Part fever dream, part intellectual proposal, part inter-dimensional adventure, H.G. Well's Utopia is described by an eloquent narrator arguing with his 'naysayer' botanist colleague.

Strangely unlike most such explorations, Wells does not rely overly heavily on technology, (hence the 'modern' Utopia

Updated 2015-01-07
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Although I originally read this book two years ago, I wanted to re-read it before I give it away. (I often do that with books I didn't like the first time around. Sometimes my opinion changes.)

I enjoyed the book more, this time around, and I think I learned something from it. Th

Unlike the Classical and Ancient Utopias, Wells's vision of a Modern Utopia consciously does not consist of a perfect and static society but one where technological innovation means things change and not everyone is satisfied.

The Utopia of Thomas More was just an island. The Modern Utopia is a proto

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Well, this is a fiction but seems like a thought on the new utopia for men lives. The narrative was so bored, though in the preface the author try to made this fiction interesting.

Always interesting to read ideas from anyone who imagines how the world could be different than it is.

Funky! Interesting in form and ideas, well worth considering alongside the other utopian novels (and political tracts since it’s both?). Also, some doubling going on, both narratively and conceptually, with Utopia as a double of Earth or something. Revisits the idea of Utopia as a place, not just a

This is a somewhat muddled fusion of two types of writing at the same time. On the one hand, it is an exposition of a utopian vision for humanity. On the other hand, it is the adventure of “The Voice” (who is explicitly introduced as not Wells, but seems to be a lot like Wells), as he visits an alte

Prophetic and horrific, this utopian vision is a warped mixture of samurai castes, mass extinction of inferior races, and totalitarian World States, outlined in a series of turgid intellectual meanderings.

This idea of a utopia had some good aspects, but others involved very dated ways of thinking that most defiantly wouldn't work today.
Some good points were everyone getting a liveable minimum wage and help if they didn't have a job etc. Although if that applied to you, you were discouraged from marr

This is the most frightening utopia I've ever read. It makes me think that Aldous Huxley and George Orwell must have based their dystopias to some extent on H.G. Well's idea of what a utopia would look like.

The book is written more as non-fiction than fiction. Mostly, Wells outlines what he thinks w