Books with category Utopian Dreams
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FUTU.RE

What would I do for eternal life? Discoveries made within our lifetime will allow people to remain young forever. There is no more death. Our children will never die. Welcome to a world inhabited by people who are perfectly healthy, beautiful, and eternally young.

Every utopia has its shadowy backstreets. Someone has to make sure that overpopulation doesn't bring the wonderful world of the future crashing down. Someone has to make people forget their animal instincts and live in a fitting way for immortals. Maybe that someone is me?

The utopia "FUTU.RE" is the first novel after five years' silence from Dmitry Glukhovksy, author of the cult novel "METRO 2033." The author's books have been translated into dozens of foreign languages, selling in millions of copies, and have been adapted for the big screen in Hollywood - but none of them will grip you like "FUTU.RE".

Islandia

Austin Tappan Wright left the world a wholly unsuspected legacy. After he died in a tragic accident, among this distinguished legal scholar's papers were found thousands of pages devoted to a staggering feat of literary creation—a detailed history of an imagined country complete with geography, genealogy, literature, language, and culture.

As detailed as J.R.R. Tolkien's middle-earth novels, Islandia has similarly become a classic touchstone for those concerned with the creation of imaginary worlds.

The Mosquito Coast

2006

by Paul Theroux

In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left.

Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.

Walden Two

2005

by B.F. Skinner

Walden Two is a fictional outline of a modern utopia that has sparked controversy since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, this book presents a society where human problems are resolved through a scientific technology of human conduct.

The narrative explores how great changes must be made in the American way of life. It discusses the challenges faced by society, such as consumption and pollution, and the need to address violence and chaos. The book poses a clear choice: either do nothing and face a potentially catastrophic future, or utilize our understanding of human behavior to create a productive and creative social environment for ourselves and future generations.

Ecotopia

Ecotopia is a novel both timely and prophetic, offering a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today. Set in an ecologically sound future society, it presents a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet and our future.

Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.

Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he's alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia's earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient "mini-cities" to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses.

His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.

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