Utopia

Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia. Many books that deal with "utopia" are actually putting out a plot or message of a "false utopia".

Also see Dystopia
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The Men
Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)
The Town with No Mirrors
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
Pantopia
The New Naturals
Aarteidesi aikakirjat
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
Huomistarhuri
The High Auction (Wisdom Revolution, #1)
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
Cwen
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)
Brave New World
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
1984
Island
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

Criss Jami
A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at ...more
Criss Jami, Healology

G.K. Chesterton
A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon.
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

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