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A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

Category: Fiction

Status: Available

Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg

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"A Modern Utopia" by H. G. Wells is a novel published in 1905. It imagines an identical Earth existing beyond Sirius, where society has evolved differently. Two travelers—the Owner of the Voice and a botanist—explore this world state governed by the Samurai, a voluntary order of nobility. Through their journey, Wells examines political stability, economics, gender equality, and race while blending philosophical discussion with narrative in what has been called a postmodern utopian vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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A MODERN UTOPIA

BY H. G. WELLS

A NOTE TO THE READER

This book is in all probability the last of a series of writings, of which--disregarding certain earlier disconnected essays--my Anticipations was the beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote that book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about innumerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, which it distressed me to touch upon in a stupid haphazard way, and which no one, so far as I knew, had handled in a manner to satisfy my needs. But Anticipations did not achieve its end. I have a slow constructive hesitating sort of mind, and whe

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