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Teetering between three and four stars here. I can see why this is a classic - it is jam packed with interesting ideas and political insights. It is a daring piece of speculative science fiction, comparing a decentralized, non-authoritarian, anarchist regime (which reminded me a little of a kibbutz) with a capitalist society that looks creepily like 19th England (minus its conscience) to me.
What's great about it is that both societies are deeply flawed, hence "An Ambiguous Utopia." And they are ...more
What's great about it is that both societies are deeply flawed, hence "An Ambiguous Utopia." And they are ...more
Isn't anarchy wonderful? Oh wait, no it isn't. I read this book, and finished it, but I felt terribly cynical the whole way through. Science fiction writers have to be careful not to insert too much philosophy in their works or they just turn into polemics with a skinny rag of plot hanging on their shoulders. I wanted this book to go in a different direction that it did.
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