Utopian Fiction

Disclosure Day: Interview Two – Faith After Contact What if First Contact doesn’t just challenge science—but the spiritual foundation of humanity? Thirty-three days before Disclosure Day, Dr. Lena Morales is recruited into a classified initiative under Project AEON. Her assignment isn’t technical—it’s theological: engage leaders from Earth’s most prominent religions to assess how global faith traditions might respond to the imminent confirmation of intelligent extraterrestrial life. “Will their doctrines bend, break—or reveal quiet preparation? Through a series of high-...

Justin and gang finally find a way back to Eden. But the world they find isn't the one they left. The people are gone. Zombie-like creatures roam the streets. And the grand ruler of this dystopia is a man named Vokan. How did Eden die? How did Vokan gain power over the ashes of civilization? None of the clues make sense and Vokan isn't giving straight answers. What started as a jubilant return home becomes a lethal quest to fight Vokan and save the world yet again. But Vokan is no pushover and his kind of magic is something Justin has never faced before.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD FINALIST...

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world...

Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014) sparked a global conversation on AI that continues to this day. That book, which became a surprise New York Times bestseller, focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right? Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock.

In his final novel - which he considered his most important - Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and - to his amazement - give him hope.

In "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1883), Friedrich Engels explains that Marxism is scientific socialism. Engels claims that whereas utopian socialism is idealist, reflects the personal opinions of the authors and claims that society can be adapted based on these opinions, scientific socialism derives itself from reality. It focuses on the materialist conception of history, which is based on an analysis over history, and concludes that communism naturally follows capitalism.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend...

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. "A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York Times After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy...

Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at their family estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative. 

Not dystopia — renewal. Solarpunk is the newest branch of speculative fiction—an optimistic vision of the future where renewal, resilience, and human connection take center stage. Too much science fiction has fallen into dystopian clichés. This anthology of stories distinguished by international recognition follows characters and communities finding their way forward: A girl with a rare disorder discovers life beyond screens. A professor chasing fusion energy receives visions he can’t explain. A coming-of-age tale of friendship across time. In an antediluvian world, two teens from ...

In a world where every life is optimized for happiness, stability, and zero regret, uncertainty has been engineered out of existence. Lila is a script compliance officer—one of the quiet architects of a flawless society. Her job is simple: when people drift from their prescribed life paths, she gently corrects them. The system works. It always has. Lives are smoother, safer, better. And Lila’s own life is proof. So why does it feel so empty? When she encounters Tomas—a man who consistently defies his assigned path—Lila expects to find an error. Instead, she finds something ...

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "What I’ll remember most is how [Adrian Tchaikovsky]...

Two remarkable works by Theodor Herzl brought together in one volume. In Altneuland: The Old New Land, the disillusioned Viennese lawyer Friedrich Loewenberg leaves civilization behind with the enigmatic Kingscourt. Twenty years later, the two men return to the world and discover a profoundly transformed Palestine—a land of flourishing cities, technological progress, social cooperation, religious tolerance, and renewed hope. Published in 1902, Herzl’s visionary novel presents not merely a political program, but an imaginative portrait of what determination, knowledge, and collective ...

What would you do if YOU were King of the World? In an era of unprecedented global connection, humanity has hit an evolutionary wall. For decades, the World Congress—the global government that succeeded a dissolved United Nations—has managed to unite the globe under a single currency and a universal language. On paper, it looks like an absolute political masterpiece. But democracy has fundamentally failed to alter the raw human condition. The global landscape remains plagued by the same cancers it has carried for generations: systemic corruption, violent crime, sexual deviance, child ...

What if freedom meant stripping away everything you thought you knew? In this provocative work of fiction, the world transforms—slowly at first, then all at once. Clothes vanish, profit fades, and the old order gives way to something raw, unsettling, and profoundly human. Told through the eyes of one man witnessing the shift, Imagining Freedom: A Fresh New World explores a society where shame dissolves, power is redefined, and the search for profit is replaced with the search for purity. A dystopian vision with utopian promise, this story asks the question: what might humanity become if ...

The earliest, most visionary examples of the genre in a two-thousand-year compendium of speculative fiction that begins when the height of technology was Roman concrete and the watermill, and ends on the cusp of the pulp era. An essential collection of 30 stories for the true sci fi enthusiast...

One hundred years into a journey across the stars, humanity's last hope rests with a ship carrying frozen embryos—and two minds that aren't human. After a century searching the cosmic dark, Starship Noah has finally found it: an Earth-like world where humanity can start over. But Michael and Nefertiti—the superintelligent AIs guiding the mission—face their greatest challenge yet. They must raise forty-eight children from embryos and build a civilization that doesn't repeat Earth's mistakes. For two hundred years, they succeed beyond their wildest calculations. On a world called ...

Former FBI profiler Adrian West is in Rome for a history conference when she learns that her friend and colleague, Dr. Sebastian Rossi, has been abducted.

This semi-epistolary novella unfolds two centuries beneath the surface of old Lake Superior... For two hundred years beneath the surface of The Sea of DeDannan, humanity's last stronghold thrives in the shadow of old Isle Royale. Safe within their aquatic metropolis, the citizens of DeDannan live by a singular, unquestioned truth: their sanctuary was built to save them from a ruined world. Then, the water began to vanish. When the lake levels drop at an impossible rate, a defunct militia is deployed to investigate the receding depths. Their mission takes them on a treacherous journey from ...