Facts about Utopian Literature

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   Ursula K. Le Guin's utopian novel The Dispossessed explores an anarchist society on a resource-scarce moon, winning both Hugo and Nebula Awards.

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   H.G. Wells wrote several influential utopian works, including A Modern Utopia, which presented a world state governed by a voluntary noble order called the Samurai.

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   Plato's Republic, one of the earliest works in the utopian literature tradition, describes an ideal city-state governed by philosopher-kings.

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   Edward Bellamy's utopian novel Looking Backward, set in the year 2000, became one of the bestselling American books of the nineteenth century.

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   Thomas More coined the word 'utopia' in his 1516 Latin work of the same name, blending Greek roots meaning 'no place'.

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