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A Modern Utopia

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
8 hours 28 minutes
ISBN
9781802564914
Published
4 May 2017
Imprint
Fantastica
  • utopian society
  • social reform
  • technological progress
  • equality
  • governance
  • human nature
  • ethical living
  • global order
  • socialism
  • individual freedom

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Wells envisions an ideal society under reason, equality, and progress. Two travellers enter a parallel world: a global utopia run by a benevolent elite, blending socialism with individual freedom. Governance, technology, and human nature; answers to inequality and environmental strain. Universal education, economic reform, ethical living — liberty against collective welfare. Philosophy and science fiction spoken as a challenge to imagine better, with Wells’s optimism and critical eye.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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