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.