A Eutopia.(Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20000401
Author:Munson, James

2099: A Eutopia. Yorick Blumenfeld. Thames and Hudson. [pounds]6.95. 112 pages. ISBN 0-500-28157-2.

Writing about imaginary societies in the future, whether such works are by Sir Thomas More, William Morris, Anthony Trollope or George Orwell, is an established literary genre. In this short book the editor of Thames and Hudson's 'Prospects for Tomorrow' series tries his hand at describing life one hundred years from now. As with all other eutopian writing, readers will be attracted, or not, both by the world he describes and the lifestyle in which he describes it. The ...

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