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Books

  • Misopseudes: or the year 2075 : a marvellous vision, W.H. Williams [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 187?. Image PDF Details
  • Bellamy, Edward, Looking backward, 2000-1887, Andrade & Co., Melbourne, ?. Image PDF Details
  • Boote, H.E., The Land of Wheresit, Judd Publishing, Sydney, 1919. Image PDF Details
  • Boyd, Hannah Villiers., A voice from Australia, or, An inquiry into the probability of New Holland being connected with the prophecies relating to New Jerusalem, Partridge, London, 1856. Image PDF Details
  • Dugdale, H. A. (Henrietta Augusta), A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age, M’Carron, Bird [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1883. Image PDF Details
  • Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold), The king of No-land, Robson [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1880. Image PDF Details
  • Fraser, Joseph, Melbourne and Mars : my mysterious life on two planets : extracts from the diary of a Melbourne merchant, E.W. Cole [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 189?. Image PDF Details
  • Grover, Montague, The time is now ripe: revolution without tears, Robertson & Mullens [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1937. Image PDF Details
  • Hardy, Wilson, The Cow Pasture Road, Art in Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1920. Image PDF Details
  • Johnston, Alexander W., The new utopia, or progress and prosperity: an exposure of the evils produced by unwise legislation and a suggestion of the means whereby they may be remedied, Turner and Henderson [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1890. Image PDF Details
  • Lane, William, The workingman’s paradise : an Australian labour novel by John Miller, Edwards, Dunlop and Co [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1892. Image PDF Details
  • Lang, John Dunmore, Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia: The Right of the Colonies, and The Interest of Britain and of the World, Longman, Brown, Orme, & Longman. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1852. Image PDF Details
  • Maitland, Edward, The battle of Mordialloc: or, How we lost Australia, S. Mullen [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1888. Image PDF Details
  • Rosa, S.A., Oliver Spence: The Australian Caeser, Self-published [This scan courtesy of the National Library of Australia], Sydney, 1895. PDF Details
  • Rosa, Samuel Albert, The coming terror, Self-published [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1894. Image PDF Details
  • Spotswood, Christopher, The Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole, Tasmanian [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Launceston, 1888. images PDF Details

Book Sections

  • Barnard Eldershaw, M, 'Aubade', in Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, 1983 edn, Virago, London, pp. 3-26. Details

Journals

Novels

  • Andrade, David A., The Melbourne riots, and how Harry Holdfast and his friends emancipated the workers: a realistic novel, 1892 edn, Andrade & Co., Melbourne, 1892, 67 pp. Image PDF Details
  • Bland, Charles Ashwold, Independence, a retrospect from the "Reminiscences home and colonial" of C.A. Bland, Harrison and Sons [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1891. Image PDF Details
  • Carter, Charles, The Island of Justice, Gordon and Gotch [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1901. Image PDF Details
  • Champion, Henry Hyde, The Root of the Matter: Being a Series of Dialogues on Social Questions. Melbourne, E. W. Cole [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1898. Image PDF Details
  • Clarke, Percy, The Valley council : or, Leaves from the journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego station, Sampson Low, Marston [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1891. Image PDF Details
  • Cox, Erle, Fool's harvest, Robertson & Mullen [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1939. Image PDF Details
  • Deakin, Alfred, A new pilgrim’s progress / purporting to be given by John Bunyan ; through an impressional writing medium, Terry [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1877. Image PDF Details
  • Easterley, Robert, The germ growers: an Australian story of adventure and mystery, Melville, Mullen & Slade [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1892. Image PDF Details
  • Ferrar, William M., Artabanzanus : the demon of the Great Lake; an allegorical romance of Tasmania arranged from the diary of the late Oliver Ubertus, Elliot Stack [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1896. Image PDF Details
  • Finkelstein, Millie, The newest woman : the destined monarch of the world, Sporswoman [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1895. Image PDF Details
  • Forsyth, Archibald, Rapara : or The rights of the individual in the state / by Archibald Forsyth., William Dymock [This scan courtesy of the State Librray of Victoria], Sydney, 1897. Image PDF Details
  • Fraser, Joseph, Melbourne and Mars; My Mysterious Life on Two Planets. Extracts from the Diary of a Melbourne Merchant, E. W. Cole [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1889. Image PDF Details
  • Galier, W. H., A visit to Blestland, G. Robertson [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1896. Image PDF Details
  • Healy, Dominic, A Voyage to Venus, Currawong Publishing Co., Sydney, 1943. Image PDF Details
  • Heathcote, Rev. Wyndham Selfe, What I Know: Reflections by a Philosophic Punter., Cornstalk Pub. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1928. Image PDF Details
  • Iggulden, John, Breakthrough, Chapman & Hall [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1960. Image PDF Details
  • 'Karta', The Island of justice, Gordon and Gotch [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1901. Image PDF Details
  • McIver, G., Neuroomia: A New Continent, George Robertson & Co. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1894. Image PDF Details
  • Morton, Frank, The Angel of the Earthquake, Atlas Press, Melbourne, 1909. Image PDF Details
  • Murphy, George Read, Beyond the ice : being a story of the newly discovered region round the North Pole / Ed. from Dr. Frank Farleigh’s diary by G. Read Murphy, Low, Marston [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1894. Image PDF Details
  • Nicholson, John Henry, Almoni, Edwards, Dunlop and Co [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Brisbane, 1904. images PDF Details
  • Nicholson, John Henry., Halek: a romance, A. J. Ross [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Brisbane, 1896. Image PDF Details
  • Pearson, William Talbot, The Temple of Sahr, Lothian Publishing Co. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1932. Image PDF Details
  • Sladen, Douglas, Fair Inez : a romance of Australia, Hutchinson & Co [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1918 [?]. Image PDF Details
  • Spence, Catherine Helen, An Agnostics Progress from the Known to the Unknown, Williams and Norgate. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1884. Image PDF Details
  • Spotswood, Christopher., Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole, Printed at the "Examiner" and "Tasmanian" office [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Tasmania, 1888. Image PDF Details
  • Tucker, Horace, The new Arcadia : an Australian story, Swan Sonnenschein [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1894. Image PDF Details
  • Whately, Richard, The Southlanders: An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland, Third edn, George Phipps [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], London, 1837. images PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • Gibson, Ralph Siward, Socialist Melbourne, Communist Party, Victorian State Committee [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1938. Image PDF Details
  • 'J.D.', Kingcraft & priestcraft in 1971, or, A review of a curious old MS. written by my great-grandfather : an essay delivered before the Sunday Free Discussion Society, at the Masonic Hall, on New Year’s evening, 1871, Robert Bell [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1871. Image PDF Details

Papers

  • Australian Utopian Literature: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography 1667-1999, Revised version of original published under the same title in Utopian Studies 10.2 (1999): 138-73., 2009. PDF Details

Poems

  • Boake, Barcroft, '"A Vision out West", in Boake, Barcroft, Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Verses, pp. 19-25', Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1897. images PDF Details
  • Lawson, Henry, 'When I was King', Angus & Robertson [This Scan Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1905. Image PDF Details