We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. Rutger Bregman, a bestselling Dutch...
Utopias
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Author:Bregman, RutgerSummary: - Author:Palmer, AdaSummary:
The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The...
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Author:PlatoSummary:"Behold! Human beings living in an underground den. Like ourselves, they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." With that statement, Plato--one of...
- Author:Hodgson, William HopeSummary:
In the far future, an unnamed narrator, who along with what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, 'Ab-humans...
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Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is...
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Author:Hunt, StephenSummary:Professor Amelia Harsh searches for the legendary city of Camlantis on her quest for the perfect society--a quest that has a good chance of bringing her own world to the brink of destruction as she faces off against convicts, female...
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Author:Makansi, K.Summary:Remy Alexander wants revolution. After watching Vale fall back into the hands of the Sector, she will stop at nothing to reveal the corruption in Okaria. When she joins a secret Outsider network in the underbelly of the capital city,...
- Author:Blakemore, Megan FrazerSummary:
Five friends leave their community and embark on an adventure that will change their lives forever in this fascinating utopian saga. Mori and her friends Julia, Benji, and Theo have never seen the world beyond the walls of their utopian...
- Author:TouréSummary:
Soul City is an urban utopia, where the local house of worship is St. Pimp's House of Baptist Rapture, and the candidates for mayor are locked in a fierce battle for DJ supremacy. Into this wonderful place comes Cadillac Jackson, a...
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Author:PlatoSummary:One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years and remains as relevant today as when it was written during the fourth...
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Author:DeStefano, LaurenSummary:Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel.
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Author:Abbott, EdwinSummary:A square inhabiting a two-dimensional realm comes into contact with a mysterious sphere that opens his mind to the existence of higher dimensions and threatens to upend the rigid social order of his homeland. At once an earnest inquiry...
- Author:Bellamy, EdwardSummary:
Equality is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, and the sequel to Looking Backward: and was first published in 1897. The book contains a minimal amount of plot; Bellamy primarily used Equality to expand on the theories he first explored...
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Author:Plant, JudithSummary:The time is the early 1980s. Judith Plant and her new partner, Kip, are ready for a change. Inspired by the charismatic Fred Brown, their communications professor at Simon Fraser University, they join a commune in a remote valley near...
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Author:Todd, DouglasSummary:This book will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the unique culture and spirituality of the fast-growing Pacific Northwest, which includes British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Envied by people around the world, Cascadia, as...
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Author:Sisco, CodySummary:Someone killed Granfa Jefferson. Victor is sure of it. But he’s the only one. Diagnosed with mirror resonance syndrome and shunned by Semiautonomous California society, Victor suffers from “blank outs,” hallucinations, and vivid...
- Author:Curran, OisínSummary:
Maine, 1980. A utopian community is on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader's authority teeters as his followers come to realize they've been exploited for too long. To make matters worse, the eleven-year-old son of one...
- Author:Lakey, J. D.Summary:
On a savage, outlying planet an enclave of psionically-trained humans have built a utopian, matriarchal society that lives in harmony with all life. Leaving behind the polluted and corrupt world in which they lived, they colonized a new...
- Author:MacDonald, HughSummary:
After years of struggle by Blanchfleur to maintain its independence, the idyllic walled city of Aahimsa, a community of girls and women dedicated to making a life of peace free of the brutality and aggression of outsiders, and its...
- Author:Baumann, Fred E.Summary:
Professor Fred E. Baumann looks at what some philosophers have ahd to say on the subject of utopias, mostly in the form of stories about them. Five are written by great philosophers and the last by a challenging, nearly contemporary...
