![]() ![]() ![]() After all, utopias are not required, by definition, to be perfect. What differentiated these new utopias was their attempt to evade the traditional criticisms of the old utopias like Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: that they were static, boring, and unattainable. Delany’s Triton, and this novel, though there are many other examples. The most famous examples are Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia, Samuel R. ![]() However, in the mid-seventies there was a spate of new utopias written by Americans inspired by the upsurge of social reform begun in the late sixties and continuing into the new decade. After World War I, the writing of utopian fiction gradually declined, until the genre almost disappeared in mid-century, to be replaced by dystopias (descriptions of ultimately evil places) like George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1948). ![]()
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