Dystopian and utopian fiction

The weird, invisible insect depopulated an entire planet.

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

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

1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell.

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

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

Septimus Spink didn't need to read Jules Verne's "e;Journey to the Center of the Earth.

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

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

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

Now a major Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.

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

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

Bryce Carter could afford a smug smile.

Roger Arcot explores the fringes of a really never forgotten world, the introduction to which is an aged manuscript De Necromantiae, and the wish, not too repressed, to pledge your soul to the Devil!

Sally watched the molten gold glow in the sky.

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

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.

From the masterful John Gwynne, Valour is the second epic fantasy in the Faithful and the Fallen series, following Malice.

"e;Now this here planet,"e; he said cautiously, "e;is whacky in a lot of ways.

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

This was love, and what could be done about it?

It didn't matter that he had quit.

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

Naturally an undertaker will get the last word.

Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy.

New neighbors are always exciting.

Spud, world-famous dummy, talks to Mars with surprising results.

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings-without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden.

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 .

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

The Coming Conquest of England is a classic utopian novel that displayed the German lust for world domination long before either of the two World Wars.

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

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

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

In this work, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind.

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

No conceivable force could penetrate Terri's shield.

Imagine a world where freedom is a distant memory, and the government controls every aspect of your life.

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

'Anthem' is a dystopian science fiction novella by Ayn Rand.

Most men of middle age would welcome a chance to live their lives a second time.

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

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

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

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

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

Once upon a time life was perfection.

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