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