^Bentham, Jeremy.(1818). Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the form of a catechism.
^Cf."Dystopia Timeline" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), in Exploring Dystopia, "edited and designed by Niclas Hermansson; Contributors: Acolyte of Death('Gattaca'), John Steinbach('Nuclear Nightmare'), [and] David Clements('From Dystopia to Myopia')"(hem.passagen.se), Niclas Hermansson, n.d., Web, 22 May 2009.
^Dystopia. 牛津英語詞典 (第三版). 牛津大學出版社. 2005-09 (英语). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "dystopia" is:
"An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible; opp. UTOPIA(cf. CACOTOPIA). So dystopian n., one who advocates or describes a dystopia; dystopian a., of or pertaining to a dystopia; dystopianism, dystopian quality or characteristics." The example of first usage given in the OED(1989 ed.)refers to the 1868 speech by John Stuart Mill quoted above. Other examples given in the OED include:
1952 NEGLEY & PATRICK Quest for Utopia xvii. 298 The Mundus Alter et Idem [of Joseph Hall] is...the opposite of eutopia, the ideal society: it is a dystopia, if it is permissible to coin a word. 1962 C. WALSH From Utopia to Nightmare 11 The 'dystopia' or 'inverted utopia'. Ibid. 12 Stories...that seemed in their dystopian way to be saying something important. Ibid. ii. 27 A strand of utopianism or dystopianism. 1967 Listener 5 Jan. 22 The modern classics Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are dystopias. They describe not a world we should like to live in, but one we must be sure to avoid. 1968 New Scientist 11 July 96/3 It is a pleasant change to read some hope for our future is trevor ingram ... I fear that our real future is more likely to be dystopian.
^See also Michael S. Roth, "A Dystopia of the Spirit" 230ff., Chap. 15 in Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr, and Thomas Rieger, eds., Thinking Utopia (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Google Books Preview, n.d., Web, 22 May 2009.
^William Steinhoff, "Utopia Reconsidered: Comments on 1984" 153, in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^William Steinhoff, "Utopia Reconsidered: Comments on 1984" 147, in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^Howard P. Segal, "Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia," 163 in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^Lee, Tanith. Don't Bite the Sun. Bantam Books:1999.
^William Matter, "On Brave New World" 98, in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^William Matter, "On Brave New World" 95, in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^Gorman Beauchamp, "Zamiatin's We" 70, in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^William Matter, "On Brave New World" 94, in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, McClelland and Stewart, 1985. ISBN 978-0-7710-0813-9.
^S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.
^"Avatism and Utopia" 4, in Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction.ISBN 978-0-8093-1113-2.