Utopia / Dystopia

Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society, which is taken from Of the Best State of Republic, and the New Island Utopia, a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system.

A dystopia is a vision of an often futuristic society, which has developed into a negative version of utopia.  A dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features different kind of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions and a state of constant warfare or violence.

• Utopia, Thomas More (1516)
• Walden, Henry Thoreau (1845)
• News From Nowhere, William Morris (1891)
• Garden Cities of To-morrow, Ebenezer Howard (1898)
• Walden Two, B.F. Skinner (1945)
• Island, Aidous Huxley (1962)
• Ectopia, Earnest Collenback (1975)