Introduction
Holy Snakes - Anon., 'The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor', c.1940 BC
Golden Ages and Elysiums - Hesiod, Homer, Ovid c.800 BC
Philosophers Rule - Plato, 'Republic', c.360 BC
Pure Germans - Tacitus, 'Germania', AD 98
Spartan Conditions - Plutarch, 'Life of Lycurgus', c. AD 120
Arrangements in the Beyond - Irenaeus, Lucian etc., second century AD
Watching the Damned Fry - Tertullian, 'De Spectaculis', c. AD 200
In a Chinese Mountain - Tao Qian, c. AD 400
More's Conundrum - Sir Thomas More, 'Utopia', 1516
Moon Landing - Francis Godwin, 'The Man in the Moon', c.1580
Utopian Cannibals - Michel De Montaigne, 'Essays', c.1580
My America - John Donne, ''To His Mistress Going to Bed'', c.1595
Sun City - Tommaso Campanella, 'City of the Sun', 1602
The Island of Scientists - Francis Bacon, 'New Atlantis', 1627
Honours for Schoolteachers - Samuel Gott, 'Nova Solyma', 1648
The Earth Shall Be Made a Common Treasury - Gerrard Winstanley, c.1650
On Not Being a Round Quadrangle - Thomas Hobbes, 'Leviathan', 1651
Holy and Cheerful - Andrew Marvell, ''Bermudas'', c.1653
Paradise Regained - Thomas Traherne, c.1670
The Empress's New Clothes - Margaret Cavendish, 'The Blazing World', 1666
Perfect Humans? - John Milton, 'Paradise Lost', 1667
Increase and Multiply - Henry Neville, 'The Isle of Pines', 1668
Reasonable Behaviour - Denis Vairasse, 'History of the Severambians', 1667-9
Unisex Australians - Gabriel De Foigny, 'A New Discovery', 1693
Alchemists Rule - Anon., 'The Sophick Constitution', 1700
Paradise Found - Ambrose Evans, 'Adventures of James Dubourdieu', 1719
Desert Island Discontent - Daniel Defoe, 'Robinson Crusoe', 1719
How to Discourage Adultery - Ambrose Philips, 'The Fortunate Shipwreck', 1720
Horse Sense - Jonathan Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels', 1726
Wise Trees - Ludwig Holberg, 'Niels Klim's Journey', 1741
Difficulties with a Flying Suit - Rovert Paltock, 'Adventures of Peter Wilkins', 1751
The Happy Savage - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 'Discourse on the Origins of Inequality', 1754
Utopian FIshing - Anon., 'Voyage to the Centre of the Earth', 1755
Eldorado - Voltaire, 'Candide', 1758
A Pastoral Idyll - Samuel Johnson, 'Rasselas', 1759
An American in London - Anon., 'Private Letters from an American', 1769
In the South Seas - Louis Antoine, Comte De Bougainville, 'Voyage round the World', 1772
Happy Taxpayers - Louis-Sebastien Mercier, 'The Year 2440', 1771
Mathematical Perfectability - Antoine Nicolas De Condorcet, 'Sketch', 1794
Sanctuaries for Sadists - The Marquis De Sade, 'Justine', 1791; 'Philosophy in the Bedroom', 1795
Equality - Francois-Noel Babeuf, 'Defence', 1797
The Punishment Fits the Crime - Anon., 'Libellus', 1798
The Paradise of Single Mothers - James Lawrence, 'The Empire of the Nairs', 1801
The Gospel of Industrialism - Claude-Henri De Saint-Simon, 'Works', 1802-19
How to Run a Cotton-Mill - Robert Owen, 'A New View of Society', 1813-16
Passions Set Free - Charles Fourier, 'Selected Texts', c.1800-37
Head-Bumps and Destiny - John Trotter, 'Travels in Phrenologasto', 1829
Lotos-Eaters - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1832
Plastic-Wood Paradise - J. A. Etzler, 'A Paradise within the Reach of All Men', 1833
The Joys of Sameness - Etienne Cabet, 'Voyage to Icaria', 1839
The Water Cure - Henry J. Forrest, 'Dream of Reform', 1848
The Noble Savage - Charles Dickens, 'Household Words', 1853
The Really Precious Things - John Ruskin, 'Modern Painters', 1856
A New Nation - Abraham Lincoln, 'Gettysburg Address', 1863
To a Nunnery - Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''Heaven-Heaven'', 1866
Almost Human - Edward Lear, ''The Jumblies'', 1870
Vril, Father of Bovril - Edward Bulwer Lytton, 'The Coming Race', 1871
Sick Criminals - Samuel Butler, 'Erewhon', 1872
The Withering State - Karl Marx, 'Critique of the Gotha Programme', 1875
Good Deaths - Anthony Trollope, 'The Fixed Period', 1881-2
Women in Power - Walter Besant, 'The Revolt of Man', 1882
Green England - Richard Jefferies, 'After London', 1885
The Frustration of Smith - W. H. Hudson, 'A Crystal Age', 1887
Bring Back National Service - Edward Bellamy, 'Looking Backward', 1888
A Cure for Wrinkles - Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, 'New Amazonia', 1889
An Ideal Ireland - Edward Joseph Martyn, 'Morgante the Lesser', 1890
Socialism for Aesthetes - Oscar Wilde, 'The Soul of Man under Socialism', 1891
Going Nowhere - William Morris, 'News from Nowhere', 1891
Suicide on Tap - Ignatius Donnelly, 'Caesar's Column', 1891
Utopian Menopause - Elizabeth Wolstenholme, 'Woman Free', 1893
The Law of the Jungle - Rudyard Kipling, 'The Jungle Book', 1894
Garden Cities - Ebenezer Howard, 'Tomorrow', 1898
Young Man Goes East - Joseph Conrad, 'Youth', 1898
Eliminating the Unfit - H. G. Wells, 'Anticipations', 1901
Progressing to the Higher Life - John MacMillan Brown, 'Limanora', 1903
Deep-Frozen Genius - Gabriel Tarde, 'Underground Man', 1905
Fish Heaven - Rupert Brooke, ''Heaven'', 1913
Virgin Births - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'Herland', 1915
A Surgical Cure for Imagination - Yevgeny Zamyatin, 'We', 1920
Sailing to Byzantium - W. B. Yeats, 'A Vision', 1925
Samoan Fibs - Margaret Mead, 'Coming of Age in Samoa', 1929
Imaginary Etruscans - D. H. Lawrence, 'Etruscan Places', 1932
Shangri-La - James Hilton, 'Lost Horizon', 1933
Women in Cages - Katherine Burdekin, 'Swastika Night', 1937
Christ Takes Over - Newman Watts, 'The Man Who Did Not Sin', 1939
Hitler's Russian Garden - Adolf Hitler, 'Mein Kampf', 1924; 'Table Talk', 1941-44
On Not Licking Your Lollipop - B. F. Skinner, 'Walden Two', 1948
The Worst Thing - George Orwell, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', 1949
Men or Machines? - Kurt Vonnegut, 'Player Piano', 1953
Huxley's Hell and Heaven - 'Brave New World', 1932; 'The Doors of Perception', 1954; 'Island', 1962
Disneyland at Christmas - E. L. Doctorow, 'The Book of Daniel', 1971
Describing Venice - Italo Calvino, 'Invisible Cities', 1972
Space Potatoes - Freeman J. Dyson, 'J. D. Bernal Lecture', 1972
Infertile Solution - Naomi Mitchison, 'Solution Three', 1975
Mixed Motherhood - Marge Piercy, 'Woman on the Edge of Time', 1979
Having What You Want - Julian Barnes, 'A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters', 1989
The Lottery State - Barbara Goodwin, 'Justice by Lottery', 1992
What Women Want - Bernadette Vallely, 'What Women Want', 1996
Utopian Coursework - Jim Dator, 'Desirable Societies', 1996
The Intelligent Planet - Michio Kaku, 'Visions', 1998
Designer Children - Lee M. Silver, 'Remaking Eden', 1998
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