Utopia/Dystopia

by Adam Seaborn & John Cleves Symmes · 1820

One of the rarest Hollow Earth books: a perilous sea journey to a utopian society in the inner earth, possibly the first American utopian science fiction novel.

by Benjamin Jowett · 1871

One of the first speculations about a planned society.

by Samuel Butler · 1872

An influential 19th century satiric dystopia.

by Charles Nordhoff · 1875

Firsthand view of the 19th century US communal living movement, including the Shakers.

by Edward Bellamy · 1888

Bellamy's classic utopian vision of the year 2000.

by Ignatius Donnelly · 1890

Donnelly's dystopian novel with a utopian twist.

by William Morris · 1891

William Morris' vision of a socialist England.

by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones & Ella Merchant · 1893

A trip to Mars, where a strange society which practices equality of the sexes.

by H.G. Wells · 1909

Wells' 'novel of ideas' set on a parallel Earth.

by Jack London · 1909

Jack London's dystopian vision of a brutal future past.

by Ebenezer Howard · 1902

A very influential early city planner's vision of the city of the future--which became a very successful reality.

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman · 1906

Visit a land where women are the only gender.

by Lewis Mumford · 1922

A survey of the literature of utopias, by a pioneer of city planning.