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A list of utopia/dystopia books.
Utopia is a fictional island near the coast of the atlantic ocean written about by Sir Thomas More as the fictional character Raphael Hythloday (translat... (more)
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Utopia
[en]
(1515)
by Thomas More Description: De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. Th... Categories: Non-Fiction - Philosophy |
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Paradise Lost
[en]
(1667)
by John Milton Description: Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve... Categories: Poetry - Religion |
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The Coming Race
[en]
(1871)
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Description: The Power of The Coming Race is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among m... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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A Crystal Age
[en]
(1887)
by William Henry Hudson Description: I do not quite know how it happened my recollection of the whole matter ebbing in a somewhat clouded condition. Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Mizora: A Prophecy
[en]
(1889)
by Mary E. Bradley Description: 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. Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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News from Nowhere
[en]
(1890)
by William Morris Description: News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, Will... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Fantasy |
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Looking Backward
[en]
(1888)
by Edward Bellamy Description: Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millenniu... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Golf in the Year 2000, or, What we are coming to
[en]
(1892)
by J. McCullough Description: Written by a mysterious 19th-century Scottish golfer named J. (or Jay) McCullough, using the pseudonym "J.A.C.K.," it also predicted the advent of golf carts, golf professionals and international g... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Equality
[en]
(1897)
by Edward Bellamy Description: The sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward, his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Politics |
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Born Again
[en]
(1904)
by Alfred William Lawson Description: A strangely bad Utopian fantasy written while Lawson was a professional baseball player. Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
[en]
(1904)
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Description: The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984. Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor... Categories: Novels - Humor/Satire - Politics |
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Lord of the World
[en]
(1907)
by Robert Hugh Benson Description: In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" — but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to ... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Religion |
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The Iron Heel
[en]
(1908)
by Jack London Description: The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarch... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Politics |
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The Machine Stops
[en]
(1909)
by E. M. Forster Description: The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in ... Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction |
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The Sleeper Awakes
[en]
(1910)
by Herbert George Wells Description: The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman ... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Erewhon, or Over The Range
[en]
(1910)
by Samuel Butler Categories: Novels - Humor/Satire |
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Philip Dru: Administrator
[en]
(1912)
by Edward Mandell House Description: A Utopian vision in which the title character leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes dictator of America. Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Politics |
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The Air Trust
[en]
(1915)
by George Allan England Description: The story of a billionaire, Isaac Flint, who attempts to control the very air people breathe, and the violent consequences of his ambition and greed. In the concluding chapter, Flint is described a... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Herland
[en]
(1915)
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Description: Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual repr... Categories: Novels - Sexuality - Humor/Satire - Politics |
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The Heads of Cerberus
[en]
(1919)
by Francis Stevens Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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City of Endless Night
[en]
(1920)
by Milo Milton Hastings Description: When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my pres... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Metropolis
[en]
(1927)
by Thea von Harbou Description: This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wr... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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The Trial
[en]
(1925)
by Franz Kafka Description: The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified cr... Categories: Novels - Horror - Fantasy |
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Anthem
[en]
(1938)
by Ayn Rand Description: Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irra... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction - Psychology |
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2 B R O 2 B
[en]
(1962)
by Kurt Vonnegut Description: 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government. Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction - Humor/Satire |
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Everyone In Silico
[en]
(2002)
by Jim Munroe Description: In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when yo... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
[en]
(2003)
by Cory Doctorow Description: Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Scroogled
[en]
(2007)
by Cory Doctorow Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction |
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Postsingular
[en]
(2007)
by Rudy Rucker Description: It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; ... Categories: Novels - Science Fiction |
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Little Brother
[en]
(2008)
by Cory Doctorow Description: Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he h... Categories: Novels - Young Readers - Science Fiction |
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The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
[en]
(2008)
by Cory Doctorow Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction |
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