More to think about...

We have a long literary tradition of thinking about possible futures for humanity. Here are some of the ideas writers have proposed:

• Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid's Tale
• Atwood,Margaret. Oryx & Crake
• Bacon, Sir Francis, The New Atlantis
• Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward
• Butler, Samuel, Erewhon
• Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Game
• Clarke, Arthur, Childhood's End
• Gattaca
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, Herland
• Hesse, Hermann, The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)
• Hilton, James, Shangri-La
• Howells, William Dean, A Traveler From Altruria
• Huxley, Aldous, Island
• Lowry, Lois, The Giver
• Mandeville, Bernard, The Fable of the Bees
• Morris, William, News From Nowhere
• Orwell, George, 1984
• Rand, Ayn, Anthem
• SInclair, Upton, The Millennium
• Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels (particularly the Houyhnhnms) 
• V for Vendetta
• Zamyatin, Yevgeny, We