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[lollardfish]

Ok sci-fi fans, what are your favorite science-fiction utopias? I'm thinking about teaching a class on utopias next year, and want to use some reasonably contemporary fiction (as well as Plato, More, Bellamy, Lost Horizon, SimCity, and other stuff).

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[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they do this in PoliSci 101. It's interesting the way you connect it to utopia though.

I actually plan to have them play the new Sim City game with a comparable pedagogical goal, assuming I can get my friends who made it to donate some copies. I'll also look into flying one of them out to talk about trying to model society. The new game forces you to make choices that lead towards different kinds of societies.

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Cool! Too bad I just don't have the time to get immersed in Sim City anymore. Or Civilization. Time-gobblers, all!

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but if you're going to use it in class, it's research! Of course, being a super-geek, I am currently trying to model society in ASCII for the game Dwarf Fortress (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/), which is hi-larious.