Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection
Arts:Books
York University's Professor Allan Weiss joins host Oliver Brackenbury for a discussion on the history of utopian and dystopian speculative fiction.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Allan Weiss (http://www.yorku.ca/aweiss/)
Thomas More's “Utopia”
Platos “The Republic”
H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”
“The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster
“Hard Times” by Dickens
Problem Novels
“We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice
Drew Hayden Taylor
Neal Stephenson's “The Hieroglyph Project”
MIT Twelve Tomorrows Series
Nalo Hopkinson
The Mutopian Manifesto
“A Modern Utopia” and “The Sleeper Awakes” by H.G. Wells
“Herland” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Protopia
“Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People” by Mark Shainblum & Andrea D. Lobel
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