FOR FURTHER READING
What follows is a selected bibliography of noteworthy Dystopian and Utopian fiction. Dystopia and Utopia are often considered to be opposing sides of a coin, but perhaps the two lie closer than one might at first suspect. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, for instance, may have ended badly for Winston Smith, but Inner Party loyalist O’Brien undoubtedly got a promotion for bringing such a dangerous radical as Smith to justice. Titles notable for their high literary value are marked with an asterisk. To learn more about the stories in Brave New Worlds, visit the anthology’s website at johnjosephadams.com/brave-new-worlds
Notable Dystopias:
Amis, Martin
— Einstein’s Monsters
Anderson, M. T.
— Feed
Armstrong, Jon
— Grey (et.seq.)
Asimov, Isaac
— Pebble in the Sky
Atwood, Margaret
— The Handmaid’s Tale *
— Oryx and Crake
— The Year of the Flood
Auster, Paul
— In the Country of Last Things
Bacigalupi, Paolo
— The Windup Girl *
— Ship Breaker
Ballard, J. G.
— Crash
— Hello America
Barry, Max
— Jennifer Government
Bates, Paul L.
— Imprint
— Dreamer
Beaton, Alistair
— A Planet for the President
Beckett, Bernard
— Genesis
Böll, Heinrich
— My Melancholy Face
Boston, Bruce
— The Guardener’s Tale
Boyd, John
— The Last Starship from Earth
Bradbury, Ray
— Fahrenheit 451 *
Brain, Marshall
— Manna
Brooke, Keith
— Genetopia
Brunner, John
— The Jagged Orbit
— The Sheep Look Up *
— The Shockwave Rider
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
— Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
Burgess, Anthony
— A Clockwork Orange
— The Wanting Seed
Burroughs, William S.
— Blade Runner, a Movie (see also Nourse, Alan E.)
Butler, Octavia
— Parable of the Sower *
Carbonneau, Louis
— Barrier World
Cobb, William
— A Spring of Souls
Cohen, Stuart Archer
— The Army of the Republic
Collins, Suzanne
— The Hunger Games (et.seq.)
Cowdrey, Albert E.
— Crux
Crace, Jim
— The Pesthouse
DeVita, James
— The Silenced
DiChario, Nick
— Valley of Day-Glo
Dick, Philip K.
— Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
— The Man in the High Castle *
Disch, Thomas
— The Genocides
— 334
Doctorow, Cory
— Little Brother
Farmer, Philip José
— Riders of the Purple Wage
— Dayworld
Ferrigno, Robert
— Prayers for the Assassin (et.seq.)
Fischer, Tibor
— The Collector Collector
Fukui, Isamu
— Truancy
Gibson, William
— Mona Lisa Overdrive
— Neuromancer *
Gray, Alasdair
— Lanark: A Life in Four Books *
Grimes, Tom
— City of God
Hairston, Andrea
— Mindscape
Hall, Sarah
— Daughters of the North
Harkaway, Nick
— The Gone-Away World
Harris, Robert
— Fatherland
Harrison, Harry
— Make Room! Make Room! *
Herbert, Frank
— Hellstrom’s Hive
Hubbard, L. Ron
— Final Blackout
Huxley, Aldous
— Ape and Essence
— Brave New World *
Ishiguro, Kazuo
— Never Let Me Go
Johnston, Paul
— The House of Dust
Keogh, Andrew
— Twentytwelve
Keppel-Jones, Arthur M.
— When Smuts Goes
Kerr, Philip
— The Second Angel
King, Stephen (writing as Richard Bachman)
— The Long Walk
— The Running Man
Kuttner, Henry
— The Iron Standard
Lamar, Jake
— The Last Integrationist
Le Guin, Ursula K.
— The Lathe of Heaven
Lem, Stansiław
— Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Lerner, Lisa
— Just Like Beauty
Levin, Ira
— This Perfect Day
Lewis, Sinclair
— It Can’t Happen Here *
London, Jack
— The Iron Heel *
Lowry, Lois
— The Giver
Lundwall, Sam J.
— 2018 A.D. or the King Kong Blues
Mark, Jan
— Useful Idiots
McCarthy, Cormac
— The Road *
McCarthy, Wil
— Bloom
McIntosh, Will
— Soft Apocalypse
McMullen, Sean
— Eyes of the Calculor
Mellick III, Carlton
— The Egg Man
— War Slut
Miéville, China
— Perdido Street Station
Mitchell, David
— Cloud Atlas (“Sonmis Oratio”)
Moore, Alan
— V for Vendetta
Morgan, Richard
— Market Forces
— Thirteen (AKA Black Man)
Morrison, Toni
— Paradise
Nabokov, Vladimir
— Invitation to a Beheading
Neiderman, Andrew
— The Baby Squad
Nolan, William F. and George Clayton Johnson
— Logan’s Run
Norden, Eric
— The Ultimate Solution
Nourse, Alan E.
— The Blade Runner (See also Burroughs, William S.)
O’Brien, Michael D.
— Eclipse of the Sun
Oppegaard, David
— The Suicide Collectors
Orwell, George
— Nineteen Eighty-Four *
Philbrick, Rodman
— The Last Book in the Universe
Pohl, Frederick and C. M. Kornbluth
— The Space Merchants
Pollack, Rachel
— Unquenchable Fire
Powers, Tim
— Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
Rand, Ayn
— Anthem
Reed, Kit
— Enclave
Robinson, Kim Stanley
— The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) *
Rucker, Rudy
— Postsingular Russ, Joanna
— And Chaos Died
Scalzi, John with Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder
— Metatropolis
Sharpe, Matthew
— Jamestown
Shirley, John
— Black Glass
Silva, Ulises
— Solstice
Silverberg, Robert
— The World Inside
Singer, Lee
— Blackjack
Slattery, Brian Francis
— Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America *
Smith, Cordwainer
— The Rediscovery of Man
Smith, L. Neil
— The Probability Broach
Spinrad, Norman
— The Iron Dream
Starhawk
— The Fifth Sacred Thing
Stephenson, Neal
— Snow Crash
Stevens-Arce, James
— Soulsaver
Stewart, George R.
— Earth Abides
Takami, Koushun
— Battle Royale
Tevis, Walter
— Mockingbird
Theroux, Marcel
— Far North
Thomson, Rupert
— Divided Kingdom
Turner, George
— The Sea and Summer
Turtledove, Harry
— The Gladiator
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
— Player Piano *
Walton, Jo
— Farthing
— Ha’Penny
Waugh, Evelyn
— Love Among the Ruins
Wells, H. G.
— The Time Machine
— When the Sleeper Wakes
Westerfeld, Scott
— Uglies (et.seq.)
Weyn, Suzanne
— The Bar Code Tattoo (et.seq.)
Williams, David J.
— The Mirrored Heavens
Wilson, Robert Anton
— The Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy
Wilson, Robert Charles
— Mysterium
Womack, Jack
— Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Wright, Ronald
— A Scientific Romance
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
— We *
Notable Utopias:
Banks, Iain M.
— Consider Phlebas (Culture series) (et.seq.)
Bellamy, Edward
— Looking Backward *
Borghese, Elizabeth Mann
— My Own Utopia
Callenbach, Ernest
— Ecotopia
Charnas, Suzy McKee
— Motherlines
— Walk to the End of the World
Delany, Samuel R.
— Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia *
Gentle, Mary
— Golden Witchbreed
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
— Herland
Heinlein, Robert A.
— The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Huxley, Aldous
— Island *
Le Guin, Ursula K.
— Always Coming Home
Lessing, Doris
— The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
More, Thomas
— Utopia *
Morris, William
— News from Nowhere *
Piercy, Marge
— Woman on the Edge of Time
Robinson, Kim Stanley
— Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) *
Russ, Joanna
— The Female Man *
Skinner, B. F.
— Walden Two