List of dystopian literature
This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction." 18th century Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift 19th century The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our Lord, 19-- (1835) by Oliver Bolokitten The Tragedy of Man (1862) by Imre Madách Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863) by Jules Verne Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky The History of a Town (1870) by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1871) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally printed as The Coming Race Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler The Begum's Fortune (1879) by Jules Verne The Fixed Period (1882) by Anthony Trollope The Republic of the Future (1887) by Anna Bowman Dodd The Inner House (1888) by Walter Besant Caesar's Column (1890) by Ignatius L. Donnelly Pictures of the Socialistic Future (1891) by Eugen Richter "The Repairer of Reputations" (1895) by Robert W. Chambers The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells When The Sleeper Wakes (1899) by H. G. Wells 20th century 1900s The First Men in the Moon (1901) by H. G. Wells The Purple Cloud (1901) by M. P. Shiel The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London Lord of the World (1908) by Robert Hugh Benson The Machine Stops (1909) by E. M. Forster Trylogia Księżycowa or The Lunar Trilogy (1911) by Jerzy Żuławski 1910s The Night Land (1912) by William Hope Hodgson When William Came (1913) by Saki as a future history, this is among the earliest of Pax Germanica genre Meccania, the Super-State (1918) by "Owen Gregory"(pseudonym) The Heads of Cerberus (1919) by "Francis Stevens" (Gertrude Barrows Bennett) 1920s R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots (1921) by Karel Čapek We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin Miasto światłości (1924) by Mieczysław Smolarski The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka 1930s The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrei Platonov Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley Cat Country (1932/1933) by Lao She It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis War with the Newts (1936) by Karel Čapek Swastika Night (1937) by Katharine Burdekin Anthem (1938) by Ayn Rand Invitation to a Beheading (1938) by Vladimir Nabokov 1940s Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler "If This Goes On—" (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye The Moon Is Down (1942) by John Steinbeck Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis Peace In Our Time (1946) by Noël Coward Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov Ape and Essence (1948) by Aldous Huxley Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948) by Roald Dahl The World of Null-A (1948) by A. E. van Vogt Heliopolis (1949) by Ernst Jünger Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell 1950s