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Utopia at Troynovant:
Hopes of Utopia in Power, or Dystopia;
listed by Title
We know that utopia and dystopia have more than subjective differences. Whether a society is good or bad, healthy or poisoned, lies not in rulers' proclamations or their fellow-travelers' praise. Hypothetical criteria for the best of societies should be analyzed; real social and individual consequences must be understood. Absolute and ideal societies, purified by decree and command, are in especial need of the brightest light of history. The Perfectibility of Man is a process, not a State. Odysseus knew the song the Sirens sing; and so do we.
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Berlese Pyramid, The:
Oppression Points Downward |
RW Franson |
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution:
A Political Biography 1888-1938 |
Stephen F. Cohen |
RW Franson |
Commissar Vanishes, The:
The Falsification of Photographs and Art
in Stalin's Russia |
David King |
RW Franson |
| End of the Line, The |
James H. Schmitz |
WH Stoddard |
Finding Serenity:
Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers
in Joss Whedon's Firefly |
Jane Espenson |
RW Franson |
| Firefly dvd series |
Joss Whedon |
RW Franson,
DH Franson |
| For Us, the Living |
Robert A. Heinlein |
RW Franson |
| For Us, the Living |
Robert A. Heinlein |
WH Stoddard |
| Freddy the Politician |
Walter R. Brooks |
RW Franson |
| Fruit of Knowledge |
Catherine L. Moore |
RW Franson |
Full Circle:
A Homecoming to Free Poland |
Radek Sikorski |
RW Franson |
| Green Millennium, The |
Fritz Leiber |
RW Franson |
| Illusionists, The (Space Fear) |
James H. Schmitz |
RW Franson |
| Inferno |
Larry Niven
& Jerry Pournelle |
R Grube |
| Law and Institutions in the Shire |
WH Stoddard |
| Macintosh 1984 (commercial) |
Ridley Scott |
RW Franson |
| Men Like Gods |
H.G. Wells |
RW Franson |
| Mule, The |
Isaac Asimov |
RW Franson |
Nietzsche's Task:
An Interpretation of
Beyond Good and Evil |
Laurence Lampert |
RW Franson |
| Null-A series |
A. E. van Vogt |
RW Franson |
| Penrod: His Complete Story |
Booth Tarkington |
RW Franson |
| Perfect Servants |
WH Stoddard |
| Picaro in Hitler's Europe, A |
Walter Arndt |
ZB Matkowska |
| Psychohistorical Crisis |
Donald Kingsbury |
WH Stoddard |
| Santaroga Barrier, The |
Frank Herbert |
RW Franson |
| Secret of the League, The |
Ernest Bramah |
RW Franson |
| Serenity |
Joss Whedon |
RW Franson,
DH Franson |
| Serenity |
Joss Whedon |
WH Stoddard |
| Soon (In 48 Years' Time) |
Alexandra Kollontai |
RW Franson |
Transparent Society, The:
Will Technology Force Us to Choose
Between Privacy and Freedom? |
David Brin |
RW Franson |
| Ukraine, The: A History |
W.E.D. Allen |
RW Franson |
| Venus Plus X |
Theodore Sturgeon |
RW Franson |
| War Before Civilization |
Lawrence H. Keeley |
RW Franson |
| Weapon Shop series |
A. E. van Vogt |
RW Franson |
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[The Archbishop's palace in York.]
Lord Bardolph:
For in a theme so bloody-faced as this,
Conjecture, expectation, and surmise
Of aids uncertain should not be admitted.
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... who lined himself with hope,
Eating the air on promise of supply,
Flatt'ring himself with project of a power
Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts;
And so, with great imagination
Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
And winking leapt into destruction.
William Shakespeare
2 Henry IV, 1.3.22-24, 28-33
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