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Essay on how to build the Utopia of Thomas More by using computers. [44] The Culture series by Iain M. Banks – A science fiction series released from 1987 through 2012. The stories centre on The Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoid aliens, and advanced superintelligent artificial intelligences living in artificial habitats.
With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. [2] "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 [3] and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version ... Utopian novels use an ideal society as their settings. Utopias are commonly found in science fiction novels and stories ...
"Harrison Bergeron" is a satirical dystopian science-fiction short story by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in October 1961. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , the story was republished in the author's Welcome to the Monkey House collection in 1968.
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias is a 1994 collection of short stories edited by Kim Stanley Robinson. It republishes notable short works of utopian and dystopian fiction that incorporate elements of primitivism and of eco-anarchism.
A science fiction story. A high-school teacher takes three children on a field-trip in a time machine. "The Pedestrian" A science fiction story about a society addicted to television. "Hail and Farewell" A fantasy story concerning a middle-aged man who never physically aged past his pre-adolescence. "Invisible Boy"
Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos , having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers.