Utopias (1 Viewer)

[ZeGoat]

hey,
we are doing utopias in school now and have an assignment on utopias... anyway what books/novels do you know of which are about utopias...(preferably shortish in length)...

 

[AsyLum]

Brave New World or rather its a Dystopia
Blade Runner Dystopia
Matrix
umm novels i cant think of now ill have a think and get back to ya

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Thomas More-Utopia (Only 130 pages long, and the novel which invented the term 'Utopia'. Very influential.)
Plato-The Republic (Not exactly a novel, but still an important utopian text.)
Aldous Huxley-Island (Less well-known than Brave New World, this is his utopian novel.)
Charlotte Perkin Gilman-Herland etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GilHerl.html

Actually, theres an anthology book entitled 'The Faber Book Of Utopias', which is very good, covering utopias from Middle Kingdom Egypt to the present day. (Additionally, for some aspects of The Republic and Utopia, they're covered in my Extension 2 dissertation, in the 'exhibition' thread.)

 

[ZeGoat]

alrite. thanx heaps