Utopias & Dystopias

The literature of the ideal (and the nightmare) society — More’s Utopia, Bellamy’s future, Wells’s warnings, and the imagined worlds that critique our own.

Blueprints for heaven and hell on earth

In this collection

• Quakers and Philanthropists
• A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
• Cultural Exchange
• Imitation of Death
• The Piebald Horses
• A Life for a Life, Volume II
• Hallowe'En
• The Saracen's Head
• What was Really the Matter with Andrew
• Emancipation and Revolution
• The Robber Bridegroom
• Selina
• At a Sale of High-Class Sculpture
• Ipswich
• The Return of the Children
• Down in the Earth
• The Skilful Huntsman
• Unit
• Coronation
• The Tent on the Beach
• Invisible Man
• When Super-Apes Plot
• Supply and Demand
• The Blue Bird
• Quo Vadimus?
• The Daemon of the World
• Prometheus Unbound
• Queen Mab
• The Atom Curtain
• The Thought-Feeders

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