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 USA has become a socialist utopia. In the first years of its release, Looking Backward sold more than 1 million copies. More than 160 Nationalist Clubs formed to propagate the book's ideas. 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. This list focuses on works that (to various extents) use the same setting or characters as Looking Backward, and was derived from several sources.

Directly 'anti-Bellamy' responses

Direct and positive utopian responses / unofficial sequels

Equality

A. D. 2050

A Leap into the Future

Looking Backward and What I Saw

Looking Further Forward

Looking Further Backward

One of "Berrian's" Novels

Looking Beyond

Mr. East's Experiences in Mr. Bellamy's World

Looking Within

Young West

My Afterdream

Looking Forward

Looking Backward from the Tricentennial

Looking Backward from the Year 2000

Equality in the Year 2000

Edward Bellamy Writes Again