world along the lines of an earthly paradise that Nature has produced. Warmer. No clothes or paper. People live simply.

PB - Valiant Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Race is Supreme. Racial Education Based upon Spiritual, Scientific fact and General Observation. A White Woman’s Soul Turns Black. The White Man’s Toleration Is All to Blame Y1 - 1942 A1 - Father W[illiam] E. Riker (1873-1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Racist eutopia as reflected in the title. See also [194-] Riker, The Perfect Government.

PB - Holy City Press CY - Holy City, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Dreams May Come..." Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth's but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience. In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Loneliness Comes Y1 - 1940 A1 - Geo[rge] A[lan] Glenn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia set in the South American jungle presented as if discovered on an actual expedition by the author. Emphasis on sexual activity as essential to health and the way it can lead to physical rejuvenation with photographs of the author before and after the expedition. 

PB - Author CY - Denver, CO U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Soviets Come to America Y1 - 1940 A1 - C[lement] E[verett] Puterbaugh KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia reflecting the title followed by a successful revolution.

PB - Fortuny's CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World Without Sex" Y1 - 1940 A1 - [Edmond Moore] [Hamilton] (1904-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sex role reversal dystopia in which men, who had been enslaved, revolt and restore the "natural order" through violence with the focus on a man who beats a captured woman into "loving" him (and he her) after raping her. This is presented as the positive alternative to the woman dominated dystopia.

JF - Marvel Tales (Chicago, IL) VL - 2.1 U3 -

Robert Wentworth [pseud.]

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NmPE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: An Essay on the Means of Averting the Recurring Disaster Y1 - 1939 A1 - [John] [Bostock] (b. 1892) A1 - [Leslie John Jarvis] [Nye] (1891-1976) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay describing the book as an answer to the problem they posed in their Whither Away? A Study of Race Psychology and the Factors Leading to Australia's National Decline (1934), which focused on the falling birth rate. Their solution, a Federal Union of countries, is based on Clarence K[irshman] Streit (See 1939 Streit). In addition, they argue that people must be educated for democracy (both in improved teaching of citizenship in democracies and in the elements of democracy in non-democratic countries), the political system must be reformed so as to attract the best people, and there must be much more community involvement. See also 1972 Nye.

PB - Halstead Press CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

A Psychologist and a Physician [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Band of Brothers Y1 - 1939 A1 - [George Cecil] [Foster] (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by Germany winning World War 2.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

Seaforth [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Time Stood Still" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Edwin K. Sloat KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A community called Futura is established in the Southwest U.S. desert where youth is prolonged and everyone lives peacefully.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.7 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Not Now? A British Islander's Dream Y1 - 1939 A1 - Arthur St. John (1862-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. London is transformed, and the Thames is clean and a center of activity. More simple life stressing families and neighborhoods then districts or towns, countries, continents, and the world.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women's World" Y1 - 1939 A1 - David C[oxe] Cooke KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal.

JF - Science Fiction (Holyoke, MA) VL - 1.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Woman Reigns Y1 - 1938 A1 - [Reginald William Malyon] [Gibbs] (1878-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia based on the rule of women set in the future in the Himalayas. All ferocious animals and vermin eliminated after a detailed classification and research program, called the War of Human Supremacy. No disease. Sexual men do not work but are adopted by women as consorts. Children vote. Votes for dogs being considered. Thorough censorship. Civil Service based on detailed examinations after twenty years of study.

PB - Pen-in-Hand Pub. Co CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -

August Anson [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World-Birth Y1 - 1938 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Education. Cooperative system with production for use not profit.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wednesday's Children Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Iris Guiver] [Wilkinson] (1906-39) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A feminist novel in which a woman creates an ideal, eutopian family on an island in Auckland harbor as well as assisting poor people through her work as a fortune teller. The family is a fantasy, and she chooses to kill herself rather than give up her family and enter into a traditional marriage.

PB - Hurst & Blackett CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: New Women's Press, 1989; and Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 1993. 

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Robin Hyde [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wild Goose Chase Y1 - 1937 A1 - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three brothers separately set out on a search for the wild goose and find a town that is a dystopia with the people slaves and an extraordinarily corrupt and decadent government. The youngest of the brothers leads a successful revolution. Much on revolutionary strategy and tactics.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Uniform Edition. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944, 442 pp. and London: Merlin Press, 1990, with an “Introduction by Andrew Cramp (vii-xvii). xvii + 442 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 454 pp.

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Trans. into Italian as La caccia all’Oca selvatica. [Torino]: Einaudi, 1953

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Ends Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Margaret Storm] [Jameson] (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Massive earthquakes have been occurring in Europe, and one destroys most of England. In the novel, only one simple, farming family and the sophisticated protagonist author from London are depicted as surviving. Overwhelmingly dystopian, but the protagonist ultimately finds happiness in the simple life on the farm. 

PB - J. M. Dent and Sons CY - London U2 -

Illus. John Farleigh

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William Lamb [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wide, White Page Y1 - 1936 A1 - Beall Cunningham KW - Male author AB -

A colony of men in Antarctica that is harmonious until the first woman arrives. The men decide to keep the harmony, and the woman leaves.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Harbour Y1 - 1936 A1 - Ian Macpherson (1905-44) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. The novel is about a response to the forthcoming war in which a couple hide themselves on a remote Scottish island. At the end the war has occurred with devastating effects on the world which ultimately reach them. 

PB - Paul Harris Publishing CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Have Been Warned. A Novel Y1 - 1935 A1 - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel describes a future England in which local fascists rise up against the ruling socialists, killing individualism or interning them in camps. The socialists who can flee to Scotland with hopes of reaching the Soviet Union. Women are leaders on both sides, and much of the novel focuses on relationships among individuals within each group as well as between individuals in each group.

PB - Constable & Co CY - London N1 -

Two chapters were originally published as “Interlude (From an unpublished Novel).” The Modern Scot (St. Andrews, Scotland) 4.2 (July 1933): 100-04; and as “Chapter from an Unpublished Novel.” The New Oxford Outlook (Oxford, England) 1.3 (February 1934): 274-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, People of America And How We Ended Poverty. A True Story of the Future Y1 - 1935 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This volume includes a history of Sinclair's run for governor and a future scenario in which the EPIC program wins support nationally. On EPIC, See also 1935 Sinclair, I, Governor of California, and his The Epic Plan for California [New York: Farrar & Rinehart], 1934, which includes, separately paged, I, Governor of California. A True Story of the Future (64 pp.), Epic Answers (32 pp.), The Lie Factory Starts (64 pp.), and Immediate Epic (35 pp.). 

PB - National EPIC League CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

The copy at L has London: T. Werner Laurie pasted over the publishing information.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Yvonne Was Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - Elsie [Elizabeth] Kay Gresswell (1877-1944) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A woman becomes a benevolent dictator after the mass suicide of the unemployed and the failure of three parties to form a government. She ends unemployment and brings about a number of other reforms, particularly in the area of gender equality.

PB - John Heritage CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - With the Lid Off Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Eliza Louise] [Cooke] (1883-1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A benevolent dictatorship transforms England. Nationalization with people forced to work. if necessary, eugenics, required exercise, and slum clearance. Most of the novel is on the battle for success.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

Joan Conquest [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Alive Y1 - 1935 A1 - Susan Ertz (1887-1985) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

War and a disease it produced left only one woman alive. Drama of convincing her to marry and start again. Suggests that eutopia will be possible.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1936. Also published as "One Woman Alive." The Delineator 128.3 - 5 (March - May 1936): 4, 6, 7, 42-44, 46-47; 16-19, 21, 47-50; 24-25, 56-58, 60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Triumphant: A Comedy Y1 - 1935 A1 - Hugh [Oswald] Blaker (1873-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Women get the vote in 1928 and come to dominate men. The novel describes a men's liberation movement.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Gutzon [de la Mothe] Borglum (1867-1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through a series of reforms. Free homeowners of debt and prohibit mortgages that might endanger home ownership. Build assembly places in the country to be used as schools during the day and gathering places for adults outside school hours. Improved physical education. Spend money to enhance culture.

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 93.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Margaret Haig [(Thomas) Mackworth] Rhondda [Viscountess] (1883-1958) KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A eutopia in a series of reforms that bring about peace, no fear of war, and no economic or political conflict between nations. Sufficient food, good housing, and comfort for all. Work is available for all, and everyone works. Good health. No overpopulation. No barriers based on race, class, sex, marital status, etc. Education is available to all based solely on ability.

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 93.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Clarence True Wilson (1872-1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in a series of reforms. No depressions, no war, and no racism. Prohibition. Reduce cost of government. Religion but with freedom of religion. Universal primary education. Country life. 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 93.6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - World D: Being a Brief Account of the Founding of Helioxenon Y1 - 1935 A1 - J[oseph] K[entigern] Heydon ed. [written by] (1884-1947). KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

There is a sphere in the center of the world that is intended to become a eutopia. The novel is about the early stages, but it is written from the perspective of a slightly later time, which suggests that the eutopia (eugenics, intelligence, peace, and harmony) is established.

PB - Sheed & Ward CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935. Rpt. in ed. of 250 numbered copies [La Valette, France]: Apex, 1995.

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By Hal [Harold] P[hilip] Trevarthan [pseud.](Official Historian of the Superficies).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Upon Women; A Topical Drama Y1 - 1934 A1 - Maboth Mosely (1906-75) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. England with a dictator and war with an emphasis on the impact of war on women.

PB - Hutchison CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Western Farmer A.D. 1936" Y1 - 1934 A1 - R. M. F[reeman] AB -

Satire on bureaucratic involvement with farming. Poem in dialect.

JF - Truth Christmas Number 1934 (London) VL - 116 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Paul U[nderwood] Kellogg (1879-1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay. New Deal reforms more broadly applied guaranteeing work and earning power. Suggests that scientific advances be specifically applied to production to stabilize employment and purchasing power and avoid future depressions, establish public rather than private authority over natural resources, greater workplace democracy, protection for unions, and control of prices. 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 92.2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Norman [Mattoon] Thomas (1884-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Personal essay. Socialist. "I want a fellowship of free men who have learned the secret of the shared abundance which the modern machine makes possible. I want a world rid for once and for all of poverty, economic insecurity, and the menace of war. Such a world would release unbelievable energies for the discovery of truth and the creation of beauty." 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) PB - 235 VL - 92.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Charles A[ustin] Beard (1874-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a workers' republic or "a republic in which industry is carried out in ways conducive to virtue and the fruits thereof are distributed in ways calculated to favor the good life for all--that is, without the degradation of poverty and unemployment on the one side or the degradation of luxury, rivalry, and conspicuous waste on the other" (233). Decentralized industry. The U.S. is a park. 

JF - The Forum (New York) VL - 91 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Personal essay. Standard Sinclair--"I desire a world from which exploitation of man by man has been abolished and in which it is impossible for a man to consume wealth without having produced an equivalent amount of wealth." 

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 92.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World of To-Morrow"; Being The Vision of a Common Man Y1 - 1934 A1 - Effendi [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia with a world government, no money, no competition, and full employment.

PB - Ptd. by B. Lansdown & Sons CY - Trowbridge, Eng. U3 -

Effendi [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "War of the Sexes" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton (1904-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a literal war of the sexes.

JF - Weird Tales (Chicago, IL) VL - 22.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: A Practical Solution of the Financial and Unemployed Problems of To-day. The Fruit of Forty Years Study Y1 - 1933 A1 - [George] [Smith] (1874-1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed communist eutopia set on Mars. World federalism. No money. No unemployment but all must work the equivalent of four hours a day.

PB - [Taranaki Daily News] CY - [New Plymouth, New Zealand] U3 -

A New Zealander [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: The Social Revolution in Retrospect. Viewed from A.D. 2050 Y1 - 1933 A1 - Henry Lewis KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Central marketing system. Quota system in international trade so that imports are regulated by exports.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America Y1 - 1933 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of Sinclair's eutopia in a series of letters to a millionaire who has lost money in the depression. 

PB - Farrar & Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair. U.K. ed. with the subtitle A Solution of Our Present Economic and Social Ills. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the Crash Comes; A Play In Three Acts and a Prologue" Y1 - 1933 A1 - [John] Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist takeover of Britain.

JF - Failures: Three Plays PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

ICD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World of To-Morrow--A Junior Book of Forecasts Y1 - 1933 A1 - I[drisyn] O[liver] Evans (1894-1977) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia presented as forecasts for young adults. The forecasts range from the technical, which take up most of the book, to the personal and political. The book itself was designed to be futuristic with transparent illustrations, a transparent printed cover, and taped binding.

PB - Denis Archer CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What I Would Do With the World. A Talk broadcast in September, 1931" Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction outlining a better future world in which he poses the question of what would he do if he had the power to bring about change? There would be a world state that would abolish war, an integrated world economy with a single currency and a world-controlled credit system, and a reorganized educational system, including much expanded adult education. 

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - While England Slept. A Novel Y1 - 1932 A1 - Rowland James (b. 1885) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A mysterious gas blots memory and makes everyone young. This necessitates starting over to build a new society based on religion and a return to the land. At the end of the novel, it is suggested that England will reindustrialize but without the problems experienced before.

PB - John Bale, Sons & Danielsson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World is Red" Y1 - 1932 A1 - F[rederick] Britten Austin (1885-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The final chapter of a novel that fictionally describes the great revolutions from ancient Egypt to the “World Republic” of 2036, which is the dystopia that results from the success of Communism.

JF - The Red Flag PB - Eyre and Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1934]), 371-400.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World of Our Grandchildren. A Talk broadcast to U.S.A., November 1930" Y1 - 1932 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction but outlining a better future world. Socialism seen as a system of community buying that building beautiful, functional towns and community health services that would ensure healthy people.

JF - After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation PB - Watts & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman's Utopia Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Mrs.] [Ellen Warner (Olney)] [Kirk] (1842-1928) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The introduction summarizes Gerhart Hauptmann's (1862-1946) The Island of the Great Mother or The Miracle of Île des Dames. A Story from the Utopian Archipelago. Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: B.W. Huebach and The Viking Press, 1925. Originally published as Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (1924). The first chapter then follows with a critique of utopias created by men. This is followed by her eutopia. Two houses in Parliament, men's and women's. Ability and intelligence rewarded. Best salaries for the worst work such as mining.

PB - Ernest Benn CY - London U3 -

A Daughter of Eve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waste--The Future of Prosperity” Y1 - 1930 A1 - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on conspicuous consumption including such outlandish ideas for the time as bottled water. See 2007 Shouse for a commentary and a new satire. For Burke’s own reflections on the essay, see his “Recipe for Prosperity: ‘Borrow, Buy, Waste, Want’.” The Nation (New York) 183.10 (September 8, 1956): 191-93; and 1971 Burke.

JF - Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums PB - The Macaulay Co. CY - New York N1 -

A shorter version rpt. in The New Republic (New York) 63 (July 16, 1930): 228-31; and in The New Republic Anthology 1915 : 1935. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936), 330-37. A condensed version was published in The Reader’s Digest (Chappaqua, NY) 17.102 (October 1930): 481-83. 

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PSt, which holds Burke's papers.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War of the Rockets" Y1 - 1929 A1 - John [Lawrence] Hodgson (1881-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopia describing how "the Resourceless Ones" are controlled by their economic and political masters, who create an arms race that brings about a devastating war. The survivors create a eutopia based on a world government with a World Council and a World Police. 

JF - The Star Review (England) VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual] (Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933), 122-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Social Regulation Is Complete" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on regulation.

JF - The Iron Man and the Tin Woman and Other Futurities PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Sun Went Out Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The sun is dying, and the human population has declined in numbers, intelligence, and physique from relying on the machines and production of the past, machines that are also dying. The most intelligent of the remaining population build great caves far underground to which the remaining population of the Earth retreated after the sun died. The decline was from a scientific world eutopia.

PB - Stellar Publishing Co., 1929 CY - New York VL - Science Fiction Series No. 4. U3 -

Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Collars" Y1 - 1929 A1 - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the educational system produces too many professional people for the positions available, rather like India today, and they, refusing to take readily available blue-collar jobs, live in ghettos and starve. A bill is passed forcing them to work at the well-paying blue-collar jobs, and they all, but one family, adjust rapidly. The story has a sexist ending in that a young plumber kidnaps the daughter of the family trying to leave. She has turned him down many times but is instantly convinced to marry him on seeing the nice kitchen she, a lawyer, will have.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL:. Black Dog Books, 2012), 66-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Dominant Y1 - 1929 A1 - E[velyn] Charles H. Vivian (1882-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Below Y1 - 1929 A1 - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part I repeats 1924 Wright. The Amphibians. The rest, entitled “The World Below”, presents “The Dwellers”, an advanced humanity who rule the world. The Dwellers are free of disease and injury. As they age, the body remains strong, but the mind begins to lose vitality and longs for death, which it ultimately wills to happen. Very few women were being born and the end of the race was possible. A non-utopian authorized sequel is Brian [Michael] Stableford, The World Beyond Being a Sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s Classic Science Fiction Novel, The World Below. [Rockville, MD]: The Borgo Press, 2009; 2nd ed. [Holicong, PA]: The Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2013. 

PB - W. Collins Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Books for Today, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Longman, Green, 1930. and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. These eds. include both 1924 Wright, The Amphibians and The World Below. The World Below is rpt. separately Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949; Shasta ed. rpt. with the subtitle A pulse-pumping, mind-prodding, sequel to THE AMPHIBIANS , . . just as haunting as that masterpiece of Earth’s far-distant future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 5. New York: World Editions, [1949]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World in 2030 A.D Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Frederick Edwin] [Smith] [1st Earl of Birkenhead] (1872-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a prediction. Technology will have improved life greatly. Little change in politics or economics. Women intellectually inferior to men.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul Y1 - 1929 A1 - J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal. 

PB - Kegan Paul & Co CY - London N1 -

The book was originally announced under the title “Possibilities” and published in the “To-Day and To-Morrow” series. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What I Know! Reflections by a Philosophic Punter. With an extraordinary dream of 'The Cosmic Mystery Cup' run at Randwick Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Rev.] [Wyndham Selfe] [Heathcote] (1862-1955) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a horse race among religions, plus the Agnosticism, Idealism, Materialism, and Pragmatism, but there is no winner. Includes an argument against betting on races.

PB - Cornstalk Pub. Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

A Philosophic Punter [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is This Talk About Utopia?" Y1 - 1928 A1 - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken (1880-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on utopias and utopianism but concludes that Maryland is as close as it gets. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. 

JF - The Nation 126.3284 (June 13, 1928): U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Parliaments Fail: A Synthetic View from the Gallery Y1 - 1927 A1 - A Sympathiser [pseud.] KW - Indian author AB -

Discusses Parliaments in England, France, Germany, and Italy and the utopian Parliaments envisaged in each country. 

PB - Thacker, Spink & Co CY - Calcutta, India UR - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100251 U3 -

A Sympathiser [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A World of Index Numbers" Y1 - 1927 A1 - Will McMorrow KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2053 in which those living in the air dominate those on the ground.

JF - Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 191.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wairoa in 1975 (More or Less Prophetical)" Y1 - 1925 A1 - Thomas Lambert (1854-1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A man awakes in 1975 from a long trance and discovers much technological improvement, prosperity, and general reform. Harnessing of rivers for power and electricity widely used in industry and transport. Includes illustrations of the outer and inner harbours, the Wairoa River harbour, the botanical gardens, and the Elysium in 1975. The Elysium was a fashionable suburb built on about 60 acres of reclaimed land. Much beautification had taken place. Maori lands had become the private property of Maori and were generally worked as market gardens. Maori College to train girls in domestic arts and nursing. Maori boys were taught agriculture, although even after graduation overseers ensured that they worked as expected and their earnings were set aside for them. Intermarriage and marriage to half castes prohibited.

JF - The Story of Old Wairoa and the East Coast District, North Island New Zealand or, Past, Present, and Future. A Record of Over Fifty Years' Progress PB - Coulls Somerville Wilkie CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U1 -

1859 1975 at the head of the title

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A War on Poverty Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Edward Alexander] [Partridge] KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia, particularly in the chapter "Things As They Might Be" (109-56). Cooperative commonwealth. Designed for Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and part of Ontario), the area to be called COALSAMAO and created as a separate country. It will have a unicameral legislature of 25 members elected annually. Something like 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army in that local control is in Camps of 3500-7000 people organized to carry out work. The book is mostly quotations.

PB - [Wallingford Press] CY - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] U1 -

Subtitle on the cover The one war that can end war

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"Partridge of Sintaluta" [pseud.] on the cover

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CaBViPA, Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “White Man’s Madness” Y1 - 1925 A1 - Lenore E[dith Johnstone] Chaney (1881-1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race story in which the protagonist is a white man searching for the storied riches of the Incas. He accidentally discovers a peaceful, sheep-tending pre-Incan Aryan community that worships the sun and uses gold for their dishes and jewels as decoration. 

JF - Weird Tales VL - 5.1 U2 -

Illus. Andrew Brosnatch

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Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Woman Called 'Beauty' and Her Seven Dragons A Poem for Those Who Desire an Aesthetic Utopia" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem with fairly vague suggestions of a eutopia of art that will set humanity free to be fully human.  See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “Formula For a Utopia”.

JF - The Little Magazine VL - 3rd imprint N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 125-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A World I’d Have” Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[onathan] E. Hoag (1831-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of an Arcadia, a paean to nature. And near the end he writes, “Let sturdy yeomen man their ploughs/Till not a mouth for bread need crave.” 

JF - The Troy Times U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World’s May Day: A Celebration Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Bingham KW - Male author AB -

Children’s play with an ambassador from Mars, which only sends “children as ambassadors because they tell the truth to each other” (3). In the play the ambassador begins to understand that Earth’s problem is primarily the division among countries and brings everyone together.

PB - The Co-operative Union Ltd. CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Welcome Island Story and Laws Y1 - 1923 A1 - Wilhelm [C.] Griesser KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia of reformed capitalism. The first part is the story of the conflict between two societies, one fun-loving, the other Puritanical, up to the establishment of a new society on an island. The reforms include prohibiting combinations of capital, labor, dealers, producers, or manufacturers. There is a minimum wage, which is lower for women, and there is a limit to the workday of twelve hours. Traditional gender roles. Radicals will be deported.

PB - Tucker-Kenworthy CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Gubbins Ruled Y1 - 1923 A1 - Joscelyne, Cyril KW - Male author AB -

Anti-labor humor. A workman becomes Prime Minister and does poorly.

PB - Fortune & Merriman CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Woman Rules! A Tale of the First Women's Government Y1 - 1923 A1 - A Well-Known Member of Parliament [pseud.] AB -

Satire on women in government; they are so given to gossip and scandal that they cannot govern.

PB - John Long CY - London U3 -

A Well-Known Member of Parliament [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worlds Within Worlds" Y1 - 1922 A1 - Philip M[elancthon] Fisher Jr. (1891-1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of assigned marriage.

JF - Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 142.5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia Y1 - 1921 A1 - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of essays presenting a eutopia of regionalism and decentralization. The two page "What To Do" summarizes the eutopia. See also 1917 Branford and Geddes.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World in 1931 Y1 - 1921 A1 - Stewart E. Bruce KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a cooperative, profit-sharing commonwealth. Interest is illegal. Labor certificates replace money. Uniform cars to emphasize equality. Stresses that there is no unemployment, and there are no drones.

PB - F.L. Searl & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Writing on the Wall In Three Parts Past, Present and Future Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Hilda (Glynn)] [Howard] (1887-1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia. Chinese immigration and Japanese invasion lead to their domination of Canada.

PB - Sun Pub. Co. CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1974.

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Hilda Glynn-Ward [pseud.]

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Can, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - West Wind Drift Y1 - 1920 A1 - George Barr [Greaves Richard] McCutcheon (1866-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that evolves from a shipwreck on an isolated island. Many problems and internal conflicts, but eventually harmony is achieved, and the people are able to lead a comfortable life.

PB - Dodd Mead CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: A.L. Burt, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Dawn Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Ingeborg] Belle Hagen Winslow (1872-1956) KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia set inside the Earth where people descended from a Jew who cursed and spat on Christ were condemned to live without souls. The novel is set in Norway as it transitioned from the ancient gods to Christianity.

PB - Augsburg Publishing House CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Pope, Called "The Light Out of the East" Y1 - 1920 A1 - S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett (1860-1914) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A new Pope, rejected by his own church for his radical ideas, transforms Jerusalem and then the entire world into a eutopia. Peace and prosperity reign.

PB - Books Limited CY - Liverpool, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Light Out of the East. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.

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U.S. ed. as The Light Out of the East. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walled Towns Y1 - 1919 A1 - Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) KW - Male author AB -

Medieval eutopia--Although the author said he was not intending to write a eutopia, this essay presents a eutopia that is rural, with a guild system, crafts, a limit on profit, and a maximum of thirty hours work per week in mills. Closeness of church and state. Anti-democratic. Emphasis on the human scale and small communities. The author sees it as a prediction based on an interpretation of the past.

PB - Marshall Jones Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Seattle, WA: Entropy Conservationists, [1987].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Not; A Prophetic Comedy Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.

PB - Constable and Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and “Notes” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley’s original vague note on xxix.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Women and the New Social State Y1 - 1918 A1 - John de Kay (1874-1938) KW - Male author KW - Swiss author AB -

Non-fiction. Socialist eutopia with traditional roles for women. Stress on the importance of a strong League of Nations.

PB - C.-A. Junger CY - Basle, Switzerland U4 -

No indication that it is a translation.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worms of the Earth"Publisht on Mars by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 7654321 Publisht on Earth by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 1 Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Simon] [Wardwell] KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing the reality of the backward, dystopian Earth from the point of view of a vaguely described technologically and morally advanced Mars. 

PB - np CY - Np U3 -

 The Interplanetary Traveler A. Martian [pseud.]. Author of "The Earthians"

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With Her in Ourland" Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of 1915 Gilman in which one of the couples tours and comments on world conditions and then more specifically on the U.S. The woman from Herland concludes that she could not have a child in the U.S. She wants to return to Herland and hopes for a boy. 

JF - The Forerunner (New York) VL - 7 N1 -

Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 270-387. First book publication as With Her in Ourland. Sequel to Herland. Ed. Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), 59-193. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 200-08; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 242-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Women of the Future Y1 - 1916 A1 - Meta Stern Lilienthal (1876-1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pamphlet describing the better society that socialism will bring about emphasizing the changed position of women. With everyone a worker, everyone will be able to work at what most interests them and change work as their interests change, women will not be limited to the home, and most domestic work will be done collectively. Everyone will have a good education and the right training for their work. No children working. There will be no male sex privilege. Marriage will be based on love and divorce will be easy. High quality child-care readily available.

PB - The Rand School of Social Science CY - New York U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Man's Burden, A Satirical Forecast Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Roger Sherman] [Tracy] (1841-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 5027 with Africa a completely Black and Christian eutopia. All the races have advanced except the Caucasian, which continues its old, dystopian ways and initiates a race war, which it loses.

PB - Gorham Press CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windmills: A Book of Fables Y1 - 1915 A1 - Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two utopias--the first starts as a Robinsonade in "Samways Island" but concludes as a eutopia stressing world peace as "Ultimus." The second, "Gynecologia," is a typical gender-role reversal story. Much heavy-handed satire in both.

PB - Martin Secker CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wireless Messages from Other Worlds Y1 - 1915 A1 - Eva (Love-Light) Harrison KW - Female author AB -

Spiritualism with other planets more advanced than Earth.

PB - L.N. Fowler CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Worlds: A Tale of the Year 2,000 A.D. Y1 - 1914 A1 - Frederick Robinson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. This short novel focuses on the antics of one man who becomes fabulously wealthy, is rejected by the woman he wants, and in vengeance brings about a war with the U.S. attacked by the nations of the Earth and Mars. While the US, which has grown to include all of North and Central America, wins, New York City is destroyed. Early in the book, the world is depicted in eutopian terms both politically and technologically with New York City free of crime as a result of eugenic advances. All other nations are depicted as advanced and the only reason for their cooperation against the U.S. is that it is even more advanced. In a note To the Reader the author says that the book originated as a scenario he wrote in connection with a stage spectacle he was preparing.

PB - [Author] CY - [Chicago, IL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Work for All. A Co-operative Commonwealth based on Ruskin's Teaching Y1 - 1914 A1 - Albert Ernest Taber KW - Male author AB -

Cottage industry. Single tax. Little government. The first part is organized as a Platonic dialogue among past social reformers. Then the eutopia is shown by John Ruskin (1819-1900) to visitors from the past. 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 - Arthur Wigley CY - Leeds, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What will Posterity Say of Us? An Address Delivered in the Darwin Hall, on October 1st, 1912” Y1 - 1913 A1 - The Hermit of Prague [pseud.] AB -

The lecture is given by a visitor from another planet who says that human beings have evolved similarly on thousands of worlds. From his description, Earth is very early in the process in that in all cases social evolution ultimately produces an egalitarian, cooperative society. The key step is getting over the stage where people believe in invisible beings.

JF - Bedrock: A Quarterly Review of Scientific Thought (London) VL - 1.3 U3 -

The Hermit of Prague [pseud].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns Y1 - 1913 A1 - H[ector] H[ugh] Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of life in England after a German conquest.

PB - John Lane CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1913. U.K. ed. rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1941; in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 79-245; and in The Battle of Dorking George Tomkyns Chesney & When William Came Saki. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997), 49-182. An excerpt was rpt. in The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Ed. I.F. Clarke (Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1997), 368-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind" Y1 - 1913 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.

JF - The English Review VL - 16 - 17 N1 -

Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--“A Trap to Catch the Sun” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; “The Last War in the World” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and “The World Set Free” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an  “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a “Preface” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an “Afterword: Shall We Play the Game” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as “War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells’s battle against kriegspiel.” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Auckland Might Be Or; A Tribute From France Y1 - 1912 A1 - Mrs. S. V Irwin KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Redesign of Auckland to be like Paris.

PB - J. Buelens & Co CY - [Auckland, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Dreams Come True Y1 - 1912 A1 - Ritter Brown KW - Male author AB -

Lost race Incan eutopia in the last chapter.

PB - Desmond FitzGerald CY - New York U5 -

OClW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the New Zealander Comes" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Professor Blyde Muddersnook, P.O.Z.A.S. [pseud.] AB -

Humor of a depopulated Britain.

JF - The Strand Magazine VL - 42.249 N1 -

Rpt. in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 25-35.

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Professor Blyde Muddersnook, P.O.Z.A.S. [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Waste of War Y1 - 1910 A1 - W. G. Bennett AB -

Poem that describes the eutopia possible if the costs of war were devoted to peace. Good clothing, universal education, help for the poor, aged, and ill, the arts science, and labor all rewarded, Christianity. 

PB - Wisbech Local Peace Association CY - Wisbech, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Corporation Y1 - 1910 A1 - King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction eutopia. Proposes forming a cooperative to absorb the world's economy and put it on a sound financial basis. See also 1894 and 1924 Gillette Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf.  

PB - New England News Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Diantha Did" Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The initial development of a eutopia in which a woman creates a for-profit housekeeping business which gradually expands to a complete housing system with professionals doing the cooking, cleaning, and so forth. 

JF - The Forerunner VL - 1.1 - 14 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Charlton, 1910. Rpt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 123-40; and in Carol Farley Kessler’s Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 137-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Women Reign. 1930 Y1 - 1909 A1 - Jesse Wilson AB -

Begins with the reform of the British system set twenty-five  years in the future: temperance, old age pensions, railroads nationalized, disestablishment of the church, reform of education, House of Lords abolished, redistribution of land and money, and reduction of work to six hours a day six days a week for all men. Votes for women turned out of office all those who had achieved this eutopia. Women were corrupted by power and wealth. Presents all the standard anti-feminist arguments. In the end all women are voted out of office.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where Men Have Walked; A Story of the Lucayos Y1 - 1909 A1 - H. Henry Rhodes KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel with a cooperative egalitarian eutopia.

PB - C. M. Clark Publishing Co. CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Australia; or, The Empty North Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George] Randolph Bedford (1868-1941) ED - Richard Fotheringham KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Racist dystopia about the collaboration between China and Japan to invade Australia, supported by one traitorous Australian. Most of the play is about the actual invasion, which is initially successful, as seen through the eyes of various white Australians and two loyal Aboriginals. The Australians ultimately repulse the invasion by using an airship developed by an Australian engineer.

PB - Playlab CY - South Brisbane, Qld, Australia U1 -

“White Australia: the White Man's Land; or, For Australia: A Drama in Four Acts.”

Alt. title “White Australia or the Empty North, or The White Man's Land.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Saints are Gone Y1 - 1908 A1 - Constancia Serjeant KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins with a critique of the Anglican church and its neglect of the poor, even among its own clergy, while the church hierarchy lives in luxury. All the saved are "raptured" from the world (see 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17), and a dystopia is created by the Antichrist. Christ returns on the last pages.

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Things Were Doing Y1 - 1908 A1 - C[harles] A[llen] Steere KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Much of the novel is concerned with the initial revolution, which is simple and bloodless because almost all the workers are already socialists. Rapid transformation of the United States as a result of new technology, which is described in detail, and hard work.

PB - Charles H. Kerr and Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman's Aye and Nay Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Adelina Georgina] [Kingscote] (d. 1908) KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which votes for women are a disaster.

PB - John Long CY - London U3 -

Lucas Cleeve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Might Have Been; The Story of a Social War Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Ernest Bramah] [Smith] (1868-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. Street names were changed to codes in the name of efficiency. The upper classes revolt, restore capitalism, and everybody is better off.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2017, with an “Introduction. The History of a Novel” by Jeremy Hawhorn (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (330-32), and “Works by Ernest Brahman” (329-34). An abridged ed. entitled The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1909] omitted the “Preface” and Chapter III, rearranges the order of other chapters, and makes other internal changes. U.S. ed. of the abridged ed. Atlanta, GA: Specular Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Dennis Jencke (i-iv) and a “Glossary” [287-91). L, NLS

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Abridged ed. as The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War (1909)

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Ernest Bramah [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Theodore is King. Extracts Taken From a Complete Account of the New Declaration of the Change From the United States of America To the United Kingdom of America and the Establishing of Theodore on the Throne Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Wayland] [Spaulding] (1850-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Class conflict followed by a peaceful revolution and the establishment of a monarchy that creates economic and racial equality. The wives and daughters of the rich supported the changes and that is what tipped the balance in support of a peaceful revolution.

PB - Chauncey Holt CY - New York U3 -

Viter Strikeshoulder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Woman's Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A feminist eutopia with Gilman writing "Now is the time for practical utopias" (Kessler 135). The eutopia was brought about through a new religion with a social conscience and, even more, by women no longer being treated as inferiors and becoming involved in politics and the work force. Radical improvement of the environment. Cooperative housekeeping. 

JF - The Times Magazine VL - 1 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Week. The Invasion of New Zealand" Y1 - 1906 AB -

Satire on future war stories, New Zealand's military, and New Zealand society in general. Inspired by the serialization of William [Tufnell] Le Queux's (1864-1927) Invasion of England in 1910 (1906).

JF - The Star (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - no. 8686, 8692, 8698 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Sexes Y1 - 1905 A1 - F[lorence] E[thel] [Mills] Young (1875-1945) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Humor about the last man. A partial eutopia has been created by the women.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When I Was King" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Henry Lawson (1867-1922) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Poem written from the perspective of a king who got rid of the slums and built good houses, gave land to the farmers, and worked with his people. At the end he gives in to requests that he don the royal regalia and is corrupted.

JF - The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 26 N1 -

Rpt. in his When I Was King and Other Verses (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1905), 1-9; and in his A Fantasy of Man. Vol. 2 of Complete Works. Ed. Leonard Cronin (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Lansdowne, 1984), 217.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With the Night Mail" Y1 - 1905 A1 - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Introduction to 1912 Kipling, which develops this story.

JF - McClure's Magazine VL - 26.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “With the Night Mail. From ‘The Windsor Magazine,’ October, A.D. 2147.” Windsor Magazine 23.1 (December 1905): 52-66; with the subtitle “A Story of 2,000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared).” In his Actions and Reactions (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 117-81. Rpt. in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 19-89 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).U.K. ed. (London: Macmillan, 1909), 111-169, which was rpt. as Vol. 4144 of Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz ed. (Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1909), 117-65. An ed. illus. and ptd. on right hand pages only, was published as With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared). London: Macmillan, 1909. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. Also rpt. as “With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared (1905).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 103-59 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Above; A Duologue Y1 - 1905 A1 - Martha Foote Crow (1854-1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Play about a mechanical dystopian world underground and search by two lovers for a way out.

PB - Blue Skys Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Without a Child: A Story for Women and for Men Y1 - 1905 A1 - [John] Coulson Kernahan (1858-1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world concerned only with variety and pleasure. No children born. Death of religion.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walda; A Novel Y1 - 1903 A1 - Mary Holland Kinkaid (1861-1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel of a very conservative German religious intentional community with problems. The community is trying to achieve a good life following the dictates of their religion, but these dictates are so narrow that a dystopia is produced.

PB - Harper Brothers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Trust: A Possible Prophecy With an Introduction by Edward Everett Hale Y1 - 1903 A1 - John Snyder KW - Male author AB -

Satirical anti-trust story. A man obtains ownership of the wind and requires everyone using the wind to pay royalties to his company, which makes the stockholders immensely rich. The trust then demands a royalty for breathing, which, in the name of the sacredness of private property, a court approves. In the end a revolution forces the end of the trust.

PB - James H. West Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Wee Lassie; or, A Unique Republic Y1 - 1902 A1 - Mrs. May Anders Hawkins KW - Female author AB -

Reform tract in the form of a novel. The focus of reform is the establishment of a democratically run school for poor children who pay for their education through labor.

PB - Presbyterian Committee of Publication CY - Richmond, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the Needle Points Y1 - 1902 A1 - Harry T. [Henry Taylor] Finley (1866-1940) KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel about the discovery of a warm area at the North Pole. The civilization found is in some ways very advanced. Chemically prepared food; full meal in a small ball. Also eat fruit. Roman-like clothing. Not religious. Use only one name. Socially and politically hierarchical.

PB - The Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Will There Be Servants in 2000 A.D.” Y1 - 1901 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

No because housing will have so improved that they will no longer to needed.

JF - Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 118-22. Rpt. in Current Literature 32.4 (April 1902): 426-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of Mars. Dedicated to My Mother Y1 - 1901 A1 - Mary Ann Moore-Bentley (Mrs. H.H. Ling) (1865-ca. 1955/9) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A detailed eutopia set on Mars. Mars is similar to Earth with cities, oceans, and lush vegetation. The focus is on education. Most of the novel concerns Martians visiting Earth to help Earth improve, and after many trials and tribulations the ending is hopeful.

PB - Edwards, Dunlop & Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U1 -

The first page of the text gives the title as A Woman of Mars, or Australia's Enfranchised Woman.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World's Last Wonder" Y1 - 1901 AB -

Satire, mostly on space travel, but refers to Cyrus Teed, author of The Great Red Dragon or the Flaming Red Devil. Estero, Florida: Guiding Star Pub. House, 1909 and founder of the Koreshan Unity, a U.S. intentional community.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” Y1 - 1900 A1 - John Elfreth Watkins Jr. (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A list of twenty-eight “prophecies,” all presented as entirely positive. No pollution with electricity produced by water-power and hot and cold air provided to homes. No mosquitoes and flies and wild animals only in zoos. People will get more exercise from an early age, and everyone will be expected to walk ten miles a day. Education through university will be free to all. Poor students will be provided with food, clothing, and housing. Medical care is provided free through schools.

JF - The Ladies’ Home Journal VL - 18.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Within an Ace of the End of the World” Y1 - 1900 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced when capitalists draw nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce food. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203. The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of Yesterday Y1 - 1900 A1 - Caroline A[twater] Mason (1853-1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel follows the life of a Christian woman who wants to be a missionary in India but whose plans are regularly derailed. An underlying theme is what it means to be a good Christian, and a small part is a description of a religious community that fails.

PB - Doubleday, Page CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Y1 - 1900 A1 - L[yman] Frank Baum (1856-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic U.S. children’s book that was followed by thirteen others, including The Marvellous Land of Oz: being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tim Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump: the story being A Sequel to the Wizard of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill with end papers from life poses by the famous comedians, Montgomery and Stone. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904; Ozma of Oz: A Record of her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907; Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908; The Road to Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909; The Emerald City of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910; The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1913; Tik-Tok of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1914; The Scarecrow of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1915; Rinkitink in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1916; The Lost Princess of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1917; The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s Daughter. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1918; The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Rand McNally Co., 1919; and Glinda of Oz: in which are related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in their hazardous journey to the home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and how they were rescued from dire peril by the sorcery of Glinda the Good. Illus. John R. Neill. Mattituck, NY: Ameron House, 1920. The first book is borderline as a utopia, but it has been treated as such; see Edward Wagenknecht, Utopia Americana. Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore, 1929; S.J. Sackett, “The Utopia of Oz.” Georgia Review 14 (Fall 1960): 275-91; and Andrew Karp, “Utopian Tension in L. Frank Baum’s Oz.” Utopian Studies 9.2 (1998): 103-21. Later volumes, beginning with The Emerald City of Oz, are  primarily adventure novels but have utopian elements and Ozma of Oz has elements of a Cockaigne, such as a Lunch Box Tree and a Dinner Pail Tree. After Baum’s death, Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) was hired to write sequels. She wrote twenty-one additional Oz books between 1921 and 1976, although the first, The Royal Book of Oz, was credited to Baum. Other Oz novels were published and illustrated by both illustrators with Denslow publishing Denslow’s Scarecrow and Tin-Man (1904) and a comic strip “Scarecrow and Tin-Man” and Neill publishing The Wonder City of Oz (1940), The Scalawagons of Oz (1941), and Lucky Bucky of Oz (1942). A film based loosely on the novel is The Wiz (1978) directed by Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) with the screenplay by Joel Schumacher (1939-2020) based on the play The Wiz by William F[erdinand] Brown (1928-2019) that ran for 1600 performances on Broadway. For other adaptations, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wizard_of_Oz.

PB - G.M. Hill CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Pictures by W[illiam] W[inslow] Denslow. Ed. Susan Wolstenholme Oxford, Eng.: 1997), 1-263, with an “Introduction” (ix-xliii), “Note on the Text” (xliv-xlvi), “Select Bibliography” (xlvii-l), “A Chronology of L. Frank Baum” (li-lv), and “Explanatory Notes” (265-74); and in The Wonderful World of Oz. The Wizard of Ox The Emerald City of Oz Glinda of Oz. Ed. Jack Zipes (London: Penguin Books, 1998), 1-105 with an “Introduction” (ix-xxix), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (xxxi-xxxvii), “A Note on the Texts and he Illustrators” (xxxix-xli), and “Explanatory Notes” (359-77). For a critical ed., see The Annotated Wizard of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz By L. Frank Baum. Ed. Michael Patrick Hearn. Illus. W.W. Denslow. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973; Centennial ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, with a “Preface” by Martin Gardner (xi-xii).  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World a Department Store. A Story of Life Under a Coöperative System Y1 - 1900 A1 - Bradford Peck (1853-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The Cooperative Association of America converts the nation to a cooperative system in twenty-five years.

PB - Bradford Peck CY - Lewiston, ME N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. U.K. ed. London: Gay and Bird, [1900].

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Cover has the subtitle A Twentieth Century Utopia.

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Illus. Harry C. Wilkinson. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Sleeper Wakes Y1 - 1899 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Archetypal Wells dystopia in which class divisions have worsened. Rural life has disappeared and been replaced with great class-stratified cities. Religion, and everything else, has to be profit-making. 

PB - Harper & Bros CY - New York N1 -

Originally pub. in The Graphic 59 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 9-11, 41-43, 73-75, 105-07, 137-39, 169-71, 201-03, 233-35, 265-67, 297-99, 329-31, 361-63, 393-95, 433-35, 465-67, 497-99, 529-31, 561-63. Rpt. in Harper's Weekly 43.2194 - 2211 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 11-13; 39-40; 65-69; 93-95; 117-19; 141-42; 165-67; 191-93; 215-17; 239-41; 263-65; 287-88; 311-13; 339-41; 376-77; 399-401; 427-28; 451-53. Rpt. as "The Sleeper Awakes" in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume II The Island of Doctor Moreau The Sleeper Awakes (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924), 173-480. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly 1.1 (Winter 1928): 55-126, 136; ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1994. Later ed. entitled The Sleeper Wakes. London: Thomas Nelson, 1910. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000; ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Patrick Parrinder (xiii-xxvii), a "Note on the Text" by Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxvi), and "Notes" by Andy Sawyer (235-52); and ed. John Sutherland. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sutherland (9-41), “A Note on the Text” (43-46), “Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews” (61-65), “Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an ‘Afterword’” (267-71), “Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos” (273-76), “Appendix C: Utopian Quarrels [Brief excerpts from Hudson, A Crystal Age; Morris, News From Nowhere; and Bellamy, Looking Backward]” (277-88), “Appendix D: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes (289-90), and “Works Cited and Select Bibliography” (291-92). Esperanto ed. as La Dormanto Vekigás. Tradukita De A. Frank. London: Esperanto Pub. Co., 1929.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wise or Otherwise. How to Solve the Social Problem, and Reorganise Society on such a basis that class Distinction would cease to exist, and the Total Abolition of the Competitive System Y1 - 1899 A1 - Paul Ferris KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. New Constitution, the first clause of which is to nationalise land. Abolish the military. No money. Stress on education. The bulk of the pamphlet consists of a legislative debate on the constitution, with members named Compassion, Imitation, Cautiousness, Calculation, Spirituality, Hope, and so forth.

PB - P. Offer, Printer CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U1 -

Cover title is Wise or Otherwise: Great Joy in Crania.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wonderful Story of a Shipwreck and Its Consequences" Y1 - 1899 A1 - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Establishment of a commercial exchange bank and the concomitant ability to trade without money brings eutopia. 

JF - The Commercial Exchange Gazette. The Official Organ of the New Zealand Exchange Co., Ltd. (New Zealand) VL - 1.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wreck of the "Erthshire" or, The Economics of Coral Island Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Richard Arthur] [Hould] (1839-1920) A1 - [Frederick M.] [King] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Brief single tax eutopia. A shipwreck strands two men on an isolated island; the first to arrive claims all the land and rents a part to the other in exchange for a daily supply of coconuts. Years later they are found and discover that the world had all accepted the single tax and peace and prosperity reign. 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 - Published by the National Single Tax League. Printed by Isaac Dunshea CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Serialized in The Liberator (Auckland), no. 83 - 87 (December 19, 1906 - April 1907): 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wreck of the South Pole" Y1 - 1899 A1 - Charles Curtz Hahn (1858-1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia located in a temperate area around the South Pole. Stress on purity in both men and women. "Mind power" allows a person to project themselves and to speak and act at a distance. The people call themselves theosophists or adepts in the occult sciences. Servants and lower classes do the work and fish by hypnotizing the fish. Hunters are licensed and required to work set hours to provide game for those assigned to them; they hunt by hypnosis. Class status determined by "mind power". Travel by astral projection; mail sent by astral projection. Weather made. Police prevent crime by reading minds, and those inclined to crime are treated by having thoughts projected into their minds rather than being punished.

JF - The Wreck of the South Pole or the Great Dissembler And Other Strange Tales PB - Street and Smith CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for the Signal. A Novel Y1 - 1898 A1 - Henry O. Morris KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly the story of a successful peaceful revolution in the U.S. against the "arrogant and vicious plutocracy" (v), but Chapter XL, "The Dawn of a New Day," presents a brief picture of the eutopia created. A constitutional convention is convened, which includes many of the well-known reformers of the time. The convention first drafts and adopts a new "Declaration of Independence" (335-36) and then a new Constitution (337-53). The constitution, which follows the basic structural outlines of the previous one, includes the Bill of Rights and previous amendments.

PB - The Schulte Publishing Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas Y1 - 1898 A1 - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944) A1 - E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. VL - Vol. 78 of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Warstock: A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1898 A1 - [William Oliver] [Greener] (1862-1935) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and future war but is concerned with patent rights and shows how inventions can both improve life and give power for good to inventors. Argument that improved patent rights will inspire inventors to greater efforts. The first invention is wireless telegraphy, which allows instant communication. A "white" republic called Cristalla is established in Africa in which inventors will be the only aristocrats. A new weapon makes Cristalla invincible, and it defeats Europe and brings world peace.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When All Men Starve: Showing Home England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply Y1 - 1898 A1 - Charles [Henry Alfred] Gleig (1862-1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

As a result of the government’s poor policies, England loses its influence in Africa, is blockaded by European governments, the government falls, and a rebellion ensues followed by looting and killing.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London UR - https://archive.org/details/whenallmenstarv00gleigoog/page/n8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The White Women” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Mary E[lizabeth] Coleridge (1861-1907) ED - [Henry] [Newbolt], ed. KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Amazons presented in eutopian terms. Said to be “From a legend of Malay, told by Hugh Clifford (78). 

JF - Poems PB - Elkin Matthews CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge. Ed. Theresa Whistler (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954), 212-13. The “Preface” to the 1908 ed. says that this poem and eleven others were first published “in a volume by several authors called ‘The Garland’,” which is probably The Garland of New Poetry by Various Authors. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899, which contains twelve poems by the author but not this one. The 1954 edition places the poem as 1900 without explanation. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - With Gyves of Gold. A Novel Y1 - 1898 A1 - Henry Athey A1 - A. Herbert Bowers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Much discussion of what the eutopia will look like and ends with a description of the Christian eutopia in operation. Believe in the nearness of the millennium. Spiritualism. Anti-egalitarian. Cooperation. With trusts/monopolies gone, business flourishes, wages rise, slums are cleared, and education improved. All other nations followed the lead of the U.S. Women's proper sphere is the home.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Christ Saw. . .: Sequel to If Christ Came to Congress Y1 - 1897 A1 - Congressman Milford W[riarson] Howard (1862-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the book is about the dystopia of contemporary conditions. It ends with the battle of Armageddon and one page of the eutopia that followed. See his If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: [Howard Publishing Co.], 1894 which includes a one paragraph vision of the better society that would follow if Congress followed Christ’s teachings.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Without Bloodshed; A Probability of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1897 A1 - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on English manners. Rich Americans take over all English property through political maneuvering. Intentional community in England. Gorst published a review of his own book in The Quilldriver, no. 1 (October 1897). The journal was the inhouse journal of the publisher and does not appear to be available. See also 1898 Gorst.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderer in the Spirit Lands Y1 - 1896 A1 - [A.] [Farnese] AB -

The story of a sinner who dies and then experiences a number of different spirit realms in his search for salvation. His first experience is mildly dystopian and quite dark and cold. He next experiences what he calls the Land of Dawn because the light is like that, which is mildly eutopian, and where he reunites with his father and the woman he loved but mistreated in life. He then visits Hell, after which he works on Earth to help sinners there, is then advanced to the Morning Land, and finally to the Land of Bright Day.

PB - W.J. Sinkins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1901.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of To-Morrow: A Tale of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1896 A1 - Hon. [Alice] Coralie Glyn (1866-1928) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of greater gender equality in 100 years presented from the point of view of a modest, repressed, middle-aged spinster from the 1890s. There are still rich and poor. Some satire on both the 1890s and the 1990s.

PB - Women's Printing Society CY - London VL - 2nd ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Wrote It? A Cabinet Meeting" Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Edward Bellamy, shows the leaders of a future eutopian society deciding how to make their society better. The President and many members of the Cabinet are women. 

JF - The Impress (San Francisco, CA) N1 -

Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (January 12, 1895): 3; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 329-30.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Wife Manufactured to Order” Y1 - 1895 A1 - Alice W. Fuller KW - Female author AB -

Satire on marriage. 

JF - The Arena (Boston, MA) VL - 13.68 U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Wrote It? Five Girls" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Louisa May Alcott, shows the establishment of a successful cooperative housekeeping arrangement. 

JF - The Impress (San Francisco) N1 -

Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 82-86. Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (December 8, 1894): 5; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 327.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Not? or Lawyer Truman’s Story Y1 - 1894 A1 - Dr. W[illiam] W. Totheroh KW - Male author AB -

The novel depicts the transformation of a small town into a small city following the arrival of people displaced by the Chicago fire of 1871 and the emergence of one of its churches into an engine for social reform. Some members and others connected to the church create a “Settlement” in a working-class area that provides housing, classes for children through adults, recreation, entertainment, and so forth. The Settlement is connected to a university and students living in it. Unusual in that denominations are rejected, taxing church property is proposed, and missionaries to the cities in the area are preferred over sending people on foreign missions.

PB - W. Ward & Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Women's Conquest of New-York. Being an account of The Rise and Progress of the Women's Rights Movement; of the Grant of Female Suffrage; of the Formation of the Area League; of the Capture by the Women Voters of the Government of New York by the Election as Mayoress of Bridget O'Dowd; and the Season of Female Despotism which thereafter ensued, and which was ended by an appeal to Primitive Natural Law Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Thomas Allibone] [Janvier] (1849-1913) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Anti-women's rights. Anti-suffrage, Anti-Irish.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York U3 -

A Member of the Committee of Safety of 1908 [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World's Last Crisis. An Authentic Record of the Greatest Crisis in the World's History now approaching consummation. A Letter to her Majesty Queen Victoria, of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India. The World's Last Battle. War! Russia and England. Revelations concerning The Jews. A Final Warning Y1 - 1894 A1 - Omega [pseud.] AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ, mostly told through Biblical passages.

PB - Marshall Brothers CY - London U3 -

Omega [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What's the World Coming To? A Novel of the Twenty-First Century, Founded on the Fads, Facts, and Fiction of the Nineteenth Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] Graham Moffat (1866-1951) A1 - John White KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Society within the world of 1888 Bellamy with all the fads of the late nineteenth century practiced; considerable satire. The technology of Bellamy's novel has been improved. News is reported by telephone (essentially radio).

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

L, O, HRC, MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Witch of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly spiritualism, but the novel contains a brief description of an underground eutopia that will be created by those advanced spiritually. It is also technologically advanced.

PB - The Hermetic Publishing Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Free Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Elizabeth Clarke] [Wolstenholme-Elmy] (1833-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A poem with the title of the book (1-32) followed by notes on the poem (33-222). Much of the poem is on the trials and tribulations of the current position of women, but parts of it project into a future of free, enabled women. Little detail.

PB - Women's Emancipation Union CY - Congleton, Eng. U3 -

Ellis Ethelmer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Warrington: As It Might Be" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Hythloday Junior [pseud.] AB -

The city of Warrington as a eutopia thirty years in the future. Brought about by municipal ownership of utilities and then industries. Cleaned up. Technology. See also 1900 Bennett.

JF - Warrington: As It Was, As It Is, and As It Might Be PB - "Sunrise" Publishing Co. CY - Warrington, Eng. N1 -

Originally published in Sunrise (Warrington, Eng.)

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Hythloday Junior [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What We Are Coming To Y1 - 1892 A1 - Miles L'Estrange [pseud.] AB -

Dystopia presented as a fictional series of predictions. The author deplores almost all the changes, but those giving women a more active roles in life particularly bother him.

PB - David Douglas CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

L’Estrange, Miles [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel Y1 - 1892 A1 - [William] [Lane] (1861-1917) KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Consistently treated as an early Australian utopia, probably because of its title, which is clearly ironic, but the novel does not fit any definition of utopia. Could be seen as describing Australia as a dystopia. The last page of the text (reproduced in the 1980 ed. on [78]) has an ad for a sequel that was never published, In New Australia: Being Nellie Lawton's Diary of a Happier Life. By John Miller [pseud.] which will present the eutopia to be found in the New Australia Co-operative Settlement Association. See 1888 Lane.

PB - Edwards, Dunlop & Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press, 1980, with an "Introduction" by Michael Wilding ([9]-[79]). Another edition with title on the cover as The Workingman's Paradise: An Historical Novel. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Cosme Publicity Co., 1948.

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By John Miller [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Grown Young: Being a Brief Record of Reforms Carried Out From 1894-1914 By the Late Mr. Philip Adams Millionaire and Philanthropist Y1 - 1892 A1 - William Herbert [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia established within twenty years through the efforts of one man, a Mr. Adams, an inventor who so improves the railroads as to radically enhance the British economy. He then sets about to reform the political and social systems as well as rationalizing the economy. Most of the standard reforms of the day, such as universal conscription, free marriage and divorce, health care, and more sense in the legislature, are included. Travel eliminates ignorance and hatred.

PB - W.H. Allen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 4: 3-161. Editor's notes, 1: 421-22.

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William Herbert [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Will Mrs. Grundy Say? or, A Calamity on Two Legs. (A Book for Men.) Y1 - 1891 A1 - Michael Rustoff [pseud?] AB -

Satire. Technically advanced civilization. Suicide at defined age. Calamity on two legs refers to women. Eugenics with a license required to marry. Very little privacy.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. and Henry Glaisher CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 221-313. Editor's notes, 219, 395-99.

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Rustoff, Michael [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1891 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A restatement and expansion of Bellamy’s discussion of women in his 1888 Looking Backward. In 1897 Bellamy, he modifies his presentation of this position. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Ladies Home Journal VL - 8.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - What is Communism? A Narrative of the Relief Community. Common Property, United Labor, and Equal Rights to All, Will Immediately Displace all the Poverty, Vice and Crime of Society, and Secure to Eyerybody [sic]. The Greatest Plenty Purity and Peace Y1 - 1890 A1 - Alcander Longley (1832-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Founding and development of an intentional community. Although Longley did establish such communities, this is fiction presented as non-fiction.

PB - Altruist Community CY - St. Louis, MO N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1976

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Willmoth, The Wanderer; or, The Man From Saturn. This Story gives the Life and Adventures of a Man who Lived for Millions of Years, and Explored three planets--Saturn, Venus and Earth. Although it is the Author's first effort, it will be found to Amuse, Instruct and Please the Reader from the first to the last Page in the Book. Very Respectfully Yours, The Author Y1 - 1890 A1 - C[harles] C[urtis] Dail (1851-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A tour of Saturn followed by tours of Venus and Earth. Saturn is composed of many different countries, the first of which is a eutopia based largely on the ability to read intentions. The major crime is to think evil. Vegetarian. Stress on education. Polygamy because women outnumber men twenty to one. Venus is primitive. The tour of Earth follows its evolution from primitive times to the present. A sequel that purports to be the memoirs of Willmoth is The Stone Giant: A Story of the Mammoth Cave. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898 (HRC).

PB - [Haskill Printing Company] CY - [Atchison, KS[ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wreck of a World With a Preface by Sir John Brown, C.E., J.P. Knight of the Order of Maximilian of Mexico, etc., etc., etc. Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Reginald Colebrook] [Reade] (1853-1891) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel starts in what is presented in the first chapter as a flawed utopia that is technologically advanced but beginning to lose its moral center. There is a Pan-Britannic Confederation with all members having a President and Congress and the nobility gradually disappearing. But much of the novel is concerned with a revolt of the machines against the human race, which is almost eliminated. After a long conflict, humans win but are temporarily limited to one island where a small group begins to create a good society that is compared to More's Utopia. No money. Goods freely exchanged. Sequel to his A Mexican Mystery. London: Digby and Long, 1888 in which a train is given consciousness and turns into a monster.

PB - Digby and Long CY - London N1 -

Long's Albion Library, Vol. II. This ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 3: 5-163, with a brief note by the editor (1-3). The English Catalogue lists the 1st ed. as February 1890, but, due to ads in the book dated 1889, I.F. Clarke's Tale of the Future and some other bibliographies give the publication date as 1889.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “With the Eyes Shut" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story that elaborates on the radio/phonograph that is important in 1888 Bellamy, Looking Backward. Here it is ubiquitous and portable. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Harper’s New Monthly Magazine VL - 79.473 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful Dream of What May Happen in the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1889 A1 - Rev. Christopher Gaustad (1838-1927) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia.

PB - Author CY - Halcombe, New Zealand N1 -

The original text appears to be lost. A reprint of part of the text can be found in "Wonders Foretold--Remarkable Prophecies--A Work of 1888." The Manawatu Evening Standard (New Zealand) (November 20, 1937): 9. An article briefly describing the contents of the book is "Manuwatu Seer Foresaw all but the Moscow Moon." The Auckland Star (New Zealand) (November 1, 1957): 9.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Week in the Future" Y1 - 1888 A1 - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

ence, C[atherine] H[elen] (1825-1910). “A Week in the Future.” The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly 1 (December - July): 388-93; 468-79; 552-63; 657-65; 731-40; 828-32; 899-908 [A, ATL, PSt]. Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period  of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia. A, ATL, PSt

Eutopia set in London in 1988. Everyone lives in “Associated homes” and works a six-hour day mostly in cooperatives. Population limited, primarily through birth control. No pollution. Strict control on both immigration and emigration. Eugenics with feeble-minded children killed at birth and “criminal lunatics” euthanized (36-37, 115). Women work equally with men in all occupations. Ireland now part of the United Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland, but all four component units have some independent political institutions. Based in part on the writings of Jane Hume Clapperton, particularly her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. See also 1888 Clapperton. See also 1879 and 1884 Spence. 

JF - The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an "Introduction" by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Age Grows Young Y1 - 1888 A1 - Hyland Clare Kirk (1846-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Chapter 27 (271-81) includes a description of a small-town eutopia.

PB - C.T. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White or Yellow? A Story of the Race-war of A.D. 1908" Y1 - 1888 A1 - [William] [Lane] (1861-1917) KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Racist dystopia. Heroic Australian whites fight the Chinese, whose immigration has produced the dystopia. See also 1892 Lane.

JF - The Boomerang (Brisbane, QLD, Australia), VL - nos. 14 - 25 [no. 17 misnumbered 16] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Was it only a Dream?" Y1 - 1886 A1 - An Old Pauper [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -

Letter to the editor describing an agrarian eutopia and comparing it to the contemporary world.

JF - Our Commonwealth (Adelaide, SA, Australia) VL - 1.32 U1 -

A note by the editor indicates that he supplied the title.

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An Old Pauper [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out. Suggestions for Social Reform Y1 - 1884 A1 - Charles J[oseph] Bellamy (1852-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reform tract that uses the utopian form. Limit on profit. More equal income distribution. All need to work. Eight hour work week. Limited inheritance. No monopolies. Free legal system. No individual property in land. Free, compulsory education as part of the process of improving the political system. Improved health care. See also his 1889 An Experiment in Marriage

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A World Divided. A Tale of Two Hemispheres. By An Observer in Mars, A.D. 2000” Y1 - 1884 KW - Australian author AB -

Satire starting with the Fenians, who succeed in splitting the world into two halves, intending that England and Ireland will be on separate halves, but they end up together. All Irish driven out of the U.S. Australia is split in two. The two halves of the world crash back together and destroy each other.

JF - Melbourne Punch (East Melbourne, VIC, Australia) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk Abroad (A Relation of Things Heard and Seen.) 1866" Y1 - 1881 A1 - James Thomson (1834-82) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A dystopia in which the protagonist takes a trip around the solar system and sees extreme poverty everywhere and then returns to Earth to find the same situation.

JF - Essays and Phantasies PB - Reeves and Turner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What May Happen in the Next 90 Days. The Disruption of the United States Or the Origin of the Second Civil War Y1 - 1877 AB -

Concerned with the 1876 presidential election in the U.S. between Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93) and Samuel Tilden (1814-86) and predicts a civil war if the election is stolen from Tilden, as it in fact was, followed by an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Np CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wasted Faculties" Y1 - 1875 A1 - [Dupuy, Charles Meredith] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay proposing the route to what he calls “this most wonderful Utopia, as some believe it to be” (6) based on full employment at good pay that will allow everyone to consume more. This will require regular investment, which requires a constant low interest rate. He ends by saying that “This is no Utopia. It is the channel toward which mankind is surely drifting” (6).

JF - Penn Monthly VL - 6 N1 -

Rpt. separately paged as by Chas. [Charles] M. Dupuy. Wasted Faculties. Reprinted from Penn Monthly for November, 1875. [Philadelphia, PA: Np, 1875?] 7 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What John Smith Saw in the Moon: A Christmas Story for Parties Who were Children Twenty years ago" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Fred H[arvey] Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with satirical elements. Technologically advanced. No money.

JF - The Workingman's Advocate (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his One Dollar's Worth. Illus. H. Mayer ([Chicago, IL]: Np, 1893), 5-44.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wicked World: An Allegory" Y1 - 1871 A1 - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. The eutopia of the fairies makes contact with the real world.

JF - Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1871 PB - Published at the Fun Office CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert. Ed. Peter Haining (London: Robson Books, 1982), 143-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Women's Millennium" Y1 - 1867 A1 - [Charles Heber] [Clark] (1847-1915) KW - Male author AB -

Quite standard gender-role reversal story. n his note Ketterer says that this appears to be the first such story.

JF - Daily Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 21.15 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Studies 15.1 (44) (March 1988): 83-86 "Introduced by David Ketterer" (82-83)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for Land-Babies" Y1 - 1862 A1 - Rev. Professor Charles Kingsley (1819-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Famous children's book that includes the presentation of a cockaigne-like utopia (the Doasyoulike) which is punished for living without care. The Water Babies slowly devolve back into apes. In addition, St. Brendan's Island is described, and Laputa from Gulliver's Travels and other utopias are briefly mentioned. A strong anti-Irish prejudice is present in the two main utopias.

JF - Macmillan's Magazine VL - 6.34 - 7.41 N1 -

Rev. illus. Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901). London: Macmillan, 1863. Rpt. illus. Linley Sambourne. London: Macmillan, 1886; and illus. W[illiam] Heath Robinson (1872-1944). London: Constable, 1915. U.S. ed. illus. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935). New York: Dodd and Mead, 1916. Critical eds. include The Water-Babies. Ed. Brian Alderson. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Textual Variants” (185-95), “The Iconography of The Water-Babies (197-200), and “Explanatory Notes) (201-30) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Richard D. Beards. New York: Penguin Books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxiii) and “Explanatory notes (191-98) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with illus. from various editions]; The Water-Babies. Ed. Richard Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (9-38) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with the illus. from the 1886 ed. and the 1863 illus. It also includes some other nineteenth century children’s literature, reviews of The Water-Babies, and some of Kingsley’s essays.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Brian Alderson with an Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (vii-xlix), “Textual Variants” (182-89), Kingsley, “The Wonders of the Shore” (190-201), and “Explanatory Notes” comp. by Alderson and rev. by Douglas-Fairhurst (203-35), [This ed. reprints the 1863 edition with its illustrations]. The book was advertized as the 150th anniversary ed., but this does not appear in the book.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World of Wonders; Or Divers Developments, Showing the Thorough Triumph of Animal Magnetism in New England. Illustrated by the Power of Prevision in Mrs. Matilda Fox, and the Point of the Pencil, by D.C. Johnston Y1 - 1838 A1 - Joel R. Peabody M.B. Fellow of the College of ‘Pothecaries KW - Male author AB -

The Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and the Sun are visited. Some utopias on other planets, including a Cockaigne on the sun. The moon is inhabited by strange creatures who live in social groups, Saturn is depicted as a eutopia with nine great cities, with all homes a quarter mile high. The people wear few clothes and are vegetarian. Jupiter is a planet early in its evolution. Reference is made to a second volume, but none exists.

PB - Robert S. Davis CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd and 3rd eds. Boston, MA: Robert S. Davis, 1838.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whitehall; or, the Days of George IV Y1 - 1827 A1 - [William] [Maginn] (1793-1842) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British politics presenting Britain as a completely corrupt dystopia.

PB - William Marsh CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderer, or Memoirs of Charles Searle, Esq.; Containing His Adventures by Sea and Land. With Many Remarkable Characters, and interesting Situations in Real Life; and a Variety of surprizing Incidents Y1 - 1766 A1 - [Charles] [Searle] AB -

Vol. 2 (126-44) contains a description of noble savages.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World that Now is, and the World that is to Come: Or the First and Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Wherein several Prophecies not yet fulfilled are Expounded Y1 - 1681 A1 - Han[serd] Knollys (ca. 1599-1691) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the Second Coming of Christ. The second part (105-48) describes the Second Coming and the actions that Christ will take in establishing his rule on earth. See also the author's The Parable of the Kingdom of Heaven Expounded. Or, An Exposition of the first thirteen Verses of the twenty fifth Chapter of Matthew. London: Ptd. for Benjamin Harris, 1674; An Exposition of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation. Wherein All those Things therein Revealed, which must shortly come to pass, are Explained. London: Np, 1679; and An Exposition Of the whole Book of the Revelation. Wherein The Visions and Prophecies of Christ Are Opened and Expounded: Shewing The great Conquests of our Lord Jesus Christ for his Church over all His and Her Adversaries, Pagan, Arian and Papal; and the glorious State of the Church of God in the New Heavens and New Earth, in these Latter Days. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1689.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Wealth is walkt awaye” Y1 - 1675 AB -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Western Wonder; or, O Brazeel, an Inchanted Island discovered; with a Relation of Two Ship-wracks in a dreadful Sea-storm in that discovery. To which is added, a Description of a Place, called, Montecapernia, relating the Nature of the People, their Qualities, Humours, Fashions, Religion, &c. Y1 - 1674 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Begins with an argument that O Brazeel is an actual island but enchanted. O Brazeel is in some ways a classic eutopia of abundance; ". . . whatever grew, came up spontaneously, without the labour of hands" (6), but the island was controlled by Satan, although it is freed from his rule. Montecapernia is both rich in parts and barren in parts. Generally considered to be a description of Ireland and Wales. 

PB - Ptd. for N.C CY - London N1 -

One copy at the British Library is in a volume of "Tracts on Ireland".

Rpt. London: Ptd. for N.C., 1676.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Womens Conquest. A Tragi-Comedy As it was Acted by Her Highness the Duke of York's Servants Y1 - 1671 A1 - E[dward] H[oward] (1624-1712) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on gender relations in which women temporarily establish female rule.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy. By bringing together a fit suitable and well qualified people unto one Household-government, or little-Commonwealth, Wherein every one may keep his propriety, and be imployed in some work or other, as he shall be fit, without being oppressed. Being the way not only to rid these and other nations from idle, evil and disorderly persons, but also from all such that have sought and found out many inventions to live upon the labour of others. Whereunto is also annexed an invitation to the Society, or little Common-wealth Y1 - 1659 A1 - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pamphlet that formed the basis for the first American intentional community founded in 1663 but destroyed in 1664 when the English conquered New Netherland. Goods not to be held in common. No common religious practices. Few laws. Annual election of the Governor. Six hours a day of work; children work a few hours a day to learn a trade.  See also 1659 Plockhoy, The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations.

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Rpt. in John Dowie, "The First Co-operative Commonwealth. Life and Work of Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.]." The Co-operative Review 7.40 - 41 (July - September 1933): 155-165; 200-212, which is rpt. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth, 1659. His Life and Works. 2nd ed. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth. Manchester, Eng.: Co-operative Union, [193?], which also includes his An Invitation to the Aforementioned Society, or Little Commonwealth Shewing the Excellency of the True Christian Love and the Folly of all Those Who Consider Not to What End the Lord of Heaven and Earth Hath Created Them. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1660.

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By Peter Cornelius, Van-Zurik-Zee [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations, Fully discovered in two Letters, delivered to his late Highnesse, and one to the present Parliament, As also one to Highness Richard Lord Protector, of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc. Wherein the liberty of speaking (which every one desire for himselfe) is opposed against Antichrist, for the procuring of his downfall, who will not grant same to others; And now published To awaken the publick spirits in England, and to raise up an universal Magistrate in Christendome, that will suffer all sorts of people, (of what Religion soever they are) in any one Countrey, as God (the great Magistrate) suffers the same in all Countreys of the world Y1 - 1659 A1 - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian essay with an emphasis on freedom of religion. See also 1659 Plockhoy, A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy.

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By Peter Cornelius, Van Zurick Zee, a lover of truth and peace [pseud.]

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