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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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Utopia?

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Actually, re-reading Oz again when my children were small; it made my flesh creep. No death, therefore no children, nothing to strive for, nothing to fear . . . I know it sounds like what people think they want . . .

I am now reminded of a story in which everything in the world dissolved except the people; there was no sickness, no death, no growth, no hunger, just infinite existence on a featureless globe. This had happened because the Devil had convinced every single soul on earth that they wanted to live forever, so their wish was granted. The hero managed to finagle a way out of the wish and life returned to normal--wish I knew the name and author.