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Loyal Opposition @PinkFloydFan (1187) • United States 28 Aug 22

I turn on Sports, to get away from all the negativity -- it's all political (Griner arrested in Russia, etc etc).. I have the books, "1984" and "Brave New World", which I tried reading yesterday, but I think, "I know things are...

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Anti-Social, Quarantined... No Difference To Me

PLETHOS @Plethos (13718) • United States 19 Mar 20

I don't know about you guys, but this whole quarantine, social isolation, corona virus situation, is actually working in my favor. An anti-socialist utopia! It's fair to say that the word "quarantine" describes me and my social...

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The Ytterbium Eastercon Convention 2019 Good Friday 19th April 2019 Approaches To Gender In Genre Fiction

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 1 May 19

The morning and much of the afternoon of the first day of the convention were very quiet. I got to meet lots of friends as they arrived and many of my friends from the Manchester Science Fiction Community settled to a regular...

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Book Review David Graham Down To A Sunless Sea

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 4 Dec 18

(1981) Fawcett Crest - Spoiler alerts David Graham (Pen Name of Robert Hale), using a title drawn from the poem Kublai Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, gives the world one of its best anti-nuclear novels since Neville Shute’s...

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The American Dream

Kuttu @Kuttu_007 (1939) • India 22 May 18

Most of the people living in Eastern countries and Asia think that living in Western Countries is like living in Utopia... Especially living in America (USA) is like living the dream..most of the Asians prefer America to European...

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TV Review Electric Dreams Safe And Sound

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Mar 18

Spoiler alerts In an America divided, a young girl, Foster Lee, (Analisse Basso) and her radical mother get a year’s free pass to visit the Western freelands despite being from a people regarded as terrorists and anarchists and...

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – The War Millennia

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 31 May 17

Spoiler alerts – 1957 Aldiss got really epic with the nine Millennia stories, which explore the fate of humanity at episodes stretched over a phenomenal forty million years. The opening story finds Earth involved in a nuclear...

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Imagining Imagine

Michael Brown @dragon68 (757) 11 May 17

"Imagine" by John Lennon is one of my favorite song. I love the lyrics and the message it conveys. I can only imagine what the world will be if the lyrics of Imagine will go beyond the world of pure imagination. Can you imagine...

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Book Review: "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by James De Mille

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 30 Jan 17

Four wealthy, learned men become becalmed aboard a yacht between the Canaries and the Madeira Islands. To while away the time, they hold a mock race with whatever they can find. In doing so, they come across a copper cylinder...

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What would your ideal Utopia look like?

Dylan @mawdest (1587) • Canada 29 Sep 16

So please describe what type of house you may like and where you would like it to be located (as far as near what kind of landmarks or whatever.. Don't worry I do not need or want to know actual names of towns that would be weird...

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Looking For Utopia

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 23 Jun 16

As I get older I find my mind turning towards finding a Utopia to settled down in and live the rest of my life. Oh, I do realize there is no place that is perfect, but, wouldn't it be nice to live in a place with the perfect...

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Utopia or Dystopia?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 19 Mar 16

Near perfect qualities or less than? What is a perfect society? Could we really survive curturally in a dystopia? Is the social philosopher Sir Thomas More's fictional outlook in his book "Utopia" realistic? Do you think there is...

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Utopia?

ajk111 @ajk111 (2495) 21 Jun 12

Sometimes when my wife and i are sitting watching the soaps on TV my mind disengages from the humdrum of fictional "reality" programming and i contemplate the world we live in. Many renowned authors have toyed with the idea of...

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Would world peace be boring?

eddyspaghetti @eddyspaghetti (1225) • United States 23 Apr 10

A utopia is usually something people only dream of. What if a utopia became a reality, just like in many books out there. One book specifically I am referring to is The Giver or a movie called Pleasantville. Can a utopia ever be...

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New planet discovered..... Pandaspankion 5! Human colonisation imminent.....

James72 @James72 (26790) • Australia 28 Sep 09

Yep, this is true alright and I certainly wouldn't lie about something like this! I have no idea what happened to the first 4 Pandaspankion planets, but I can only assume that they were spanked into oblivion? It was an inspiring...

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Who is Justice - Kira or L?

SinfulFox @SinfulFox (135) • United States 13 Jun 09

I've been thinking on this subject ever since I got into the series. Who do you believe stands for true justice - Kira, who is willing to kill criminals as well as people in his way in order to create an ideal, utopian society? Or...

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So who does what.. and why?

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 27 May 09

People say that people shouldn't have to work to live; work should be something someone does because they want to do it. If it wasn't for stupid "Money" then no one would have to accept menial work just to eat and have a roof over...

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The Venus project.

SamurayJack @SamurayJack (846) • Romania 31 Mar 09

I think we should make "The venus Project" a realyty And the sooner the better. For those that haven't heared of the venus project and the zeitgeist movement here's a link:...

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do you want your life to be....

gamingworld @gamingworld (577) • United States 8 Feb 09

Nothing but rainbows everywhere. A tree fyll of candy to eat. Or maybe possibly anything you wanted would just pop up. Somewhat of a Utopia, but couldnt possibly happen. Because now there are many wars a waging. This is like...

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churchofphilosophy @churchofphilosophy (86) • United States 20 Sep 08

What is your idea of a utopia? What dose it look like? How dose it run? Is there a government? Please post all your thoughts and theories here.

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