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Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way, often as an analogy for similar issues in the real world. Dystopian literature serves to "provide fresh perspectives on problematic social and political practices that might otherwise be taken for granted or considered natural and inevitable". [ 7 ]
Essay on how to build the Utopia of Thomas More by using computers. [44] The Culture series by Iain M. Banks – A science fiction series released from 1987 through 2012. The stories centre on The Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoid aliens, and advanced superintelligent artificial intelligences living in artificial habitats.
A Prophetic Romance: Mars to Earth is an 1896 utopian novel written by John McCoy and published pseudonymously as the work of "The Lord Commissioner," the narrator of the tale. [1] The book is one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. [2] [3] [4]
Arcadia (Greek: Αρκαδία) refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature.The term is derived from the Greek province of the same name which dates to antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and sparse population of pastoralists later caused the word Arcadia to develop into a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.
A Bible professor from 1890 is sent forward in time to the present via a time machine, and he is astonished to see how commonplace sin has become due to the separation of religion from morality. 2002 Timequest: Robert Dyke A time traveler prevents Kennedy's assassination and history takes an alternate course. 2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember ...
Logos (2015), a novel by John Neeleman and published by Homebound Publications, a small press, and winner of an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for religious fiction and the Utah Book Award for fiction, [3] is a bildungsroman that follows the life and development of the anonymous author of the original gospel. Jacob, a former ...
At this story's publication time, three of Hoover’s books were in the top 10 of The New York Times fiction bestseller list. And last year alone, she sold more than 8.6 million print copies of ...
Escapist fiction, also known as escape fiction, escapist literature, or simply escapism, is fiction that provides escapism by immersing readers in a "new world" created by the author. [1] The genre aims to compensate for a real world the reader perceives as arbitrary and unpredictable compared to the clear rules of the constructed "new world". [1]