A Modern Utopia (Penguin Classics)
by H.G. Wells
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Author: H.G. WellsEditor: Gregory Claeys
Introduction: Francis Wheen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-25
ISBN: 0141441127
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Dystopia or Utopia?
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, let me say, I think H.G. Wells is one of the best authors of all time. But when it comes to designing examples of human society he needs help. For example - to keep people employed they are sent to where the labor is needed. They are given just the minimum, shelter and food and clothing, for what is looked at as the minimum of work. In other words, a labor force of wage-slaves, forced to move around the planet at the needs of the factories and businesses. If you HAPPEN to be educated enough or hyperactive enough to do more than the normal amount of work you can gain more or, in the case of women, be allowed to have kids. And if you are really smart, healthy and active you can become Samurai - nobles of the world.
The end results sounds more like a system set up in the Middle Ages, with most of the labor moving to where the jobs are, a small middle class of above normal workers and a class of supermen, and some women, at the top. I am sorry Wells, but this is not a Utopia. Even after talking about individualism and the equality of women in the end this more like a nightmare, and a boring one at that.
You should read it, because many modern books on utopias and dystopias will use it as part of the background on the subject. But I don't think anybody should really talk about it as a serious system of World Government.
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