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123) Brave new world
Publisher
Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a society where pleasure and conformity are all that matter, people are conditioned to live happy, promiscuous lives with the help of a mood-enhancing drug called Soma. On the fringes of the cities, savages live in reservations, free from conditioning but subject to emotions, disease and violence.
124) The age of longing
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the moral temper of Western Europe.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Heaven Is A Place On Earth tells the stories of both living and long-gone Americans trying to make utopia. Within these stories is Adrian Shirk's own practical and moral inquiry: how can she live a life "in community" in America today, a life which is not organized around private property, automation, and the acquisition of personal wealth? When Shirk's father-in-law has a stroke and loses his ability to speak and walk, her husband becomes his primary...
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; no. 461 Theology & philosophy
Publisher
Dent
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Black Utopias posits a concept of utopia made possible by black people's exclusion from the human and expressed through the ecstatic practices, community creation, speculative fiction and music. Jayna Brown explores the practices and works of 19th century black women mystics as well as 20th century musicians and speculative fiction writers including mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and writers...
130) The world inside
Author
Publisher
Orb
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 2381, the highly regulated life at the giant building known as Urbmon 116 may seem ideal, but some residents are experiencing dangerous dissatisfaction.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In an ancient time, in a faraway land, a young woman named Aoife is allowed a rare apprenticeship to become her kingdom's mapmaker, tasked with charting the entire domain. Traveling beyond its borders, she finds a secretive people who live in peace, among great wealth. They claim to protect a mythic treasure, one connected to the creation of the world. When Aoife reports their existence to her kingdom, the community is targeted as a threat. Attempting...
135) Star of the unborn
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
A satiric fantasy predicting the shape of things to come.
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; no. 461
Publisher
J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd
Pub. Date
[1910]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dystopian fiction asks a few seemingly simple questions aimed at doing just that. Who are we as a society? Who do we want to be? Who are we afraid we might become? When these questions are framed in the speculative versions of Heaven and Hell on earth, you won't find easy answers, but you will find tremendously insightful and often entertaining perspectives. Utopian and...
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