“If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.” IfsFictionTrendsUtopian Author:Veronica Roth
“Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.” HumansFactsLiteratureRaceFictionEvolutionHuman RaceDystopianUtopianDystopian Fiction Author:Paul Di Filippo
“'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.” WorldWritingMeanCharacterStoriesFoundInterestingFictionPlansFinishedI RealizedCompellingDystopianUtopiaDivergentUtopianDystopian Fiction Author:Veronica Roth
“Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.” WayWritingMomentsFictionFailingCreationReaderIdealsTasksUtopianInsufficiency Author:Lauren Groff
“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.” WritingBookIdeasFunPerfectFictionNovelHistoricalBoringFascinatingFoundersDocumentsUtopianPerfect Society Author:Christine Jennings
“The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.” HumansHas BeensStoriesFictionVisionComfortableWorkersBusyVery GoodAppealsParadiseFlawsFactoriesUtopiaStaticUtopianFactory WorkersTantalizingFatal FlawsFourier Author:Christine Jennings