Looking Backward is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts.
First published in 1888 (Ticknor and Company Copyrighted the work in 1887), it describes a young man, named Julian West, who falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up in 2000 to find the United States has become a socialist utopia.
Many authors wrote utopian fiction to attack, support, ridicule, or defend Bellamy's ideas.
Scholars count over 150 sequels or other fictional responses to Bellamy's book.
[1][2][3] This list focuses on works that (to various extents) use the same setting or characters as Looking Backward, and were derived from several sources.