Dystopian and utopian fiction

'Erewhon', set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon.

'Erewhon' is set in a thinly disguised New Zealand.

'The Moon Maid' was without a doubt Edgar Rice Burroughs’ best book.

Barnstaple, a burnt out journalist, decides to go on holiday and leave the rat race behind.

Barnstaple, a burnt out journalist, decides to go on holiday and leave the rat race behind.

In Paradise Lost Milton tells the story of the fall of man, which encompasses a battle that rages across Heaven between God and Satan.

There wasn't a woman left on earth.

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you.

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own.

The world of the new race was peaceful, comfortable, lovely-and completely static.

It was getting so a person couldn't sleep nights anymore.

Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms .

A young man and a young woman alone on the first over-the-moon ship.

Once upon a time life was perfection.

Strumming a harp while floating on a white cloud might be Paradise for some people, but it would bore others stiff.

Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world .

"e;It is rather unusual,"e; Magnan said, "e;to assign an officer of your rank to courier duty, but this is an unusual mission.

History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land.

All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead.

The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils.

The weird, invisible insect depopulated an entire planet.

Poor Riuku!

"e;Rig ship for the snowbank orbit!

Naturally human work was more creative, more inspiring, more important than robot drudgery.

Bryce Carter could afford a smug smile.

The line between noble dreams and madness is thin, and loneliness can push men past it .

Julith clasped the star-man's arm with one hand, while her other arm gripped his waist.

Naturally an undertaker will get the last word.

Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space.

"e;You wanted out?

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid.

If you ever get to drinking beer in your favorite saloon and meet a scared little guy who wants to buy you the joint, supply you with fur coats and dolls and run you for Congress-listen well!

No conceivable force could penetrate Terri's shield.

For every weapon there was a defense, but not against the deadliest weapon-man himself!

Everything was aimed at satisfying the whims of women.

Temple faced leaving Earth-and the girl he loved-if his country drafted him.

To some passengers a maiden voyage was a pleasure cruise; to others it meant a hope for new life.

What made the mass of this tiny asteroid fluctuate in defiance of all known physical laws?

There was a reason why his scripts were smash hits-they had realism.

Being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution.

Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in The Graveyard Of Space.

Ellaby's society was a perfect democracy, where all men were equal.

Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds.

Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service.

Adam Slade was a man who had nothing to lose by making a break for it.

Greg tried desperately to find an illegal method of joining his family on Mars; for the law said that no healthy man could land on a Cancer World.

Being one of the richest men in the world, it was only natural that many people anticipated the day he would die.

What defense could she raise against mutant science-telepathy, invisibility, teleportation-especially since Earth was not aware of its danger!

Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as possible.