In the late nineteenth century, Edward Bellamy and William Morris presented millions of readers with a choice between their visions of socialist utopia. Bellamy, an obscure Massachusetts novelist, launched the first salvo in 1888. His sci-fi parable Looking Backward: 2000–1887 centers on a man who falls asleep for 113 years, awakening in 2000 to an […]

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