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Sultana's Dream (1905) by Begum Rokeya – A Bengali feminist Utopian story about Lady-Land. A Modern Utopia (1905) by H. G. Wells – An imaginary, progressive utopia on a planetary scale in which the social and technological environment are in continuous improvement, a world state owns all land and power sources, positive compulsion and ...
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 ...
This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."
Middle-earth: The Hobbit: 1936 J. R. R. Tolkien: The setting of the majority of Tolkien's fantasy writings, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Middle-earth represents the Old World of our planet Earth (named Arda in the stories) in a fictional (pre)historic era. Mistborn: The Final Empire: 2006 Brandon Sanderson ...
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.
The first utopia in Russian was a short story by Alexander Sumarokov, "A Dream of Happy Society" (1759). Two early utopias in form of imaginary voyage are Vasily Levshin's Newest Voyage (1784, also the first Russian "flight" to the Moon) and Mikhail Shcherbatov's Journey to the Land of Ophir.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Utopian novels use an ideal society as their settings. Utopias are commonly found in science fiction novels ...
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"