Why are there so little utopian books? The fact that dystopian literature is more popular is a reflection of the lack of intellectualism of our current society. Anyways, what are some good utopian books?
Why are there so little utopian books...
Oliver Jones
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Gavin Myers
Well, they wouldn't be very fun
Jack Thomas
Pic related, sort of.
The Amish have a pretty good colony thing going, and humans have their needs taken care of.
The AIs are trying to give humans what they want, and it gets stranger from there.
Wyatt Long
A story needs conflict and if there’s conflict it’s not utopian.
David Hughes
Utopia vs. Even Better Utopia?
Zachary Mitchell
>The fact that there is not a single successful artwork — whether a novel, movie or videogame — depicting "utopian" conditions, proves that we, as mankind, DO NOT WANT THEM. The prevalence of so-called "dystopias" in art, on the other hand, proves what we really want — and where we're headed...
William Nguyen
This is stupid for a number of reasons.
Eli Edwards
Check out The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish. Only read a portion of it for a class, but it was pretty interesting.
Kayden Gray
In Iain Banks' 'Culture' series The Culture is itself a utopian society. Nobody wants for anything, there is no disease, no frailty, you can be immortal if you choose, or live in whatever form pleases you; every whim you have is catered to, there's an almost infinite number of ways to spend your time and you can have all of this if you simply want it. The problem is, as Banks himself mentioned a few times, that this is almost impossible to write about in an engaging way. Would you really want to read through 400 pages of people snorting ultra-drugs and fucking the shit out of a dozen different humanoids with no consequences? Probably not, might be funny for the first dozen pages but it would get very stale very fast. So to solve this he derives his stories from situations where people from The Culture (or working for them/created by them etc.etc.) interact with people and things that are not from The Culture. It creates friction and hence drama which makes for good reading.
Luke Miller
Huxley's Island is top notch.
Jaxson Allen
>everything is good
>everyone is happy
Doesn't sound like something you could write 300 pages about.
Still, check out pastoral literature. It was a genre founded by Jacopo Sanazzaro, who wrote "Arcadia". From that genre I have read only one work, a drama ("Dubravka" by Ivan Gundulić). It was pretty boring, as expected. And, though the story takes place in a utopia, a war is ongoing outside of the borders of the land and injustice within the utopia kicks off the narrative.
This is stupid and wrong. Pic related.
Jonathan Watson
realistically, the only interesting utopian fiction you're going to find is in anime/manga
yokohama kaidashi kikou, aria and yotsuba are all great for what you're looking for
Luis Ross
That’s dumb you bitch
Isaac Walker
But why did she carry the gun?
Asher Martin
hmm what does this say about dystopian fiction?
Robert Myers
>pastoral literature. It was a genre founded by Jacopo Sanazzaro [born: 1458]
on a board that screams "start with the greeks" at every opportunity you should know that the homie Theocritus is credited with the foundation of that genre
Christian Lewis
>Doesn't sound like something you could write 300 pages about.
A way to fill up a book with a utopian lifestyle is to express how and why it became such. Make statements about the society, laws and economics of the utopia, similar to a guideline on creating your own.
It would still be boring as fuck, but whatever.
Luke King
Utopias are dystopias in disguise.
Caleb Turner
Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward
you're welcome. Also, fuck "christian" socialists
Brayden Jones
Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
Gavin King
don't immanetize the eschaton amirite?
Logan Reyes
This. You can't have a utopia without some sort of dystopian mechanism.