Utopia
-- Fiction --

The Republic by Plato
(360 BC... totalitarian commonwealth... there's an online version of the book translated by Benjamin Jowett at: http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/Plato/republic.sum.html... and a biography at Christensson's Philosopher Guide)

Utopia by Sir Thomas More
(1516...?, UK... utopia by decree... originally published in Latin)

Histoire du Grand et Admirable Royaume d'Antangil by T.I.D.M.G.
(1617)

Christianopolis by Johann Valentin Andreae
(1619... christian utopia... "translated [into english] in 1916 by Felix Emil Held under the title of Christianopolis: An Ideal State of the 17th Century . Oxford University Press. Mr Held's introduction contains an account of Andreae's life.")

The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
(1627... science-based community... check the biography by Michael F.Martens)
"Bacon contemplated writing a second part which would deal with the laws of his ideal commonwealth."

The City of the Sun by Tomasso Campanella
(1637... moral community...
"Published in 1637 as Civitas Solis Poetica: Idea Republicae Philosophiae .")

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of A Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes
(1651)

The Common-Wealth of Oceana by James Harrington
(1656)

Histoire Comique -- Voyage dans la Lune by Cyrano de Bergerac
(1657... lunar utopia)

Histoire des Etats et Empires du Soleil by Cyrano de Bergerac
(1662)

The Description of a New World, called The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
(1666)

The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi a nation inhabiting a part of the third continent commonly called Terra Australes Incognitae by d'Allais Vairasse
(1675... attributed to the fictional Captain Siden)

La Terre Australe connue, c'est à dire la description de ce pays inconnu jusques ici, de ses moeurs et de ses Coutumes by Gabriel de Foigny
(1676... published in english as A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis or the Southern World attributed to the fictional author M.Sadeur)

Les Aventures de Télémaque by François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon
(1699)

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
(1726...?, UK... political satire)

Candide by Voltaire
(1758, novel)

L'An deux mille quatre cent quarante by Louis Sebastien Mercier
(1770)

L'Isle inconnue, ou Mémoires du Chevalier de Gastines by author unknown
(1784)

Des Droits et des Devoirs du Citoyen by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
(1794-5)

De la Legislation, ou Principe des Loix by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
(1794-5)

The Commonwealth of Reason by W.Hodgson
(1795)

Description of Spensonia by Thomas Spence
(1795)

La Philosophie dans le Boudoir by Donatien Alphonse François Comte de Marquis de Sade
(1795)

Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville by Diderot
(1796)

Olbie by J.B.Say
(1800)

Voyage et Aventures de Lord William Carisdall en Icarie by Etienne Cabet
(1840)

The Happy Colony by Robert Pemberton
(1854... ?, London, UK)
"This is an appeal to the working class, somewhat similar in temper and method to Buckingham's appeal to the middle class. Pemberton had an individual system of psychology which he desired to apply in education. This utopia has now only a limited historical significance."

Paris in the 20th Century by Jules Verne
(written early 1860s, novel... remained unpublished until rediscovered in the 1990s... anti-utopia)
"Rampant capitalism has robbed society of its poetry, its art, its honor, and put in their place an enthusiastic centralization wherein industry and science alone are worshipped by an unrelievedly philistine society." --Richard Bernstein (in The New York Times , 27 December 1996).

The Coming Race: or the New Utopia by Lord Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
(1870, novel...?, UK, hbk... underground civilization, vril)
"A fantastic romance about a people who live underground, possess detachable wings, and command a potency known as 'vril'. It is perhaps not altogether without significance that this new hierarchy of industrial angels was conceived by Lytton in the same decade that saw the building of the Crystal Palace."

Erehwon by Samuel Butler
(1872, novel... ?, UK... satirical utopia)

The New Republic by William Hurrell Mallock
(1877)

Les Eleutheromanes by Diderot
(1884)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by A.Square
(1884...?, UK... mathematical fantasy... actually written by Edwin A.Abbott... complete text available online)

A Crystal Age by W.H.Hudson
(1887, novel... a pastoral future without industry or sex)

Looking Backward -- If Socialism Comes, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
(1888, novel...?, UK... socialist utopia)

News from Nowhere: or, an Epoch of Rest by William Morris
(1890, novel... first published in serial form in Commonweal , London, 11 January - 4 October 1890... reprinted in one volume, Kelmscott Press, London, UK, 1891... creative craft-based communities, non-authoritarian)

Freiland: ein sociales Zukunftsbild by Theodor Hertzka
(1890... the foundations for a capitalist utopia... translated into english by Arthur Ransome and published as Freeland, A Social Anticipation by the British Freeland Association in 1891)

Common-Sense Country by L.S.Bevington
(1890)

Caesar's Column by Edmund Boisgilbert
(1890... socialist future... actually written by Ignatius Donnelly)

4000: Casu Primerna Povest iz Prihodnjih Dob by Ivan Tavcar
(1891... optimistic future)

A Dream of John Ball by William Morris
(1892... first published in Commonweal , and as a pamphlet, 1892)

A Visit to Freeland, or the New Paradise Regained by Theodor Hertzka
(1894... capitalist utopia, the ideal commonwealth in action... translated into english by Arthur Ransome and published by the British Freeland Association)

The Time Machine by H.G.Wells
(1895, novel... dystopia... complete text available online)

Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
(1901, novel... ?, UK)

Neustria: Utopie Individualiste by Emile Thirion
(1901...?, Paris, France)
"This is one of the rare, deliberately individualistic utopias, founded on work, liberty, and property. It assumes that a colony of Girondists were able to establish themelves in South America."

Anticipations by H.G.Wells
(1901...?, UK)

Altneuland by Theodor Herzl
(1903... Leipzig)

A Modern Utopia by H.G.Wells
(1905, novel...?, UK, hbk... world state)

Sur la Pierre Blanche by Anatole France
(1905)

Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde
(1905...?, London, UK... translated by Cloudesley Brereton... preface by H.G.Wells)
"A deft and well-conceived fantasy, full of excellent criticism. Towards the past it is a utopia of reconstruction, towards the future -- but herein lies much of its charm! -- it is one of escape."

In the Days of the Comet by H.G.Wells
(1906, novel...?, UK... free love)

New Worlds for Old by H.G.Wells
(1908...?, UK)

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1915... feminist/socialist utopia... complete text available online)

Men Like Gods by H.G.Wells
(1923, novel...?, UK)

Nous Autres by Eugeny Ivanovich Zamyatin
(1929)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
(1932, novel... dystopia... genetic engineering and psychoactive drugs)

Star-Begotten: A Biological Fantasia by H.G.Wells
(1937... alien intervention, genetic engineering)

Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
(April 1942, novel)

Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel
(1946, novel, first english edition...?, New York, US... translated from the german by Gustave O.Arlt)
"20th-century human reincarnates into an utopian future earth."

1984 by George Orwell
(1948, novel...?, UK... dystopia... surveilance and thought control)

Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
(1948, novel...Harper, New York, US... dystopia, post-apocalyptic)

Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
(1952, novel, science fiction...Random House, New York, US... anti-utopian fear of peace)

Island by Aldous Huxley
(1962, novel... ideal pacific community... soma)

William Morris: Selected Writings and Designs by William Morris
(collection published 1962)

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
(1970, novel... dystopia)

The Mask of John Culon by Edward W.Ludwig
(1970, novel, science fiction... future dystopia, suspended animation)

Teg's 1994: An Anticipation of the Near Future by Robert Theobald and J.M.Scott
(1972...?, US... economic perspective... guaranteed annual income)

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
(1974, novel, science fiction...?, US)

Ecotopia: A novel about ecology, people and politics in 1999 by Ernest Callenbach
(1975, novel... ecological utopia)

Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia by Samuel R.Delany
(1976, novel, science fiction...?, US)

Far Out West by Even Eve
(1976, comic... published in San Francisco... utopian comicbook)

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
(1976, novel... utopia, science fiction, fantasy)

Enemies of the System by Brian W.Aldiss
(1978, novel... dystopia)

Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach
(1981, novel... ecological utopia... the prequel)

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
(1985, novel... dystopia... adapted as a feature film)

Out On Blue Six by Ian McDonald
(1989, novel, science fiction, satire... dystopia... love police)

Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
(1988, novel, science fiction... ideal cyberculture)

Inside the Robot Kingdom by Frederik Schodt
(19??... robotopia)

Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson
(1990, novel, science fiction... utopian near future)

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
(1993, novel...Bantam, New York, US... eco-feminist...) "...recognises the struggle to attain/maintain utopia." --Susie (in Head , Issue 8, February 1998).

Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias edited by Kim Stanley Robinson
(July 1994, anthology, science fiction...Tor, New York, US, hbk... ecotopias)

Rushing to Paradise by J.G.Ballard
(1994, novel, science fiction... utopian compound on a remote tropical island)

Distress by Greg Egan
(1995, novel, science fiction... informed anarchy, non-authoritarian utopia)

Protektor by Charles Platt
(February 1996, novel, science fiction... automated welfare state, terraformed planet)

Fremder by Russell Hoban
(1996, novel, science fiction... dystopian future)

Pirates of the Universe by Terry Bisson
(April 1996, novel, science fiction... dystopian 21st century)

A Second Infinity by Michael D.Weaver
(June 1996, novel, science fiction... far future utopia, longevity)

Lightpaths by Howard V.Hendrix
(September 1997, novel, science fiction...Ace, New York, US, pbk, ISBN 0-441-00470-9... space colony, utopia)

"Dystopia" by Wojciech Dragan
("I am a boy from Amsterdam and I am writing in Dutch a novel about a society in 2016, which seems to be very real and it looks as if this society is the reality we are going towards." --Wojciech Dragan, e-mail: woy@dds.nl...
uncertain about the title)

"Infinite Optimism" by Robert S.Pearson
(a fictional scenario... future Madrid, 2155 AD, made utopian by the use of biodegradable technology based on genetically engineered plants...
this link takes you to an extract)

"Techno-Pastoralism" by Marshall Motley
(short story online, science fiction... may be removed by the author)
"Utopian future without gasoline and cities are empty because of the new philosophy and the beneficial effect of using AIs for all information distribution jobs. Some people don't fit in. This is their story." --Marshall Motley.

"Utopian" by Mack Reynolds
(short story, science fiction, published in the anthology The Year 2000 edited by Harry Harrison, 1970... protagonist from the 1930s/1940s revived in the year 2000)

*note: Although this listing is a bit out-of-date, it does contain all the major works as well as some of the more interesting lesser known ones... and remains a good reference source.

My personal archives were stolen in 1979, so it will be difficult for me to provide the publishing information. But I'll add commentary or a synopsis wherever possible.

New additions are welcome (include: Title, Author, Date, Publisher, and a brief Description).

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