Eight top utopian fiction novels

At Mental Floss Chris Wheatley tagged eight utopian fiction novels to get us through these dystopian times, including:

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin

This novel from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin numbers among only a handful of works to achieve the feat of winning all of the “big three” science fiction awards: the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula. The setting for each chapter in The Dispossessed alternates between the planet Urras and its moon Anarres. Urras is a deeply hierarchical and authoritarian capitalist society; Anarres has no laws and is essentially cooperative in nature. Le Guin offers no easy answers and highlights the difficulties that arise from the struggle between individualism and collectivism.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Dispossessed is among Daisy Atterbury's eight titles about space that reimagine what it means to live on Earth, Naomi Klein's six favorite books, and Luke Rhinehart's five favorite sci-fi satires.

--Marshal Zeringue