Genre Fiction Lineage · Section
Utopian and dystopian fiction dated by first printing, read beside the real utopian communities that were founded, with when they began and how they ended.
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Lineage essay
20 dystopian novels dated by first appearance in print, 1879–1985: magazine serials, changed titles, hidden authors and later edits. Sourced, with a CSV.
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Lineage essay
Robert Owen bought New Harmony ready-built. A dated table of 16 American communities, founded 1825–1846 and later dissolved, each date from an 1870s survey.
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"New Harmony on the Wabash" by Karl Bodmer, 1839 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Bodmer,_%22New_Harmony_on_the_Wabash%22_2009_26_2v1.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Edition comparison
Thomas More's Utopia was printed in Latin in 1516; the earliest known English edition in USTC is Robinson's of 1551. A dated table of 13 printings to 1715.
"Frontispiece to L'Utopie de Thomas Morus, 1715" by François van Bleyswyck, 1715 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1715_-_Thomas_More_L'Utopie_-_Nicolas_Gueudeville_-_Frontispice_(e-rara).jpg — Public domain (US: published 1715; Germany and France: the engraver François van Bleyswyck died 1746 and the translator Nicolas Gueudeville 1721 (GND), so 70 years after death have run out; both died before 1914, so no French wartime or died-for-France extension applies); modified: cropped at the bottom edge of the engraved plate to remove a library stamp in the margin below
Lineage essay
William Morris reviewed Bellamy's Looking Backward on 22 June 1889; News from Nowhere began in the same weekly in 1890. Dated editions, two texts compared.
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