Utopia. A community or society possessing highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. It may be a dream, but it's a dream that has inspired writers for thousands of years. Plato's «Republic» may be the very first utopia presented to a mass audience, but Thomas More coined the term with his 1516 book Utopia (included here), which describes a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term (and its antonym, dystopia) quickly entered the English language. And here are 19 other works, famous and not, featuring utopias and dystopias…works by Samuel Butler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Bowman Dodd, William Morris, Sir Francis Bacon, and many others. Included are:<P> EREWHON, by Samuel Butler<br> MOVING THE MOUNTAIN, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br> HERLAND, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br> EQUALITY, by Edward Bellamy<br> CAESAR’S COLUMN, by Ignatius Donnelly<br> THE REPUBLIC OF THE FUTURE, by Anna Bowman Dodd<br> A CRYSTAL AGE, by W. H. Hudson<br> A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA, by W. D. Howells<br> FREELAND: A SOCIAL ANTICIPATION, by Dr. Theodor Hertzka<br> MIZORA: A PROPHECY, by Mary E. Bradley Lane<br> SOLARIS FARM, by Milan C. Edson<br> LOOKING BACKWARD, by Edward Bellamy<br> SOME PICTURES OF A SOCIALIST FUTURE, by Eugene Richter<br> UTOPIA, by Thomas More<br> THE COMMONWEALTH OF OCEANA, by James Harrington<br> THE NEW ATLANTIS, by Sir Francis Bacon<br> THE BLAZING WORLD, by Margaret Cavendish<br> CHRISTIANOPOLIS, by Johannes Valentinus Andreae<br> THE CITY OF THE SUN, by Tommaso Campanella<p> If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 150+ entries in the MEGAPACK™ ebook series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!
