
Ape and Essence (1948) by Aldous Huxley. Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov. Peace In Our Time (1946) by Noël Coward. The Moon Is Down (1942) by John Steinbeck. "If This Goes On-" (1940) by Robert A. Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler. Invitation to a Beheading (1938) by Vladimir Nabokov. Swastika Night (1937) by Katharine Burdekin. War with the Newts (1936) by Karel Čapek. It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis. Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley. The Foundation Pit (1930) by Andrei Platonov. Miasto światłości (1924) by Mieczysław Smolarski. R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots (1921) by Karel Čapek. The Heads of Cerberus (1919) by "Francis Stevens" ( Gertrude Barrows Bennett). When William Came (1913) by Saki as a future history, this is among the earliest of Pax Germanica genre. The Night Land (1912) by William Hope Hodgson. Trylogia Księżycowa or The Lunar Trilogy (1911) by Jerzy Żuławski. Lord of the World (1908) by Robert Hugh Benson. The First Men in the Moon (1901) by H. " The Repairer of Reputations" (1895) by Robert W. Pictures of the Socialistic Future (1891) by Eugen Richter. The Inner House (1888) by Walter Besant. The Republic of the Future (1887) by Anna Bowman Dodd. The Fixed Period (1882) by Anthony Trollope. The Begum's Fortune (1879) by Jules Verne.
Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1871) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally printed as The Coming Race.The History of a Town (1870) by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863) by Jules Verne. The Tragedy of Man (1862) by Imre Madách. A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our Lord, 19- (1835) by Oliver Bolokitten.
Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.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 A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. List of notable works of dystopian literature