The Most Famous Utopias and Dystopias: Plato, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Edward Bellamy, Jack London, George Orwell, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Leonard Huxley

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from, apocalyptic fiction) offers the the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos.This book The RepublicThomas More. UtopiaTommaso Campanella. The City of the SunFrancis Bacon. The New AtlantisEdward Bellamy. Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887Jack London. The Iron HeelEvgeny Zamiatin. WeGeorge Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-FourAldous Leonard Huxley. Brave New World Illustrated by D. Fisher, Marina Maksimchuk.