Utopian fiction

Utopian fiction is the creation of a ideal world, described as a utopia as the setting for a novel.

{discuss the origins of the word, which means "nowhere"}

{discuss the prime examples of such fiction, dating from Thomas More's Utopia, to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, to B.F. Skinner's Walden Two.}

{discuss the converse of this genre, the dystopia, which is more commonly found in science fiction circles. See Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, any of William Gibson's novels, etc.}

A subgenre of this is ecotopian fiction, where the author posits either a utopian or dystopian world based revolving around environmental conservation or destruction. Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia was the first example of this, followed by Kim Stanley Robinson in his California trilogy. Robinson has also edited a collection of short ecotopian fiction, called appropriately, Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias.