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Utopian/Dystopian (one cannot understand one without the other) literature has existed for a very long time. Man has been reaching for and missing perfection perhaps for as long as he has been aware. Some of the best examples of Utopian/Dystopian literature are listed below in order of the year of publication:
- (Author unknown) Sumerian clay tablets - The Debate between sheep and grain c 3000 BCE
- Attributed to Moses, scholarship suggests Ezra - "Genesis: The story of the Garden of Eden" estimates of 580 BCE but untraceable roots in oral history
- Plato - The Republic c. 380 BCE
- Euhemerus - Panchaea c. 300 BCE
- Augustine of Hippo - The City of God 426 CE
- Tao Yuanming - The Peach Blossom Land 421 CE
- Al-Farabi - Al-Madina al-Fadila (The Virtuous City) 9th or 10th c. CE
- Sir Thomas More - Utopia 1516 CE (More was first to coin the term from Greek and literally means, "no place.")
- Johann Valentin Andreæ - Chirstianopolis 1619 CE
- Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun 1623 CE
- Sir Frances Bacon - New Atlantis 1627 CE
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels 1726 CE
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier - L'An 2440 1771 CE
- Samuel Butler - Erewhon 1872 CE
- Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward 1888 CE
- Lady Florence Dixie - Gloriana 1890
- William Morris - New from Nowhere 1892 CE
- King Camp Gillette - The Human Drift 1894 CE
- H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (1895), When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), A Modern Utopia (1905), In the Days of the Comet (1906), Men Like Gods (1923), The Shape of Things to Come (1933),
- Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Land That Time Forgot1918
- Upton Sinclair - Millenium 1924
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World 1932
- James Hilton - Lost Horizon 1933
- Austin Tappan Wright - Islandia 1942
- B.F. Skinner - Walden Two 1948
- George Orwell - 1984 - 1949
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 1953
- Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End 1954
- Jack Vance - Big Planet 1957
- Aldous Huxley - Island 1962
- Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers (1959), Farnham's Freehold (1964)
- Pohl Anderson - The Corridors of Time 1965
- Isaac Asimov - much of The Foundation series 1942-1993
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven (1971), The Dispossessed (1974), & Always Coming Home(1985)
- Ernest Callenbach - Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston 1975
- Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time 1976
- Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Oryx and Crake (2003)
- Lois Lowry - The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue(2000), & Messenger (2004)
- L. Neil Smith - The Probability Broach 1980
- Starhawk (pseudonym of Miriam Simos) - The Fifth Sacred Thing 1993
- Brian Aldis - White Mars 2000
- Kozue Amano - Aria (Manga and Anime) 2001-2008
- Scott Wilson - Utopia X 2004
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What is Plato's famous philosophical work that envisioned a utopia?
The Republic (Πολιτεία) by Plato, written around 380 BCE.
Plato's famous philosophical work that envisioned a utopia was called .?
The Republic (Πολιτεία) by Plato, written around 380 BCE.
Can you give me a sentence with dystopia in it?
Marxism was envisioned as a putative utopia but turned out to be the darkest form of dystopia.
Sentence with envisioned?
This is not how she envisioned the end of the wekk
Why is utopia called utopia?
Because by definition Utopia is a Perfectcivilization
What is the synonym of envisioned?
One of the synonyms of envisioned is visualized
Where can you buy utopia beer?
In Utopia
Where is the Utopia Memorial Library in Utopia located?
The address of the Utopia Memorial Library is: 800 Main St, Utopia, 78884 M
What is better a religious utopia or a secular utopia?
Either one, it's a utopia, that's what matters.
Do you use a or an in front of utopia?
You would use "a" in front of "utopia" because "utopia" starts with a consonant sound (the "yoo" sound). Therefore, the correct phrase is "a utopia."
When was - N -utopia created?
- N -utopia was created in 2005.
What is the ISBN of Utopia comics?
The ISBN of Utopia - comics - is 0785142339.
