I’m starting my deep dive into what we can learn from utopian fiction with what Wikipedia says: is considered a classic of utopian speculative science fiction as well as a feminist classic.” The strange folk of Good Reads are pretty divided on its merits.
I have always loved stories about the future. From curling up with my mum to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 90s, to binge watching The Expanse on maternity leave, I have been a bit of a geek for most of my life.
Sci fi, speculative fiction, and fantasy stories are deep acts of imagination about how the world, and people in it, could be different. Part of what can feel hard about living in this current version of reality – in the UK, in 2023 – is that the intersecting systems of injustice are all so pervasive that they leave little space for imagining, let alone building, different ways of being.