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Men Like Gods (Dystopian Classic)

H.G. Wells

3.66 · Rating details · 692 ratings · 54 reviews

Mr. Barnstaple is a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called The Liberal and resolves to take a holiday. Quitting wife and family, he finds his plans disrupted when his and two other automobiles are accidentally transported with their passengers into "another world", which the "Earthlings" call Utopia. A sort of adv ...more

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Aug 11, 2012 D.L. Morrese rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This novel, set in 1921 and published in 1923 is in a subgenre you don’t see much now -- utopian science fiction. Yes, I did say ‘utopian.’ You may be more familiar with this subgenre’s ugly brother, dystopian science fiction. The latter has more shock value so it gets more attention, but I prefer the older, wiser sibling.

The essential difference between utopian and dystopian fiction that I see is their different perceptions of humanity. Although both begin with the premise that the human race h This novel, set in 1921 and published in 1923 is in a subgenre you don’t see much now -- utopian science fiction. Yes, I did say ‘utopian.’ You may be more familiar with this subgenre’s ugly brother, dystopian science fiction. The latter has more shock value so it gets more attention, but I prefer the older, wiser sibling.

The essential difference between utopian and dystopian fiction that I see is their different perceptions of humanity. Although both begin with the premise that the human race has problems, utopian fiction posits that, in the course of time, mankind will solve them. Dystopian fiction, on the other hand, posits that humanity, if it is lucky, might survive.

I don’t read fiction to be shocked. I can get that from the news. I read fiction to be entertained. Occasionally I come across novels that also present a new thought or uncommon perspective, and I consider these welcome bonuses. ‘Men Like Gods’ provides all of these.

The protagonist, Mr. Barnstaple (no first name) is stressed and in desperate need of a holiday. The way he contrives to get away unaccompanied by wife of children, is humorous and charming, in an understated British way, as are his musings on the events of the time. He succeeds in escaping by himself in his little yellow car with no specific destination in mind but ends up much farther away than he could have imagined. A scientific experiment in an alternate dimension goes awry, and Barnstaple and a few others on the road that day find themselves in a strange land with clean air, tame animals, and beautiful people who enjoy unparalleled personal freedom. He’s obviously not in England anymore. The rest of the novel explores how he and his fellow Earthlings react to this strange utopia and how the Utopians react to them.

Considering this book was written almost a century ago, and making certain allowances for that, one thing that struck me was how relevant it remains. There are passages about droughts, famines, and fighting going on around the world that sound almost as if they could be referring to today. This description of economic concerns especially caught my attention:

‘... The great masses of population that had been blundered into existence, swayed by damaged and decaying traditions and amenable to the crudest suggestions, were the natural prey and support of every adventurer with a mind blatant enough and a conception of success coarse enough to appeal to them. The economic system, clumsily and convulsively reconstructed to meet the new conditions of mechanical production and distribution, became more and more a cruel and impudent exploitation of the multitudinous congestion of the common man by the predatory acquisitive few. That all too common common man was hustled through misery and subjection from his cradle to his grave; he was cajoled and lied to, he was bought, sold and dominated by an impudent minority, bolder and no doubt more energetic, but in all other respects no more intelligent than himself.’

The economic system he speaks of is, essentially, the one we still have; one in which common people simply trying to survive can be economically used and abused by those with wealth, power, and low morals. Although, on the bright side, we do have laws and regulations in place now to mitigate the worst examples of such things.

Then there was this about the media of the time:

‘...newspapers had ceased to be impartial vehicles of news; they omitted, they mutilated, they misstated. They were no better than propaganda rags.’

This claim especially seems appropriate to some of today’s media outlets.

What you won’t see in this novel is a detailed description of how the civilization in this alternate universe got from something like early Twentieth Century Earth to a free and peaceful utopia, although the process is said to have taken three thousand years. The point is that people not unlike us were able to overcome things like superstition, prejudice, selfish ambition, and violence. They were able to work together to build a better society in which each individual is free to think, act, and explore the mysteries of the world as they wish.

I won’t say the utopia presented here is exactly one that I would imagine or hope for, but it does seem attractive and maybe even possible. The ideas the novel presents are certainly worth thinking about, in any case, and the story is enjoyable in its own right. I highly recommend it.
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Jul 30, 2018 Linda rated it liked it · review of another edition

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The problem with utopian litterature is that even though Wells do his best to write a stories it turns out as a series of lectures on how awsome everything is.

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Sep 28, 2008 Angie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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For some reason, this book is particularly difficult to locate. But it's definitely worth the effort. It's a marvelous treatment of the Utopian world. Now, I love Wells, and if you're on this page, I imagine you do also. Advice: Get the book! It will make you happier! All of your dreams will come true! Well, at least the first two will happen. ...more

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Sep 26, 2011 John rated it liked it · review of another edition

This 1923 H.G. Wells novel is as much a tract in defense of socialist ideals as it is a work of science fiction. This is not his only work in which socialism is posited as a path to utopia, but if Wells seems overly zealous, unabashed, and, from our perspective, naive, we should probably cut him some slack. Even ignoring Wells' humanistic motives, when this novel was written, the cautionary example of the Soviets was still inconclusive; the "good guys" had won The War; and the ascendency of a Hi ...more

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Mar 12, 2013 Khitab Khan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It has been a while since I have read something this enlightening. The book should be required reading for everyone on this planet.

I can understand how someone can be put off my the socialist rhetoric of the book but one must delve deeper into the mans thought process. Socialist movement did not work because there are finite resources. Once the conundrum of abundant clean renewable energy is resolved, resources will not be a problem and hence competition for the sake of resource hording/gatheri ...more

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Jun 30, 2017 Betawolf rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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In a sense, _Men Like Gods_ can be viewed almost as a sequel to _In the Days of the Comet_. While the narrative isn't a continuation, Wells returns to the themes laid out in the earlier novel, using the device of modern men being flung across dimensions to a more advanced utopian world as a way to reveal and rebut various challenges to the vision of society he aims for. While he still failed to convince me, this time he certainly managed to hold my interest.

In this new presentation, Wells shuns
In a sense, _Men Like Gods_ can be viewed almost as a sequel to _In the Days of the Comet_. While the narrative isn't a continuation, Wells returns to the themes laid out in the earlier novel, using the device of modern men being flung across dimensions to a more advanced utopian world as a way to reveal and rebut various challenges to the vision of society he aims for. While he still failed to convince me, this time he certainly managed to hold my interest.

In this new presentation, Wells shuns the 'sudden awakening' of his earlier novel. The Utopian world was achieved by a long, slow evolution of humanity which members of the dimension-hopping party recognise as ongoing in their own time. This more realistic approach helps to make the society more palatable, and generally we see a richer presentation of Wells' vision, with complexities of organisation and origination that hadn't been addressed previously being described.

Each of the dimension-hoppers brought to Utopia (bar perhaps the central figure, a world-weary editor) raises a challenge to the society - doing so either explicitly in an address to the Utopian population, or implicitly by their actions - which is then rebuffed by the narrative or the addressed Utopians. They also play the role of an explanation of modern approaches to utopia-building, be that the understanding yet disinterested approach of Mr. Burleigh, a great statesman and politician; the blind religious objection to a perceived decay in morality personified by the vicar of the party or the dual explicit and implicit challenge from the 'natural competition' angle of Mr. Catskill, which is by far the most successful. This theme is wrapped up by the return of the pro-Utopian central character to his own time, inspired to do his best to build such a Utopia on Earth.

This political deliberation is suitably well-dressed, however, and the novel does not really decay into a Symposium-style debate for long. The descriptions of the scientific achievements of this dimension are rich, and the turn to armed conflict between the Earthlings and the Utopians provides a dose of action and suspense.

I don't agree that the Utopia is attainable or necessarily desirable, but the counter-arguments set up by Wells in the novel are thought-provoking and merit consideration. The development of the Utopian theme here can perhaps be seen as a mirror to the post-civilisation of _The Time Machine_, though whether you consider that a further extension of Utopia or an alternate path-that-might-be is largely down to how you respond to the position put forward by the Utopians. Due to the combination of advanced argument, stronger plot and richer description, I found this novel much more interesting than _In the Days of the Comet_, and I'd advise people interested in this type of work by Wells to read this rather than the previous. ...more

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Jul 15, 2015 Sus rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Recommends it for: H G Wells fans, sci-fi fans

Took me a long time to finish this one! Kind of went like this: interesting to start, boring, interesting, boring, interesting to end.

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Oct 09, 2020 Kynan rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: english, male-protagonist, earth, fiction, classic, ebook, male-author, original-language-english, z_published-1923, utopia

Finished: 2020-10-08

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TL;DR: If you're not up for a polemic against early 20th century western sociopolitical norms them stop right now!

TL: I picked this book because of a comment on Reddit promising a break from the constant relating of dystopian futures in science fiction. Here, it promised, was a Utopian future. Rejoice and enjoy! What it didn't mention was that the majority of the book is about a non-human Utopia into which humans irrupt (it's a word, I learnt it from this book!) and su ...more

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Jun 05, 2020 Ian rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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Albert Barnstaple is driving off on holiday when he and several other road users find themselves thrown through a dimensional rift and into a parallel world. They discover that this world is a Utopia millennia ahead of Earth in development, but the Earthlings cause great disruption as they bring with them religion, disease and war.

This book has more in common with the scientific romances of the 19th Century than it does with the hard sci-fi of the 20th, which leaves it feeling strangely out of p Albert Barnstaple is driving off on holiday when he and several other road users find themselves thrown through a dimensional rift and into a parallel world. They discover that this world is a Utopia millennia ahead of Earth in development, but the Earthlings cause great disruption as they bring with them religion, disease and war.

This book has more in common with the scientific romances of the 19th Century than it does with the hard sci-fi of the 20th, which leaves it feeling strangely out of place in its own time. Published in 1923, to get to grips with this book you have to understand the historical context it was written in. Wells had seen what he believed was civilisation hitting rock bottom in the chaos and carnage of the First World War, but the horrors of Stalin and Hitler had not yet come to pass.
What we get here then is an oddly optimistic science fiction novel which reveals that Wells had not adopted the fatalism that the generation who had actual fought in the trenches had fallen into.

Therefore this book would have been only an anachronistic curiosity if not for one element that totally soured the reading experience for me.
Wells is at pains to describe all of the ways that Utopia is better than our own world, having rid themselves of conflict and tension and having advanced science far beyond that of Earth. There's also a clearly socialist (albeit anti-Bolshevik) leaning to the author's description too. Barnstaple is clearly the author's analogue and clearly approves of everything he encounters in Utopian society.
So, what's the problem? Eugenics is the problem.

The people of Utopia are open and shameless in expounding the virtues of eugenics, which is to say having used science to eliminate undesirables from the gene pool. The praise for eugenics begins broadly but later goes on to describe how the Utopians have eliminated anything that isn't obviously functional or aesthetically pleasing. This includes thousands of species of animals and plants who weren't pretty enough to make the cut, but it is also made clear that disabled people and 'ugly' people have been weeded out too.
This book was released long before the Nazis would take eugenics to its horrifying extreme but to have it presented in such a desirable light here was deeply disturbing. There's even a woman who Barnstaple, and Utopia as a whole, views as defective because she suffers from depression after her husband and two children drowned.

The idea a person or animal is not worthy of life because they don't look attractive or they have mental health problems is so abhorrent to me that nothing else in the book can redeem it.
There was potential for an enjoyable scientific romance here, but I cannot and will not recommend a book which considers eugenics a good idea.

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Mar 12, 2017 Alfred Baudisch rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I have read, watched and played (video games) dozens of Dystopian fictions. As far as I remember, this was my first Utopian fiction and I can say I am amazed and wishing more, for the world that I want to live is now Utopia.

PS: the Kindle version that I read is in a very archaic English, which made the reading and story even more delightful.

A glimpse of how Utopia was achieved:
"Every Utopian child is taught to the full measure of its possibilities and directed to the work that is indicated by it I have read, watched and played (video games) dozens of Dystopian fictions. As far as I remember, this was my first Utopian fiction and I can say I am amazed and wishing more, for the world that I want to live is now Utopia.

PS: the Kindle version that I read is in a very archaic English, which made the reading and story even more delightful.

A glimpse of how Utopia was achieved:
"Every Utopian child is taught to the full measure of its possibilities and directed to the work that is indicated by its desires and capacity.

It grows up under perfectly healthy conditions; its natural impulses to play and learn are gratified by the subtlest educational methods; hands, eyes and limbs are given every opportunity of training and growth; it learns to draw, write, express itself, use a great variety of symbols to assist and extend its thought. Kindness and civility become ingrained habits, for all about it are kind and civil. And in particular the growth of its imagination is watched and encouraged. It learns the wonderful history of its world and its race, how man has struggled and still struggles out of his earlier animal narrowness and egotism towards an empire over being that is still but faintly apprehended through dense veils of ignorance. All its desires are made fine; it learns from poetry, from example and the love of those about it to lose its solicitude for itself in love; its sexual passions are turned against its selfishness, its curiosity flowers into scientific passion, its combativeness is set to fight disorder, its inherent pride and ambition are directed towards an honourable share in the common achievement. It goes to the work that attracts it and chooses what it will do.

Utopia has no parliament, no politics, no private wealth, no business competition, no police nor prisons, no lunatics, no defectives nor cripples, and it has none of these things because it has schools and teachers who are all that schools and teachers can be. Politics, trade and competition are the methods of adjustment of a crude society. Such methods of adjustment have been laid aside in Utopia for more than a thousand years. There is no rule nor government needed by adult Utopians because all the rule and government they need they have had in childhood and youth. Said Lion: “Our education is our government.

The melancholic type has taken its dismissal and gone; spiteful and malignant characters are disappearing. The vast majority of Utopians are active, sanguine, inventive, receptive and good-tempered." ...more

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Aug 19, 2019 Stephen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Every time I read HG Wells, I am left in amazement. In this book, first published about a century ago, Wells reconised that the quantum was the path through which we could travel into parallel dimensions, and set a novel to explore just that. In this book, a group of travellers are transported to an alternative universe, which he calls - just for the fun of it - Utopia.

This literary device allows Wells to explore the society and economy of Utopia. In this he outlines his view of a well functioni Every time I read HG Wells, I am left in amazement. In this book, first published about a century ago, Wells reconised that the quantum was the path through which we could travel into parallel dimensions, and set a novel to explore just that. In this book, a group of travellers are transported to an alternative universe, which he calls - just for the fun of it - Utopia.

This literary device allows Wells to explore the society and economy of Utopia. In this he outlines his view of a well functioning scheme of things. The key to it is the idea that we all work for each other ratehr than working for ourselves. I imagine that today we might think of this as a form of communitarianism. It has much to commend it.

Such a world might be characterised as one of abundance rather than one of scarcity. It was interesting to see how the problem of production and distribiution was solved in such a world. People did whatever work suited them. If a need arose, the onus was on the demander to satisfy that need. The needs and wants of society were necessarily simple, which left time for the Utopians to engage in disinterested study. As an interesting parallel, it was a world much like the one described by Keynes in his work on the economic possibilities for our grandchildren.

Into this world are thrust a group of early twentieth century members of the British ruling class. What do they do? They try to take the place over. They try to have it run along their lines. They try to impose their morality and religion. They try to introduce scarcity into a land of plenty. In short, they try to civilise Utopia. I found this rather parallel to the colonisation of the Americas four hundred years previously. In this regard, Wells was spot on.

How did the Utopians respond? They expelled the interlopers and then sealed the quantum bridge between the two universes. Whilst the Utopians decided to explore some of the parallel universes opened up to them, they also decided that they had enough contact with contemporary Earth to keep them going for some time to come. In effect, Earth was placed in quarantine. We are left feeling that this was probably for the best.

I quite enjoyed the book. It is well written and the narrative flows along at a good pace. I liked the way in which the story unfolded. Although the plot line was evident at an early stage, it didn't serve to spoil the book. This is not seen as one of Wells' great works, but it does deserve a better reputation than it has.

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Nov 01, 2019 Samantha L'Esperance rated it liked it · review of another edition

Took me a while to finish this one. Typical prose for Wells, so that takes it down a star (not my cup of tea). However, all these ideas of technology he finds in Utopia are SO ahead of their time. Wireless technology, electric lawn tools, ect.

The story itself was enthralling fantasy for the first few chapters, and it turned sci-fi with the introduction of the Utopians and their society. It got a little lecturey at times, and while I enjoyed the philosophy on socialism, the sprinkles of racism b ...more

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Feb 09, 2017 Sohail rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Excellent ideas that are far ahead of the time of writing the book, but the style of writing is lacking. Now I understand what Henry James meant when he said that he would have liked to rewrite some of Wells's novels.
By proclaiming the ideas to be excellent, I do not mean that I agree with all of them. They are novel ideas, but I find some of them quite difficult to accept, and some others very repulsing (the author's attitude towards the natural environment was revolting, for example). ...more

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Jan 22, 2018 Nadezhda Vadko rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

For those who likes or want to read about Utopia, it is a very good choice. I like to read fiction but this book I was reading not because of fiction ideas. I would love to have it in school and be able to discuss it back that days. Can definitely recommend - this Utopia story.

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Jan 07, 2020 Charlie Hobbs rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A very similar stamp as A Modern Utopia but still worth the read for any HG fans. I'd like to see his works in chronological order and see his political evolution morphing and shaping his narratives throughout. Still in awe of this man's talent. Another great read. ...more

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Nov 03, 2017 Awehla rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was interesting but ended rather abruptly.

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Nov 19, 2017 Kyle rated it liked it · review of another edition

Not a bad book, per se, I just have a hard time with Wells. The story is brilliant, but his writing style makes it hard to stay involved in.

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Jul 28, 2019 Yogijourneypath rated it liked it · review of another edition

Great book that inspires us to believe in a even better future

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Jan 06, 2020 Kirill Khalitov rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Very impressive vision of pure and idyll world where I want live!
It's a starting point to not less meaningful work in this genre by Ivan Efremov. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... ...more

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Oct 25, 2020 Petra Hyklova rated it liked it · review of another edition

Everything is awesome and beautiful. You expect some kind of final punchline, some error in the perfect ways... and it never comes.

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Jan 14, 2021 Jessica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Already feels like one of my top books of 2021. So many beautiful passages.

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Oct 21, 2020 K rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Although set as a novel, Men Like Gods is a discourse on human society (as constituted in the aftermath of WWI) in contrast with that of a hypothetical Utopia of a parallel universe. Much of the first half of the book is conducted almost as a Platonic dialogue on issues in political science and sociology. To me, it seems to tread a neutral ground between optimism and pessimism. Perhaps his hopes for humanity were tempered by the recent Great War and Russian Revolution. But, historical context as ...more

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Apr 26, 2020 Rafa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Brilliant book. Who knew...? A light grew stronger within me now.

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Aug 21, 2013 Rupert Owen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A fine novel presenting a mirrored view of humanity through the reflection of an ideal world. In this book Wells pits his earthly characters as infectious agents in an advanced civilisation that has itself progressed beyond what they refer to as 'The Age of Confusion", this age of confusion is a reference to earthly politics, social moors, sex, religion, education, industrialisation, and capitalism, to name a few of the more discussed references in the novel. In my opinion this world presented b ...more

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Aug 29, 2012 Scott rated it liked it · review of another edition

Interesting book. Towards the end of his career, Wells write this book, in which he outlined his vision of Utopia. You follow an Englishman as he and 8 other Europeans are accidentally sucked into an alternate dimension in which the inhabitants are humans who are roughly 3,000 years ahead of our times. Wells uses the protagonist, Barnstaple, to project his dream of a future in which people have moved beyond what he considered the senseless preoccupations of our day: economic and military competi ...more

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Jul 10, 2020 Nel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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The passionate attachments between men and women are contacts rather than ties: habit and sentiment no longer get in their deadly work, here men are like gods indeed, very cerebral gods.Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction ...more

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Feb 12, 2011 Dave T rated it liked it · review of another edition

I'm always a sucker for a utopian book, and I felt this one was a pretty good one but didn't really stand out from the crowd.

On the plus point the writing was very often humourus, the main character (Mr. Barnstaple) was incredibly likeable and the utopia was illustrated with such colour and detail, I felt too much focus on the politics of the 1920's (time it was wrote) kept me tuning out of a other wise wonderful storyline.

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Feb 28, 2014 Lauren rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was iffy about this at the beginning but I ended up really appreciating the story of a man thrust into a Utopian future. Ultimately, I think it was about the despair Wells felt at the end of WWI when whatever hopes he had for the future were disappointed. And yet, it is filled with his optimism and determination that education and science could create a perfect society. Goofy and profound, in its way.

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Apr 17, 2015 Steve TK rated it liked it · review of another edition

As early SF, it may be Wells's best contribution. Like many Utopias, though, it rather turns on whether you accept the socialist proposal that social ills can be cured by the judicious application of the findings of psychiatry, that a refusal to conform is a pathology to be cured. At one point, one of the Utopians explains that the mind doctor takes the place of the policeman. "I should prefer the policeman," responds one of the characters.

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Oct 17, 2009 Lucie P rated it liked it · review of another edition

A very utopic Utopia. This book is not particularly fast paced or action packed, but the descriptions of the state of society in Utopia and their contrast to the way things are on Earth were intriguing. Funny how over 80 years from the time the book was written, Earth is no closer to Utopia than it was in 1923...

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“As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire.” — 4 likes

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