My gratitude once again to Nicola Higgins for beating me to the punch yet again! I hope she doesn’t mind that I’m totally posting a separate article, but something like this is just too good to reblog! In what is sure to excite Singularitarians and Futurists and scare the holy bejeezus out of technophobes and […]
Utopian Science Fiction
by storiesbywilliams on June 1, 2012 in Novels, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A-lo, Anarres, Arthur C Clarke, Balnibarbi, benbili, Brobdingnagian, childhood's end, Communism, dystopian literature, ecological communes, ecotopia, erewhon, ernest callenbach, Glubbdubdrib, gullivers travels, h.g. wells, Houyhnhnms, japan, jonas, karl marx, Laputa, left hand of darkness, Letters from Nowhere, Lilliput, lilliputians, lois lowry, Luggnagg, marxism, men like gods, overlords, overmind, plato, receiver of memory, revolution, revolutonary justice, saint thomas more, samuel butler, sir thomas more, social experiment, socrates, socratic dialogue, Tao Hua Yuan, Tao Yuanming, the cold war, the dispossessed, the giver, the republic, The Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring, the time machine, Thur, Urras, ursula k le guin, utopia, utopian literature, vietnam war, w.f. hegel
Welcome back my friends! A funny thing happened just this morning. I was looking at an old article - titled Dystopian Science Fiction – and realized that something was missing. Yes, this is the article that earned me most of my current followers and the bulk of my traffic on this site, but I quickly […]
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Dystopian Science Fiction
by storiesbywilliams on March 26, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged 1984, airstrip one, Balnibarbi, bnw, Brave New World, Brobdingnag, brotherhood of man, candide, D-503, doublethink, dystopian literature, Eastasia, eloi, Eurasia, everhard manuscript, f451, Farenheit 451, George Orwell, Glubbdubdrib, goldstein manifesto, gulliver, gullivers travels, h.g. wells, handmaids tale, Houyhnhnms, I-330, jack london, jonathon swift, Julia, Laputa, leibnizian optimism, lisbon earthquake, Luggnagg, lulliput, MEPHI, morlocks, newspeak, Oceania, samuel goldstein, satirical literature, Soma, the first revolt, the green wall, the intergral, the iron heel, the mercenaries, the oligarchs, the one state, the second revolt, the time machine, the traveller, the world state, thoughtcrime, Totalitarianism, voltaire, We, William Gibson, winston smith, world war III, wwIII, yevgeny zamyatin
Lately, I’ve been feeling kind of dystopian! Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m working on an anthology of dark science fiction with some fellow writer’s over at Goodreads (called Writer’s Worth). Or it might just be that this seemed like the next logical step in the whole “conceptual science fiction” thing. Regardless, when it comes […]
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