Some Classic Themes and Works
ATTITUDES TOWARDS MACHINES AND TECHNOLOGY
1627 Bacon, Sir Francis, The New Atlantis
1724 Swift, Gulliver's Travels
1888 Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward (Everyone joins the Industrial Army)
1889 Morris, William, New From Nowhere (Pastoral, arts & crafts-oriented answer to Bellamy)
1901 Butler, Samuel, Erewhon (Machines will evolve intelligence)
1905 Well, H.G. A Modern Utopia
1909 Forster. E. M. "The Machine Stops" (Classic account of over-dependence on machines)
1952 Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano (Corporations take over)
1965 Ellison, Harlan "'Repent Harlequin,' Said the Ticktock Man"
1972 Brunner, John. The Sheep Look Up. (Prophetic ecological holocaust)
TOTALITARIAN DISTOPIAS
1924 Zamyatin, Yevgeny. We (Stalinist)
1932 Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
1937 Rand, Ayn. Anthem (pub 1946) (Individualism vs. collectivism)
1945 Orwell, George. Animal Farm
1963 Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange
1985 Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale (Men subordinate women)
SPIRITUAL & PHILOSOPHICAL UTOPIAS AND DISTOPIAS
1938 Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet. (Christian utopian vision of Mars)
1944 ---. Perelandra. (Battle for Venus)
1945 ---. That Hideous Strength (Distopian Earth; Merlin)
1942 Wright, Austin Tappen. Islandia
1948 Skinner, B. F. Walden II (Behaviorist)
1953 Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End (questions utopian ideals)
1953 Pohl, Frederick. The Space Merchants (Satire on advertising)
1961 Heinlein, Robert. Stranger in A Strange Land (satire on fundamentalist religion and advertizing)
1974 Le Guin, Ursula. The Dispossessed (Classic comparison of U & D)
1975 Callenbach, Ernst. Ecotopia (West Coast secedes)
1976 Delany, Samuel. Triton
1977 Foster, M.A. The Gameplayers of Zan (Neo-humans live in apparent pastoral harmony)
1981 Callenbach, Ernst. Ecotopia Emerging (Prequel to above)
FEMINIST UTOPIAS (see also Bibliography on Imagined Sexual Futures)
1915 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland (Woman-only world)
1975 Russ, Joanna. The Female Man (3 different worlds)
1975 Tiptree, James. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (3 male astronauts end up in woman-only world of the future)
1976 Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time. (Female version of Cuckoo's Nest with visits to alternative futures, including one where men and women have equal roles in child birth and care)
1978 Charnas, Suzy McGee. Motherlines. (Beginning of Quartet: men treat women as slaves but escapees form own female culture)
1988 Tepper, Sheri. The Gate to Woman's Country. (women rule the cities; men roam the wilds)