Classic Dystopia & Utopia

Zamyatin's We a quarter-century before Orwell, Wells's Morlocks in the year 802,701, William Morris dreaming a pastoral London, Samuel Butler's Erewhon turning every Victorian assumption inside out. The utopian and dystopian classics that wrote the template for the whole century that followed — click-to-explain for every invented regime and coined dialect, and chapter music that moves from pastoral calm to institutional dread.

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