Well, I guess the subject line pretty much sums it up.

I would like to get myself a book that is based in a futuristic Utopia. I haven't heard good things about the book entitled Utopia, so I thought I'd ask members here if they know of a good one I can get.

Thanks for the help.

Logan's Run?

Brave New World?

Try what's known as The California Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Published in 1984. The Wild Shore. This is about a future California after a nuclear holocaust.

Published in 1988. The Gold Coast. This is about California as distopian society.

Published in 1990. Pacific Edge. This is about a future California as an ecologically balanced utopian society.

It sounds like the third one is what you're looking for, but all three are very good. It's interesting how Robinson envisions three separate futures for the same place.

Well Brave New World and Pacific Edge both sound interesting.

Maybe I'll check them out.

Does anyone else have any more suggestions I can use to compare?

Something even further into the future?

Thanks

The novel Ecotopia was written about a group of Pacific Coast states which secede from the USA in order to form an ideal society. Written around 1970, Ecotopia discusses a culture only decades in the future.

The best story I've read about the Earth culture of the far future is A World Out of Time, written by Larry Niven in 1986. Here is the link to the Amazon reviews of that book:


www.amazon.com...=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203134081&sr=1-1


That novel discusses various future Earths during different time periods... the farthest out is around 2 million years in the future. It's worth a read.

There's always the classic utopian novel, Erewhon, written around 1905 by Samuel Butler. I just got a used copy of Erewhon, but I haven't read it yet. -- Hope these suggestions help.

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A World Out of Time sounds like a winner.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely check it out.

While it is a "teen-lit" book, I found The Goodness Gene by Sonia Levitin an excellent reworking of the Utopia concept, with an original twist to the plot that I very much enjoyed. I'd also like to add that while the first 'book' of Utopia itself is dull and hard to follow, the second book is positively entrancing -- although, since I seem to recall it was originally written in Latin, that may be due to the translation.

Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, I believe, is a great work of fiction about a man from about 1900 who travels to the year 2000. It's a slim little volume, but very much worth the read.

And last, while it's only a brief section of the book, H. G. Wells' The Time Machine discusses a very far-future society that seems to be a Utopia, but turns out to be far worse than it seems.

I suppose it's more of a book about dystopia than utopia, but The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner is notable, for a number of reasons. It appeared before the first real wave of cyberpunk novels, and is responsible for the use of the term "worm" to describe a computer program that self-propagates across networks.

/tn.

I recommend reading utopia anyway. I read a well translated version a while ago. it had a very explanatory introduction which helps put the book in context.

although not a (gripping) novel, it presents the idea(l) of a utopian society and also the flaws in the very concept. (utopia means no place, the main character's name is translated as nonsensia). From an objective point of view it makes good food for thought, especially if you're an idealist / amateur philosopher. I hope one day to start a commune, and i intend it not to be just a hippy pipedream.

Funnily enough, just now i randomly decided that i wanted to read a futuristic utopian novel, thats how i found this forum. i look forward to reading the recomended books.

I cant recomend any books yet. but i reckon you will definately enjoy this documentary i saw recently. its called 'the coconut revolution' and its about the islanders of bougainville in the pacific, who revolt against a multinational mining corporation who came onto their island uninvited, mining minerals, and in the process #ing up their ecosystem and island and #. its basically quality.

thepiratebay.org...(1998)

peace, B-ri

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Thanks Uphill!
I love Larry Niven. I haven't heard of this one. I can't wait to read it.