News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist...
I'LL LET YOU GO By Bruce Wagner Villard. 549 pp. $25.95 The frontispiece beautifully sets the mood: A boy and his mottled Great Dane stand before an imposing, ornate and padlocked gate; in the distance, rising before a dramatic sky, is...
Autopia is, by definition, a fantasy: The word literally means "no place," and the classical utopias existed only in the imagination. Sometimes, they were enchanting literature. Political scientists may sneer at the French socialist Charles Fourier, in whose utopia the planets copulate and the...
In the following essay, Suvin contends that utopian fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, using William Morris's News from Nowhere and Victorian science fiction of the 1880s as evidence to support this position.
