The problem of the "flawed utopia": A note on the costs of eutopia

Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 225-232

  Sargent, Lyman Tower ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315810775-19     Document Type: Chapter

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