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Utopian fiction inspriation Sticky

A topic by Laura Michet created Jan 11, 2017 Views: 541 Replies: 4
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Hey folks, if you've been inspired by any Utopian fiction that you think others might find interesting or useful, tell us about it here!

In particular, we had a hard time finding good, well-known examples of modern utopian fiction that was not about post-scarcity economics or ultra-sci-fi stuff like giant AI brains or matter replicators. If you have any examples of near-future optimistic fiction that is not about economics or science, we'd love to see them here!

My favorite is Sir Thomas More's Utopia (which is where the word comes from). It is such an ambiguous commentary on society that it is both funny and a horrifying at the same time. There are some nuggets in it that could be adapted to a game. I'm going to have to think about this.

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There's some interesting 17th century English utopian fiction out there, for sure! In addition to Utopia, Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World is a really interesting piece of speculative fiction that explores an alternate world which can only be reached from the North Pole.

There's also this curation of more modern utopian works, which seems really rich and interesting! http://speculatingfutures.club/

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It's theory rather than fiction, but "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity" by Jos茅 Esteban Mu帽oz might be of interest to some folks.

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Did someone say theory? 馃槏