Utopian Timeline: From More to Solaris

Utopian Timeline: From More to Solaris

  1. 1516 — Utopia, Thomas More.
  2. 1623 — The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella.
  3. 1627 — New Atlantis, Francis Bacon.
  4. 1656 — The Commonwealth of Oceana, James Harrington.
  5. 1666 — The Blazing World, Margaret Cavendish.
  6. 1726 — Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift.
  7. 1771 — L’An 2440 (Year 2440), Louis-Sébastien Mercier.
  8. 1808 — Phalanstery concept, Charles Fourier.
  9. 1825 — New Harmony (communal experiment), Robert Owen.
  10. 1840 — Voyage en Icarie, Étienne Cabet.
  11. 1841–1847 — Brook Farm (transcendentalist cooperative).
  12. 1872 — Erewhon, Samuel Butler.
  13. 1888 — Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy.
  14. 1890 — News from Nowhere, William Morris.
  15. 1905 — A Modern Utopia, H. G. Wells.
  16. 1909 — The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster.
  17. 1915 — Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
  18. 1921 — We, Yevgeny Zamyatin.
  19. 1932 — Brave New World, Aldous Huxley.
  20. 1949 — Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.
  21. 1953 — Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury.
  22. 1961 — Solaris, Stanisław Lem.

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