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...
Utopias
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Author:Baumann, Fred E.Summary: - Author:Bregman, RutgerSummary:
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...
- Author:More, ThomasSummary:
First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More's utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance. Utopia is the...
- 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 the greatest...
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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,...
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Author:Blakemore, Megan FrazerSummary:Mori and her friends Julia, Benji, and Theo have never seen life beyond the walls of their perfect society, Old Harmonie. That changes when their new friend Ilana is threatened by the rules that are supposed to keep them all safe. They...
- 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...
- Author:Kling, Marc-UweSummary:
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for...
- Author:Palmer, Ada.Summary:
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series. World Peace turns into global civil war. In the future, the leaders of...
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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.
- Author:Wilson, KevinSummary:
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teacher's baby. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher...
- Author:Asimov, IsaacSummary:
"A totally new and original work that stretches his talents to their fullest ... welcome back, champ!"--The Detroit NewsIn the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies....
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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...
- Author:Wilson, Robert CharlesSummary:
In 1912 world history is changed by the Miracle. The old world of Europe is replaced by a land known as Darwinia, a strange jungle full of antediluvian monsters. Some people seize the opportunity to carve out a new empire and America is...
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