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Utopian fiction or the imaginary projection of a perfect society in which all need and want have been removed and conflict is eliminated, has a long history. Sir Thomas More's Utopia is a focal point in the tradition of the genre, and More's contemplation of a society removed from daily struggle to a place of ease, has had a powerful and lasting effect on subsequent visions of the future.
Dystopian fiction is the natural correlative of this literary mode and presents visions of imaginary worlds in which the worst of all possible social conditions pertains and where all ethical, aesthetic and metaphysical judgments are consequently problematised.
A strict definition of utopia would serve no useful purpose; as Nietzsche says, ‘only that which has no history can be defined.'
A utopia always maintains a close and specific relationship with the sociopolitical environment from which it stems. Utopia is thus a game played between the two poles of reality and fiction.( George......

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