The New York Public Library

Utopian Literature: A Selective Bibliography

Denis Bruckmann, Laurent Portes, and Lyman Tower Sargent

This chronological bibliography has been compiled in part from the following sources: Raymond Trousson, Voyage au pays de nulle part: histoire littéraire de la pensée utopique (Brussels: Université de Bruxelles, 1975); Lyman Tower Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516—1985: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1988), plus unpublished supplements; Pierre Versins, Encyclopédie de l’utopie des voyages extraordinaires et de la science fiction (Lausanne: L’Age d’homme, 1972); Lewis, Arthur O., Utopian Literature in The Pennsylvania State University Libraries: A Selected Bibliography (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984); Negley, Glenn, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with a Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978); and Winter, Michael, Compendium Utopiarum: Typologie und Bibliographie literarischer Utopien,Vol. 1: Von der Antike bis zur deutschen Frühaufklarung. Repertorium zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, vol. 8 (Stuttgart, Germany: J. B. Metzler, 1978). In addition, Professors Raffaella Baccolini, Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Carol Farley Kessler, Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard, Arthur O. Lewis, Timothy Miller, Kenneth M. Roemer, and Qingyun Wu made suggestions.

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16th C

1516 More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo reip[ublicae] statu, deq[ue] noua Insula Vtopia. [Louvain, Belgium]: Arte Theodorice Martini. In English: Utopia. Ed. and trans. George M. Logan and Robert M. Adams. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Ed., with introduction and notes, Edward Surtz, S.J. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964.

1521 Eberlin von Günzburg, Johann. New Statuten die Psitacus gebracht hat uss dem Land Wolfaria welche beträffendt Reformierung geystlichen stand... . Der X Bundtgnosz and Ein newe Ordnüng weltlichs standts des Psitacus anzeigt hat in Wolfaria beschriben. Der XI Bundtgnosz. Basel: Pamphile Gegenbach.

1525 Müntzer, Thomas. Etwa Pfarrer zu Altstat. Regensburg: Paul Kohl.

1527 Guevara, Antonio de. Libro aureo de Marco Aurelio,emperador y eloquentissimo orator, nuovamente impresso. Valladolid: N. Thierri.

1532 [Rabelais, François]. Les Grandes et inestimables cronicques du grant et énorme géant Gargantua, contenant sa généalogie, la grandeur et force de son corps. Aussi les merveilleux faictz d’armes qu’il fist pour le roy Artus, comme verrez cy après. Imprimé nouvellement. By Alcofribas Nasier [pseud.]. Lyon: A. D.

1552 Doni, Antonio Francesco. I Mondi del Doni... . Vinegia: F. Marcolini.

1553 Patrizi, Francesco. La Citta Felice. Venice: G. Griffio.

1555 Stiblin, Gaspar. Coropædia, sive de Moribus et vita virginum sacrarum ... Ejusdem de Eudæmonensium republica commentariolus. Basel: for J. Oporinum.

1579 Nicholas, Thomas. A Pleasant dialogue betweene a lady called Listra, and a pilgrim, concerning the government and common weale of the great province of Crangalor. London: J. Charlewood.

1580 Agostini, Lodovico. La Repubblica immaginaria di Ludivico Agostini. Turin: L. Firpo.

1590 Sidney, Sir Philip. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. London: W. Ponsonbie.

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17th C

1600 Floyd, Thomas. The Picture of a perfit Common Wealth, describing as well the offices of princes and inferiour magistrates over their subjects, as also the duties of subjects towards their governours. London: S.Stafford.

1605 Artus, Thomas, sieur d’Embry. Les Hermaphrodites. N.p.

1605 [Hall, Joseph]. Mundus alter et idem, sive Terra australis antehac semper incognita, longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata. London, H. Lownes. In English: The Discovery of A New World or A Description of the South Indies, Hetherto Unknowne. By An English Mercury [pseud.]. [London]: Imprinted by G. Eld for Ed. Blount and W. Barrett, [1609]. New translation as Another World and Yet the Same: Bishop Joseph Hall’s Mundus Alter et Idem. Trans. and ed. John Millar Wands. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981.

1609 La Vega, Garcilaso de, El Inca. Primera parte de los commentarios reales, que tratan del origen de los Yncas. Lisbon: P. Crasbeeck.

1611 Shakespeare, William. The Tempest Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, histories and tragedies. First published in 1623: London: I. Jaggard and E. Blount.

1614 Boccalini, Trajano. De’ Ragguagli di Parnaso, di Trajano Boccalini ... centuria prima. Milan: G. B. Bidelli.

1616 Histoire du grand et admirable Royaume d’Antangil incogneu jusques a present à tous historiens et cosmographes... . Le tout compris en cinq livres, par J. D. M. G. T. Saumur: T. Maire.

1619 Andreae, Johann Valentin. Reipublicæ Christianopolitanæ descriptio. Strasbourg: Héritier de L. Zetner.

1621 [Burton, Robert]. ["An Utopia of Mine Owne"]. "Democritus Iunior to the Reader." Pp. 56—61 in his The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Severall Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions with their seuereii Sections Members and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up. By Democritus Iunior [pseud.]. Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, 1621. Over the various editions, this section tripled in size. Critical ed. as The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ed. Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kessling, and Rhonda L. Blair. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989—94, 1: 85—103.

1621 Zuccolo, Lodivico. Considerationi politiche e morali. Venice: M. Ginami.

1623 Campanella, Tommaso. Politicae Civitas Solis Idea Reipublicae Philosophicae. Appendix to Part 4 of Realis Philosophiae Epilogisticae. Frankfurt, 1623. In English (in bilingual ed.): Trans. Daniel J. Donno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Also trans. A. M. Elliott and R. Millner. London: Journeyman Press, 1981.

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1625 La Pierre, Jean de. Le Grand Empire de l’un et l’autre monde divisé en trois royaumes: le royaume des aveugles, des borgnes et des clair-voyants. Paris: D. Moreau.

1627 [Bacon, Francis]. New Atlantis, A Worke unfinished. Added to Sylva sylvarium or a Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. London: Printed by J[ohn] H[aviland and Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee.

1634 Kepler, Johann. Somnium, seu Opus posthumum de astronomia lunari. Frankfurt, n.p.

1638 [Godwin, Francis]. The Man in the Moone; or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither. By Domingo Gonsales [pseud.]. London: Printed by John Norton.

1640 Sgualdi, abbate Vicenzo. Republica di Lesbo, overo della Ragione di Stato in un dominio aristocratico. Bologna: N. Tebaldini.

1641 [Plattes, Gabriel]. A Description of the famous Kingdom of Macaria; shewing its excellent Government, wherein the Inhabitants live in great Prosperity, Health, and Happiness; the King obeyed, the Nobles honoured, and all good Men respected; Vice punished, and Virtue rewarded. An Example to other Nations: In a Dialogue between a Scholar and a Traveller. London: Printed for Francis Constable.

1648 [Gott, Samuel]. Novae solymae. Libri Sex. Londini: Typis Johannis Legati. Republished as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum. London: Typis Johannis Legati, 1649. Second ed. as Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Drawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton. Edited by Rev. Walter Begley. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1902.

1650 Scudéry, Madeleine de. Histoire de Sapho,in Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus. Paris: Courbé (2nd ed.).

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1652 Winstanley, Gerrard. The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths Army in England, Scotland, and Ireland. And to all Englishmen my brethren whether in Church-fellowship, or not in Church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the Order of The Gospel: and from them to all the Nations in the World. Wherin is Declared, What is Kingly Government, and what is Common-wealths Government. London: Printed for the author.

1655 [Cavendish, Margaret]. Lady M[argaret] of Newcastle. "The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth, the Author cares not in what World it is established." PP. 205—12 in her The Worlds Olio. London: Printed for J. Martin Allestrye, 1655. 2nd ed. London: A. Maxwell, 1671, 399—412.

1656 Harrington, James. The Common-Wealth of Oceana. London: Livewell Chapman.

1657 Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien de. Histoire comique contenant les états et empires de la Lune. Paris: C. de Sercy. In English: Cyrano de Bergerac’s Voyages to the Moon and the Sun. Trans. and notes by Richard Aldington, intro. by John Wells. London: Folio Society, 1991.

1659 Baxter, Richard. A Holy Commonwealth, or Political Aphorisms, Opening the true Principles of Government: For The Healing of the Mistakes, and Resolving the Doubts, that most endanger and trouble ENGLAND at this time: (if yet there may be hope.) And directing the desires of sober Christians that long to see the Kingdoms of this world, become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ. London: Printed for Thomas Underhill and Francis Taylor. Modern ed.: Ed. William Lamont. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

1659 Eliot, John. The Christian Commonwealth: Or, The Civil Policy of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written Before the Interruption of the Government. London: Printed for Livewell Chapman.

1659 [Plockhoy, Pieter]. 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. By Peter Cornelius, Van-Zurik-Zee [pseud.]. London: Printed for G.C.

1659 Pure, Michel de. Epigone, histoire du siècle futur... . Paris: P. Lamy.

1660 H., R., Esquire. New Atlantis. Begun by the Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans: and Continued by R. H. Esquire. Wherein is set forth a Platform of Monarchical Government. With A Pleasant intermixture of divers rare Inventions, and wholsom customs, fit to be introduced into all Kingdoms, States, and Common-Wealths. London: Printed for John Crooke.

1665 Zieglschmid, A.J.F. Die älteste Chronik des hutterischen Brüder. First published in 1943: Ithaca, N.Y.: The Cayuga Press.

1666 [Cavendish, Margaret], Duchess of Newcastle. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. Part IV (separately paged) of her Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy. London: Printed by J. Maxwell.. First separate publication: London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668.

1668 [Neville, Henry]. The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita, by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.]. Wherein is contained, A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount (as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation (written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) is here annexed with the Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the scituation and felicity thereof, with other matter observable. London: Printed for Allen Banks and Charles Harper.

1669 Le Grand, Antonii. Scydromedia seu sermo, quem Alphonsus de la Vida Habuit Coram Comite de Falmouth, De Monarchia. London: n.p.

1669 Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoph von. Simplicissimus. Nuremberg: W. E. Felsecker.

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1675 Barnes, Joshua. Gerania: A New Discovery of a Little sort of People Anciently Discoursed of, called Pygmies. With a lively Description Of their Stature, Habit, Manners, Buildings, Knowledge, and Government, being very delightful and profitable. London: Printed by W. G. for Obadia Blagrave.

1675 Vairasse, Denis. The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi; a Nation inhabiting part of the third Continent, Commonly called, Terra Australis Incognitae. With an Account of their admirable Government, Religion, Customs, and Language. Written By one Captain Siden [pseud.]. A worthy Person, Who, together with many others, was Cast upon those Coasts, and lived many Years in that Country. [Translated by A. Roberts]. London: Printed for Henry Brome. The second part, published in 1679, has the identical title except that A further replaces an before Account and The Second Part more wonderful and delightful than the First is added after Country. First published in French as L’Histoire [Histoire, Conclusion de l’Histoire] des Sevarambes, peuples [sic] qui habitent une partie du troisième continent communément appellé [sic] la Terre australe. Paris: C. Barbin, 1677.

1676 Foigny, Gabriel de. La Terre australe connue, c’est-à-dire la description de ce pays inconnu jusqu’ici, de ses mœurs et de ses coutumes, par Mr Sadeur... . Vannes [Geneva]: J. Verneuil. In English: The Southern Land, Known. Trans. and ed. David Fausett. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

1681 Fleury, Claude. Les Mœurs des Isrëalites. Paris: Veuve G. Clouzier.

1686 Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de. Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Paris: Veuve C. Blageart.

1686 Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de. Relation de l’Ile de Bornéo,in Pierre Bayle, Nouvelles de la République des lettres, janvier 1686.

1689 L'Epy, M. Heliogenes de. A Voyage into Tartary. Containing a Curious Description of that Country, with part of Greece and Turky; the Manners, Opinions, and Religion of the Inhabitants therein; with some other Incidents. London: Printed by T. Hodgkin.

1693 [Lee, Francis]. Antiquity Reviv'd or the Government of a Certain island Antiently Called Astreada, In Reference to Religion, Policy, War, and Peace. Some hundreds of Years Before the Coming of Christ. London: n.p.

1694 [Astell, Mary]. A Serious Proposal To the Ladies; For the Advancement of their true and greatest Interest. By A Lover of Her Sex [pseud.]. London: Printed for K. Wilkin.

1696 The Free State of Noland. London: Printed for J. Whitlock. 18 pp. 2nd ed. as The Free State of Noland: or, The Frame and Constitution of that Happy, Noble, Powerful, and Glorious State. In which all Sorts and Degrees of People find their Condition Better'd. London: Printed for D. Brown, 1701. 61 pp.

1698 An Essay Concerning Adepts: or, A Resolution of this Inquiry, How it cometh to pass that Adepts, if there are any in the World, are no more Beneficial to Mankind than they have been known hitherto to be, and whether there could be no way to Encourage them to Communicate themselves. With some Resolutions concerning the Principles of the Adeptists; And a Model, Practicable, and Easy, of living in Community. By A Philadept [pseud.]. London: Printed by J. Mayos.

1699 Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe. Suite du quatrième livre de l’Odyssée d’Homère ou les Avantures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. Paris: Veuve Barbin. Modern ed. in English: Telemachus, Son of Ulysses. Ed. and trans. Patrick Riley. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

1699 Der Wohleingerichte Staat. Leipzig: n.p.

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18th C

1700 Gilbert, Claude. Histoire de Calejava ou de l’isle des hommes raisonnables, avec le paralelle de leur morale et du christianisme. [Printed at Dijon].

1703 Russen, David of Hythe. Iter Lunare: or, A Voyage to the Moon. Containing Some Consideration on the Nature of that Planet. The Possibility of getting thither. With other Pleasant Conceits about the Inhabitants, their Manners and Customs. London: Printed for J. Nutt.

1706 Lesconvel, Pierre de. Nouvelle relation du voyage du prince de Montberaud dans l’isle de Naudely. Mérinde [Paris or Liège?]: Innocent Démocrite.

1708 Psalmanaazaar [also spelled Psalmanazar], George [pseud.]. An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island Subject to the Emperor of Japan. Giving an Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants. Together with a Relation of what happen'd to the Author in his Travels; particularly his Conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several Parts of Europe. Also the History and Reasons of his Conversion to Christianity, with his Objections against it (in defence of Paganism) and their Answers. To which is prefix'd, A Preface in Vindication of himself from the Reflections of a Jesuit lately come from China, with an Account of what passed between them. London: Printed for Dan. Brown, G. Strahan, and W. Davis, and Fran. Coggan.

1708 Smeeks, Hendrick. Beschryvnge van het magtig koningryk Krinke Kesmes. Amsterdam. In English: The Mighty Kingdom of Kinke Kesmes (1708). Presented by David Fausett. Trans. Robert-H. Leek. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.

1710 Tyssot de Patot, Simon. Voyages et avantures de Jaques Massé. Cologne [La Haye]: Jaques Kainkus. In English: The Travels and Adventures of James Massey. London, 1733.

1711 Lefebvre, François. Relation du voyage de l’isle d’éutopie. Delft: H. Van Rhin.

1715 [Morgan, Joseph]. The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, Containing A Relation of the most Memorable Transactions, Revolutions and Heroick Exploits in that Kingdom, from the first Foundation thereof unto this present time. Collected from the most Antient Records of that Country, and translated into our Language, not only for Delight, but for the abundant Instruction that may be learned there-from, in these Remote Parts. Written in Discharge of the Trust reposed in the Author by his Majesty, for the Discovery of Foreign things. By a Traveller in Basaruah [pseud.]. Boston: n.p. [actually New York: Bradford]. Reprinted as The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, and Three Unpublished Letters. Ed. Richard Schlatter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1946.

1719 [Defoe, Daniel]. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Ship wreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver'd by pyrates. Written by Himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor.

1720 Tyssot de Patot, Simon. La Vie, les aventures et le voyage de Groënland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mésange. ... Amsterdam: E. Roger.

1721 Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de. Lettres persanes. Cologne: P. Marteau.

1723 Sinold von Schütz, Philipp Balthasar. Die Glüseeligate Insul. Leipzig: n.p.

1726 [Swift, Jonathan]. Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver [pseud.]. 2 vols. London: Printed for Beng. Motte.

1727 Brunt, Captain Samuel. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country. London: Printed by J. Watson. Reprinted, New York: The Facsimile Text Society, 1940.

1730 Desfontaines, Pierre-François Guyot. Le Nouveau Gulliver ou Voyage de Jean Gulliver, fils du capitaine Gulliver... . Paris: Veuve Clouzier.

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1731 Prévost, abbé Antoine-François. Le Philosophe anglois ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell. Paris: F. Didot.

1731 [Schnabel, Johann Gottfried]. Die Insel Felsenburg. By Gisander [pseud.]. Nordhausen: J. H. Gross.

1731 Terrasson, abbé Jean. Sethos, histoire, ou Vie tirée des monumens anecdotes de l’ancienne Egypte, traduite d’un manuscrit grec. Paris: J. Guérin.

1734 Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de. Lamekis ou les Voyages extraordinaires d’un Egyptien dans la terre intérieure avec la découverte de l’îsle des Silphides. Paris: L. Dupuis. Reprinted in Voyages imaginaires,1787.

1734 Rustaing de Saint-Jory, Louis. Les Femmes militaires, relation historique d’une île nouvellement découverte. Paris: C. Simon.

1737 [Berington (sometimes spelled Berrington), Simon]. The Memoirs of Sigr Guadentio di Lucca [pseud.]: Taken from his Confession and Examination before the Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna in Italy. Making a Discovery of an Unknown Country in the midst of the Vast Deserts of Africa, as Ancient, Populous, and Civilized, as the Chinese. With an Account of their Antiquity, Origine, Religion, Customs, Polity, &c. and the Manner how they got first over those vast Deserts. Interspers’d with several most suprizing and curious Incidents. Copied from the original Manuscript kept in St. Mark’s Library at Venice: With Critical Notes of the Learned Signor Rhedi, late Library-Keeper of the said Library. To which is prefix’d, a Letter of the Secretary of the Inquisition, to the same Signor Rhedi, giving an Account of the Manner and Causes of his being seized. Faithfully Translated from the Italian, by E. T. Gent [written in English]. London: Printed for T. Cooper.

1741 Holberg, Ludwig. Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum. Copenhagen and Leipzig: J. Preus. In English:Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground. Ed. James I. McNelis, Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1960.

1745 [Kirkby, John]. The Capacity and Extent of the Human Understanding; Exemplified In the Extraordinary Case of Automathes; A Young Nobleman, Who was Accidentally left in his Infancy, upon a desolate Island, and continued Nineteen Years in that solitary State, separated from all Human Society. A Narrative Abounding with many surprizing Occurrences, both Useful and Entertaining to the Reader. London: Printed for R. Manby and H. Shute Cox.

1749 Seriman, Zaccaria. Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle Terre Incognite Australi, ed al Paese delle Scimmie. Venice: Giovanni Tagier.

1749 Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François. L’Amour dévoilé ou le systême des simpathistes, où l’on explique l’origine de l’amour, des inclinations, des simpathies, des aversions, des antipathies, etc. N.p.

1751 Coyer, abbé Gabriel-François. Découverte de l’Isle frivole, augmentée de l’Année merveilleuse ou les hommes-femmes. La Haye: J. Swart.

1751 [Paltock, Robert]. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Woman that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. With an INTRODUCTION, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Death on landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several CUTS, clearly and distinctly representing the Structure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either to swim or fly. London: J. Robinson and R. Dodsley.

1752 Maubert de Gouvest, Jean-Henri. Lettres iroquoises. Irocopolis: chez les Vénérables.

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1752 Stanislaw Leszczynski, Stanislas I, King of Poland. Entretien d’un européen avec un insulaire du Royaume de Dumocala.

1752 Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de. Micromégas. London [Paris]: Lambert.

1753 Morelly. Naufrage des isles flottantes ou Basiliade du célèbre Pilpai, poème héroïque traduit de l’indien. Messine [Paris]: Une société de libraires.

1753 [Smith, William]. A General Idea of the College of Mirania; with a sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the several classes and some account of rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals etc. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New York. New York: Printed by J. Parker and W. Weyman.

1755 Morelly. Code de la nature ou le Véritable esprit de ses lois de tout temps négligé ou méconnu. N.p.

1755 Voyages curieux d’un philadelphe dans des pays nouvellement découverts. La Haye: aux dépens de la compagnie.

1755 A Voyage to the World in the Centre of the Earth. Giving an account of the manners, customs, laws, government and religion of the inhabitants. Their Persons and Habits described: With several other Particulars. In which is introduced, The History of an Inhabitant of the Air, Written by Himself. With some account of the planetary worlds. London: Printed for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate.

1759 Voltaire, François Marie Arouet, dit. Candide ou l’Optimisme. Geneva: Cramer. In English: Candid: or, All for the Best. London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1759. Modern ed.: Voltaires's Candide: A Bilingual Edition., Trans. and ed. Peter Gay, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963.

1759 Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley. Also known as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. London: Harrison and Company, 1787; and Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: Printed for Joseph Wennman, 1787.

1760 Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François. Giphantie. Babylone [Paris]: Durand.

1761 Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François. L’émpire des Zaziris sur les humains ou la Zazirocratie. Pékin [Paris]: Dsmgtlfpqxz.

1762 Deschamps, Dom Léger-Marie, O.S.B. Le Vrai Système ou le Mot de l’énigme métaphysique et morale. First published in 1939: Paris: Droz. The date of 1762 was assigned by Raymond Trousson.

1762 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique. Amsterdam: M. M. Rey.

1762 [Scott, Mrs. Sarah Robinson]. A Description of Millenium Hall, And the Country Adjacent: Together with the Character of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, As May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue. By a Gentleman on his Travels [pseud.]. London: Printed for J. Newbery.

1763 The Reign of George VI 1900—1925. London: Printed for W. Nicholl. Reprinted, London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972.

1764 [Burgh, James]. An Account of the First Settlement, Laws, Form of Government, and Police, of the Cessares, a People of South America: In Nine Letters, from Mr. Vander Neck [pseud.]. one of the Senators of that Nation, to his Friend in Holland. With Notes by the Editor. London: Printed for J. Payne.

1765 Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François. Histoire des Galligènes ou Mémoires de Duncan. Paris: Veuve Durand.

1768 Coyer, abbé Gabriel-François. Chinki, histoire cochinchinoise qui peut servir à d’autres pays. London: n.p.

1768 Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de, and S. Van Doelvelt. La République des philosophes ou Histoire des Ajaoiens. Geneva: n.p.

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1769 Private Letters from an American in England to his Friends in America. London: Printed for J. Almon. Reprinted as Anticipation, or The Voyage of an American to England in the Year 1899, in a series of letters, humourously describing the supposed situation of this Kingdom at that Period. London: Printed for W. Lane, 1781.

1769 Restif de La Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme. Le Pornographe ou Idées d’un honnête homme sur un projet de réglement pour les prostituées, propre à prévenir les malheurs qu’occasionne le publicisme des femmes, avec des notes historiques et justificatives. London: J. Nourse.

1770 or 1771 Diderot, Denis. Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville ou Dialogue entre A et B sur l’inconvénient d’attacher des idées morales à certaines actions physiques qui n’en comportent pas. First published in 1921: Paris: Ed. de la Nouvelle Revue française.

1771 Mercier, Louis Sébastien. L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante, rêve s’il en fût jamais. London [probably Lausanne]. In English: Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred. Trans. W. Hooper. London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1772; Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1795.

1772 Haller, Albrecht von. Usong, eine morgenländische Geschichte in vier Büchern. Bern: Verlag der neuen Buchhandlung.

1777 Restif de La Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme. Les Gynographes ou Idées de deux honnêtes femmes sur un projet de règlement proposé à toute l’Europe pour mettre les femmes à leur place et opérer le bonheur des deux sexes, avec notes historiques et justificatives. La Haye: Gosse et Pinet.

1778 [Elliott, John, supposed author]. The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, Into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, and Auditante, in New-Zealand; in the Island of Bonhommica, and in the powerful Kingdom of Luxo-volupto, on the Great Southern Continent. Written by Himself; Who went on shore in the Adventure's large Cutter, at Queen Charlotte's Sound New Zealand, the fatal 17th of December 1773; and escaped being cut off, and devoured, with the rest of the Boat's crew, by happening to be a-shooting in the woods; where he was afterwards unfortunately left behind by the Adventure. By Hildebrand Bowman [pseud.]. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell.

1781 Restif de La Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme. La Découverte australe par un homme volant ou le Dédale français, nouvelle très philosophique, suivie de la lettre d’un singe. . . . Paris: Veuve Duchesne.

1782 Restif de La Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme. L’Andrographe ou Idées d’un honnête homme sur un projet de règlement proposé à toutes les nations de l’Europe pour opérer une réforme générale des mœurs, et, par elle, le bonheur du genre humain. La Haye: Gosse et Pinet.

1782 [Spence, Thomas]. A Supplement to the History of Robinson Crusoe, Being the History of Crusonia, or Robinson Crusoe's Island, Down to the Present Time. Copied from a letter sent by Mr. Wishit, Captain of the Good-Intent, to an intelligent Friend in England, after being in a Storm in May, 1781 driven out of his course to the Said Island. Published by the said Gentleman, for the agreeable Perusal of Robinson Crusoe’s Friends of all Sizes. New ed. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: T. Saint.

1784 Grivel, Guillaume. L’Isle inconnue ou Mémoires du chevalier Des Gastines, recueillis et publiés par M. Grivel. Paris: B. Le Franq. In Voyages imaginaires,1787.

1784 Restif de La Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme. Les Contemporaines ou Avantures des plus jolies femmes de l’âge présent, recueillies par N [Restif de la Bretonne], vol. II: Les Associés. Paris: Veuve Duchesne (2nd ed.).

1787 Casanova di Seingalt, Giacomo Girolamo. Icosaméron ou Histoire d’Edouard et d’Elisabeth qui passèrent quatre-vingts-un ans chez les Mégamicres, habitans aborigènes du Protocosme dans l’intérieur de notre globe. Prague: Ecole normale. In English: Casanova's "Icosameron." ... Trans. Rachel Zurer. New York: Jenna Press, 1986.

1787 Heinse, Wilhelm. Ardinghello und die Glückseeligen Inseln.. ... Lemgo: Meyer.

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1787 Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques ornés de figures. Amsterdam and Paris: Cuchet, then Panckoucke, 36 vols. published up to 1789.

1791 Beffroy de Reigny, Louis-Abel, called Cousin Jacques. Nicodème dans la lune ou la Révolution pacifique, folie en prose et en 3 actes, mêlée d’ariettes et de vaudevilles. ... Paris: Froullé.

1791 Bentham, Jeremy. Panopticon; or, The inspection-house: containing the idea of a new principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment, in which persons of any description are to be kept under inspection... . London: T. Payne.

1791 Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de. Catéchisme de la Constitution, à l’usage des habitans de la campagne, par un député de l’Assemblée nationale. N.p.

1791 Paine, Thomas. Rights of man, being an answer to Mr Burke’s attack on the French Revolution. London: J. S. Jordan.

1791 Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de. Les Ruines ou Méditation sur les révolutions des empires. Paris: Desenne.

1792 Fokke Simonsz, Arend. Het toekomend Jaar 3000. Amsterdam: Fokke Simonsz.

1792 Le Mercier de La Rivière, Pierre-Paul-François-Joachim-Henri. L’Heureuse Nation ou Relations du gouvernement des Féliciens, peuple souverainement libre sous l’empire absolu de ses loix. ... Paris: Buisson.

1792 Le Sueur, Théodore. Idées sur l’espèce de gouvernement populaire qui pourrait convenir à un pays de l’étendue et de la population de la France, essai présenté à la Convention nationale, par un citoyen. Paris: Mayer.

1792 Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the rights of woman, with strictures on political and moral subjects. London: J. Johnson.

1793 Aratus. A Voyage to the Moon strongly recommended to all lovers of real freedom. London.

1793 Cloots, Anacharsis. Bases constitutionnelles de la République du genre humain. Paris: Imprimerie nationale.

1793 Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness. 2 vols. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson.

1795 Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain. Paris: Agasse.

1795 Hodgson, William. The Commonwealth of reason. London: H. D. Symonds.

1795 Kant, Immanuel. Zum ewigen Frieden, ein philosophischer Entwurf. Königsberg: F. Nicovius. In English: Perpetual Peace. Trans., with an introduction, by Lewis White Beck. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957.

1795 [Northmore, Thomas]. Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar. By Phileleutherus Devoniensis [pseud.]. London: Printed by Vaughan Griffiths.

1795 Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François. Aline et Valcour ou le roman philosophique. Paris: Veuve Girouard.

1795 Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François. La Philosophie dans le boudoir, ouvrage posthume de l’auteur de Justine. London.

1796 [Whitmore, W.; sometimes ascribed to H. Whitmore]. Modern Gulliver's Travels. Lilliput: Being A New Journey to that Celebrated Island. Containing a Faithful Account of the Manners, Character, Customs, Religion, Laws, Politics, Revenue, Taxes, Learning, General Progress in Arts and Sciences, Dress, Amusements, and Gallantry of Those Famous Little People. From the Year 1702 (when they were first discovered and visited by Captain Lemuel Gulliver, the Father of the Compiler of this Work), to the present Aera 1796. By Lemuel Gulliver, Jun. [pseud.]. London: Printed for T. Chapman.

1798 Restif de La Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme. L’Anti-Justine ou les Délices de l’amour. Paris: Veuve Girouard.

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1800 Say, Jean-Baptiste. Olbie ou éssai sur les moyens de réformer les mœurs d’une nation. Paris: Deterville.

1802 [Lithgow, John]. "Equality — A Political Romance." The Temple of Reason 2, nos. 17—23 (May 22—July 3, 1802). Reprinted as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia: Liberal Union, 1827; and Boston: Published by J. P. Mendum, 1863. Also published as Equality, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1947.

1803 Gallet, Pierre. Voyage d’un habitant de la Lune à Paris à la fin du xviiie siècle. Paris: Levrault.

1805 Grainville, Jean-Baptiste Cousin de. Le Dernier Homme. Paris: Deterville (posthumously published).

1808 Fourier, Charles. Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales. Prospectus et annonce de la découverte. Leipzig [Lyon: M. Rustand]. In English: The Theory of the Four Movements. Ed. Gareth Stedman Jones and Ian Patterson. Trans. Ian Patterson. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

1808 Jaunez-Sponville, Pierre-Ignace, and Nicolas Bugnet. La Philosophie du Ruvarebohni, pays dont la découverte semble d’un grand intérêt pour l’homme... . [Paris]: Impr. de Le Normant.

1810 Mosneron de Launay, Jean-Baptiste. Le Vallon aérien ou Relation d’un voyage d’un aéronaute dans un pays inconnu. Paris: J. Chaumeret.

1810 Voss, Julius von. Ini, ein Roman aus dem 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: K. F. Amelang.

1811 Lawrence, James. The Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women. An Eutopian Romance. 4 vols. in 2. London: Printed for T. Hookham and E. T. Hookham.

1812 Wyss, Johann. Der schweizerische Robinson oder der schiffbrüchige Schweizer-Prediger und seiner Familie. Zurich: Orell. Modern ed. in English: The Swiss Family Robinson. Ed., with an introduction, by John Seelye. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

1813 [Owen, Robert]. A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice. By One of His Majesty's Justices of Peace for the Country of Lanark [pseud.]. London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, by Richard Taylor and Co.

1814 Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de, and Augustin Thierry. De la réorganisation de la société européenne ou De la nécessité et des moyens de rassembler les peuples de l’Europe en un seul corps politique, en conservant à chacun son indépendance nationale. Paris: A. Egron.

Ca. 1816 Fourier, Charles. Le Nouveau Monde amoureux. First French publication in 1999: Ed., with notes and introduction, by Simone Debout-Oleszkiewicz. Paris: Stock. In English: published in part in The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier. Trans. and ed. Jonathan Beecher and Richard Bienvenu. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.

1820 [Ellis, G. A.]. New Britain. A Narrative of a Journey, by Mr. Ellis, To a Country So Called By Its Inhabitants, Discovered in the Vast Plain of the Missouri, in North America, and Inhabited by a People of British Origin, Who Live Under an Equitable System of Society, Productive of Peculiar Independence and Happiness. Also, Some Account of Their Constitution, Laws, Institutions, Customs and Philosophical Opinions: Together With a Brief Sketch of Their History from the Time of Their Departure from Great Britain. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.

1826 Morgan, John Minter. Revolt of the Bees. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green.

1827 [Tucker, George]. A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians. By Joseph Atterley [pseud.]. New York: Elam Bliss.

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1828 Buonarotti, Philippe. Conspiration pour l’égalité, dite de Babeuf, suivi du procès auquel elle donna lieu et des pièces justificatives, etc., etc. Brussels: Librairie romantique.

1828 [Disraeli, Benjamin]. The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. London: Henry Colburn; Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey.

1829 Fourier, Charles. Le Nouveau Monde industriel et sociétaire ou Invention du procédé d’industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée en séries passionnées. Paris: Bossange père.

1832 Ballanche, Pierre-Simon. La Ville des expiations. Paris: A. Pinard.

1833 Etzler, J[ohn] A[dolphus]. The Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. 2 parts. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Etzler and Reinhold.

1834 Bodin, Félix. Le Roman de l’avenir. Paris: Lecointe et Pougin.

1836 [Griffith, Mary]. "Three Hundred Years Hence." Pp. 9—92 in her Camperdown; or, News from Our Neighborhood: Being Sketches. By the Author of "Our Neighborhood" [pseud.]. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836. Reprinted as Three Hundred Years Hence. Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1950.

1837 [Whately, Richard]. Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland. Ed. Lady Mary Fox. London: Richard Bentley.

1838 Considérant, Victor. Destinée sociale. Paris: bureau de "La Phalange."

1840 Brisbane, Albert. Social Destiny of Man: or, Association and Reorganization of Industry. Philadelphia: C. F. Stollmeyer. Reprinted, New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.

1840 Cabet, Etienne. Voyage et aventures de Lord William Carisdall en Icarie. Paris: H. Souverain. As Voyage en Icarie. Paris: au bureau du Populaire,1840. In English: Journey to Icaria. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000 (forthcoming).

1840 Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. Qu’est-ce que la propriété? ou Recherches sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement. Premier mémoire. Paris: J.-F. Brocard. In English: What Is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 2 vols. in 1. Trans. Benjamin R. Tucker. London: William Reeves, n.d.

1841 Etzler, J[ohn] A[dolphus]. The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. Philadelphia: C. F. Stollmeyer.

1842 Weitling, Wilhelm. Garantien der Harmonie und Freiheit. Vivis: im Verlage des Verfassers.

1846 Melville, Herman. Narrative of a Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray. Reprinted as Typee; or, A Narrative of a Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1847.

1846 Sand, George. Le Péché de M. Antoine. Brussels: A. Lebègue et Sacré fils.

1846 Souvestre, Emile. Le Monde tel qu’il sera. Illustré par MM. Bertall, O. Penguilly et St-Germain. Paris: W. Coquebert.

1847 [Cooper, James Fenimore]. The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak. A Tale of the Pacific. 2 vols. New York: Burgess, Stringer and Company. U.K. ed. as Mark's Reef; or, The Crater. A Tale of the Pacific. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Reprinted as The Crater or Vulcan's Peak. Edited by Thomas Philbrick. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962.

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1848 Leroux, Pierre. Projet d’une constitution démocratique et sociale, fondée sur la loi même de la vie, et donnant, par une organisation véritable de l’état, la possibilité de détruire à jamais la monarchie, l’aristocratie, l’anarchie, et le moyen infaillible d’organiser le travail national sans blesser la liberté; présenté à l’Assemblée nationale par un de ses membres, le citoyen Pierre Leroux. Paris: G. Sandré.

1848 Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei.N.p. In English: The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition., introduction by Eric Hobsbawm, London and New York: Verso, 1998.

1848 Mill, John Stuart. Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy. London: J. W. Parker.

1852 Berlioz, Hector. Euphonia ou la Ville musicale,in Les Soirées de l’orchestre. Paris: Michel Lévy frères.

1852 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields.

1854 Pemberton, Robert. The Happy Colony. Dedicated to the Workmen of Great Britain. London: Saunders and Otley. Reprinted, New York: Garland, 1985.

1858 Dejacque, Joseph. L’Humanisphère,published in Le Libertaire, journal du mouvement social (New York), June 1858—August 1859.

1864 [Blanchard, Calvin]. The Art of Real Pleasure: That New Pleasure, for which An Imperial Reward Was Offered. New York: Calvin Blanchard. Reprinted, New York: Arno Press, 1971.

1865 Fournel, Victor. Paris nouveau et Paris futur. Paris: J. Lecoffre.

1865 Mettais, Hippolyte. L’An 5865 ou Paris dans 4000 ans. Paris: Librairie centrale.

1869 Grousset, Paschal. Le Rêve d’un irréconciliable. Paris: Madre.

1869 Moilin, Tony. Paris en l’an 2000. Paris: l’auteur.

1871 [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward]. The Coming Race. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. Also published as Vril. The Power of the Coming Race. Blauvelt, N.Y.: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1972; and as The Coming Race. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Woodbridge Press Pub. Co., 1979; and Stroud, England: Alan Sutton, 1995.

1872 [Butler, Samuel]. Erewhon; or, Over the Range. London: Trübner.

1874 Malon, Benoît. Une conjuration chez les Atlantes,published in the Almanach du peuple (Paris).

1876 Renouvier, Charles. Uchronie: l’utopie dans l’histoire, esquisse historique apocryphe du développement de la civilisation européenne tel qu’il n’a pas été, tel qu’il aurait pu être. Paris: bureau de la Critique philosophique.

1876 Richardson, Benjamin Ward. Hygeia: A City of Health. London: Macmillan. Reprinted, New York: Garland, 1985.

1878 Pellerin, Georges. Le Monde dans deux mille ans. Paris: E. Dentu.

1879 Verne, Jules. Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum. Paris: J. Hetzel. In English: The 500 Millions of the Begum. New York: G. Munro, 1879.

1880 Dooner, P[ierton] W. Last Days of the Republic. San Francisco: Alta California Publishing Company.

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1880—81 [Lane, Mary E. (Bradley)]. Mizora: A Prophecy. A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch [pseud.]. Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government. Written by Herself. New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1889. Reprinted as Mizora: A Prophecy. Boston: Gregg Press, 1975; and as Mizora: A World of Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Originally published as "Narrative of Vera Zarovitch" [subtitle beginning with Being is identical to that of the book] in the Cincinnati Commercial (November 6, 12, 20, 27; December 4, 11, 18, 25, 1880; January 1, 15, 22, 29; February 5, 1881).

1881—82 [Trollope, Anthony]. "The Fixed Period." Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 130—131 (October 1881—March 1882). Republished in 2 vols. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Reprinted, ed. R. H. Super. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

1883 Robida, Albert. Un caricaturiste prophète. La guerre telle qu’elle était prévue par A. Robida il y a trente-trois ans. First published in 1916: Paris: Dorbon aîné.

1883 Robida, Albert. Le Vingtième Siècle, roman d’une parisienne d’après-demain. Paris: G. Decaux. Text and drawings by A. Robida.

1884 Gronlund, Laurence. The Coöperative Commonwealth in its Outlines. An Exposition of Modern Socialism. Boston: Lee and Shepard. Reprinted, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1965.

1885 Jefferies, Richard. After London; or, Wild England. London: Cassell and Company. Reprinted, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

1886 Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Auguste de. L’Eve future. Paris: M. de Brunhoff. In English: Eve of the Future Eden. Trans. Marilyn Gaddis Rose. Lawrence, Kans.: Coronado Press, 1981.

1887 [Hudson, William Henry]. A Crystal Age. London: T. F. Unwin.

1888 Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward: 2000—1887. Boston: Ticknor and Company.

1888 Boussenard, Louis. Les Secrets de Monsieur Synthèse. Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion.

1888 Hale, Edward Everett. How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens. Boston: J. Stilman Smith & Co. Reprinted without the subtitle, New York: Arno Press, 1971.

1888 Michel, Louise. Le Monde nouveau. Paris: E. Dentu.

1889 [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. By Mark Twain [pseud.]. New York: Charles L. Webster. Reprinted, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. U.K. ed. as A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. Critical ed., ed. Bernard L. Stein. Berkeley: Published for the Iowa Center for Textual Studies by University of California Press, 1979.

1889 Flammarion, Camille. Uranie. Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion.

1889 [Grousset, Paschal]. De New-York à Brest en sept heures. By André Laurie [pseud.]. Paris: J. Hetzel.

1890 [Donnelly, Ignatius]. Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century. By Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. [pseud.]. Chicago: F. J. Schulte and Company. New ed., ed. Walter B. Rideout. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1960.

1890 Hertzka, Theodor. Freiland, ein sociales Zukunftsbild. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. In English: Freeland, A Social Anticipation. Trans. Arthur Ransom. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891.

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1890 Morris, William. News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest. Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance. Boston: Roberts Bros. (unauthorized ed.). First authorized book ed.: Reeves & Turner, 1891. Reprinted, London: Kelmscott Press, 1892.

1891 Jerome, Jerome K. "The New Utopia." PP. 261—79 in his Diary of a Pilgrimage (And Six Essays). Bristol, England: J. W. Arrowsmith.

1891 Richter, Eugen. Sozialdemokratische Zukunftsbilder. Frei nach Bebel. Berlin: Verlag Fortschritt. In English: Pictures of the Socialistic Future (freely adapted from Bebel). Trans. Henry Wright,. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1893.

1891 Thomas, Chauncey. The Crystal Button; or, Adventures of Paul Prognosis in the Forty-Ninth Century. Ed. George Houghton. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin.

1892 Robida, Albert. Le Vingtième Siècle, la vie électrique. Paris: Librairie illustrée. Text and drawings by A. Robida.

1893 Gillette, King Camp. Human Drift. Boston: New Era Publishing Company.

1893 Olerich, Henry. A Cityless and Countryless World: An Outline of Practical Co-operative Individualism. Holstein, Iowa: Gilmore and Olerich. Reprinted, New York: Arno Press, 1971.

1894 Flammarion, Camille. La Fin du monde. Paris: E. Flammarion.

1894 Howells, William Dean. The Traveler from Altruria. New York: Harper and Bros.

1895 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. The Time Machine: An Invention [subtitle later dropped]. London: William Heinemann. Reprinted, ed. Michael Moorcock. London: Everyman, 1993. Revised centennial ed., ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1995. Differing text in New York: Henry Holt, 1895.

1896 Tarde, Gabriel. Fragment d’histoire future. Paris: V. Giard et E. Brière. In English: Underground Man. Trans. Cloudesley Brereton. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1974.

1896—97 Sheldon, Charles M[onroe]. In His Steps. "What Would Jesus Do?" Chicago: Advance Publishing Company, [1897]. Serialized in Advance (November 5, 1896—June 3, 1897).

1897 Bellamy, Edward. Equality. New York: D. Appleton.

1897 [Caryl, Charles W.]. New Era. Presenting the Plans for the New Era Union To Help Develop and Utilize the Best Resources of this Country. Also to Employ the Best Skill There Is Available to Realize the Highest Degree of Prosperity for All Who Will Help To Attain It. Based on Practical and Successful Business Methods. Denver, Colo.: Author. Reprinted, New York: Arno Press, 1971.

1897 Lasswitz, Kurd. Auf zwei Planeten, Roman in zwei Büchern. Leipzig: B. Elischer Nachfolger. In English: Two Planets. Auf zwei Planeten. Abridged by Erich Lasswitz. Trans. Hans H. Rudnick. New York: Popular Library, 1971.

1897 Mantegazza, Paolo. L’anno 3000, un sogno. Milan: fratelli Treves.

1898 Adam, Paul. Lettres de Malaisie, roman... . Paris: G. Grès.

1898 Howard, E[benezer]. To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. London: Swan Sonnenschein. Better known as Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"). London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.

1899 Griggs, Sutton E[lbert]. Imperium in Imperio. Cincinnati, Ohio: Editor Publishing Company. Reprinted, New York: Arno Press, 1969. The first known eutopia by an African American.

1899 Kropotkin, Petr. Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Reprinted as Fields, factories and workshops tomorrow. Ed. Colin Ward. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974.

1899 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. When the Sleeper Wakes. [Cover adds A Story of the Years to Come]. New York: Harper & Bros. Reprinted, ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1994. Later ed. entitled The Sleeper Wakes. London: Thomas Nelson, 1910. Esperanto ed.:La Dormanto Vekigás. Trans. A. Frank. London: Esperanto Pub. Co., 1929.

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1900 Peck, Bradford. The World a Department Store. A Story of Life Under a Coöperative System. Lewiston, Maine: Bradford Peck. Reprinted, New York: Arno Press, 1971.

1901 Butler, Samuel. Erewhon Revisited twenty years later, both by the original discoverer and his son. London: G. Richards.

1901 Grave, Jean. Les Aventures de Nono... . Paris: P.-V. Stock.

1901 Thirion, Emile. Neustria, utopie individualiste. Paris: Frischbacher.

1901 Zola, Emile. Travail. Paris: E. Fasquelle. In English: Labor. New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1901.

1902 Herzl, Theodor. Altneuland. Berlin: H. Seemann Nachfolger. In English: Oldnewland. Trans. Lotta Levensohn. New York: Bloch, 1941.

1902 Tarbouriech, Ernest. La Cité future, essai d’une utopie scientifique. Paris: P.-V. Stock.

1902 Wooldridge, C[harles] W[illiam]. Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History. Cleveland, Ohio: Utopia Publishing Company.

1903 [Brown, John Macmillan]. Limanora. The Island of Progress. By Godfrey Sweven [pseud.]. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2nd ed. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.

1903 Halévy, Daniel. Histoire de quatre ans, 1997—2001. Paris: Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

1904 Chesterton, G[ilbert] K[eith]. The Napoleon on Notting Hill. London: John Lane. Reprinted, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

1904—5 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. A Modern Utopia. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. U.S. ed. New York: Scribner’s, 1905. Reprinted, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. Reprinted, ed. Krishan Kumar. London: Everyman, 1994. Originally published in The Fortnightly Review (October 1904—April 1905).

1905 France, Anatole. Sur la pierre blanche. Paris: C. Lévy. In English: The White Stone. Trans. Charles E. Roche. London: John Lane, 1910.

1906—7 Blatchford, Robert. The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance. London: The Clarion Press, [1907]. Originally published in The Clarion (November 19, 1906—March 22, 1907).

1907 Howells, William Dean. Through the Eye of the Needle; A Romance with an Introduction. New York: Harper and Bros.

1907 London, Jack. The Iron Heel. New York: Macmillan. Reprinted, New York: Sagamore Press, 1957; London: Arco, 1966; and London: Journeyman Press, 1974.

1907 Newte, Horace W. C. The Master Beast; Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism A.D. 1888—2020. London: Rebman Ltd. Another ed. as The Red Rosette. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1913]. 2nd ed. as The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism. London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1919].

1908 France, Anatole. L’Ile des pingouins. Paris: C. Lévy. In English: Penguin Island. Trans. A. W. Evans. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1909.

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1908 Grave, Jean. Terre libre. Paris: Librairie des temps nouveaux.

1911 Kellermann, Bernhard. Der Tunnel. Berlin: S. Fischer.

1911 Renard, Maurice. Le Péril bleu. Paris: L. Michaud.

1911 Saunders, W. J. Kalomera; The Story of a Remarkable Community. London: Elliot Stock.

1915 [Gilman, Charlotte Perkins]. "Herland." The Forerunner 6 (January—December 1915). Republished, New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.

1918 Gregory, Owen. Meccania. The Super-State. London: Methuen.

1919 Benoit, Pierre. L’Atlantide. Paris: Albin Michel.

1919 Cram, Ralph Adams. Walled Towns. Boston: Marshall Jones Co. Reprinted, Seattle, Wash.: Entropy Conservationists, n.d.

1920 Poisson, Ernest. La République coopérative. Paris: Grasset.

1920 Taut, Bruno. Die Auflösung der Städte oder Die Erde eine gute Wohnung oder auch Der Weg zur Alpinen Architektur. Hagen: Folkwang-Verlag.

1921 Capek, Karel. R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). Prague: Aventinum.

1921 Masson, Emile. Utopie des îles bienheureuses dans le Pacifique en l’an 1980. Paris: F. Rieder.

1921 Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch. New York: Brentano's.

1922 [Hammill, Mary Cicely]. Theodore Savage; A Story of the Past or the Future. By Cicely Hamilton [pseud.]. London: Leonard Parsons. Revised as Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928.

1922—23 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. Men Like Gods. London: Cassell, 1923. Originally published in The Westminster Gazette (December 5, 1922—January 17, 1923).

1923 Tolstoy, Aleksey. Aelita. Moscow: n.p. In English: Aelita. Trans. Antonina W. Bouis. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1981.

1924 Döblin, Alfred. Berge, Meere und Giganten. Berlin: S. Fischer.

1924 Hauptmann, Gerhart. Der Insel der Grossen Mutter oder Das Wunder von Ile des Dames. Berlin: S. Fischer. In English: The Island of the Great Mother. Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. New York, 1925.

1924 Zamiatin, Evgenii. We. Trans. Gregory Zilboorg. New York: E. P. Dutton. First publication was in English.

1925 Harbou, Thea von. Metropolis. Berlin: A. Scherl. In English: Metropolis. Norfolk, Va.: Donning Co., 1988.

1925 Madariaga, Salvador de. La Jirafa sagrada. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe. In English: The Sacred Giraffe; Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval [pseud.]. New York: Harper and Bros., 1925.

1926 Amazing Stories founded by Hugo Gernsback.

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1926 Chesterton, G[ilbert] K[eith]. The Return of Don Quixote. New York: Dodd, Mead; London: Chatto and Windus, 1927.

1927 Maurois, André. Voyage au pays des Articoles. Paris: J. Schiffrin (with engravings by A. Alexeieff). In English: A Voyage to the Island of Articoles. Trans. David Garnett. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1929.

1928 Jouglet, René. Voyage à la République des Piles. Paris: Grasset (7th ed.).

1929 Ferriss, Hugh. The Metropolis of Tomorrow. New York: Ives Washburn.

1930 Astounding Stories founded by Harry Bates.

1930 Duhamel, Georges. Scènes de la vie future. Paris: Mercure de France. In English: America: the Menace. Scenes from the Life of the Future. Trans. Charles Minar Thompson. London, 1931; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.

1930 Stapledon, [William] Olaf. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future. London: Methuen.

1930 Vassos, John, and Ruth Vassos. Ultimo: An Imaginative Narration of Life Under the Earth. New York: E. P. Dutton.

1931 Bordewijk, Ferdinand. Blokken. Gravenhage: Nijgh en van Ditmar.

1932 Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran.

1932 Leacock, Stephen [Butler]. Afternoons in Utopia: Tales of the New Time. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1932.

1932 Wright, S[ydney] Fowler. The New Gods Lead. London: Jarrolds. Enlarged as The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, Iowa: Arkham House, 1949.

1933 Hilton, James. Lost Horizon. New York: William Morrow & Co.

1933 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution. London: Hutchinson; New York: Macmillan, 1933.

1935 Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. New York: Doubleday Doran. Reprinted, New York: Dell, 1961. The U.K. ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1935) includes a publisher’s note saying that while the title It Can’t Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the U.K. also. Theatrical version as Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt, It Can't Happen Here: A New Version, by Sinclair Lewis of the Play by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis from the Lewis Novel. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1938.

1935 Read, Herbert. The Green Child: A Romance. London: William Heinemann. Reprinted without the subtitle, London: Grey Walls Press, 1945 with illustrations by Felix Kelley; London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947; Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1969; and New York: New Directions, n.d.

1937 [Burdekin, Katherine Penelope]. Swastika Night. By Murray Constantine [pseud.]. London: Victor Gollancz. Reprinted, under the author's real name, Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1985.

1937 [Wilkinson, Iris Guiver]. Wednesday's Children. By Robin Hyde [pseud.]. London: Hurst & Blackett. Reprinted, Auckland, New Zealand: New Women's Press, 1989; and Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 1993.

1938 Lewis, C[live] S[taples]. Out of the Silent Planet. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. Reprinted, New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. First volume of a trilogy.

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1938 Rand, Ayn. Anthem. London: Cassell. First US ed. Los Angeles: Pamphleteers, 1946. U.S. reprint, New York: New American Library, n.d. U.K. reprint, London: Cassell, 1953. Expanded 50th anniversary ed., New York: Dutton, 1995, using the 1946 ed. and including Rand's marked-up 1938 ed. showing the extensive revisions.

1941 Borges, Jorge Luis. La Biblioteca de Babel, in El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Buenos Aires: Sur.

1942 Hesse, Hermann. Das Glasperlenspiel. Zurich: Fretz und Wasmuth. In English: Magister Ludi. Trans. Mervyn Savill. New York: Ungar, 1949.

1942 Lewis, C[live] S[taples]. Perelandra. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. Reprinted, New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Reprinted as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. Second volume of a trilogy.

1942 Samuel, Viscount [Herbert Louis]. An Unknown Land. London: George Allen and Unwin.

1942 Wright, Austin Tappan. Islandia. New York: Farrar & Rinehart.

1945 Anticipations founded in Brussels. The first science fiction magazine in French.

1945 Koestler, Arthur. Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts. London: Jonathan Cape. Originally written in 1933 and lost.

1945 Lewis, C[live] S[taples]. That Hideous Strength, A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown Ups. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. Reprinted, New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Abridged as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958. Final volume of a trilogy.

1945 Orwell, George [pseud. of Eric Blair]. Animal Farm; A Fairy Story. London: Secker & Warburg. First illustrated ed., with illustrations by Joy Batchelor and John Halas: London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. The Royal National Theater has produced a dramatization available as George Orwell's Animal Farm. Adapted by Peter Hall with lyrics by Adrian Mitchel and music by Richard Peaslee. London: Methuen, 1985. 50th Anniversary Ed. with illustrations by Ralph Steadman. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995.

1946 Werfel, Franz. Stern der Ungeborenen. Frankfurt: S. Fischer. In English: Star of the Unborn. Trans. Gustave O. Arlt. New York, 1946.

1947 Buber, Martin. Netivot be-utopyah. Tel-Aviv: Am oved. In English: Paths in Utopia. Trans. R.F.C. Hull. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949. U.S. ed.: New York: Macmillan, 1950. Reprinted, Boston: Beacon, 1958.

1947 [Eldershaw, Flora Sydney Patricia, and Marjorie Faith Barnard]. Tomorrow and Tomorrow. By M. Barnard Eldershaw [pseud.]. Melbourne, Australia: Georgian House. Reprinted, London: Phoenix Press in Association with Georgian House Melbourne, 1948. "Uncensored edition": London: Virago, 1983.

1947 Goodman, Percival, and Paul Goodman. Communitas: Ways of Livelihood and Means of Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2nd ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1960. Reprinted, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

1948 Skinner, B[urrhus] F[rederick]. Walden Two. New York: Macmillan. Reissued with new introduction (pp. v—xvi) by Skinner, "Walden Two Revisited." New York: Macmillan, 1976.

1949 Graves, Robert. Watch the North Wind Rise. New York: Creative Age Press. U.K. ed.: Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell. Reprinted under the U.K. title: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.

1949 Huxley, Aldous. Ape and Essence. New York: Harper. Reprinted, New York: Bantam, 1958; London: Flamingo, 1994.

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1949 Jünger, Ernst. Heliopolis : Rückblick auf eine Stadt. Tübingen: Heliopolis-Verlag.

1949 George Orwell [pseud. of Eric Blair]. Nineteen Eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg. Edition With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. A dramatized version was published as George Orwell's 1984. A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, Jr. and William A. Miles, Jr. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, Inc., 1963. See also Nineteen Eighty-four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Edited by Peter Davison. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Weston, Mass.: M & S Press, 1984.

1949 Stewart, George. Earth Abides. New York: Random House.

1949 Williamson, Jack. The Humanoids. New York: Simon & Schuster.

1950 Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. U.K. ed. with variations as The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973 ed. includes notes on the stories that were brought together to form the basis of the novel. Fortieth anniversary ed.: New York: Doubleday, 1990.

1950 Galaxy, Science Fiction founded by Horace L. Gold.

1952 Daumal, René. Le Mont analogue. Paris: Gallimard. In English: Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing. Trans. Roger Shattuck. New York: Pantheon, 1959.

1952 Pohl, Frederik, and C[yril] M. Kornbluth. The Space Merchants. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Originally published as "Gravy Planet," Galaxy (June—August 1952).

1952 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Player Piano. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Also entitled Utopia 14. New York: Bantam, 1954.

1953 Blish, James. A Case of Conscience. New York: Ballantine, 1958. Originally published in If (September 1953).

1953 Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine. A special limited ed. was bound in Johns-Manville Quintera (asbestos). 40th anniversary ed.: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

1953 Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End. New York: Ballantine. The London: Pan, 1990 ed. has a revised first chapter and a new "Foreword" [i—iv] by Clarke.

1953 Fiction founded and edited by Maurice Renault. Originally the French ed. of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science but later became independent.

1953 Hergé. Objectif lune. Tournai: Casterman.

1953 Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins; A Romance of the Near Future. London: Chapman and Hall.

1954 Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. London: Faber & Faber.

1955—59 Bloch, Ernst. Das Prinzip Hoffnung. 3 vols. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag. In English: The Principle of Hope. Trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight. 3 vols. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

1957 Jünger, Ernst. Gläserne Bienen,.Stuttgart: E. Klett. In English: The Glass Bees. Trans. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Mayer. New York: Noonday Press, 1966.

1957 Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House.

1958 Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Revisited. New York: Harper.

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1959 Burroughs, William S. The Naked Lunch. Paris: Olympia. As Naked Lunch. New York: Grove, 1962. Reprinted, New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. U.K. ed. as The Naked Lunch. London: Calder and Boyars, 1964.

1960 Miller, Walter M., Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Reprinted, Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. U.K. ed.: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. See A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Clark Fuller. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1962.

1961 Heinlein, Robert A[nson]. Stranger in a Strange Land. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Uncut ed. New York: Ace/Putnam, 1991.

1962 Burgess, Anthony. Clockwork Orange. London: Heinemann. U.S. ed. with significant differences: New York: W. W. Norton, 1963. A detailed presentation of the film based on the book can be found in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess (New York: Abelard Schuman, 1972). See also Burgess, A Clockwork Orange: A Play with music based on his novella of the same name (London: Hutchinson, 1987).

1962 Huxley, Aldous. Island. New York: Harper & Row. Reprinted, London: Flamingo, 1994.

1963 Martel, Suzanne. Quatre Montréalais en l’an 3000. Montreal: Ed. du Jour. Surréal 3000. Montreal: Heritage, 1980. In English: The City Under Ground. Trans. Norah Smaridge. New York: Viking Press, 1964; and Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1982.

1963 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Cat's Cradle. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

1964 Havel, Vaclav. Zahradni slavnost. Prague, Orbis. In English: The Garden Party, trans. Vera Blackwell. In Vaclav Havel, Selected Plays. 1963—83. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992.

1965 Havel, Vaclav. Vyrozumeni. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag. In English: The Memorandum,trans. Vera Blackwell. In Vaclav Havel, Selected Plays. 1963—83. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992.

1966 Rimmer, Robert. The Harrad Experiment. Los Angeles: Sherburne Press.

1967 Tournier, Michel. Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique. Paris: Gallimard. In English: Friday. Trans. Norman Denny. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969.

1968 Brunner, John [Kilian Houston]. Stand on Zanzibar. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

1969 Fuller, R[ichard] Buckminster. Utopia or Oblivion. The Prospects for Humanity. New York: Bantam.

1969 Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. New York: Ace. Also New York: Walker and Co., 1969. The 25th anniversary ed. (New York: Walker, 1994) contains an important "Afterword" and appendixes.

1969 Soleri, Paolo. Arcology: The City in the Image of Man. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969.

1969 Wittig, Monique. Les Guérillères. Paris: Ed. de Minuit. In English: Les Guérillères. Trans. David Le Vay. Boston: Beacon, 1971.

1970 Brown, James Cooke. The Troika Incident. A Tetralogue in Two Parts. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

1970 Frame, Janet. Intensive Care. New York: George Braziller. Reprinted, Wellington, New Zealand: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1971; and London: W. H. Allen, 1971.

1970 Levin, Ira. This Perfect Day. New York: Random House.

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1971 Boulle, Pierre. Les Jeux de l’esprit. Paris: Julliard.

1971 Bryant, Dorothy. The Comforter. San Francisco: Moon Books. Republished as The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You. Berkeley, Calif.: Moon Books; New York: Random House, 1976. Reprinted, Berkeley, Calif.: Moon Books; New York: Random House, 1997.

1971 Fairfield, Richard, ed. Modern Man In Search of Utopia. San Francisco: Alternatives Foundation, 1971.

1971 Houriet, Robert. Getting Back Together. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.

1971 Percy, Walker. Love in the Ruins. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. U.K. ed.: London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.

1971 Silverberg, Robert. The World Inside. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

1972 Brunner, John [Kilian Houston]. The Sheep Look Up. New York: Harper & Row.

1972 Calvino, Italo. Le Città invisibili. Turin: Einaudi. In English: Invisible Cities. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

1972 Carter, Angela. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

1972 Druillet, Philippe. Les Six Voyages de Lone Sloane. Paris: Dargaud.

1972 Merle, Robert. Malevil. Paris: Gallimard. In English: Malevil. Trans. Derek Coltman. New York, 1973.

1972 Rochefort, Christiane. Archaos ou le Jardin Etincelant. Paris: Grasset.

1973 Kinkade, Kat[hleen]. A Walden Two Experiment: The First Five Years of Twin Oaks Community. New York: William Morrow

1973 Reynolds, [Dallas McCord]. Looking Backward, From the Year 2000. By Mack Reynolds [pseud.]. New York: Ace. U.K. ed.: Morley, West Yorkshire, England: Elmfield Press, 1976.

1974 Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. New York: Harper & Row. Subtitle dropped in some later printings but then generally restored. Reprinted without subtitle, New York: Avon, 1975; reprinted with subtitle, New York: Harper, 1991.

1975 Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia. The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. Berkeley, Calif.: Banyan Tree Books. Reprinted, New York: Bantam, 1977.

1975 Delany, Samuel R. Dhalgren. New York: Bantam. Reprinted, Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

1975 Perec, Georges. W ou le Souvenir d’enfance. Paris: Denoël. In English: W Or the Memory of Childhood. Trans. David Bellos. Boston: David R. Godine, 1988. U.K. ed.: London: Collins Harvill, 1988.

1975 Russ, Joanna. The Female Man. New York: Bantam Books.

1976 Bersianik, Louky. L’Euguélionne. Ottawa: Ed. de la Presse. In English: The Euguelion. Trans. Howard Scott. Montreal: Alter Ego Editions, 1996; and as The Euguélionne. Trans. Gerry Denis, Alson Hewitt, Donna Murray, and Martha O’Brien. Victoria, B.C., Canada: Press Porcépic, 1981.

1976 Curval, Philippe. Cette Chère Humanité. Paris: R. Laffont.

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1976 Delany, Samuel R. Triton. New York: Bantam. Reprinted, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977. Reprinted, as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

1976 Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

1977 Brantenberg, Gerd. Egalias Døtre. Oslo: Pax, 1977. In English: The Daughters of Egalia. Trans. Louis Mackay in cooperation with Gerd Brantenberg. Seattle: Seal Press, 1985.

1978 Charnas, Suzy McKee. Motherlines. New York: Berkley. U.K. ed.: London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

1978 Gearhart, Sally Miller. The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women. Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press.

1978 Stableford, Brian M[ichael]. The City of the Sun. New York: DAW.

1979 Wolf, Christa. Kein Ort, Nirgends. Darmstadt: Luchterhand. In English: No Place on Earth. Trans. Jan van Heurck. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.

1979—83 Lessing, Doris. Canopus in Argos: Archives. 5 vols. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; London: Jonathan Cape.

1980 Hoban, Russell. Riddley Walker. London: Jonathan Cape. Expanded ed.. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998.

1981 Ireland, David [Neil]. City of Women. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, and London: Allen Lane. Reprinted, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1986.

1981 Vargas Llosa, Mario. La Guerra del fin del mundo. Barcelona: Seix Barral. In English: The War of the End of the World. Trans. Helen R. Lane. New York, 1984.

1983 Annestay, Jean, and Jean-François Jousson. Moebius: la mémoire du futur. Paris: Gentiane.

1983 Wolf, Christa. Kassandra. Darmstadt: Luchterhand. In English: Cassandra. Trans. Jan van Heurck. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.

1984 Elgin, Suzette Haden. Native Tongue. New York: DAW.

1984 Gibson, William [Ford]. Neuromancer. New York: Ace; London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. The 10th anniversary ed. (London: HarperCollins, 1994) has a short afterword by the author.

1985 Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. U.S. ed.: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986.

1985 Le Guin, Ursula K. Always Coming Home. New York: Harper & Row. Includes cassette of music and poetry.

1986 Slonczewski, Joan. A Door into Ocean. New York: Arbor House.

1987 Percy, Walker. The Thanatos Syndrome. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

1988 Acker, Kathy. Empire of the Senseless. New York: Grove Press.

1988 Brenton, Howard. Greenland. London: Methuen in association with the Royal Court Theatre.

1988 Gibson, William [Ford]. Mona Lisa Overdrive. London: Victor Gollancz; New York: Bantam, 1988.

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1988 Peeters, Benoît, and François Schuiten. Les Murailles de Samaris. Paris: Casterman (first volume of the series Les Cités obscures).

1988 Tepper, Sheri S. The Gate to Women's Country. New York: Doubleday.

1989 Blais, Marie Claire. L’Ange de la solitude. Paris: Belfond. In English: The Angel of Solitude. Trans. Laura Hodes. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1993.

1991 Piercy, Marge. He, She and It. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. U.K. ed. as Body of Glass. London: Michael Joseph, 1992.

1992 Vonarburg, Elisabeth. Chroniques du pays des mères. Montreal: Ed. Québec/Amérique. In English: The Maerlande Chronicles. Trans. Jane Brierley. Victoria, B.C., Canada: Beach Holme, 1992. U.S. ed. as In the Mother's Land. Trans. Jane Brierley. New York: Bantam, 1992.

1992 Woods, Lebbeus. The New City. New York: Simon & Schuster.

1993 Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. New York: Bantam.

1994 Robinson, Kim Stanley. Green Mars. New York: Bantam.

1994 Vonarburg, Elisabeth. Les Voyageurs malgré eux. Montreal: Ed. Québec/Amérique. In English: Reluctant Voyagers. Trans. Jane Brierley. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Tesseract Books, 1995.

1996 Robinson, Kim Stanley. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam; London: HarperCollins, 1996.

1998 Morrison, Toni. Paradise. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.

1999 Fell, Alison. The Mistress of Lilliput. London: Doubleday.

1999 Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Martians. New York: Bantam; London: HarperCollins, 1999.

1999 Spinrad, Norman [Richard]. Greenhouse Summer. New York: TOR.

2000 Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living 2000 Edition. Rutledge, Mo.: Fellowship for Intentional Community, 2000.
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