Dystopias and Utopias

asides Shelley, Verne and Gernsback considered to be one of 19th parents of "science-fiction" genre a “social scientist in fiction”: stories as thought experiments abo...

Anyone willing to refer at the Congress about the "mother of dystopias", the novel "We" by a Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin ?

one of the most important anglosaxxon intellectuals of 1st half of 20th century first schooling by his own mother Julia (departure letter: "Judge not too much and love...

George Orwell / Eric Arthur Blair born in British India, grew up in England, from 1922–1927 served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (Myanmar), an experience tha...

nihil adeo necesse est ante hominum oculos proponere ut certas quasdam res, quas esse neque demonstrari neque probari potest, quae contra eo ipso, quod pii diligentesque viri il...

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic whose work blends fiction, feminism, ecology, and political satire. She prefers the term “speculative fiction,...

... The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it goes, and in those aspects of reality which we are capable of appreh...